They did try to find a new starter last season. Alex Padilla was worse, actually much worse, at everything. As I always say, that is setting a low bar and Padilla tripped over it and fell on his face.
Petras is without question the worst regular starting QB (e.g. not a temp placeholder for an injured starter) since Hayden arrived at Iowa. Buetjer might have become unplayable for other reason (e.g. shittiest character of any QB at Iowa since Hayden arrived) but he was a better player strictly on the field.
I'm longing for the days of Jake Christensen, Paul Burmeister, even that guy Matt Sherman beat out as true freshman.
Continuing to start Spencer is stubborn and cruel and dumb. He's got to be mentally and emotionally defeated. No one could fail that often, that badly and suffer fan and crowd abuse-he's regularly getting booed.
Now it's starting to cause divisions in the team. I heard and posted last summer that the younger offensive players were gravitating toward Labas and he was kind of a leader for the younger guys. Since we know Petras sucks, and, when last seen Padilla sucks even more than Petras, what is lost by at least showing the fans, players and future recruits that there is some longer-term promise of a better player.
Petras was improving and made some nice throws yesterday. But he also missed some easy throws and didn't recognize some open receivers. Paralyzed too many times.
If 3-0 is “much worse” than 3-7, please sign me up.
Tripped over the bar while not losing a game. That’s a new one.