Quick slants: Rudock braced for bowl, probably -

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Last week, HawkeyeReport.com reported that Beathard will return to Iowa next season, squashing any fledgling transfer rumors. Iowa’s QB depth chart for 2014 should go Rudock (junior), Beathard (sophomore), Cody Sokol (senior) and Nic Shimonek (redshirt freshman) with newly committed Tyler Wiegers as an incoming freshman.


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I hope CJ sticks it out. He will be the starting QB as a Senior and have a chance to have a great year. That kid has got the arm that makes me think he could be the NFL some day. Or, transfer and lose a year while learning a new system.
 
I think if Beathard was going to transfer he should have done it by now. Thats why I think he will be around all 4 yrs
 
Good talent coming up at WR and RB. Beathard will be wise to stick around for his senior year. I think he'll be handed the keys to a nice vehicle indeed.
 
Rudock has done great but if CJ continues to get better he may be the starter before his senior year. His arm and legs are just a lot to hold back. I think KF 3.0 may open it up.
 
clim said:
Rudock has done great but if CJ continues to get better he may be the starter before his senior year. His arm and legs are just a lot to hold back. I think KF 3.0 may open it up.
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Not when he isn't hitting the broad side of a barn with that arm. He's got a lot of work to do just to pass where Rudock is right now. Rudock is probably going to get better, too.
 
You are correct that FCS is sokol's only option. And there is no guarantee that he'd win the job at an FCS school. He probably has realized that enjoying the outback bowl and competing at a D-I is his best outcome.
 
Sans JC and Stanzi, when KF decides on the QB depth chart, after a position race, that's a death knell for #2 (and beyond) having more than one year to perform, if any.

Certainly prohibits a "younger #2" (Rudock) from getting meaningful snaps.
 
Multiple capable QBs and a good competition makes them all better. IMO accuracy and timing trump arm strength and mobility. Regardless, I like the promise of depth and talent (the challenge is reps in practice but the players can get more work in if they want). Hopefully they ALL improve.
 
HawkeyeWalker said:
Multiple capable QBs and a good competition makes them all better. IMO accuracy and timing trump arm strength and mobility. Regardless, I like the promise of depth and talent (the challenge is reps in practice but the players can get more work in if they want). Hopefully they ALL improve.
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Explain that one to Green Bay and Bret Favre. And on the latter end, Detroit and Los Angeles and Chuck Long. Matter of fact, no Boise State QBs have, to my knowledge, ever been drafted into the NFL even with BState's prolific passing attack every year. <P> Maybe you should preface your QB trumping criterion with: with Curt Ferentz, but certainly not college or pro football as a whole..
 
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Not when he isn't hitting the broad side of a barn with that arm. He's got a lot of work to do just to pass where Rudock is right now. Rudock is probably going to get better, too.
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So he can't hit the broad side of a barn, huh? I suppose you're using his stats against Wisconsin where he threw non-stop in the second half of that game with a gale wind against him in one quarter. I know this for a fact: Rudock wouldn't been able to almost drive Iowa down the field for a score in the 4th quarter against the wind and against a pass defense expecting the pass on every play. He doesn't have the arm.
 
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So he can't hit the broad side of a barn, huh? I suppose you're using his stats against Wisconsin where he threw non-stop in the second half of that game with a gale wind against him in one quarter. I know this for a fact: Rudock wouldn't been able to almost drive Iowa down the field for a score in the 4th quarter against the wind and against a pass defense expecting the pass on every play. He doesn't have the arm.
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Tell CJ we all say "hi"...
 
Look all good points from everyone. All these QBs are NOT going to stay. They are stacked up like cord wood. Sokol is screwed...his shot was this year so he's effectively out of the mix. I wish we would find a way to incorporate Beathard's strengths into the game for a couple drives to give opposing D fits in preparation...but Kurt doesn't believe in that no matter how bad you are getting beat (see JVB in Penn State game last year). With Wiegers and Beneventi coming in we now have a true QB glut. It will be interesting to see who sticks around the next 2 years.
 
HomerChampless said:
So he can't hit the broad side of a barn, huh? I suppose you're using his stats against Wisconsin where he threw non-stop in the second half of that game with a gale wind against him in one quarter. I know this for a fact: Rudock wouldn't been able to almost drive Iowa down the field for a score in the 4th quarter against the wind and against a pass defense expecting the pass on every play. He doesn't have the arm.
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That "almost" touchdown drive came in the last 95 seconds of a game that was already decided. Hardly the time when a defense is at their peak in terms of intensity. Beathard also completed 2-of-8 passes on that drive, with the bulk of the drive's 64 yards coming on the pass to Powell and a defensive holding penalty. I don't care whether the defense knows you're passing or not. 2-of-8 is awful, and so is 4-of-15.

Beathard is 1-for-5 on the year if you throw out the Wisconsin game. He's 5-for-20 if you include it, which actually IMPROVES his percentage.

So yeah, I'd say accuracy is pretty low on his list of strengths.
 
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Using your logic, er, rhetoric... Rudock has more of an affinity to throw interceptions 'cause Rudock had how many INTs this year and Beathard had how many INTs, hum? Beathard takes better care of the football than Rudock, right? And he has a better arm than Rudock. Why the heck isn't Beathard starting, KF? I mean, KF, you really got on Stanzi for throwing interceptions.....
 
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