Speight to Return ?

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Nick Baumgardner says Wilton could return if Patterson ineligible.

MWolverine7

January 25th, 2018 at 10:34 PM ^

So he gets to quit and now comeback when the competition may be easy- sorry don’t want him back. I’d rather lose with one of the younger guys that chose to compete.

1WhoStayed

January 25th, 2018 at 10:59 PM ^

He “left” before Shea signed up. In fact, M told Shea “no thanks” originally. That only changed when Speight left. With Shea on board there may not he enough snaps to go around. He didn’t leave because Shea came on board. So there’s that...

JOHNNAVARREISMYHERO

January 26th, 2018 at 1:47 AM ^

Huh, we already lost with one of those younger guys. And he quit competing. The guy was so pathetic, he was behind O'Korn. Speight is tired of dealing with this Peters fairytale. Speight played his cards right. He let Peters get exposed as a complete fraud. Now he can be back, but he is going to make Michigan beg.

Andy213

January 26th, 2018 at 1:04 AM ^

Some of you people are the most hypocritical people I have ever come across. Bunch of smoke ass fair weather fans. Change your allegiance to staee or Rutgers. Speight would add valuable depth I would rather see Patterson or Peters but Speight will b acceptable. 

Putt4Birdie

January 26th, 2018 at 6:19 AM ^

This whole thing is probably just a Baumgartner Sparty troll job anyway. If for some bizarro world reason he did come back, it would divide the locker room and ruin this young team's chemistry like you wouldn't believe. These young guns will be just fine and need all the snaps they can get for themselves before the Notre Dame game.

Jimmyisgod

January 26th, 2018 at 9:39 AM ^

Don't get me wrong, I would like Speight back, I think he gives us the best chance to win in 2018.  Although he's not as talented as Patterson, I think we win more games this year with him than Shea.  I know that's not popular here, but Peight knows our offense better than anyone and he's get a good arm and can be great.

But what about team chemistry?  Spegiht left the team, didn't practice for the Bowl, didn't go with his team to the bowl, and he's missing Winter Conditioning right now.  What message does it send if he's right back on the team in the Spring like nothing happened?

metro1

January 26th, 2018 at 10:26 AM ^

Please no,we will never win with him at qb.if back will have another 4 loss season.when will michigan learn in college you need a mobile qb,to beat the good teams .not a statue standing in pocket with lead feet.

metro1

January 26th, 2018 at 10:26 AM ^

Please no,we will never win with him at qb.if back will have another 4 loss season.when will michigan learn in college you need a mobile qb,to beat the good teams .not a statue standing in pocket with lead feet.

Jimmyisgod

January 26th, 2018 at 10:41 AM ^

But seriously, Patterson played in a single read offense last year.  It's not the same offense at all, he will need a year to get up to speed on the offense.  I think Patterson can be great, but you have to look inside his numbers at Ole Miss to get an accurate picture of him.  He was great against bad teams and bad against great teams.  HIs 1 god game against Auburn was a game where they were way down and Auburn basically went into prevent.

I think it's better than 50% that if Speight and Patterson are both here, Speightt beats him out due to knowledge of the offense and Patterson just not being ready for a pro style system yet.  I meanlook at Peters, he's had 2 years in the system and they still couldn't open up the playbook with him.  Our fans always like to look ahead to the next big thing, people are totally selling Speight short, he was darned near a Heisman candidate 3.4s of the way through 2016, when healthy he's a very good QB who should take a big step this coming season if he stays where he knows the offense.  

I think what's best for Michigan Football is for Spegiht to start in 2018 and Patterson to start in 2019.  We go 9-3 or 10-2 with Speight this Fall, we threraten the playoffs with Patterson in 2019.

Indy Pete - Go Blue

January 26th, 2018 at 5:01 PM ^

I am surprised that ths information was made public.  I suspected this when he recently said he will wait until June, but it is an embarassing thing to have revealed.  WS has shown great maturity and class.  I wish him well.  I feel badly for this embarassing information being revealed (if true or even moreso if not true).