Most QBs on roster in 30 years
When Zach Gentry and John O'Korn arrive on campus, Michigan will have 10 QBs on the roster and may still add another one.
The last time Michigan had double digit QBs on the roster was 1985 when there were 11.
A look at the QB club of 1985-
| # | Player | Year | Ht/Wt | Hometown/HS |
| 2 | Bob Cernak | So. | 6'2/200 | Lockport, IL/Lockport |
| 3 | Russell Rein | Jr. | 6'0/190 | Oak Lawn, IL/Marist |
| 4 | Jim Harbaugh | R-Jr. | 6'3/200 | Palo Alto, CA/Palo Alto |
| 5 | John Whitledge | So. | 6'2/198 | Delton, MI/Delton-Kellogg |
| 6 | Demetrius Brown | Fr. | 6'1/184 | Miami, FL/Miami Beach |
| 9 | Michael Taylor | Fr. | 6'1/195 | Lincoln Heights, OH/Princeton |
| 9 | Trey McNeil | So. | 5'9/185 | Fort Worth, TX/Paschal |
| 10 | Kyle Anderson | So. | 6'1/206 | Drayton Palins, MI/Kettering |
| 12 | Chris Zurbrugg | R-So. | 6'1/192 | Alliance, OH/Alliance |
| 16 | Scott Crawford | Fr. | 6'3/190 | Rawson, OH/Rawson |
| 18 | Mike Jones | Fr. | 6'3/220 | Bridgeport, CT/Harding |
That #4 guy did pretty well that year.
I'm starting to think this Harbaugh guy might know what he's doing.
I can't look away
It's pretty damn obvious to me that lack of QB competition was a huge issue the last couple of years. For Shane Morris to go through an entire freshman season and only be able to run about three plays in that Kansas State bowl game was downright criminal. I'm assuming he's not "mentally challenged", so that is entirely on the coaches for not creating competition.
I am going to put it on David Brandon for meddling and dictating so much that it kept coaches from actually developing anyone.
I'm down with blaming everything on Dave Brandon. That asshole even had cops pull me over for speeding the other day!
We shouldn't have an @ Nebraska type situation for a long, long time.
remember watching that game in disbelief. We actually could not call any pass plays. When we did, it looked like he truly did not know the plays. Other players were kind of looking around like "this is awkward" but were not really doing anything to encourage him or show any belief that they had a prayer of gaining yards.
It is important to note that 5 of those 11 (Rein, Harbaugh, Brown, Taylor, Zurbrugg) started at least 1 game over the course of their careers. I'm reasonably certain nobody said that there were too many quarterbacks on the roster then.
I'm guessing that one or more of Cernak, Rein, Whitledge, McNeil, Anderson and Jones may have thought there were too many QBs on the roster then.
Said it? Not in front of Bo, anyway!
I'm going to have to make a quick reference arm band with the names and numbers of all the quarterbacks so I can keep up.
A little disappointed, SBF.
In 1985 I was living in Miami, FL where they covered the Miami Whoricanes relentlessly. The coverage was akin to modern coverage with lots of off-season alanlysis, naval gazing, and Monday morning QB'ing.
I called the sports desk at the Ann Arbor News and asked why they didn't cover Michigan Football with more vigor. I don't know who I spoke with but he snorted and hung up on me. But no, in 1985 no one in, around, or covering the program was questing Bo's roster.
I remember him coming in for Harbaugh in the 84 MSU game after Jimmy broke his arm. Bad memories.
No leader. That sums up Brady Hoke's tenure more than anything. He never developed a single one.
| 18 | WHO?!?! | Fr. | 6'3/220 | Bridgeport, CT/Harding |
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You can call him & everything! Also, I'm alternately proud & ashamed that I can recite that number from memory...
Back then they didn't want me, now I'm hot they all on me.
I'm Mike Jones, don't act like you don't know the name. Ain't nothing changed but my change.
The current stockpiling of QB's indicates to me that JH thinks that position is the one most in need of an upgrade/improvement.
By extension, that means that the DL, OL, and ST are doing much better than last year already.
Undefeated going into The Game.
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I agree, everyone probably does suck. But the QB focus leads me to believe that the rest of the team is doing OK.
/maize colored glasses
Mike Jones (Though NOT the 1985 version of Mike Jones)
an old saying - "if you have two quarterbacks than you don't have a quarterback." I wonder what the saying is when you have eight quarterbacks.
Maybe, "if you have eight quarterbacks than you really need to get that quarterback from Iowa."
I believe the saying is, "If you have two quarterbacks, you don't have a quarterback. But if you have 10 quarterbacks, they all put their fists together in a circle and morph into one MEGA-QB"
and that worked out ok for them.
What kind of attrition are we going to have in a year or two as having this many QBs doesn't seem feasible......especially if the plan is to add 2 more every year.
Yeesh.
Well Romano probably won't be on the roster when O'Korn and Gentry get to campus, right? Otherwise he would count as a scholarship, since he's on scholarship in another sport.
Hmmm let's see if that would be a good team to model......
1. In the discussion for Bo's BEST team
2. Finished the season ranked #2
3. Beat Notre Dame, Michigan State and OSU
4. Beat Nebraska in their Bowl Game
Yeah count me in the group that thinks that if we're trying to copy a roster in Michigan's past - 1985 is a pretty God Damn good one to follow.
when it was Iowa that we lost to that year. . .
1985 Michigan V Iowa is one of the B1G network's "go to" games when doing their classics. Other B1G Network & ESPN Classic favorites include:
1974 Michigan - OSU
1979 Michigan - Michigan State
1985 MIchigan - Iowa
1987 Michigan - Michigan State
1995 Michigan - Northwestern
2000 Michigan - Purdue
2000 Michigan - Northwestern
2001 Michigan - OSU
2001 Michigan - Michigan State
2005 Michigan - OSU
2006 Michigan - OSU
We must be good fans to follow the losingest team in college football. At least according to the guys selecting the "classic" games to watched.
The index card game against Notre Dame and the Hail Mary against Colorado were shown at least twice a week for an entire year.
Around 2004ish, I actually counted every single game I had seen on Classic and our record was over 20 games below .500.
College football on ESPN Classic was dominated by old Michigan games for a decade. By 2004, there were 58 different Michigan games shown. The school with the second most games was Notre Dame with 27. Florida State was third with 23. That's quite a difference between the top three.
That's why I started my YouTube account. Classic motivated me to upload every win I had no matter how big or small. Well, that and the fact there was shockingly very little Michigan football content on YouTube in 2007.
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Agreed. In one way it's sort of a backhanded compliment. Back in the day beating Michigan was a VERY big deal while us beating somebody was sort of expected which is why we showed up as losers so often IMO.
a void. . .
The guys that don't play can also contribute by imitating every known quarterback under the sun on the scout team.
Now we can have enough scout qbs to mimic potential wacky 3QB formations from OSU
/s
/sorta
Am I making any sense? Otherwise I have no idea why we would need 10 guys.
Harbaugh - 86 season
Brown - 88 season
Taylor - 89 season
If we get 3 Rose Bowls out of the 10 on the roster this year, I think most of us will be satisfied.
put all 11 of them in at the same time - that will keep the defenses guessing.
