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The scuttlebutt I have heard is that Hansen was eliminated before the spring game.
I believe that not even the coaches have an idea at this time.Any ideas who it will be? I actually have no idea at this point.
What exactly could have led to Hanson being eliminated even before summer workouts? I'm having trouble believing the coaches would completely eliminate a kid from consideration this early, regardless of how far behind he may have appeared during spring drills. Lots of time between spring and the start of the season for him to close the gap.
BR, I'm not saying I agree with that, it's just what I have heard from multiple sources. I suppose part of it is the oft claimed benefit to limiting the number of competitors so that those most likely get more reps. Like I said, I thought Hansen looked better than anybody. He was the only one not to make a stupid pick throw.
I agree. I do not think anybody knows, even those three coaches. The scuttlebutt I have heard is that Hansen was eliminated before the spring game. But I thought he played the best of the four. I do not doubt that we will lose at least one of them to transfer.
That really blows if that turns out to be true. I prefer to pull for the homegrown Oklahoma kids in the program. But that does make sense in too many QBs is spreading the limited # of reps too thin in a QB competition. That would be a tough pill to swallow for any of the QBs on campus right now, and with it being as crowded as it currently is, I wouldn't blame someone for wanting to xfer to get an opportunity elsewhere.
Who you thinking maybe Cody Thomas to transfer? I hope they all stay we will need them.
BR, I'm not saying I agree with that, it's just what I have heard from multiple sources. I suppose part of it is the oft claimed benefit to limiting the number of competitors so that those most likely get more reps. Like I said, I thought Hansen looked better than anybody. He was the only one not to make a stupid pick throw.
And in the other post, I think that Mayfield is better than any possible juco transfer. For all of these guys, it's time to step up and set yourself apart. Nobody came close to doing that in the spring game. I went in expected Mayfield to look better than everybody else. Instead, he made two horrible throws that offset anything positive he might have accomplished, IMO.
I don't think quarterback will matter so much next year if Shepard, Perine, and Mixon stay healthy. Just distribute the ball to those three guys on a pretty even basis and the offense could be somewhat hard to stop. Any other semi-consistent help (from a TE, or another WR, or good line play) would be gravy.
Robertson would have been pretty good running this offense. He was recruited to be a passing I formation quarterback in the mold of Bobby Warmack, but we switched to the bone during his soph year. He was about a 4.8 guy trying to run a wishbone, but he was by far the best guy on the team his senior year after Mildren graduated. We put in a special wrinkle on the option for the trip to Ames and he kept the ball and ran about 50 inside the Cyclone 5 YL. The bench got kind of excited.
Fitty, I know how you feel. Sometime ago I stated it was 10 years since our last (football) NC. Will there be one more in any of the next 10 years?You're absolutely right hOUston.
I don't have the luxury of time anymore. These football folks have got to fish or cut bait.
NOW!
Plaino, I never met Robertson, but my old junior high coach (Jim Issac) actually coached him in high school out in California before moving back to Oklahoma. Jim told me that Dave was a really good passing QB, but wasn't surprised that he performed well in Barry's offense. He said Robertson was a very smart kid and rarely got too excited. Of course, he had a bunch of great players surrounding him in '72. I remember he and Tinker hooked up for about half of his passing yards and Tink was only a freshman??? Anyway, I agree with you that Robertson could have done well in Riley's offense and I hope that one of the current guys can too.
I'm not positive. I think Jerry was in the last freshman class not eligible to play on the varsity, which would have been Steve Davis' class. If so, he'd have been two years behind me. He could have been one year behind me and I just forgot. That was the year I was the Boomer manager. It was my soph year. But he'd have been a freshman in either 1971 or 1970. I know he wasn't in my class. And I know he started after I graduated, which according to Soonerstats was his junior year of 1973. So he was a soph in '72. He was a very strong young man.