Heard that coaches said that...

No set rotation, either...

Yikes.

Still, the fact that they even stated as much means that CJB impressed on Saturday. Before the game, Jake was the starter and CJB was simply filling in...now they are even.
 
good point...change comes slow at Iowa...someone should have seen this coming as the next logical step.


As many have said, Iowa needs to score more points. They won't win too many more just putting up 17 or 24 points.
 
NCHawker said:
Iowa will play both QBs going forward. It aught to be fun around here.
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I was betting this would happen (not literally). Even if it were a set rotation, based on preset conditions, which I think it should be, they would be better off not letting opponents know that.
 
Great. Quarterback rotation. So many of them turn out great. And of all the programs that are flexible enough to handle one, eh, um, probably not kirfer
 
HawkeyeMHA said:
Great. Quarterback rotation. So many of them turn out great. And of all the programs that are flexible enough to handle one, eh, um, probably not kirfer
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QB rotation works great when you have two really different QBs. Northwestern had a fantastic rotation in 2012 with Colter and Siemien and they'd even rotate mid drive. They caught a lot of teams napping trying to go 9 in the box to stop the read option and then Siemien would throw up top because they were so fast at subbing. It showed a lot of creativity and allowed them to go with the style that was working. There's just not enough difference in style of CJ and Jake for this to make any sense. If anything, it will be counterproductive unless it is the like the Jake/Ricky situation where it is simply a transitional plan for Jake to permanently find the bench in 3 or 4 games down the road.
 
okeefe4prez said:
QB rotation works great when you have two really different QBs. Northwestern had a fantastic rotation in 2012 with Colter and Siemien and they'd even rotate mid drive. They caught a lot of teams napping trying to go 9 in the box to stop the read option and then Siemien would throw up top because they were so fast at subbing. It showed a lot of creativity and allowed them to go with the style that was working. There's just not enough difference in style of CJ and Jake for this to make any sense. If anything, it will be counterproductive unless it is the like the Jake/Ricky situation where it is simply a transitional plan for Jake to permanently find the bench in 3 or 4 games down the road.[/QUOTE]

I believe this is where this is heading.
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This is not gonna end well. It is the worst possible decision you can make when you have 2 capable QB's. It's like making no decision at all. My only hope is that it is a ruse so that our next opponent cannot game plan for a specific player.
 
COACH DAVIS: If we played today, Jake is about 80%, so we'd start C.J. if we played today. We don't play today. We play in ten days or 11 days, whatever it is. We feel like we have two good quarterbacks, and we'll look at it in these next 11 days and then we'll go from there. What you can expect is that we'll probably play two with no set series, numbers or whatever. But we do feel like we have two guys that have earned the right to play and have played pretty well. So that's the way we'll approach it as we get closer.

Q. Back to the quarterbacks. You play two, and then it seems like it's going to be a hot‑hand‑type deal. It seems that it will probably run into that. Am I reading too much into that?
COACH DAVIS: No, I think that's probably right. We want to see who is playing better on that particular day.
 
I don't know him personally, but just as an outside observer, putting Rudock in a position where his snaps are essentially auditions for whether he will get more snaps is probably a recipe for disaster. CJB seems to embrace his mentality of being the hunter...on rudocks end, being the hunted is easily the more fragile psychological position for most people & I think this holds true for him. My guess is rudocks play goes on a steady downward spiral...
 
Many fans on here said definitely that KF would be starting Jake vs IU.....so now he cracks the door open for CJ ,yet same fans are ******** about a QB rotation.....are you mad because you once again were wrong about KF( same fans insisted that CJ would not play last week), or mad because Jake is not the man , or CJ is not the man?

This is absolutely the correct way to handle this today.....Jake is hurting so he is uncertain, and CJ is raring to go. So, he should come out and say ''CJ has the job'' when Jake is still hurt? Not with a week to play with. I hope he keeps Wilson at IU guessing to the end.

As for the two guys not being different....wrong. If jake is the starter, IU creeps up into the box....but if CJ starts they back off...that is not clone QBs.
 
Fans want a QB rotation
Coaches do not do a QB rotation
Fans are mad

Fans want a shake up at QB
Coaches implement a QB rotation
Fans are mad

The vocal minority sure can't decide what they want.
 
GesterHawk said:
Fans want a QB rotation
Coaches do not do a QB rotation
Fans are mad

Fans want a shake up at QB
Coaches implement a QB rotation
Fans are mad

The vocal minority sure can't decide what they want.
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I don't know who wanted a rotation. I guess everyone wanted to see what CJ had. We have seen CJ, we want more CJ. We are 5 games into the season. We know what we get with Jake. CJ didn't set the world on fire, but he was at the very least as good as Jake and has a lot more physical skill. But we can't hurt Jake's feelings. So let's go to a 2 QB system. CJ got better as the game went along. How can either guy really establish a rhythm and confidence knowing if they screw up, they will be out next series? At least when they said they were going to play two before, it was because they were just going to run a CJ package to change things up. Now it's just chaos. This should have been done games 1 and 2. Now we are in the BIG schedule and you are still figuring this out? Not good. If Jake comes in and is lights out, great, go with him, but nothing I have seen so far thinks there is any chance of that happening. The opposite is true for CJ. The more playing time he gets, the more effective he will be. He just needs to keep learning at game speed, but he does some things that are very special out there.
 
DJL said:
I don't know who wanted a rotation. I guess everyone wanted to see what CJ had. We have seen CJ, we want more CJ. We are 5 games into the season. We know what we get with Jake. CJ didn't set the world on fire, but he was at the very least as good as Jake and has a lot more physical skill. But we can't hurt Jake's feelings. So let's go to a 2 QB system. CJ got better as the game went along. How can either guy really establish a rhythm and confidence knowing if they screw up, they will be out next series? At least when they said they were going to play two before, it was because they were just going to run a CJ package to change things up. Now it's just chaos. This should have been done games 1 and 2. Now we are in the BIG schedule and you are still figuring this out? Not good. If Jake comes in and is lights out, great, go with him, but nothing I have seen so far thinks there is any chance of that happening. The opposite is true for CJ. The more playing time he gets, the more effective he will be. He just needs to keep learning at game speed, but he does some things that are very special out there.
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You do know that there are ten days til kickoff? Nothing is etched in stone. Michigan, Illinois, OSU, Md, and Minny have all had their QBs go down already this year.....any chance it could happen to Iowa? We have two...that is a good thing. I hope by the end of next week they will start CJ and if he does not do well, then sub in Jake, who could be a bit rusty. I see nothing negative about how they are handling this today....keep Wilson guessing.
 
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