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re: Does anyone realistically expect Eason to take the starters spot in '16???
Posted on 4/7/15 at 8:31 am to FooManChoo
Posted on 4/7/15 at 8:31 am to FooManChoo
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Depends on what happens this year. If whoever wins the spot is ho-hum at best, I can see an argument for Eason starting as a true frosh next year.
I'm not sure there's any way he starts game 1 his freshman year. It is just so, so hard for a TFr to come in and play that well right out of the gate. I wholeheartedly think he should play in 16, even if we bring him along slowly. Maybe like we did with DJ...Greene was an established starter going into 02, but we gave Shock a few series a game to let him get his feet wet. Eason is just too good to keep off the field, if everything everyone says is correct.
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I'd rather see Eason redshirt.
I don't know what benefit that would be to us. It is pretty unlikely he'll stay here for 5 years. And even if he does redshirt, he'd still go into '17 with absolutely zero game experience. The only way a QB will get better is to play.
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Posted on 4/7/15 at 8:52 am to WG_Dawg
I'm torn on this. Our 2016 team looks like it could be our most loaded team since at least 2012 and I want the best QB, regardless of age, on the field that season. But man it would be a lot to ask a true freshman to go win a national title.
I really, really don't want Eason's first road start to be 2017 in South Bend. I would like him to have some experience under his belt before that game.
I really, really don't want Eason's first road start to be 2017 in South Bend. I would like him to have some experience under his belt before that game.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 9:05 am to WG_Dawg
I definitely get what you're saying but we haven't had a good track record of getting backups experience in real game situations in recent years. Unless the starting QB is injured, we stick with him until we're up by 30 in the 4th, and we are rarely in that position.
To not RS Eason would mean that we are planning on getting him reps in real game situations where we may not be in the thick of it, and if we're going to use a year of eligibility, why not just let him start unless he turns into a choke artist once he gets to campus? If not start, then switch him out regularly, which I don't see happening unless Schotty is a different man than Bobo in that regard.
To not RS Eason would mean that we are planning on getting him reps in real game situations where we may not be in the thick of it, and if we're going to use a year of eligibility, why not just let him start unless he turns into a choke artist once he gets to campus? If not start, then switch him out regularly, which I don't see happening unless Schotty is a different man than Bobo in that regard.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 9:10 am to WG_Dawg
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It is pretty unlikely he'll stay here for 5 years
He probably won't stay for his fourth if he even starts for one season. Mark Sanchez went in the first round after one mediocre season starting. By all accounts this Eason kid is the real deal. Assuming he doesn't pull a Da'rick move and bail before signing, we have him for three seasons. Sitting him for a whole year would be a little stupid.
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