PoconoPony wrote:
How does a P5 back up QB help us next year if he has to sit out the year????? You may be addressing the long term QB problem, but does nothing for us next year. I still maintain that Hicks is our most important retention for next year to facilitate the transition and remain competitive.
How would you have liked to have had Memphis’ QB vs Hicks? He was a grad transfer from Arizona State.
Every year, there are ton of P5 junior/senior backup QBs who leave their schools as GTs looking for PT. Since they don’t have to sit out a year, they are perfect stop gap QBs.
Possible Scenarios:
1) Hicks leaves leaving the starting job wide open. Good prospects like Buechele will be very attracted to playing for Dykes.
2) Hicks stays. There are going to be graduate transfers who believe they are better than him. Hopefully, Dykes can land one who can “take” the job from Hicks.
Interesting Article:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/n ... 743514002/“It’s led to the near extinction of a certain type of college player: the career backup. Once a roster staple, senior quarterbacks who begin their careers on scholarship and stay with the same program through four years of eligibility without ascending to the starting role are now the sport’s rarest breed.
“It’s definitely different, there’s no doubt,” Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said. “Those guys are few and far between.”
There are only seven quarterbacks in the Football Bowl Subdivision who fit the criteria. Just two, California’s Chase Forrest and TCU’s Grayson Muehlstein, play in a Power Five conference. Forrest has attempted 28 passes across six games; Muehlstein, once a three-star recruit from Decatur, Texas, has yet to make a single attempt through his first three seasons.
Another pair, Navy’s Garret Lewis and Army’s Luke Landon, play at service academies. One of the seven senior backups is headed for the starting role in his final season: Western Kentucky’s Drew Eckles is the Hilltoppers’ projected starter heading into fall camp.”