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Cam Miller NDSU QB

The other 130 schools were not within 10 miles of a kid who probably wanted to play at Iowa is whole life. Big difference IMO.
Oddly enough, I think we have done pretty well over the years recruiting kids who only had the Dakota directional school offers…😎
 
one year of lester was enough to convince me the offense will never be futile again. the qb room right now is an order of magnitude better than it has been in 5 years. it would be great to get another championship caliber proven qb but even without top talent i could see the offense being at least above average going forward. and lester doesn't just sit and accept shitty play game after game, he actually subs and almost always it's been the right move.
YES! I nearly lept off the couch in the NW game when I saw, for the first time since CJB, a damn Iowa QB running and getting first downs, stressing the D on the edges and making them pay for selling out. Small sample sizes yes but even a quick not elite level fast QB like Sully can make a huge difference, it's something we've been screaming and clamoring for years about!

Now, imagine for a moment an average passing game to help Kaleb run the ball, sigh...we led the B10 or were 2nd in rushing for most of the year, averaging over 200 ypg.
 
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This is his 5th year in college.

He had 3 offers: North Dakota State, South Dakota State, and Northern Iowa.

Yale, South Dakota and Iowa showed interest but never offered.

How could Yale have been so stupid???

 
YES! I nearly lept off the couch in the NW game when I saw, for the first time since CJB, a damn Iowa QB running and getting first downs, stressing the D on the edges and making them pay for selling out. Small sample sizes yes but even a quick not elite level fast QB like Sully can make a huge difference, it's something we've been screaming and clamoring for years about!

Now, imagine for a moment an average passing game to help Kaleb run the ball, sigh...we led the B10 or were 2nd in rushing for most of the year, averaging over 200 ypg.
Playing McNamara was the “safe” choice. By that, I’m not saying he was the right choice, but he had been in the program longer, probably knew the offense a little better, had the experience at Michigan, such that starting him was “safe”. And Kirk always makes the “safe” choice. I think it was apparent by ISU that he had limitations.

Then we got peaks at Sullivan in the goal line offense, and it was a consistent success, but until NW never got to see him in extended minutes. When he finally got his shot, the season was 3/4 over. He missed a lot of games to develop. So his starts came late, but carried an expectation that he’d been playing from the beginning. There were rough patches for him, but he was essentially in early season form, although late in the season. Then he gets hurt and misses two games that would have given him valuable experience. Then he starts against Mizzou. His play was very good at times and not so good at others. I’m not saying he is the answer for next year, and maybe he doesn’t develop beyond what he can do now, but there are aspects of his game that Cade could never provide, that we all knew since the Iowa State game. Just by playing more, I think he’ll get better. If Gronowski doesn’t come to Iowa, all is not lost.
 
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Hindsight is 20/20, as they say. Some guys are late bloomers and/or get stuck behind someone else in high school. (Ben Roethlisberger didn't start until his senior year.) Some guys go unnoticed because they play at small schools or for bad teams. Still other guys hit their ceilings early. Just for fun I looked up Deacon Hill's high school recruiting profile on 247 and see that they had him as a 4-star recruit with P5 offers Kansas State and UCLA to go with the one he took from Wisconsin. What's more, national recruiting analyst Gene Biggins projected him as a day 3 NFL draft prospect.

"Big, strong signal caller with a powerful down field arm. Might have the strongest arm in the ’21 class but is more then just a big arm, he’s a pure thrower who can change speeds and throws with timing and anticipation. Is accurate to all three levels of the field and boasts a quick, tight release and doesn’t need much of a wind up to get the ball down the field. Has worked hard to re-shape his body in the off-season and dropped about 20 pounds. Can still improve athletically and in his ability to extend plays and get outside the pocket but ins’t a bad athlete at all and does show good pocket presence and feel. The gene pool is strong in his family as well with three older sisters who played at the elite national level in water polo. He’s developing fast and shows the upside to be an upper tier Power 5 starter and future mid-high round NFL draft pick."

https://247sports.com/player/deacon-hill-46053378/high-school-214183/
I stopped reading after your first sentence. You couldn't be more incorrect. I could Provide you the information but you should learn how to look up things before you post things that are totally inaccurate.
 

19/22
196 yds
2 TD's
QBR 192

121 yds rushing

FCS National Championship


Brian and Kirk passed on this kid from Solon, IA while they played QB's who couldn't run or pass in McNamara and Deacon Hill. With 3 or 4 other recruits who were not good enough to play the position.
1st qb in a century (fcs, fbs, nfl) to do that in a single game.
 
How does any professional coach keep his job when he shows an inability to update play schemes to maximize QB skill sets? Only a complete incompetent moron keeps trying to shove QBs into a set scheme when the scheme is obviously not working and obviously isn’t utilizing the QBs skill sets. Is Kirk this stupid or this stubborn!?!
Signed, a completely confused and frustrated fan
Ndsu qb coach/oc wanted to come to Iowa. He built Stick, Wentz, Lance, and now Miller.
 
That is coaching malfeasance of the highest order. Except for Sullivan, for six ugly years Iowa hasn't had a QB on the roster that could carry that Solon kid's cleats. The thought that KF kept saying Hill and McNamara--and Petras before that--gave Iowa "the best chance to win" is sickening in the context of major college football.
Coach Miller put several kids into college ball. Morris, Koehn, Linderbaum, Coons (AJ), Bock, and his own son. Countless others at 1AA/D2/D3/JUCO.

As others have said, Cam would not have developed at Iowa like he did at NDSU. It all worked at for him, couldn't be prouder of the young man.
 
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Look up what, exactly?

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He didn't start in only his senior year. He was a three year starter and played against Iowa two years in a row.
SeasonTeamConfClassPosGCmpAttCmp%YdsTDTD%IntInt%Y/AAY/AY/CY/GRateAwards
2001Miami (OH)MACFRQB1224138163.33105256.6133.48.17.9312.9258.8146.5
2002Miami (OH)MACSOQB1227142863.33238225.1112.67.67.4411.9269.8138.7
2003*Miami (OH)MACJRQB1434249569.14486377.5102.09.19.6513.1320.4165.8H-9
Career38854130465.510829846.4342.68.38.4212.7285.0151.3
 
I chuckle knowing that a decent amount of these ‘wth why didn’t we get this kid’

Would be the ones going with the
‘WTH KF the guy has zero stars, isn’t even listed as a QB on his recruiting profile and we waste a scholarship on him? We will never compete in the B1G by giving out charity scholarships to a kid because he is local. Kid probably should go to Coe or Wartburg, definitely not big enough to be a QB in the B1G’

Someone go back and see how many ‘we have to get this guy’ posts there were when he was being recruited.
I think it shows what kind of respect KF has that all 130 FBS coaches resisted that urge to offer a scholarship to the kid because he only wanted to go to Iowa.

Jackwagons
 
I chuckle knowing that a decent amount of these ‘wth why didn’t we get this kid’

Would be the ones going with the
‘WTH KF the guy has zero stars, isn’t even listed as a QB on his recruiting profile and we waste a scholarship on him? We will never compete in the B1G by giving out charity scholarships to a kid because he is local. Kid probably should go to Coe or Wartburg, definitely not big enough to be a QB in the B1G’

Someone go back and see how many ‘we have to get this guy’ posts there were when he was being recruited.
I think it shows what kind of respect KF has that all 130 FBS coaches resisted that urge to offer a scholarship to the kid because he only wanted to go to Iowa.

Jackwagons
Cam could have "walked on" and been buried on the depth chart and never developed under KF\BF. He made the right move going to NDSU, he found the right fit for OC\QB coach that helped develop him into what he is today.

Agree, most would have rolled their eyes at offering him a scholarship.
 
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He didn't start in only his senior year. He was a three year starter and played against Iowa two years in a row.
SeasonTeamConfClassPosGCmpAttCmp%YdsTDTD%IntInt%Y/AAY/AY/CY/GRateAwards
2001Miami (OH)MACFRQB1224138163.33105256.6133.48.17.9312.9258.8146.5
2002Miami (OH)MACSOQB1227142863.33238225.1112.67.67.4411.9269.8138.7
2003*Miami (OH)MACJRQB1434249569.14486377.5102.09.19.6513.1320.4165.8H-9
Career38854130465.510829846.4342.68.38.4212.7285.0151.3
The poster was talking about Roethlisberger’s high school career.
 

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He didn't start in only his senior year. He was a three year starter and played against Iowa two years in a row.
SeasonTeamConfClassPosGCmpAttCmp%YdsTDTD%IntInt%Y/AAY/AY/CY/GRateAwards
2001Miami (OH)MACFRQB1224138163.33105256.6133.48.17.9312.9258.8146.5
2002Miami (OH)MACSOQB1227142863.33238225.1112.67.67.4411.9269.8138.7
2003*Miami (OH)MACJRQB1434249569.14486377.5102.09.19.6513.1320.4165.8H-9
Career38854130465.510829846.4342.68.38.4212.7285.0151.3
Dude, I was talking about high school. Ben didn't start until his senior year, which is why he ended up at Miami and not Ohio State. Obviously you didn't stop reading after the first sentence, but you weren't reading carefully.
 
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