suh_fan93

I don't see that happening either unless....Nebraska offered up some big time next level cash. Money changes everything for some.

My take is simple albeit it's at a terrible time to finally give your backup some serious time if Martinez cannot clean it up these last 3 games. If Martinez is being Martinez what is there left to lose imo. If he's shaky out there then you simply go back with Martinez. Hardly any real time reps for Smothers this year.. I guess if Martinez can clean things up and actually have good games in these last 3 then any Smothers pt will come next year.

Bill O'Brien is his top pick who he said would bring some stability to the program followed by Matt Campbell and Luke Fickell. Stability? I think O'Brien would be a straight flight risk.

2023 4 star EDGE/DE out of Atlanta GA

People keep saying this but how would anyone even begin to know exactly what Smothers can do given the limited reps he's been given???? There have been other depth chart casualties or guys who seemingly have disappeared production wise already this year so I guess normally you'd 'trust the coaches' as to why those are/have happened but with the offensive staff (minus Sean Beckton) I personally can't. I also remember Frost saying earlier this year that if Adrian couldn't go then he was confident that Smothers was ready to.

I don't have a horse in this race but Meyer may have been hard on Burrow as an incoming Freshman but it's not at all how you made it sound. Joe Burrow explains why Urban Meyer told him he ‘threw like a girl’ Actually, Burrow agreed, as he told The Athletic that “my arm strength wasn’t up to par.” He offered more explanation in a new conversation with Billy Embody of 247Sports. “Yea, coach Meyer when he gets a new quarterback there as a freshman, he kind of pokes and prods them to see what they can take and then if they can go out and execute while he’s back there yelling at them so he kind of mimics environments you’re going to see on the road so he wants to see if their quarterbacks can handle it so he would be back there yelling at me saying, ‘You’re a DII quarterback, you can’t throw’ and just see if you can handle it as a quarterback,” Burrow told Embody.

Damn

Man I just saw this thread so apologies for posting updates prior in the 2023 thread.

Only true negative was we still got out rebounded 47-37.

Verge with 3 fouls already.

CU made it to the big dance last year and won their first round game (Georgetown). This would be a nice win.

So apparently he's had terrible coaching at Rice too? Even as much as I question Verduzco even he blatantly said before the season started multiple times in front of the camera's/media that Martinez needs to just 'not turn the damn ball over'. It's as simple as that. When your head coach vehemently refuses to bench Martinez even saying as much AFTER the Purdue game what in the heck are you supposed to do team wise???????? How many competent head coaches out there stick with a guy who's playing like that but who also has a history of playing like that????????? What I also find maddening regarding our ever mystifying personnel decisions is that when you have a QB who is hurt (Minnesota) and who turns the ball over for even say the 3rd time in a game (eventually ending up with 4) that you don't put in your backup (Smothers) who honestly despite only having limited playing time this year has looked fine actually with the time he's been given. Do you as a coach you apparently have ZERO confidence in the guy you recruited and have listed as your # 2 quarterback??????????? Now even if let's say we did start Smothers at this point look how far behind the 8 ball you've already put him and the team as well now. You've given him basically no real time development wise and are now throwing him out there with a crappy pass pro offensive line, shaky offensive coordinating and now are asking him to go out and beat Ohio State, Wisconsin and Iowa... Frost has more than tied his wagon to Martinez. He's oblivious to what it's causing his program but that's just half of the problem with this team and his teams in general. Like he's waiting for this miracle to happen that everyone can blatantly see isn't happening. Read your team dude. Read your team....

6'6 2023 QB from Ankeny IA