O'Korn or Speight: who ya got?
Stunned we haven't had this thread yet.
I say O'Korn. The mobility is what gives him the edge for me. Rudock had mobility last year, but O'Korn is even quicker.
Would it be out there to think that we could TRY a little read option stuff with Peppers at RB?
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Poetry and a prediction! What a treat!
Let me try:
Although rhyming is a past time phagtivity
Harbaugh will brilliantly make use
Of Johnny O'Korns run run ability
Or so I peruse, now heres the caboose
You made a solid effort. Unfortunatly, it's like the solid effort I leave in the john every day around 10 AM. D-
Wait. Writing poetry can be a day job?
When you say "who ya got" is that asking for predictions or rooting interest?
Hopefully the former (even though the entire collective of us is 0.001% as qualified as Harbaugh to decide) because I've always felt that rooting for a particular QB to win the starter's derby is silly.
Because Harbaugh I'm pretty confident in whomever wins the job. Of course he would have to continue to preform to keep his job. Meritocracy at its best
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O'Korn. I get the statements about Speight as he may be less turnover prone and that would work well with the defense we have. But, I don't see Harbaugh as playing not to lose. I think he'll take O'Korn with the bigger play potential and mold him into someone who also doesn't make a lot of mistakes.
Harbaugh will take the best clay and make him into a QB.
We know Peters will be the starter eventually? Um, no, and that's not even in the coming years, let alone this season. The earliest he'll start might be 2019 if he can't beat out a 5th year senior Speight in 2018 and we'll have a stable of younger, talented QB's by then that he'll have to beat.
I only agree to not completely write off Peters. Longshot, but maybe his arm talent is as good as it looked in his highlights and O'Korn and Speight keep making the wrong throws.
I think every Michigan fan should have this opinion at this point.
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Speight:
He's mentally tough, he's a guy the team will want to follow, and he makes less mistakes than O'Korn which will be perfect to pair with Michigan's dominant defense.
Because that always works out well.
Also I wanted to shout 'kaka dao, kaka dao VC!"
On the spring game, I have a feeling JO'K was told to make some runs, perhaps as a way to exercise that as another option rather than trying to make a bad decision/throw.
I have no inside knowledge on this, it just appeared that way vs. what his Houston film looked like.
I am only %5 Joking.
I'm good either way.
If Harbaugh asked Gumby to put on a winged helmet and lead the team, I would trust him to do a good job. Also, have you seen that guy's spin move?
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He lost his job to Greg Ward Jr. No shame in that. GWJ could be the next college RGIII with Herman in charge.
that ended in the coach being fired for trying to do their best Hoke/Borges impersonation. It's obvious something was working in O'Korn's freshman season resulting in tremendous production on his part coupled with a very low turnover margin. It's obvious O'Korn has the goods; that can be assumed merely by sliding in tape of Rudock from last season. I don't know if Jake was the record setting qb at the high school they both attended, but whoever it was, O'Korn now holds them, just as he does at UH for a freshman QB.
I'm guessing the OC John had his freshman season was offered a better job because Houston changed OCs his sophomore year and his philosophy was to do the opposite of whatever the D was lined up to prevent(????). Isn't that what all offenses do? Well anyway, it didn't work. If they tried to run, they were stuffed. It they tried to pass, a pick or sack seemed to be the result and w/in weeks O'Korn had more picks than he did his entire freshmen year and was replaced as the starter. Some here have seen him and based on what I've read, they saw a qb who throws a very nice ball. Like I said, he ran the same offense as Jake, but did so at a higher level.
He needs to shake off a lot of rust and this is where Wilton got a jump on him. Although he only runs a near 5 sec 40, his athletic ability is good and he was able to run the scout team every week w/o worrying about putting a faster player into to simulate a running qb, if that's what we faced that week. Wilton, at the same time, was learning the offense and taking second team snaps. This was a wise move for the obvious reasons and made the race tight this year. I don't think it will take O'Korn long to get his groove back, just countless repititions and, according to him, he's been working his ass off.
It turned out good for the team, Wilton has shown a day/night difference in both confidence and play and based on the reports from the spring game, John wasn't far behind then.
If you made me guess, it'll be Speight, but I personally don't mind whoever starts.
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And my guess is Harbaugh will get the most out of either of them. I'm sure we'll see both at some point.
JOK -300
Speight +220
Morris +2000
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Good question, i should have been more clear. I did mean for this season. Doesn't he have one more year of eligibility left?
He's admirably stuck with Michigan through the Brady Hoke years, but I would think given the depth chart and incoming QBs he may want to consider what's best for him at this point.
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I think he is here to become a 5th year grad transfer.
I say Speight because of Rudock...but then Kaep beat out Smith which makes me think O'Korn.
I'm torn.
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If I had to pick one though I'm going to go out on a limb and say J O'K. His mobility is something that a guy like Wilton Speight can't duplicate. No matter how much the practice.
Either way tho....I'm happy. If Speight has that steely eyes look and can stand in the pocket and pick D's apart...then I could care less about his mobility or lack there of.
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