What if Ryan Mallet had stayed?

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Would RichRod be in jail for murder because Mallett was such an insolent dumbass?

surely pointless at this time.

Rich is a master of adaptation and we probably would have seen a Purdue like spread.

Mallet had the speed of a Brontosaurus, so I'd say he wouldn't have been able to make the run Threet did at the end of the Wiscy game, but I think he would have avoided the pick 6 against Toledo and made the TD pass at the end of the NW game. If he split time with Threet or Sheridan, I'd say we would have been 4-8, maybe 5-7 at best, but that's a stretch.

with Brodie. At best we were looking at a Purdue like offense and maybe in time growing into a Texas Tech like pass-heavy spread. But last year, given the O-line play, I still think 6 wins would have been a miracle.

I think 7-5 would have been reasonable last year with Mallett. He would have hit many but not all of the open recievers that Threet-idan missed. Most of all, with even a mediocre QB, they would never have lost to Toledo or any of the lower level teams. In retrospect, the Utah loss doesn't look nearly as bad as it did when it happened. So, it would have been better last year, but how would Mallett have handled the recruiting of Forcier and Robinson? He was a homesick momma's boy and he found a great excuse to go home. On one level, I think he is a baby. On another level, though, I will never fault a kid for listening to his parents. Even if his parents suck. At any rate, we are now fully into the RR era with no safety net. RR is further along at installing his full offense now that he has his kind of people on the field. It should be a great ride; hopefully, there won't be a lot of bumps this year.

does anyone even care? And before you say "don't click if you don't care," I say "don't post if you're going to post stupid shit."

you wouldn't have asked this question. So, that's a plus. I enjoy the hypotheticals, but this is a crapshoot.

wow huss, take your own advice and keep you mouth shut. i just wasted 6 seconds of my life reading your worthless post, another 45 seconds typing up this response, and another 9 seconds figuring out how much time it took me to do both. thanks a lot. o yea and another thing...dont click if you dont like the topic

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If Mallet would have stayed we would have been undefeated and won the NC. The economy would not have collapsed and John McCain would be our president. If Mallet would have stayed the basketball team would have won at least 50 games. If Mallet would have stayed they would have put a dome over the big house. If Mallet would have stayed, my sister wouldn't have become a nun. If Mallet would have stayed.... should be a country song.

I realize this was posted as a hypothetical but let's go with it for a second. Mallet knew when he transferred to AR that Petrino had already taken the job. He knew that he would have to sit out for a year and he knew that he would have to learn to run the spread. Does anyone think that any of that is coincidence, NO IT AINT'. At either school he was going to have to learn the spread but this way he got an extra year to do so. I have buddies that live near UA and have attended some of the practices where he was throwing it around. They tell me that he looks really good. One guy even said that he was throwing it so hard that if the receiver was in the air when they caught it it was putiting them on the ground, just trying to hold on to it. UM would have run a very heavy pass offense and with enough laps up and down the stairs Mallet would have learned to hold on to the ball better. Mallet is slow (physically not mentally) and that would have hindered him some but I think that whatever kids RR got to come in this year would have redshirted behind Mallet and still had 3 years of eligibility remaining when Mallet graduated. The team would have had more time to learn the system and I don't think it is too much to think that we could have won 8 games. Not 9 by any means but maybe 8. The loss of Mallet hurt more than we may ever know. Expecially since he will definitley be a first or 2nd rounder at the latest.

If Mallet would have stayed, Brian may have been able to compile a ten minute yakaty-sax video of Ryan fumbling all over himself.

I'm going to go against the grain here. First of all, I don't mind this kind of post. It's interesting to think about, just like it's interesting to think about where we would be if we had pulled out Ronald Johnson, Taylor Mays, or Tim Tebow. Anyway, I think our passing game would have been significantly better. And I don't think our run game would have been affected very much. Mallett had a strong arm. He had significant game experience. His arm strength alone could have kept a safety out of the box, unlike Sheridan. Mallett's touch would have needed to improve, but was his touch that much worse than Threet's? I don't know. He still probably would have been inaccurate, but he'd have an extra year of experience over Threet. Threet wasn't a very big threat to run the ball, either. Mallett definitely wouldn't have made the 58-yard run against Wisconsin, but who's to say we would have been in that situation if we had a different QB? The run game would have undoubtedly been different. There probably would have been more I-formation plays, and I think there would have been more dives than options out of the shotgun. But Mallett could keep the ball on occasion, just to keep the defense honest. He actually moved pretty well for being 250. Best case scenario? Michigan could have won 6 games and been bowl eligible. Worst case scenario? 3-9. There's no way Mallett would have been worse than the Threet/Sheridan combo.