With all this QB popularity Craziness -- Crazy thought...
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:35 pm
So I'll preface my thought by saying that I fully understand that it's a completely ridiculous notion, that said, at one point, so was the forward pass. That's in no way suggesting that I believe I am any sort of football genius, just something that doesn't feel like it's been given much serious thought to. This thought occurred to me while thinking how amazing it is that Oregon is pretty much becoming THE school for upwardly-mobile passing qbs.
For the sake of thought and discussion, lets assume that Mariotta and Manziel stick to their commitments, and that Randall really is SOOOO in love with Oregon that he comes here no matter what his ultimate situation is, and Chip is able to convince Hundley that he WILL be the starting QB of the future...
I don't think it takes a genius to look at our lack of WR depth and assume that Hawkins would move to WR leaving us w/ Darron Thomas, Bennett and 4 frosh Qbs next year. While the talent would clearly be overflowing at QB, the experience would not be, nor would the reps for the Mariotta, Manziel, Randall and Hundley...
I'm not sure if there would be any fair, rational, reasonable, and realistic way to do it, but does anybody else feel like it would work to setup some sort of rotation where the 3 freshman (not named Hundley) split time taking QB reps and WR reps? As QBs they should already know the route tree and clearly all 3 are athletic enough to play WR, and with the exception of missing WR only meetings, would be involved in all offensive meetings, drills and practices that the WR corps would be. I'm not sure if I'd consider this an emergency contingency type of arrangement or trying to use our athletes as best as possible, but it we could somehow talk all of these guys into committing to that sort of plan it would allow a great amount of positional flexibility should we be put into tough situations from injury like we have in the past, and it would also keep great athletes away from UCLA, USC, UW and the Arizona schools who all seem as though they're recruiting the same QBs as we are now.
Out there, I know, but with Chip's creativity and ingenuity I wouldn't put having a decent amount of success from something like this past him...
For the sake of thought and discussion, lets assume that Mariotta and Manziel stick to their commitments, and that Randall really is SOOOO in love with Oregon that he comes here no matter what his ultimate situation is, and Chip is able to convince Hundley that he WILL be the starting QB of the future...
I don't think it takes a genius to look at our lack of WR depth and assume that Hawkins would move to WR leaving us w/ Darron Thomas, Bennett and 4 frosh Qbs next year. While the talent would clearly be overflowing at QB, the experience would not be, nor would the reps for the Mariotta, Manziel, Randall and Hundley...
I'm not sure if there would be any fair, rational, reasonable, and realistic way to do it, but does anybody else feel like it would work to setup some sort of rotation where the 3 freshman (not named Hundley) split time taking QB reps and WR reps? As QBs they should already know the route tree and clearly all 3 are athletic enough to play WR, and with the exception of missing WR only meetings, would be involved in all offensive meetings, drills and practices that the WR corps would be. I'm not sure if I'd consider this an emergency contingency type of arrangement or trying to use our athletes as best as possible, but it we could somehow talk all of these guys into committing to that sort of plan it would allow a great amount of positional flexibility should we be put into tough situations from injury like we have in the past, and it would also keep great athletes away from UCLA, USC, UW and the Arizona schools who all seem as though they're recruiting the same QBs as we are now.
Out there, I know, but with Chip's creativity and ingenuity I wouldn't put having a decent amount of success from something like this past him...
