It's hard to envision Cade being healthy enough. He hasn't been 100% at any point since he arrived in Iowa City...and isn't close now.
You kind of missed the whole point actually. Do you think Cade will play a full season? Given his injury history and our poor O line play, what are the chances that he plays a meaningful number of games?
I think what I'll say, without knowing anything more than you do, I have no idea. There have been players that come back and play from knee injuries and players that don't. The, pull numbers out of my a$$ and post them online, is not what I'm going to do with this situation. We need another qb in any event and we need a much improved oline, IMHO.
I have no idea who this guy is, or how credible he might be, but he ranked Sullivan 14th out of 18 BIG quarterbacks heading into 2024. One spot ahead of Sullivan at #13 is Cade McNamara.
This board is loaded with opinions. I was just playing around with some estimates. It’s just to foster discussion. I hope I am wrong or we land someone better from the portal, but the odds are not in our favor with Cade’s durability. I am not optimistic about our O line as well.
LOL!
Agreed, several of his rankings of QB’s are quite head scratching. Particularly, in regard to Minnesota and the true freshman at Nebraska.
I mainly thought it was interesting that Sullivan was only one spot behind McNamara.
No, actually all recruits are signed off on by the head coach, KF is no different.
)Lester would definitely play well with the big donors and on the circuit.Tim Lester turned 47 on Feb 8th. He's a former head coach, of course.
IF he gets the offense functioning, I wonder if he'd be in line (or at least a serious candidate) to be the next Moon Family University of Iowa Head Football Coach (damn, that takes a long time to type
Seth Wallace the next DC?
Just brain storming....
When it comes to Parker's DB recruits, I'm guessing that KF's final say is akin to King Charles' consent over the UK parliament.
Phil probably just signs Kirk's name to the offers.
Most of us said for a long time that Brian F was not head coach material unless he went and got 4-5 years experience and results as a good head coach, above avg is better.Tim Lester turned 47 on Feb 8th. He's a former head coach, of course.
IF he gets the offense functioning, I wonder if he'd be in line (or at least a serious candidate) to be the next Moon Family University of Iowa Head Football Coach (damn, that takes a long time to type
Seth Wallace the next DC?
Just brain storming....
Seth could be a Phil type. One who doesn't want the top with all the "extras" that entails in terms of socializing and dancing for dollars and hand holding and dealing with press.
I think the idea might be Lester as head coach and Wallace as DC when Parker retires.
It’s slim pickings for sure. I could live with Schlee and would be good with Sullivan but I wouldn’t say I’d be super excited about either.
Schlee is visiting VT or has, Sullivan was ranked what 10th among BIG qbs? I find it hard to believe that some of the depth these schools have will stick around. Oregon and OSU come to mind.
Everyone is waiting to see which OSU qb will enter. Harty said he read where Brown said he’s not leaving but he’s often wrong. I haven’t seen anything recent from Brown.
I thought the word on Thompson was that he wanted the guaranteed starting role? There is going to be another QB or two entering that Iowa should have strong interest in, even if it's for the future.
Well, I agree on the being selective part, because even if Cade does well this year, we are going to need some competition for the starting job next year. Marco should be doing well by then so even if they can;t beat Cade out this year, they should be good enough to give Marco competition (or just win the starting job) next year.
Let's face it - we're not going to be "excited" about ANYONE that we get for QB from the portal. I'll take anyone with a history of some measure of success to compete with ML. And I seriously doubt that a QB is suddenly going to pop up in the portal in the next 2 days that is going to turn out to be the savior. Iowa should have had an OC in place mid-December recruiting a portal QB (knowing full well that DH was not going to cut it). We'll get leftovers to choose from now. But let's be real - someone else's leftovers is probably a heck of a lot better than we've had the past several years...
The poster on this forum who goes by Franisdaman as he posted this idea in post #134 iirc in this thread.
I think he just wanted to know there was a path there and the message was Cade is qb1. They need to tell every prospect they’re open to it.
Perfect example of this was Josey Jewel. KF admits he couldn't see it when looking at tape, but Reese was adamant that Josey would be an impact player at Iowa. KF kept telling him no....finally, on signing day, Reese made one last push and KF relented. The rest, as they say, is history.
Again, I don't think this was the case, and the evidence is there when he chose Tulane. He waited for his shot in Eugene and they "portalled" over him. Honestly makes you wonder a bit about these 4/5* Qbs and their recruitment moving forward, Hell Nelson to Boise was just as crazy.
Nephew. Damon is his dad I believe. Think they had 3 boys all plays college QB with Brock getting to NFL IIRC. Also, he’s not coming to IC lol. He looked awful as a freshman but prolly much better now.
