Jennings wants one more year at UL

[Hark Mudspeth]

Him coming back is only a win, why would you not want him in the battle all offseason? If whoever comes in beats him out you got better, if Jennings isn't here and a juco wins it in the spring do you know for sure you got better there? Or he just beat out Jordan Davis and Dion ray?

[Crawfish]

While there is some merit to what you are saying, we just don't have very many options right now at the QB position. I hope the staff can do something to remendy this. We may need a JC but we also should be developing a freshman.

Mel has a valid point that he had an injury earlier but IMHO, when a play breaks down he is slow to react and he looks clumsy. Sorta like a 7 foot center with shot clock running out.

[CajunNation]

I want to say move on AJ, but has Dion Ray thrown a pass in a game this season? What about Davis?

Ray has not thrown a pass, and the defenses know it.

Davis is the most skilled QB on the roster, bar none. He just needs to be coached up.

[Jeaux]

If you think all of our problems are on Jennings your crazy. We literally look like a different team since Georgia southern...not playing different..we are a totally different offense. Jennings wasn't calling Eli's number up the gut half the year, Jennings didn't play defense at Tulane...he has had issues and he isn't the second coming but we won't even put our current backup on the field.

Didn't say it was all on him. But the combination is not working. Hud gonna find him another Nixon like it or not.

[MelRock]

Ray has not thrown a pass, and the defenses know it.

Davis is the most skilled QB on the roster, bar none. He just needs to be coached up.

Not trying to argue, but he has been here 3 years now and has barley seen the field. I am starting to wonder if he is really as good as people are making out to be.

[zharkins]

I come in peace....

You have to wait until the end of your career to apply for a 6th year, because you have no remaining redshirt years to use.

A normal medical redshirt request is processed any time because you just change a year you participated in and got hurt to a redshirt year that you still have available.

There is a 0.1% chance he gets an extra year in this case, as the only things outside of injuries that ever get granted is when a player has to leave early in the season due to family issues, and those are rare. Even in cases where the player gets hurt early in the season and misses the whole year, they deny medical redshirts if the player participated in any practices for the remainder of the year and was released by a doctor (see ULM's running back that was denied at the beginning of the season even after participating in fall camp).

Your new basketball court is really cool by the way.

[Jeaux]

Just curious how many would be complaining about Jennings right now, I am sure most would be, if we were 7-4 right now and a chance to go 8-4? We are two plays away from being 7-4 and you can't blame everything on Jennings.

That's the thing Mel, it's hypothetical. If we won against Tulane you think hud would have opened the playbook against G southern. I don't feel like his skill set is good enough to overcome Hud. Why waste another year. But what do I know?

[Hark Mudspeth]

Didn't say it was all on him. But the combination is not working. Hud gonna find him another Nixon like it or not.

There isn't one senior on this team that I wouldn't take another year with, not one guy do I look at and say, man I'll be glad when that guy is gone and that includes Jennings...that's all I'm saying.

[Jeaux]

There is no "sunshine pumping" going on here. We are simply debating whether he can or cannot get another year of eligibility. If you read the messages posted, some think his coming back would be good and some disagree. I think we need someone at QB next season and although I doubt he will be successful in getting another year, his coming back is better than the current prospects at QB. Is it no longer OK to discuss football on here? At one time this was a sports forum where people discussed Ragin Cajun Sports. Now we have a bunch of message board naxis who try and discourage any discussion that cannot be spun into some kind of scandal.

Well it was more of a reaction to MXT and Dave bringing MAT name into this thread and somehow that Graduate transfer that has nowhere else to go/wanting another year invalidates the fact that a 5 - 6 team has problems.

[Just1More]

Jennings being able to come back another year would be excellent. If he really wants to excel, he can work out in the off-season and get in a little better shape (drop some weight and add a little foot speed/quickness hopefully). He also needs to work on his passing mechanics. He's got every throw in him. He just, for whatever reason, lofts some passes off his back foot that I've seen him throw much better. And if Hud and the staff would get some advice on offensive play calling... ie get out of your own muscle-headed way... and keep it wide open... I'd like to see Jennings compete with the rest of the QB stable and let the chips fall where they may. He's only been with us a year. He had to pick up our play book and learn on the fly with it. And we all know that if you make a throwing mistake... Hud's nuts ascend and he reverts to running up the gut.

And for those that think Jennings was our problem this year... you are WAY off. He's no super hero... but he also couldn't make a palatable ____ sandwich out of the ____ our coaching staff served him. THEY screwed us out of a couple more wins. Those wins were there for us.