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Nah. What's funny is that we're all talking like any of us know anything and none of us do. Zac Lee could be the next Joey Ganz minus the INTs. Zac Lee could be the next Beau Davis. Cody Green could be the next Mike Grant. Cody Green could be the next Eric Crouch. LaTravis Washington could be the next Matt Turmon. LaTravis Washington could be the next Mickey Joseph. LaTravis Washington may never ever see the field. All we have to go on is the snippets we're getting out of camp, and there's always a tinge of unreality to those quotes. It's the waiting that's killing everyone, no matter what side of the fence you sit on.

I just found this thread. Funny stuff!!! People read my nym as "knapple" or "snapple" all the time. I get "knappIc" a lot, too. I only wish I was the heir to the Snapple fortune.

We're bored. If you have something better to talk about for the next 72 hours, now's the time to post it.

The resumes that Lee and Green bring to the table aren't comparable. Lee has a year of JUCO experience, that's his major trump card. And it's not just any JUCO, he led his team to the title game for his division, so that's not too shabby. Green hadn't yet played his senior year of High School ball at this point last year. Lee had already been through JUCO and half a year of the program here at NU in the Fall of 2008. When you're talking about blank slates at the college level, which both of these guys are, But that's all beside the point. It all boils down to this - the coaches are the ones in practice every day. They're the ones with the real-deal knowledge. And to a man, they're putting all their chips behind Zac Lee. The question isn't "Why are people supporting Zac Lee"" The question is, "Why AREN'T people supporting Zac Lee?"

First off, this is all "what if" for me. I don't think they're going to 'shirt Green next year if they don't 'shirt him this year. The idea would be that we use him now when wh have little depth, out of necessity. Next year when you have a (presumably) better LTrav and a (hopefully) healthy Spano, that's when you sit Green to give him more time to mature. That's what I'm talking about. However, I think you're definitely right in that Green gives us a better chance to win from here on out if ZLee goes down, so the odds of redshirting him are almost nil at this point.

Yeah as I mentioned above he called it the Tandem T offense... he didn't last long and neither did the two QB system. Two QB systems very rarely work. Just look at Colorado. The last two seasons they have been using Cody Hawkins and the other guy whose name I can't remember. And what do they have to show for it? Two guys who aren't very good and under .500 seasons. I think we're talking about two different things. Blackshirt316 is talking about having both QBs in the same formation, on the field at the same time. You're talking about (I believe) shuttling different QBs in from the side with different plays, or something like that. These are totally different animals.

Definitely. If they're going to play him, by gum then PLAY him. I know Bo is going to make mistakes as a first-year head coach, and maybe it's really different down in the trenches during game time. There's a lot going on, that's for certain. But even with all that, Witt and/or Lee should have played MUCH more than they did last year.

If I was Green I would be pissed. Why? This wouldn't be the first time such a thing has happened.

Thats should be a man-card violation I cook, what can I say? You think I landed my wife because I'm so charming and personable? So you're admitting to your lack of good looks as well? Guilty!

What if LTravWash redshirts this year, and Green redshirts next year?

Are you? Are you really? OK, yeah, I was being really facetious to the OP, but it's not hard to find a Cody Green thread on the front page right here where we've discussed his redshirting probability ad nauseum. Besides, if we didn't tease the OP, don't you think he'd think we didn't like him?

NTTAWWT

Thats should be a man-card violation I cook, what can I say? You think I landed my wife because I'm so charming and personable?

Baylor has shown continued improvement in the way that a mushroom patch shows continued improvement. It's great that it's growing, but at the end of the day it's still a fungus. The other two games - sure they're important too, but are they more important than Missouri or Colorado or Texas Tech?

Computer Graphics? Cyber Girls? Creme Ganache? Who/what is this "CG" of which you speak? Please explain this riddle!?! ?!?

That's because we're all better coaches than those paid coaches. We just have more important things to do with our time, so we can't coach I-A. Hey, we're here by choice, man!

If newearth hadn't posted it, I probably would have sooner or later. He's not alone in his lack of enthusiasm for hearing yet another "Let Green start" rant. The backup quarterback is always the most popular player, isn't that how it goes? Stuff like this is the gateway drug of "put in the backup" conversations. First it's talk about the backup making a good call - that's how it starts. Just one sentence, what could it hurt? You take part in that conversation for a week or two until the idea becomes more comfortable as your tolerance builds. After that you're openly considering the idea - there's no need to hide your interest in the backup, so why try? Next thing you know, the starter just isn't getting you there anymore, and suddenly you're doing lines of threads on how horrible your starter is off the tail end of some trashy hooker, and it goes on and on until one day you wake up in the gutter, a strung out wreck after the starter gets benched and your backup wonderboy stinks up the joint a la Beau Davis. Nipping that in the bud before it gets going too much is just a public service. Really.

Wow. Just think of how many players on our roster we could say that about. If our team plays up to its potential, there isn't a date on our schedule we can't win. They talk about the leap that some teams have made under second year head coaches. Maybe we're due? All I know is, I'm ready to see some magic.

Yeah, that switch to the 3-4 is a reaction to the pass-happy nature of the Big XII lately, and it's going to be tough to slow down an effective running game. I see trouble for CU stopping Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska in the running game. If we control the clock like we did last year, and there's no reason to think we won't, and if we don't toss them the ball for a gift TD, and if we stop letting receivers run free in our secondary... I don't think it's going to be a close game in Boulder this year. Basically stop giving away free points and you win much more easily.

NU 42 FAU 17 Passing 315 Rushing 325

That there is a funny line!!! I hear there's a Hurricane warning issued for 9/20/15.

OK, he made a "brilliant" call, according to Sipple. That's great, but let's not forget he's still a Freshman making Freshman mistakes, too: You're going to take the good with the bad with Green. Hopefully there's more good than bad. But let's not name him our starter quite yet when we've got a guy with college-level experience already running the show. Let's at the very least give ZLee the FAU game before calling for Green to come in. Can we hold off that long?

^^^ Agreed. Zac's going to be just fine this year, and Hawk is still the biggest stumbling block CU has, injuries or no injuries. I'm not trying to minimize the impact of what he's done to that team by discussing their injury problems.

And to piggy-back on what Addison just said, Colorado has a talented roster. Last season they were decimated with injuries, so their win/loss record got skewed a bit by that. I don't expect great things from Colorado, but last season isn't why.

As opposed to his Jewish meltdown?