Next Year's Starting QB
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I mean, I think this was likely before the season already started, with a true frosh on the redshirt, and another coming in next year. Rare to have rosters with 5 guys on the depth chart at that position.
Much like Padilla and May, Labas tested the transfer portal waters last year and found no takers. May had to go the junior college route and Padilla had to walk on...much like 4 star Deuce Hogan who had to walk on to Kentucky the year before.
Either the Iowa coaches have a horrible eye for QBs or QBs come to Iowa and have the abilities coached right out of them.
Or maybe by now it’s just clear that the passing scheme is broken and a change in passing game needs to happen.
they showed they were flexible enough to try new things in the run game, with mostly positive results. If they did anything similarly in the passing game it hasn’t worked - not aided by injuries tho to be fair,
I am going by what my eyes saw when he played for both Michigan and Iowa….IMHO I would take a gimpy McNamara over murders row of Petras, Padilla, Hogan, Labas, and May. Let’s face it - Tom Brady would have shitty stats under BF…
Rudock’s QB Coach was Jedd Fisch. Looking at what he is doing at Arizona with De Laura and Fifita, I think he knows what he’s doing.
Wow. Imagine hiring an offensive coach that knows what he’s doing.
Labas did a good job in Music City Bowl, was quite mobile. Labas maybe has not recovered from his preseason injury. Hill seems to be good at throwing but needs to show more mobilty
Does it matter? Our experts will wish for what someone else has anyway. Whoever signs with us won't be good enough to keep our fickle fans happy. Maybe in the next 27 years everyone will have to accept what it is is. We will field a team no matter what everyone thinks or likes.
Don't really need to be an expert to determine that Hill has not been a good QB this year.
Cade has confirmed he's coming back with his 2 blown out knees and his 50% completion percentage. He's doing so without the benefit of practicing the past 2 years so the chances of him actually being BETTER following an ACL injury and another year away from football are slim to none. He will have even less mobility than he had this year as the Big 10's least mobile QB.
Deac is going to transfer down a level the moment the season ends. No question about it. He's taking away a D1 scholarship that he clearly doesn't deserve.
Labas may not even stick around until the end of the season. Kirk has already publicly degraded, makes it clear he has no desire to play him, and refuses to let him take a single snap.
So who's playing QB for Iowa next year when each of your top 3 QBs isn't one of the top 10 QBs in the Big 10? I think the answer is we pull Cade's NIL funds and invest in a new, healthy QB.
Deac is going to transfer down a level the moment the season ends. No question about it. He's taking away a D1 scholarship that he clearly doesn't deserve.
Labas may not even stick around until the end of the season. Kirk has already publicly degraded, makes it clear he has no desire to play him, and refuses to let him take a single snap.
So who's playing QB for Iowa next year when each of your top 3 QBs isn't one of the top 10 QBs in the Big 10? I think the answer is we pull Cade's NIL funds and invest in a new, healthy QB.
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Cade's grade this season is an incomplete. He was already injured before taking a snap, didn't look great when he played, got zero help from a bad o-line and zero help from a poor wr group.
Any assessment of what he might bring in coming back from yet another major injury is loaded with caveats.
Any assessment of what he might bring in coming back from yet another major injury is loaded with caveats.
If being fickle means expecting an offense ranked better than last, then I guess I am fickle.
We need to bring in a juco guy. Someone that’s ready to play at quarterback. The only problem is that we won’t give a guy like that a fair chance to beat out Cade. So it’s not going to happen.
Really glad Cade will be back. Anyone who thinks he has anything to do with this mess really doesn’t know a ****ing thing. Period.
46 of 90 for 505 yards 4 tds, 3 ints and a ton of sacks due to his lack of mobility. Yep, he has something to do with it.
If Cade is 80% healed, he will start, and Hill will have the required experience to be the anointed #2. Apparently, the guy's Iowa recruits are just not smart enough to understand the offense, but transfers can not only learn their old team's offense but ours as well, faster than those that have been in the program for years.
Cade has confirmed he's coming back with his 2 blown out knees and his 50% completion percentage. He's doing so without the benefit of practicing the past 2 years so the chances of him actually being BETTER following an ACL injury and another year away from football are slim to none. He will have even less mobility than he had this year as the Big 10's least mobile QB.
This is absolutely the correct take on our situation. Cade can certainly come back to open arms and all the uncertainty his condition requires but the NIL money needs to move on to another prospect. Anyone thinking Hill has any business on the field is being willfully myopic. He can't run or pass effectively and his in-game decision making is highly suspect. The only way for him to avoid turnovers is to clam up even tighter making the offense even worse than it's current worst in the nation status. If that is possible. Dude REALLY needs to get in shape as well unless driving an 18 wheeler is his next career move.
That is your shortsighted analysis. I’m not surprised. Good thing I don’t have to look at this thread anymore.
What, exactly, is short-sighted about analysis by statistics?
Cade never looked good and couldn’t run for shit. And now…another major surgery under his ‘belt’? Yikes. Let’s move on to another QB1.
I think we have to hope Cade is the guy. But they need to hit the portal and find a juco guy/FCS/Power 5 guy that has actually played and started a season in college football. How to get a guy like that to commit to iowa right now is beyond me. But they have to try. Or we are hoping and praying Lainez is ready because it’s not Hill and Labas.
I would also like to see them go the juco/FCS route.
Based on our bottom-level quarterback recruitment & development for several years running…it can be assumed Lainez won’t amount to much. Prove me wrong…please.
Kinnick stadium is the last home of the immobile QB. A near extinct species from ancient times.
And why did Cade never look good. Hint - he lead a team to the playoffs. Lots of wanna be coaches only focusing on statistics, and missing the overall picture.
I’ll ask again - What is the “overall picture”?
Cade has chronic health issues, therefore, he isn’t it.
He wasn't healthy, but everything he did looked bad at Iowa where he was coached up by perhaps the worst offensive staff in football.
The overall picure would be vastly improved if Ferentz retired, and we keep Parker, Woods, added the Kansas OC, and a comptenant head coach with Iowa ties. A QB succeeds if put in the position to win. Except for a few scripted plays each game, he never had a chance. And the injury made the situation worse. It's so obvious I will stop there.
As long as Kirk and Brian are still here, it won't matter who Iowa's starting QB is next year.
Who do you actually think we’re going to get from the portal after another record year of futility? The next Deacon? I’m almost scared what our next QB could look like.
