Re: Gunnar Kiel to Transfer from Notre Dame
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 3:31 pm
I get what you're saying, but you're not following your own logic. Your argument is that Rees has the experience therefore he won't be overtaken on the depth chart, but you fail to account for the fact that Rees had started and played meaningful minutes before he lost the starting spot to golson, who also had not played a single minute of college ball. I'm not saying kiel would've for sure passed him, but he had a good shot at it.Duck24 wrote:Golson was a RS Freshman and played like it from time to time. Not every Frosh QB can play like Mariota and Manziel. ND was just lucky they had a competent backup. Back to the topic at hand though, I highly doubt Kiel would have supplanted Rees. The guy had started/played meaningful snaps in 3 consecutive years.squintsdd wrote:By that logic tell me this; if Rees was so good why wasn't he the year round starter? And if Golson was so good why did he struggle to the point that he would need to be replaced by the guy who didn't win the starting spot.Duck24 wrote:I'm just going to assume you didn't see the ND games vs Michigan and Stanford when you call him a decent game manager. Stats don't accurately depict his impact on those games and the season overall. Whenever Golson struggled, they'd put Rees in and end up winning.squintsdd wrote:Think again. Rees wasn't very impressive either. Proven by the fact that he lost the starting spot to a kid that had also never played a down in college. Rees was a decent game manager also but he threw nearly as many interceptions as he did touchdowns. Kiel very well could've passed him on the depth chart if he really wanted to put forth the effort.Duck24 wrote:Don't think a kid who hasn't played a down would have passed Tommy Rees, who has started games as recently as this last season.squintsdd wrote: Chances are he would've been no lower than 3rd, likely 2nd. Golson was a good game manager but not overly impressive, so if Kiel performed extremely well in spring he may have even been considered to have a very slim chance to start.
There were questions during his recruitment about him not wanting to compete for the starting spot, which is why many people think he originally picked Indiana, then decommited from LSU. He viewed ND as a very high profile school that would give him a good chance to start with little competition.
Oh, and everyone on god's green earth knows that Stanford won that game
As for the Stanford game, how were they a shoe in to win the game? The score was 20-13 when Taylor was ruled down. If they say that Taylor scored then Stanford is kicking a PAT to play another OT.
And you're right the game would've been tied. I should've said he was in the end zone