We Will Know About Jake Rudock Soon - Obstacles Remain
Per every Michigan tweeter, Jake Rudock is visiting soon and we will know, in relatively short order, whether he will be Michigan's next QB.
A few key tweets:
#Michigan has not offered Rudock yet but he is expected to accept if offered on his visit to Ann Arbor this weekend. http://t.co/zTqfioKfOF
— Clint Brewster (@clintbrew247) March 18, 2015
Sources tell me that Iowa HC Kirk Ferentz will release transfer QB Jake Rudock to #Michigan. http://t.co/zTqfioKfOF via @247Sports
— Clint Brewster (@clintbrew247) March 18, 2015
Ex #Iowa QB Jake Rudock is heading to #Michigan for a visit in the next 36 hrs, per source. Hopes to hear from B1G in next wk or so on elig.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) March 18, 2015
Of note on Rudock stuff: B1G's revised intraconference transfer policy doesn't have a special exception for immediately eligible grad xfers
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) March 18, 2015From Wolverine247: LINK
Rudock will visit Michigan this weekend and the source also indicated that if Michigan does offer Rudock a spot on the roster that he will accept. The other program in the mix for Rudock is Boise State.
A vote of confidence from Boise State on a QB is a good thing.
Hopefully it's not too late for Harbaugh to get him up to speed on the finer art of taking snaps...
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Baumgardner also said that he feels that Iowa granting release to Michigan is a big hurdle clearned when considering the intraconference transfer rule
The only way we could play Iowa is in the B1G Championship Game. Helping Michigan potentially beat Minnesota and Northwestern could be favorable to Iowa.
If he comes here, wins the job, I hope they redshirt Morris and Malzone both. Let Speight be the primary backup this year.
Redshirt Gentry as well?
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That was rude.
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What does Baumgardner's tweet mean? That Rudock has to sit a year?
I think it means that Iowa could have still blocked the transfer because it is Intraconferense, but that hurdle seems to be cleared now.
I see. So now the ball is in the Big Ten's court, which historically has always put the interests of the college/conference ahead of the interests of student/player. However, with Iowa granting his release, there seems to be little for the Big Ten to gain by not allowing this kid to transfer to the school he wants to be at.
the conspiracy theory that the B1G Commish wants what's best for OSU...and that's NO Jake to Jim combo.
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or IS it /s?
I believe he is referecing the fact that transfering from one big ten school to another without the release from your previous school means that you can't be on scholarship at the new school and you would have to pay your own way.
has been rescinded. The B10 intra-conference transfer rule is now the same as the NCAA trannsfer rule, except that it essentially mandates sitting out a year even if there's an NCAA waiver, such as the rule permitting graduated students to transfer and play immediately. The B10 rule allows the original school to block it if it chooses.
Great news! A QB with expierence is never a bad thing. I can't see Morris taking a redshirt but I've seen weirder things happen.
Hopefully he can come in and do a Russel Wilson type thing where he wins a Big Ten Championship and takes us to the Rose Bowl in his 5th year. That is if he can win the starting job.
Wasn't Wilson a lot better at NCState than Rudock is at Iowa?
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Doesn't have to be better than Russell Wilson. Connor Cook is no Russell Wilson and he won State a B1G/Rose Bowl. Just have to be efficient, which Rudock is - very much so.
He doesn't have to be better than Russell Wilson. He just has to be better that who Michigan has at QB now.
Without checking Rudock's stats, Wilson completed about 58 percent of his passes for an average ypa of just above 7 and a 3:1 TD:INT ratio. Better, but I don't think that it was by light years. Expectations for a similar bump aren't reasonable, but just getting a guy who can complete 60% of his passes and average about 7.5 ypa with the same TD:INT ratio that he has now would make a world of difference to this team.
He also threw 379 straight passes without a pick, beating the old NCAA record by more than 50 throws (this was when he was still at NC State). And at Wisconsin his completion % jumped to nearly 73%, third in all of D-1. I think just looking at the overall stats would have you think Wilson wasn't nearly as much of a talent as he actually is/was, and it's not like he had worlds of talent to help him out at NC State. We can make fun of Iowa but they usually tend to have at least decent talent, certainly better than NC State.
Agreed with you about Rudock's potential impact to us though.
At NC Stte, Russell Wilson completed 57.8% of his passes at 7.2 YPA and a 2.9 TD:INT ratio, with a career QBR of 135.
At Iowa, Rudock has completed 60% of his passes for 7.0 YPA and a 1.8 TD:INT ratio, with a career QBR of 130.
So, it's fair to say that Wilson was marginally better than Rudock before their respective transfers, but their career bodies of work don't indicate an astronomical difference.
Wilson didn't transfer because he needed to. He transferred because he wanted to play some place else.
Sorry, unless you mean to raise his "pro stock" but he could have done that at NC State.
Wilson was pushed out by his coach. He planned to start Mike Glennon over him and was annoyed that Wilson was spending time on baseball. Glennon turned out to be pretty good too.
QB number 9(!) on the spring roster. Harbaugh should be able to get 1 functional guy out of this group. Sad that having a good QB not a guarantee though.
Between Morris, Malzone, Speight, Gentry and Rudock there has got to be at least one quality starter. Right?
I think so. What they have now is three guys, all with talent in my opinion, but none are proven or seperating themselves. This may eventually happen but do they pass on Rudock and hope one of the three can take over and be the guy by game 1? If they do take him, I don't think that automatically means he's the starter but what it does is create more of a safety net for them.
Too bad he can't take pieces of each one and Frakenstein them together into one QB. Morris' arm, Speight's size, Malzone's legs, and so on.
He may try, he is Harbaugh after all.
I don't get the obsession with counting all the walkons. There are three scholarship QBs on the spring roster. That is not a lot.
Exactly. People keep saying we have a lot of quarterbacks, but it's simply not true.
The spring roster includes Morris, Speight, and Malzone. That's 3.
The fall roster will include Morris, Speight, Malzone, Gentry, and possibly Rudock (with O'Korn having to sit). That 4 or 5.
The 2016 roster will include Morris, Speight, Malzone, Gentry, O'Korn, and whichever quarterback(s) Michigan brings in with the 2016 class. That's 5 to maybe 7.
If a walk-on quarterback wins the job, then good for him. But the last time a walk-on QB played at Michigan was 2008 when Nick Sheridan started and the program was in shambles with a 3-9 record.
If I'm Rudock, I'd like to watch practice and see my competition.
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it's a SQUAT?
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