OU has what seems to be four partial solutions, but nobody has stuck out as THE solution. Based on what you've seen and know, who would you start and why?
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I don't have anything to go by except just a gut feeling as well, but I also think Hansen may be a sleeper and end of playing next year more than the others. I'm not for one over the others so I'm going to root for the guy that Riley selects.
I would start the quarterback who has shown himself better than the others a day or two before the opening game. No way for me to speculate until then. Deep down, I would like to see Hansen emerge as the starter as he has the potential....plus he's an Oklahoman, as Bradford and White were.OU has what seems to be four partial solutions, but nobody has stuck out as THE solution. Based on what you've seen and know, who would you start and why?
I don't think you base your QB decision on a handful of plays in a meaningless Spring game scrimmage. You base it on his body of work with the greatest emphasis on what he does Fall practice, not on the Spring game. Hansen may earn the starting job, but based on what we know at the moment my guess is it will be Mayfield. I won't be surprised if it is one of the other three. Riley will be more concerned with accuracy and ability to read the defense and find open WRs than anything else.
Has everyone pretty much given up on Knight? Honestly he is probably the favorite to start based on experience alone.
BR, Knight has obviously had more experience at OU than any other QB on the roster.Hansen has never played and Thomas played a few games and was terrible. I have a gut feeling that Bob is going to go with the guy that has the most starts under his belt. Hopefully I'm wrong
In all fairness, while Knight did not perform as expected in 2014, I believe much of that had to do with the absence of players like Saunders, Bester and Clay. All were the difference in beating Alabama. Not even Robert Woods, who had a great clutch catch against Alabama, was available. The new crop of receivers never were much of a factor last year and Neal has yet to fulfill expectations....plus K J Young is no longer on the team.Outside of the Sugar Bowl, the "Knight Experience" hasn't been working all that well for OU. If what we have seen the past 2 seasons is the best he can bring to the field, then I prefer to give the ball to one of the young hotshots and let them go ahead and have their "rookie season" of growing pains to set up for far better QB play in 2016 and beyond. Now if Knight makes huge strides under Riley, then I'm all for letting him keep the starting spot. But if we have seen the peak of Knights abilities, then what does OU have to lose by just letting one of the younger kids play?
Well, yeah, Oklabama....that's what I said, stating that Knight's shaky performance....COMBINED with a lackluster receiving corps that lost Shepard for almost half the season...really hurt.CT, I agree that last year's receiving corp was lacking but that didn't have anything to do with Trevor's poor decisions.....unless the receivers weren't running the route properly. Some of his throws were just gawd awful. But to your point, all those guys you mentioned made some great catches against Alabama. They did a lot to make Trevor look really good.
In all fairness, while Knight did not perform as expected in 2014, I believe much of that had to do with the absence of players like Saunders, Bester and Clay. All were the difference in beating Alabama. Not even Robert Woods, who had a great clutch catch against Alabama, was available. The new crop of receivers never were much of a factor last year and Neal has yet to fulfill expectations....plus K J Young is no longer on the team.
My belief is that whoever starts will be only as good as the receiving corps will allow him to be.....and right now, given the inexperience beyond Shepard, Quick and Neal.....that's a possible problem area. And who's to say if Shepard is ready to go both physically and mentally ?
There has been a lack of development at the QB position for years. If this OC goes back to the Leach system then all of the QB's will be getting reps and be much more prepared than OUr most recent QB's.
Keith Nichol was a decent WR and back up QB, yet he never became the starter. He does well as a motivational speaker today I hear...Has there been any quarterback in the Bob Stoops era that has had a really successful D1 career? Many 4* and a couple of 5* QBs have moved on, but I can't recall any that have enjoyed the success that we fans expected them to have at OU when they were recruited. I may be forgetting someone, but I don't think so. Actually, isn't Troy Aikman the only former OU quarterback that did well after transferring? Every time we lose a highly rated player, especially a QB, I mourn so this is post is kind of a therapy for me today.
Blake Bell