Rudock officially the starter

FreedComanche said:
Let's be honest. Richardson is a good qb. However, it won't matter. If ya get my drift.
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How do we know he is good? He hasn't played against a defense that has a pulse yet.

The best D he faced last year was in the bowl game against Tulsa, he was 10/21 for 129 yards with a pick and a TD, hardly impressive. WV and Kansas I won't even look into because they had 2 of the worst 10 D's in college football last year and I could probably complete 75% of my passes against those 2.
 
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dave3912 said:
It will be interesting to see if they will allow Beathard or Sokol any snaps this season. Seems to me that I could see a repeat of last season in terms of spreading snaps solely on the fact that Rudock needs all the live action he can get. But then again if he goes down (god forbid), that will leave the Beathard or Sokol in the middle of the season with no live action under their belts.
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So many factors involved in how much/if the other QB's play. I would almost guarantee that the No. 2 guy (Beathard) seems some significant time in the first couple of games. If Rudock plays lights out and Iowa puts 30+ on the board against NIU and routs Missouri State, Beathard will get plenty of time in the Mo State game. If Rudock is so-so and/or Iowa struggles to score, for sure Beathard will be seeing time in game No. 2 as the staff will want to see what each guy has.

Excited to see what these guys can do.
 
hawkeyescott said:
How do we know he is good? He hasn't played against a defense that has a pulse yet.

The best D he faced last year was in the bowl game against Tulsa, he was 10/21 for 129 yards with a pick and a TD, hardly impressive. WV and Kansas I won't even look into because they had 2 of the worst 10 D's in college football last year and I could probably complete 75% of my passes against those 2.
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He had a flu in the bowl game against Tulsa, seriously. He's the right qb for that system and could be good if he wasn't at Isu.
 
DodgerHawki said:
So many factors involved in how much/if the other QB's play. I would almost guarantee that the No. 2 guy (Beathard) seems some significant time in the first couple of games. If Rudock plays lights out and Iowa puts 30+ on the board against NIU and routs Missouri State, Beathard will get plenty of time in the Mo State game. If Rudock is so-so and/or Iowa struggles to score, for sure Beathard will be seeing time in game No. 2 as the staff will want to see what each guy has.

Excited to see what these guys can do.
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I completely agree, I don't think their world beaters but they have potential.
 
Grats to Jake but I disagree with the assertion that he should have been put in against Pedo State or Michigan. He should have gone in against Minnesota because the lead was big enough, and possibly Nebraska to spark the offense. Against Michigan Vandenberg was not the problem he was 19 of 26 and lead Iowa to a nice late scoring drive. Against Pedo State he started rough but got things together for another 4th quarter scoring drive. All be it in large part due to a great catch and run by Davis. The team needed to get the opponents offense off the field faster, and retrieve some onside kicks to have more successful comebacks rather than a new quarterback.
 
FreedComanche said:
The games he played in last year when he didn't have the flu.
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The 2 plus quarters against Kansas and the 4 against WV, those 2 finished 103rd and 108th out of 120 in total defense. They made a lot of QB's look good.

Here were his stats against WV who had the 103rd worst D. 13 of 31 which is 42%, 162 yards and 3 TD's. Again that isn't really impressive considering the defense he was facing.
 
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FreedComanche said:
Well, ok. I sure as heck don't want to defend him.
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You can defend him all you want. Maybe he will turn into a good QB but I just don't think he has had enough of a sample size yet against some better D's to make the judgement that he is good.

It is hard to believe but Rudock will have almost as much game experience as Richardson come week 3 since ISU has a bye in week 2 and Iowa plays.
 
FreedComanche said:
The games he played in last year when he didn't have the flu.
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He played two of the worst defensive teams in the country, won one big and couldn't seal the deal in other. I'll dare to venture that every team in ISU's non-con fields a better defense than Kansas or West Virginia, and yes I'm including UNI.
 
ShadasRevenge said:
He played two of the worst defensive teams in the country, won one big and couldn't seal the deal in other. I'll dare to venture that every team in ISU's non-con fields a better defense than Kansas or West Virginia, and yes I'm including UNI.
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You might be right about UNI. I think they'll be good this year. I am not saying they will, but they are good enough to beat the clones this year.
 
Remember the last QB named Jake. Just sayin'!

Seriously, it would be nice once to have Iowa get a big enough lead or in position in a couple of these early games to go a couple deep at QB. When was the last time they took care of business like they should in these games & completely blow the other team out early in the season? I suppose the landscape of college football is different than in years past but they should not be hanging around with the lower ranked directional teams. The past few years, they have gotten into the bad habit of playing down to other teams level, especially the teams they should or could beat. If they do what they should & take control of the game, the back-up QB could be able to get some badly needed game-time experience.
 
tm3308 said:
I'd almost guarantee we see some of Beathard in the early going, but I'm glad we finally have this settled for Week 1.
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Agreed. And full game week prep as #1 will be good for JR. Hopefully he does well. I'd think it'd be better to have a couple starts and plenty of good game experience under his belt before heading to Jack Trice; rather than a rotation.
 
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