@BFeldmanCBS: Re: Gunner Kiel transferring from ND. One coach at a big AQ program told me he declined Kiel's interest last month
at least it's not just us?
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OTish: Gunner Kiel transferring from ND
March 7th, 2013 at 9:12 PM
#52
@BFeldmanCBS: Re: Gunner Kiel
March 7th, 2013 at 9:15 PM
#53
That really doesn't say a
That really doesn't say a whole lot though. Just because one top program doesn't need you doesn't mean a ton of others won't. If that AQ team took another solid QB in this class and one in 2013 as well, it's possible they don't think he'd worth a scholarship.
I doubt M would want him, for example. Doesn't mean most of the Big Ten wouldn't though.
March 7th, 2013 at 8:47 PM
#56
A five star transferring away
A five star transferring away from Notre Dame??!! That never happens.
March 7th, 2013 at 8:50 PM
#57
Yah pretty crazy how much 5
Yah pretty crazy how much 5 star talent has come and gone in the last 2 years. Luckily it seems that most of them haven't amounted to much.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:06 PM
#58
This is probably the one
This is probably the one position you guys could afford a transfer.
March 7th, 2013 at 8:47 PM
#59
This dude must really
This dude must really struggle with scantron tests....its A....wait (erase) D?.....(erase) C!.....(erase)....it has to be B doesn't it?
Repeat process for all 50 questions
March 7th, 2013 at 8:51 PM
#60
Could this be a record for
Could this be a record for the fastest a ND QB has failed to live up to the hype? Usually it takes until the NFL.
March 7th, 2013 at 8:54 PM
#61
I saw in an article where
I saw in an article where Kiel said he'd stay at ND until he won as many Heismans as Ron Pawlus and Jimmy Clausen combined.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:15 PM
#62
I just laughed really hard at
I just laughed really hard at this. Well played sir, well played.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:04 PM
#63
Love your profile pic
MMMMMM....FOOD.
March 7th, 2013 at 8:58 PM
#64
Les Miles
Maybe Les Miles will have a change of heart and give him another chance.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:35 PM
#65
That's who Feldman was
That's who Feldman was referring to....not!
March 7th, 2013 at 10:23 PM
#66
didn't les resign on monday
didn't les resign on monday since he got caught screwing a coed?
/s
March 7th, 2013 at 9:10 PM
#67
For someone who was so quiet
For someone who was so quiet during the recruiting process and so determined to wait it out and make a good decision, this kid is the definition of a flake.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:24 PM
#68
Michigan State thought about
Michigan State thought about it for a bit, but they decline due to having Andrew Maxwell on the roster.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:29 PM
#69
Wisconsin could use a guy...
Wisconsin could use a guy like Gunner.
March 8th, 2013 at 12:19 PM
#70
He has too many years of
He has too many years of eligibility left for them.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:28 PM
#71
No way...
The guy who flip
No way...
The guy who flip flopped over 3 schools wants to transfer when competition hits? Woulda never guessed it...
He was supposed to be the savior of Indiana football. Wait...JK
He was supposed to be the air apparent at LSU...Nope.
Then he was sure ND was the spot where he could be the next great QB...haha nawww
Arkansas St? Build a team full of transfers and throwaways.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:31 PM
#72
He was supposed to be the air
He was supposed to be the air apparent at LSU? They live and breathe that stuff down there. That would be a breeze.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:39 PM
#73
You should know about
You should know about apparent air...only in a place like LA is it visible.
March 7th, 2013 at 10:30 PM
#74
More like the err apparent,
More like the err apparent, amirite?
March 7th, 2013 at 11:37 PM
#75
"air apparent"?
I think you mean "heir apparent" there, Hemingway.
March 8th, 2013 at 8:40 AM
#76
Hey now, after all Junior did
Hey now, after all Junior did for the team, you have no business throwing him under the bus like that. Shame on you.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:28 PM
#77
Why sit behind Golson?
Because you'll be the guy when Golson gets hurt.
Every QB gets hurt nowadays. The backup gets their chance. The fan base then turns on the starter if the team isn't winning. I'll wait to see Mathlete's take down the road, but my guess is ND is headed for the dreaded "regression to the mean" rather than Bama's "the exception proves the rule" dominance. Kiel would have gotten his chance at a big name school.
With that said, he's a kid and he wants to be "the guy". I don't blame him but he needs to stick to his next decision.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:54 PM
#78
Not worried, we have Rees for
Not worried, we have Rees for another year.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:31 PM
#79
http://collegefootballtalk.nb
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/moms-plea-led-to-gun...
I think we all saw this coming. I don't think his heart was ever set on ND. He basically just did it to make his mom happy.
March 7th, 2013 at 10:07 PM
#80
Gee, a highly rated Indiana
Gee, a highly rated Indiana QB who flits from one school to another and has mommy issues...if I didn't know any better, I'd think we were talking about Jeff George.
March 7th, 2013 at 10:16 PM
#81
I'm not aware of this Jeff
I'm not aware of this Jeff George story. Care to explain?
March 8th, 2013 at 7:56 AM
#82
George transferred from Purdue
Link. He left Purdue after they fired the coach that recruited him and hired Fred Akers, whose offenses tended to feature the ground game.
March 8th, 2013 at 8:32 AM
#83
This Chicago Tribune story
This Chicago Tribune story alludes to some of the issues:
Only Leon Burtnett, George's first coach at Purdue and fired offensive coordinator of the Colts, is willing to speculate. Burtnett, who remains "very close" to George, still believes George's image as a spoiled mama's boy who flees adversity is the result of shoddy reporting of his 1986 transfer from Purdue to Illinois via a flirtation with Miami.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-07-30/sports/9307300092_1_leon-burtnett-purdue-death-threats
Leon Burnett is probably right about published reports about George's mother directly intervening in his career not coming out until after he transferred, and some of the reporting very well may have been shoddy. Understand, though, that Burnett was fired by Purdue and seems to have an axe to grind. Also, I was a grad student at Purdue at the time, and from the time he set foot on campus, when he was the heralded savior for Purdue football, there were stories about George's helicopter mother complaining about the treatment of her special little snowflake and basically just making a nusiance of herself.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:35 PM
#84
Congrats Gunner Kiel
You have now entered Alex Legion territory
March 7th, 2013 at 10:06 PM
#85
Fort Wayne-Style Reporting...
Fort Wayne's paper makes an attempt to do a deeper dive here...(LINK)
More specifically, at the end of the article, they mention a series of tweets sent by Kiel over the last month which they attempt to tie to Kiel's considering this transfer despite saying during the NC game that it had not crossed his mind despite being closer to the cellar of the QB depth chart.
It's just interesting that, in the interview mentioned in this article, he seems to be fine with the idea that he wasn't going to see playing time this year, and yet, here he is...beginning the next phase of the journey: TransferQuest.
March 7th, 2013 at 10:34 PM
#86
I guess like Les Miles said,
I guess like Les Miles said, he didnt have the chest to compete. LOL I agree about the above comment about Indiana Football. Definitely on the upswing and I could see big things from them offensively. Indiana Defense? Yeah, no.
March 7th, 2013 at 11:18 PM
#87
This guy...
This guy was a mess even through his recruitment. He should have stuck with Indiana, since at least he would get on the field. I guess Bloomington could be his next stop.
I can't wait to see Frank Clark crush him like a grape.
March 7th, 2013 at 11:29 PM
#88
Remember when Ziel and Pike were our two top QB targets?
Maybe it's good we did not take a QB that year
March 7th, 2013 at 11:33 PM
#89
Frankly I'm surprised that a
Frankly I'm surprised that a lot of people are saying he'll end up at a MAC school.
This kid was the #1 pro-style QB coming out of high school in 2012 with tons of offers from the Big Ten and the SEC.
Yeah, I get that his flakiness is really, really unattractive, but I'd be shocked if he end up playing in the MAC or at a JC (unless he tries to go the JC route in order to play at a Div-1 school quicker).
I don't think he sniffs SEC country except maybe Tennessee, which is the closest SEC team to his home.
More plausible options imo are:
Indiana (long shot; does Wilson take him back?),
Cincy (Tommy Tubbs will need a QB after this year),
Kansas (Weis will take a ND reject any day of the week), or
Iowa (doesn't KF need a QB these days?)
March 8th, 2013 at 8:37 AM
#90
Tennessee actually makes sense...
Especially with Peyton's recent hand in some of the QB coaching (last year).
Also add Kentucky. They have a new coach who's a Stoops brother.
That said, I really like your list. Add Tennessee, which you kind of did. And I'll take your list over "the field."
March 9th, 2013 at 4:05 PM
#91
The problem with Tennessee
is that there are at least two already elite-ish underclassmen QBs on the roster that Kiel would have to battle against (Nathan Peterman and Riley Ferguson). Normally I'd say no problem, but Everett Golson was ranked worlds below Kiel at ND, and Golson won the job because of patience and timing.
Considering that Kiel has to sit out a year, while he's there waiting, Peterman or Ferguson could have locked down the starting job by the time Kiel's eligible.
You have to think that Kiel's decision is primarily going to come down to playing time and proximity to home. If playing time is hugely more important, and if Kiel doesn't get a wittle homesick, then that opens up a wide array of options.
And you have to ask: which school needs a QB not this year, but next year? That's the school Kiel is likely to pick.
However, if playing time and proximity to home are around the same level, I have to think that Cincinnati is his best bet.*
Tuberville has two senior QBs to work with in 2013 but no one proven or anywhere near as talented as Kiel beyond that. Transferring to Cincy immediately and sitting out 2013 so that he can take over as a RS JR in 2014 seems like the best plan at this point.
(*It's relatively close and has a much more open depth chart to ND. The only other plausible example in this vein is Indiana, but that hinges entirely on whether Kiel and Wilson can put the Dusty Kiel issue and the commit-decommit business behind them.)
March 8th, 2013 at 3:26 AM
#92
If Gunner
went to KU, Weis would claim he's the 3rd best QB instantly behind Brady & Peyton, oh wait, that was Brady Quinn who was gonna be that and predictably didn't/wasn't.
March 8th, 2013 at 10:08 AM
#93
I really think this kid will
I really think this kid will land at a BCS level school...This is not overly suprising given the fact that he was behind a sophomore on the depth chart. He probably wanted to play soon and wasnt going to get that at ND.
March 8th, 2013 at 10:56 AM
#94
I stand corrected
I stand corrected; Se'von Pittman is no longer the Alex Legion of NCAA football.
March 8th, 2013 at 11:45 AM
#95
He is the guy you go out to
He is the guy you go out to eat with that can't make up his mind on what to order and the waitress has to come back 2 or 3 times.
March 8th, 2013 at 11:58 AM
#96
Kids a little schitzo, but I'm surprised
it took him this long to realize ND's a toilet. Good for him.
