Qb idea

Submitted by FranklinHatchett on
This is not insider info, this is just a thought that I haven't seen anyone else say. I would not be shocked if Peters/Speight can't go that we see Dcaff. 1. His redshirt is not burned just because he plays (to my knowledge) it's easy he gets "injured" and doesn't play bowl game, one game means redshirt still in tact. Besides that if he kills it and beats Osu, job is his and he's gone in 3 years anyway. 2. If he's ready (strength and knowledge) and he's legit like I'm guessing he is, why wouldn't Harbaugh play him if he gives us the best shot? I think he would. 3. Imagine the emotional injection this would give the team and the crowd. Just a thought... yours?

Bleedmaizeblue

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:53 PM ^

First of all he hasn’t been practicing with our offense. He’s been scout team QB, second of all that’s not how redshirts work, it’s the first quarter of the season you can play. Third of all he’s not an option, Thayer not burning his redshirt. That would be a terrible idea

Whole Milk

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:55 PM ^

Pretty sure that's not how it works. At a certain point in the season, if you play, you are ineligible for the medical redshirt. It isn't based on amount of time on the field, it is when during the season you play. If DCaff plays, he is a sophmore next season. No Ifs, ands, or buts about it.

In reply to by FranklinHatchett

TrueBlue2003

November 22nd, 2017 at 4:44 PM ^

kill it against OSU, I think he be in (and would have been in a long time ago).  Everyone else already hit it that a true frosh playing with the scout team all year isn't a good enough bet to do well.  Ain't happening.

Firstbase

November 22nd, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^

...and be very effective as long as we add a  play where 10 Michigan offensive players quickly form a tight circle with arms interlocked and put the ball carrier in the middle so the defense can't get to him. Then we march the QB down the field and across the goal line.

It could work!

 

 

/s

Reader71

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:52 PM ^

Just post this as a comment in the thread that made you reach this Eureka! moment.

I’m sure you’re a great guy and you have great ideas like this all the time.

I’m just not sure you have to create a thread about them.

A2toGVSU

November 22nd, 2017 at 2:13 PM ^

My first thought when a new user posts as much as you do is usually "how long can they hold it together before they cross the line again?"

However, the redshirt rules are pretty well known around here, so the fact you didn't know that playing McCaffrey would absolutely burn his redshirt is actually a point in your favor here.

Welcome to the MGoBoard.

A2toGVSU

November 22nd, 2017 at 2:40 PM ^

Usually starting threads is for breaking news or relevant fluff pieces.

If you want to start a board topic based on a thought like this one, try to provide a little analysis or detailed discussion points. There will always be someone who doesn't think sometging is thread-worthy, but the voting is a pretty good indicator of whether or not a thread is a good idea.

Reader71

November 22nd, 2017 at 2:14 PM ^

You didn’t offend me, and this is probably the first time ever ever talked about the worthiness of a thread. I must have been triggered by other snowflake threads recently.

But it’s getting insane around here. Everyone seems to want to start a thread for every idea they want to talk about. But threads get hundreds of comments. If someone thinks it’s interesting, they’ll respend to you in another thread.

fksljj

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:52 PM ^

Doesn't it have to be a "certifiable" injury, though? I'm sure the NCAA has already made arrangements to prevent athetlic fraud from happening.

Avon Barksdale

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:53 PM ^

He is 6’4, 170 pounds soaking wet. You want to thrust him into The Game with their defensive line? We are better off doing what Kentucky did to Tennessee a few years ago — put a skilled position player that was a QB in high school back there and run wildcat the entire game. Surely Gentry, McDoom and Evans / Higdon can handle that.

Wolfman

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:53 PM ^

defenses in the nation is nuts. Remember there was a reason for the Peters insertion at a specific date. Throwing Dylan-and i realize he's probably ahead of most his age- is still ludicruous. We'll take John and do the best we can and not worry about having this young man suffer a serious injury before he's able to adapt against lesser, much lesser athletes. 

Perkis-Size Me

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^

You'd be throwing McCaffery into a no-win scenario. You honestly don't think that OSU would stack the box with 9 guys and bring the house on every other play? 

If we had a wooly mammoth, Bama-esque OL that could protect him and great running backs to take the pressure off of him, you could probably talk me into it. But you'd have a true freshman QB starting behind the worst OL in the country when it comes to pass pro. Going up against arguably the best and deepest DL in college football. What the hell do you think is going to happen? There's no way he walks out of that game with his head still attached to his body. 

We don't need to send him out to slaughter. Also, if we lose to them 49-3 and burn his redshirt in the process, would you still think that's okay? Because that outcome with McCaffery at the helm is far more likely than him springing an upset. 

LSAClassOf2000

November 22nd, 2017 at 2:01 PM ^

I totally agree that Harbaugh would play the QB which, in his estimation, gives us the best chance to win. To that point, I think that might also be the reason you really haven't heard much about McCaffery to date, and that isn't to say anything about his ability overall, just to where he probably is on the depth chart and in the system. I wouldn't roll him out save in some bizarre emergency scenario where he was the only person who could stand whose position on the roster read "QB", and really, why would you want THIS game to be his first, of all games? The move makes zero sense even as a thought experiment. 

FranklinHatchett

November 22nd, 2017 at 2:05 PM ^

No I would not want it to be his first game unless coach thought it was best. I see what your saying, but I just feel like I could see Coach doing this if he thought it was best regardless of redshirt.

bamf16

November 22nd, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^

If the game is close in the 2nd half and O'Korn gets hurt, I'm with you in that I'd play him, but only if the decision has been made for Speight to be extended the offer to come back. If UM goes into next season with Speight and Peters, there's a good to great chance McCaffrey can redshirt next season as the 3rd string QB, right?