Speight Still Hasn't Found a Transfer School
I had heard from a Sam Webb podcast a while ago that Wilton still hasn't found a school and an MLive article says he'd come back if She wasn't in the picture (link). From what I recall, Memphis was an option at one time, but that has since closed up.
Anyway, how would you say this impacts--if at all--the Michigan QB contest of 2018? Are there rules that would limit his ability to come back to the team? Would anyone here be interested to see Wilton back at the helm?
But I can't believe a non-P5 school couldn't use a QB with Speight's resume. Baffling.
Still surprised Toledo hasn't been involved. Pass friendly offense that is in desperate need of a qb and is returning 3 of the conference's top receivers.
doesn't mean they're "giving up" on their current stock of quarterbacks.
From the rumblilngs I had heard, it seemed like he wanted to go with Fisch, but he jumped to the NFL. Guessing he's going to wait for the dust to clear now and then pick where he wants.
Girlfriend?
Friend with Benefits?
FauxMo's cousin?
FWB is a good thing
not that he has no offers. It stands to reason that if we would take him, many other schools would too. The deadline to enroll to be able to participate in spring practice has long passed. He might as well wait and see who still needs a QB after those are over.
Spring practice was ever an option. He said he would be training on the west coast with his QB coach in the spring and was waiting till school ended to make a decision.
Sorry, but he sucks.
Can we stop hammering Pep Hamilton now that he's basically just the qb coach along with Harbaugh? What kind of sense does they have "no Pep Hamilton" even mean now, with a reorganized coaching staff? How was this one coach the cause of all our problems on offense? Jesus Christ, people here just fucking want to find the bad in EVERYTHING about the program, even when the bad doesn't exist.
Yeah, the Pep attack is played out and pretty much nonsensical with only one year of data with a super young team and multiple confounding factors. There's no way to know that Pep was a real negative for us this year, given everything else we know.
Is he still getting a mill to be qb coach?
This is a dumb critique of Pep and the OL comment is plainly incorrect. Alabama's OL was 92nd in Adjusted Sack Rate, 102nd in Standard Down Sack Rate, and 107th in Passing Down Sack Rate this year. Georgia's was 68th, 113th, and 55th in those respective categories. Georgia's OL was the better unit of the two and they were, at best, middling.
What was Hamilton's responsibility for the OL?
cool down. I think we can all agree that Pep Hamilton was either very clearly the main problem or not the problem at all, depending on how next season shakes out.
1,012th out of 162!
Honestly, its part of the reason that he's a known quantity that I'd be ready to move in another direction with finding a starter. We know what we're going to get: a man who can play like a star against the Marylands, Illinois's, and Rugters' of the world, but when the chips are down against OSU, his game becomes extremely limited, and while he won't be the sole reason you lose, he won't do much to help you win those games either.
Not that I wouldn't take him back. Having an experienced 5th year senior would be extremely valuable if Patterson/Peters/McCaffery were to go down. But we know what we're getting with Speight. And what we get is not good enough to beat OSU.
See, I think he was more than good enough to beat OSU. He sure as shit would have been good enough this year. The fact the team could barely break 2 ypc was far worse on offense than anything Speight did. And, hell, the defense couldn't stop Barrett from running at all in the 2nd half of that 2016 game.
He was also the only competent part of the offense far decent stretches against FSU.
I agree we have a ceiling with him, but I have no confidence that Patterson, Peters, McCaffrey, etc. are anywhere close to that ceiling right now. And I guess I'm just on the "Shea Patterson is a fine QB" train, because everyone expecting him to come in and be a star must have watched a different player than the guy I saw struggle to move the ball when it mattered against Auburn, Alabama, and LSU.
He was good enough to beat OSU, if only he and his center had executed the snap down by the goalline instead of fumbling. That's something they were able to do properly EVERY SINGLE OTHER TIME that season. One freaking fumbled snap all season and it had to occur inside the redzone at OSU. I know folks are going to respond that you have to give yourself some margin so you can overcome the errors that college kids make, but come on, when you are playing a top 10 team on the road, your margin for error gets really slim. Having a once in ~750 event happen is just plain bad luck. It doesn't mean Speight is a bad QB or can't beat OSU. He can. But he is part of a team and the whole team needs to perform, like maybe tackling a guy behind the LOS on 3rd and 11 in OT, instead of letting him almost get to the first down line setting up a very makeable (but he was short) 4th and 1.
(And my personal favorite example - if we field the kickoff to open the 2nd half against Iowa, we win that game, too.)
Did you see us struggle against Cincy, Air Force, and Purdue while he was at the helm? And those teams compare to Auburn, Alabama, and LSU how?
At this point, I don't see the ROI. I'd rather see our 3 current leading candidates for the starting QB job get the time and attention that would otherwise go to Speight. IMO, Shea Patterson is better than Speight, right now, and will improve with time in the system and with the attention of the coaches. The other two guys are young and inexperienced. We need them to develop for the long term. Bringing in Speight doesn't help that.
The pre-injury Wilton last year was a terrible quarterback. We would have lost to Purdue if he had not gotten injured. For whatever reason, he was staring at open receivers and refusing to throw, thus taking sacks. When he did throw, he missed open receivers.
The pre-Iowa Wilton was a promising QB, but that guy seems long gone. I would much rather develop young talent like McCaffery or Milton than to see Wilton missing an open DJP yet again on deep ball after deep ball. And I think it would depress the whole team.