he should seek other opportunities imho
shocked he hasn't gotten any time yet as we now know Simon was saving his time.
FB Recruiting Rutgers Football lands Minnesota QB Athan Kaliakmanis and WR Dino Kaliakmanis
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shocked he hasn't gotten any time yet as we now know Simon was saving his time.
Nice job on this one. When I first read your comments in the other thread re silent commit, they made a lot of sense. I also believe he's the #1, but that's just my belief. Have you heard anything or simply putting the tea leaves together?
Wish we could have gotten a more high profile QB, but at least we have some competition going into next season.
Rutgers Football lands Minnesota QB transfer Athan Kaliakmanis
Rutgers Football has added a new transfer portal prospect in quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis.rutgers.rivals.com
Rutgers Football adds Minnesota WR transfer Dino Kaliakmanis
Rutgers Football has added a wide receiver via the transfer portal today and it's former Minnesota WR Dino Kaliakmanis.
Can we get the tight end who did the Leonard Leap after the catch.???
Ok enough of the foolish back & forth & onto a serious question about our new QB...
Am I the only one that reads the name Athan Kaliakmanis to the sound of Mele Kalikimaka from Christmas Vacation?
Am I the only one that reads the name Athan Kaliakmanis to the sound of Mele Kalikimaka from Christmas Vacation?
We don't have the NIL $'s for a high profile QB sorry. Need many more donors and much larger checks! Just a fact of life now.
Ha ha. Sounds like Shelby lives rent free in your head just like he does in Colbert’s conspiratorial noggin.
I'm sure it's an upgrade, but on the personal side, I hope the incumbent doesn't feel too bad. Yeah, I know it's a business...
We have plenty of NIL for a top QB but it was spread around the defense and JM instead apparently.
Alert for Shelby!!!
South Florida just scored again.
South Florida just scored again.
Just go away lil man. College football is too complex for your simple mind. Shelby wrong. Shelby not understand. Shelby a loser.
The incumbent had all year to lock down the position and like you said he's paid to deal with it.
It’s not like I has coffee with our OC but it seem pretty obvious from not just tea leaves but chatter I’ve heard. Would you come if your weren’t QB1? Would you not visit anywhere else?
It should never be shocking that a true freshman QB does not receive playing time.
I'm rooting for improved play from the most important position in sports regardless of who it is.
Welcome aboard to these 2 young men!
Just to devil's advocate here...
Maybe no one wanted him.
If he is similar to GW...would you want him as a transfer QB?
I think he only had one option and one option only...his old OC from Minn.
Hey, but, I'm all for competition and the best chance for us to win
Sure someone might come to be a backup. Some portal guys do indeed do transfer to be backups. Announcers even talked about that during the Sugar Bowl game last night re: portal transfers. IIRC they were discussing either Ewers and Manning possibly exploring other high-end football school options
Meh. Good news for Gavin as I just don't see this new guy winning the job. He just doesn't sound like that big of an improvement over Gavin and if the competition is close it will go to Gavin.
The one thing that stands out a lot for me is the TE is a big part of the passing game at Minnesota when Kirk was there , we can only pray that we can incorporate a similar game plan, hopefully someone steps up as a multi dimensional -TE.
Having multiple serviceable QBs is a good thing.
Adjusted completion % sounds like a statistic only an agent would use to make their client sound better.
Mike McMahon was an RU QB who started and played in the NFL despite having a 49.5% completion ratio in college.
He was an excellent athlete on a crappy team.
But he also threw the ball 100 mph to everyone regardless of whether they were coming out of the backfield or not. Which was sort of a big deal because we were trying to run a west coast offense which was a lot of short, “high percentage” throws.
It was painful after having watched Ray Lucas who had a career 56.8% completion percentage in an offense that wasn’t even designed for that.
The WRs were easy scapegoats. Balls literally bounced off their hands, chest and helmets with shocking frequency.
But even LJ Smith who played for several years in the NFL had a hard time catching his throws.
It became even more apparent that it wasn’t as simple as thinking Div1 WRs and RBs all of a sudden forgot how to catch a football when Ryan Hart arrived and had a 60.6% completion rate over the course of his career.
Miraculously, his receivers - who also weren’t NFL caliber- caught almost every ball he threw.
It was obvious from almost his first game why:
He had really good timing and threw a “catchable” ball. He had to- because he had a weak arm by comparison.
The point is you can’t just look at statistics and manipulate them to whatever you want. You are your record and it’s a team sport. Part of the QBs job is to throw a catchable ball.
Gavin needs a ton of work in this area as well. At times he doesn’t seem to realize the pace with which to throw the ball or seems to struggle throwing the simplest/shortest passes which are almost all touch.
However, he also displays an ability to make throws across the whole field we haven’t seen anyone make here other than Savage or Teel.
I feel like this is to be expected of a young QB and hope this will be part of his development.
I am happy to have the new guy and hope for his and our sake the Minnesota receivers are terrible. But I’d prefer a real analysis, not just a datapoint.
It goes without question our receivers and QB play needs to continue to improve and I think 60% completion is a realistic goal for this scheme.
I was hoping we were gonna get Arch Manning...Texas' back-up quarterback.
Again
KTR is specifically set up for player retention which is where those funds were spent
I agree that you can't manipulate stats, but drop rate is an independent statistic. Now, you can choose to ignore it, and that's fine, but that's the actual number.
Definitely not the case to anyone who watched the film. And Gavin would have other opportunities as well.
We can afford a QB. If schiano zeroed in a realistic guy l, who had a price tag of a few hundred k and couldn’t get it done, I’d have some big concerns.
Eagleton96 thinks it's weird that you talk about yourself in the third person, but he gives you credit for owning up to your wrongness on this topic. Good job.
RU adds an experienced B10 QB. I like. Competition and depth at the most important position. I'm not going to let perfection be the enemy of good. This is what steady improvement looks like.
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