'11 SC QB Everett Golson (FSU transfer)

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woolybug25 said:
jojoblack is heartbroken.
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Haha, this is a gem from our dear friend jojo on II. I contemplated bringing it over but after your post I think you should be able to enjoy it as well. LOL


Jojo,

OK zaire is not going to start against Tice ok. Does that mean he sits around and bitch an moan. No! Because he knows that he is one is one play way from being being thr guyI'm pretty sure I guarantee you this golson will not play the entire season and constantly will be hearing the footsteps of zaire .golson is the starting quarterback right now I support it but don't think for one shiny nickel this kid will sit around and cry and moan for too long because he understands it's a mans game and you gotta stay tough minded and focused to be a winner. Stay tuned..
 
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Any other school every rotated starting QBs like this before?

2011: Tommy Rees
2012: Everett Golson
2013: Tommy Rees
2014: Everett Golson
 
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I know the feelings many have on "jojoblack's" posts... but you should also think twice about potential ramifications before trolling/taking pot shots at a player's parent.
 
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JoJo is a great guy. I regret that he was chased off of this site, basically by the ill will and vitriol of a relatively few posters.

I think it is interesting how when you get someone who is his own man like JoJo, how many people go gonzo-blotto when he expresses an opinion that may not be in favor with most board members.

What an inside resourse we could had!
 
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Old tweet from ESPN's Rece Davis. I was listening to Rece on XM91 yesterday. They asked him if there was a team on the bus blitz tour (pOSU, ND, UCLA, USC, Alabama, Auburn, FSU) that after seeing them practice would be much better than he originally anticipated. He declined to answer that question. However, he immediately said I will tell you the one player that really surprised me was Everett Golson. He sounded like he was pretty much blown away by how much he has improved and that he was in total command on the practice field.


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>News from Notre Dame is off the field today but on it, Everett Golson is much much better than I anticipated. Was skeptical. Not anymore.</p>— Rece Davis (@ESPN_ReceDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPN_ReceDavis/statuses/500396174202109953">August 15, 2014</a></blockquote>
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If Everett isn't noticably better after a year of training with George Whitfield, I'd be surprised. I'm ready for him to break onto the scene this year.

EEEEE College football eve eve, can't wait!
 
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Bogtrotter07 said:
JoJo is a great guy. I regret that he was chased off of this site, basically by the ill will and vitriol of a relatively few posters.

I think it is interesting how when you get someone who is his own man like JoJo, how many people go gonzo-blotto when he expresses an opinion that may not be in favor with most board members.

What an inside resourse we could had!
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I'm pretty sure it was jojo's own vitriol and ill will, for Golson in particular, that chased him off of this site.
 
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kmoose said:
I'm pretty sure it was jojo's own vitriol and ill will, for Golson in particular, that chased him off of this site.
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I will split the difference with you : Either his vitriol and perceived ill will turned others to chase him off; or he was hoist by his own petard of ill will. But others expressed their displeasure, without judging, which was the nexus of his exodus.
 
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Where else but NBC would a player tossed out of school for academic misbehavior be a featured interview?

I cherish ND's integrity, individual accountability, Golson's commitment and the Reader's Digestesque success story but I have mixed emotions on spotlighting Golson on a sports broadcast when they won't hold a President, Senator, or Governor to the same scrutiny. He's 21 not 52.
 
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gkIrish said:
If he has any chance we need to see his name on lists like this as much as possible.
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Sorry accidentally hit edit instead of quote. This is what I meant to say. Not saying it has much bearing on how everything ends up but if he has 300+ yds and 4 total Tds versus UM this weekend this storyline will definitely have legs next week.
 
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Grantland's Matt Hinton just published an article titled "QB Curve: Is Everett Golson's Notre Dame Ascent Still on Track?"

QB of the Week: Notre Dame’s Everett Golson

Typecasting: The Prodigal Son. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and Notre Dame partisans were already plenty fond of Golson before his season-long absence in 2013. As a redshirt freshman in 2012, Golson won his first 10 starts in the Fighting Irish’s out-of-the-blue run to the BCS title game, which made his subsequent suspension and the nondescript 9-4 campaign that followed that much harder to endure. On Saturday, in his first real game in nearly 20 months, Golson was every inch the conquering hero the Irish remembered, thrashing Rice for five touchdowns (two passing, three rushing) and posting a career high in pass efficiency (206.3).

Although he’s flashed the arm strength necessary to stretch secondaries downfield …

[VIDEO of Bomb to Chris Brown v. OU '12]

… Golson fell into the “athlete” category as a recruit, and initial comparisons tended to stack him up against Tony Rice, master of the triple option in Notre Dame’s late-’80s heyday under Lou Holtz. While the Irish don’t run much option in Brian Kelly’s spread-oriented scheme — Golson dropped back to pass almost four times as often as he ran in 2012 — Golson is 6-foot-1, 200 pounds,1 so no one is ever going to mistake him for a statuesque pocket passer, and his mobility is a defining asset. Every time he drops back, Golson has the potential to stress defenses by escaping pressure, extending plays, and turning potential negatives into positives in ways a more plodding passer (we’re not naming any names) cannot.

At His Best: Kelly did attempt to keep his quarterback involved as a reliable running threat two years ago, when Golson rushed for 415 yards (not including negative yardage on sacks) and a team-high six rushing touchdowns, all from less than 10 yards out. Golson’s three touchdown runs against Rice covered 11, 14, and 4 yards. Factor in the space an athletic quarterback creates for Notre Dame’s backs by forcing defenses to respect him on read-option and bootleg calls, and Golson’s influence on the ground game is palpable.

His potential for creativity can also trump his coach’s design. At no point in 2012 was that ability more valuable than at the end of the late do-or-die drive against Pitt, when Golson juked his way into the open field just in time to lob a touchdown pass to Theo Riddick, then scrambled in on the two-point conversion to force overtime:

[VIDEO of 2-Point Conversion v. Pitt '12]

Golson ran for a career-high 74 yards against the Panthers, and the Irish needed every last one of them: Remember, Notre Dame trailed 20-6 in the fourth quarter and came closer to losing than any other contest that season before getting annihilated in the championship game. The Irish survived only because their young quarterback managed to pull a couple of rabbits out of his hat.

At His Worst: It’s very easy to overstate Golson’s role in Notre Dame’s perfect 2012 regular season, significant portions of which he spent watching from the bench during key moments. In the Irish’s down-to-the-wire wins over Stanford and Purdue, backup Tommy Rees led the game-winning drives off the bench; in the win over Michigan, Rees fueled Notre Dame’s only touchdown drive after Golson was benched for throwing two interceptions in the first half. As the full-time starter in 2013, Rees improved on Golson’s 2012 production in terms of touchdown percentage, yards per attempt, and overall efficiency. Notre Dame also averaged more points per game last year: Despite the record and title-game berth, 2012 is the lowest-scoring season for the Irish (25.8 ppg) since 2008.

And there’s the rub. Golson was backed in 2012 by one of the stingiest defenses in school history, which led the nation in scoring defense in the regular season and once went four full games without allowing an offensive touchdown. That defense never had to be bailed out and never forced the offense to abandon its close-to-the-vest game plan. The quarterback took care of the defenders by avoiding mistakes that put them in a bad position; the defenders took care of the quarterback by making it safe for him to be boring. But last year’s defense bore no resemblance to the 2012 edition, and the current edition may be on even shakier ground. There’s no precedent for Golson in a true shootout, or even a minor skirmish.

To Saturday and Beyond: Much of the angst over Golson’s suspension stemmed not from how good he was as a redshirt freshman, but from how good he could have been last year with a season of experience under his belt. As overwhelmed as he occasionally was during the first two-thirds of the 2012 campaign, Golson clearly began to grow into the role down the stretch, beginning with a patient, composed night at Oklahoma that confirmed Notre Dame as a legitimate national contender. From there he fueled the comeback against Pitt, posted his best stat lines of the season against Boston College and Wake Forest, and led the Irish to another validating road win, at USC.

Under the circumstances, it was hard to hold his less-than-inspiring effort in the championship game against him, because quarterback was the least of the Irish’s problems against Alabama, and by that point no one doubted his grip on the job. There’s every reason to believe Golson was on schedule for a more consistent campaign as a sophomore, possibly verging on a breakthrough. This weekend’s visit from Michigan will be the first real opportunity we have to judge whether that scheduled ascension still holds, or whether it was too ambitious in the first place.
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So y'all realize that throw to CJ was 60 yards in the air without his feet set right?

Who was it that was questioning Golson's arm strength again?
 
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