PFF and Phil Steele say Alan Bowman will be the starting QB.
It's talked about in this video from The Woverine. I looked for links to it at the PFF site and Phil Steele's site. Couldn't find them. It's a holiday weekend. I didn't want to keep dredging until I found them.
Both PFF and Phil Steele are going by what he did at Texas Tech. I take that with a grain of salt, because going by how John O'Korn looked in his freshman year at Houston he might be a good starter at Michigan too.
It's at 18:37 to 19:38, and 21:40 to 22:36 of this video:
Fall Training Camp is almost here!!
If he’s that good to come in in the fall and overtake the 3rd-year expected starter and the 5* bluechip, great!
But I doubt it.
Same.
Another non Jimmy recruited transfer starter might send me over the edge. I mean, I’m all for the best guy plays but WTF are we doing here?
We're doing the best guy plays.
I'd don't recall anyone a OSU complaining when Justin Fields became the starter.
I think for one or two years it wouldn’t be a problem. This is turning out to be nearly every year at this point. That’s not a good sign for QB recruiting but it’s a pretty terrible sign for QB development (or lack thereof).
I wish we had hired a coach who had a track record of developing NFL caliber QBs, a sort of "QB Whisperer"....oh we did.
No. I'm pretty sure we didn't.
Oklahoma was doing it pretty much every year for a while there with Mayfield, Hurts and Murray. Elite teams get the best players they can get. HOW they get them isn’t relevant, nor do their fans care.
If there’s an upgrade in the portal and you have the opportunity to improve your team, why would you not do it? We lose the right to complain about the lack of results on the field of we’re going to sit here and argue against adding the best possible players.
Oklahoma seemed to do just fine with transfers. This isn’t the 90s anymore. QBs transfer at the drop of a hat. I don’t think OSU is worse off for having Joe Burrow transfer and Georgia will be plenty happy with JT Daniels this year. We need to stop thinking QB transfers mean things are broken (we have plenty of other evidence for that). It’s just the new normal.
Ha. M football fans never seize to amaze.
Yes, let’s compare our recent QBs to OSU - if it worked for them it must be fine for us.
So, let’s see Justin fields was the #2 recruit in his class and a five star. Alan Bowman - 3 star #899 on 247. Seems like it should work out the same then right?
It’s mind bottling.
It’s seizure inducing
My amaze is seized, my mind is bottled, and my gob is smoked.
Are we malapropped up, or is it a cache of verbal cachet?
Mmmm, smoked gob, my favorite. Cut me off a slice!
This blog is filled with harbaugh apologists, aka "Sarahs", gotta love it!
I guess since stafford is gone they need another hero to worship and protect.
I don't know, but who's that blonde girl?
You must be the East German version of Carrot Top with all this great material.
I don't think I've seen a single positive comment from you in a year. Are you ok?
I mean, everyone was convinced that Michigan was a "QB away" from being elite and that omg five star Shea Patterson was that QB until he wasn't, and was just as good to okay here as he was at Ole Miss, never really a game changer.
Even when we get five stars they don't produce here.
I don’t know why this is getting upvoted. You’re so jaded that anything you say is either completely wrong or too stupid to take seriously. Patterson was much better than “just good” here. Both of his years here were statistically better than any Chad Henne year or John Navarre year. Patterson wasn’t the problem here any more than Denard was the reason we went 7-6 in 2010
So are you saying QB hasn't been an issue during the entire Harbaugh tenure afterall?
Because, it seems like a very large portion of this board attributes Harbaugh's lack of success is due to not having a QB...ie "just wait till Jimmy gets a QB...."
So the ability for Shea to rarely make the right read on a read option wasn't a problem? His ability to rarely hit anybody on a pass longer than 40 yards wasn't a problem? His lack of arm strength or lack of composure in the pocket weren't problems?
They were able to spoon feed him simple short throws in 2018 because they had a reliable run game with Hidgon. Why do you think he looked so much worse in 2019?
If Shea was so great here why did he not even get drafted? Because Chad Henne is still playing in the NFL last time I checked and Navarre at least made it a couple years. Rudock even got drafted because he was a better QB than Shea.
Face it dude, maybe other fans and NFL scouts know more than you.
Are we really going to try and equate being a good college QB with being a good NFL QB? I disagree with a lot of what you say, but you still seem smart enough to not try to make this connection. The list of fantastic college QBs that couldn’t play in the NFL is almost endless...
I never said good college QB = good NFL QB. I also never said Shea wasnt good, in fact I did say he was good, he was just never really more than that. Most QBs with Sheas stats at least get a shot at being drafted, there's a reason he didn't. He regressed badly in 2019.
Literally no one compared Bowman to Fields.
But last time I checked, no gets any extra points for winning games without using transfers.
If Bowman is the best QB in the room and wins games for us, then i'll be damn glad that went out and got someone who improved the team.
People acting like we're not supposed to take advantage of transfers - in a world were the transfer portal is becoming tantamount to free agency - is just ass backward.
In this new NIL / transfer portal world you are going to find that QBs and point guards are going to be transfers quite often. It's sort of like 3 stars versus 5 starts in the NFL. More 3 stars make it into the NFL even though a high percentage of 5 stars do. The QB and point guard at the big programs will either be the 5 start you recruited or the 3 star who blew up a directional school A&M.
If I'm a low 4 star I go to a directional school or ivy and play rather than riding the pine at a big time program only to be unseated by a transfer. If I blow up I still have my chance at the big school.
Very quiet, it is.
UM fans never seize to amaze with how mute some points can be.
Pretty sure its a moo point.
Like a cow's opinion, it doesn't matter.
Silent but deadly
well, if you are a stickler for the official rules, it is a moop point.
Exactly, it’s not rocket appliances.
It’s close to brian surgery.
I'm all for that, since his brain is obviously cooked.
It’s actually rocket surgery…
or brain science
What was Baker Mayfield ranked when he transferred from Texas Tech to Oklahoma?
The ranking part really doesn’t matter. If you see an opportunity to improve your team, you do it.
I don't think Alan Bowman is Justin fields but I am rooting for the kid. I've heard some say Cade and jj are ahead though. He is experienced and competitive I'll give him that. Best of luck to them!
Oklahoma says hi.
Touché.
Baker Mayfield--transferred from Texas Tech--the school at point in this post no less.
Jalen Hurts--transferred from Alabama.
Fun fact: Baker Mayfield was a walk on at Texas Tech who was never given a scholarship.
My hat's off to Lincoln Riley!
People naming 3 good transfers when the point that none have worked out here ??
Jake Rudock says hello.
Rudock and Shea were both very good here. They weren’t elite and it didn’t carry us to that next level, but to say neither of them worked out is crazy. Both are all over the UM record books in their short time here.
Didn't "Jimmy" or the staff recruit him to transfer here? If so, wouldn't that make him a Jimmy recruit?
Regardless, I don't see the problem with bringing in someone like Bowman. If he turns out to be the best player, then great. If not, then we have an experienced backup, which is also great. It's really a no-lose situation imo.
Thanks. These are the only question. Twenty dim bulbs weighing in about Harbaugh's QB recruiting to date. . . yawn.
As do I.
Do you play counterstrike?