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[R1Letterman]

Minnesota did not become bowl eligible by beating UL, they became bowl eligible by having highest APR of all 5-7 teams

[Big Poppa]

And what makes you think he didn't know the playbook? To assume that is kind of messed up. I don't think he would have beaten out the other two experienced players we had at the position had he been playbook deficient.

I don’t think it was a matter of knowing the play book. What I said was from reports coming out of spring and fall practice. His biggest knock was not taking care of the football by throwing lots picks.

[Policarp]

The heisman winner also lost to 3 bowl eligible teams, roughly 50 pct of bowl eligible teams he faced, on a schedule of only roughly 50 pct bowl eligible teams.

I would re-watch those 3 games for each QB. One struggled mightily vs very very very mediocre to weak defenses. The other put up Heisman worthy stats vs top 10 defenses in those 3 losses.

Using your logic You must really think ZC's QB play this year was Heisman worthy.

Real world......There are 37 uncommitted QB's in the portal right now in 247 rated higher than ZC....37 and none sniffed the Heisman.....that's after 40+ portal QBs have been signed by FBS teams.

[zephyr]

Well he didn’t beat out Ben, Ben got injured, maybe he beat out chandler or chandler was still nursing his shoulder. But the initial word last year was that he was behind on picking up the playbook and that why he was 3rd string. Nothing to do with talent. Maybe that wasn’t an issue this season but the scheme did seem watered down when he played. Idk if it was lack of available plays, lack of QB progression, or bad play calling.

I mean it was his freshman season and they wanted to redshirt him last year so not sure how much is true about the playbook thing.

[SlickRick]

What happens if he doesn't find a team?

[Duckster]

IDK how many 'portal' scholarships we have available to give, but based upon the numbers of players in the portal the coaches have a lot of players to evaluate.

[cajun4life]

What happens if he doesn't find a team?

Then he’s out of a scholarship.

[Jacob81]

What’s not to say schools have their “nil agents” tamper with multiple players on other rosters and make promises. Then all these guys enter the portal. Said school takes who they want and let the rest die in the portal. No harm for the school and they only made other schools weaker. It’s a ____ show.

[Jacob81]

Example. UL offered 1mil to each projected starting QB in the sunbelt. Get them all into the portal. Take the one you want and let the rest either go elsewhere or die in the portal. No penalty for UL and made every other sunbelt school worse

[Policarp]

Example. UL offered 1mil to each projected starting QB in the sunbelt. Get them all into the portal. Take the one you want and let the rest either go elsewhere or die in the portal. No penalty for UL and made every other sunbelt school worse

That may be what happened indirectly for ZC....in the couple days before and since he entered the portal a couple dozen higher star profile P5 QBs hit the portal

The team that coaxed a player into the portal would then have dozens of other option to consider. Also supply/demand pricing changes due to excess supply