'12 IN QB Gunner Kiel (Cincinnati Transfer)

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Seriously. I guess he's the right role model to show his team what kind of "confidence" and "swagger" they need to exhibit, considering his attitude and conduct is more akin to that of my 5 year old cousin and not the head coach of a national championship contending team.

But as Lax and others mentioned, this is the SEC, where the buck stops at the ability to win games. We all know Petrino won't get fired, Saban and the rest get away with horrid academic standards and CUTTING PLAYERS to meet scholarship limits, and Les Miles takes time out of his day to give us some folksy wisdom from down south on why consensus #1 QB Gunner Kiel doesn't have what it takes to cut it for a real team with "clout."

Ok Les. I guess you take the whambulance to and from work everyday, crybaby.
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(Now picture him in women's underwear.)
 
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A tribute. Wonder if he will switch with EG long term?
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In honor of my Uncle Blair I will be wearing #5 instead of #1 during the ND spring game. #loved forever
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CHIDomer9 said:
A tribute. Wonder if he will switch with EG long term?
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I kinda like the idea of them switching longterm. A number switch would fit both players a little bit better. #5 would be meaningful to Kiel and I personally think Golson would look better in a #1.


Either way. Glad to see EG helping Kiel honor his uncle.
 
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They might both be wearing #5 for the spring game. They'll never be on the field at the same time.
 
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Except when you have s Tebow/leak situation. Leak was athletic enough to place at wr for a play or whatever .. Rare I know
 
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Good point ... for a full season they definitely couldn't have the same number, but I think for the BG Game it would be ok if Everett didn't want to switch or if that was a problem for the equipment staff.
 
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I can't imagine going to high school for a fall semester, not having a normal winter break, and then being thrust into starting college right away. All while starting your first college football practices. At Notre Dame. Tough stuff, hopefully it pays off for these highly-talented and motivated guys.
 
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Interesting article on The Gunner: Notre Dame Football: Don't Rule Out Gunner Kiel This Year | Bleacher Report

Since it came from Bleacher Report, there's the typical sweeping, unsubstantiated, non-fact based generalizations in it. Thought we might all get a little chuckle out of it. But who knows...
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I'd love to see it. Doubt it, but would love to see it. I'm not a big fan of the two QB system, but GK and EG is pretty sexy. If EG starts this year and does enough to keep the job, GK may look elsewhere. I just don't see GK sitting around for 3 years. And I don't see EG being happy to switch positions. Play both and we just might keep both. I'd rather get GK some PT and experience this year than waiting for the inevitable to happen.

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Irish YJ said:
I'd love to see it. Doubt it, but would love to see it. I'm not a big fan of the two QB system, but GK and EG is pretty sexy. If EG starts this year and does enough to keep the job, GK may look elsewhere. I just don't see GK sitting around for 3 years. And I don't see EG being happy to switch positions. Play both and we just might keep both. I'd rather get GK some PT and experience this year than waiting for the inevitable to happen.

Just saying
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I think you're right on in regards to transfers. I don't know who, but you gotta think somebody is going to be leaving out of the 4 schollie QBs within the next year, especially with Zaire arriving in 2013.
 
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That article was garbage. Pure conjecture. F-ing joke.

Three posts for the price of one, you are welcome.
 
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I think you're right on in regards to transfers. I don't know who, but you gotta think somebody is going to be leaving out of the 4 schollie QBs within the next year, especially with Zaire arriving in 2013.
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Hendrix won't go anywhere due to degree/studies. TR is the first to bolt in my opinion. If he isn't 1A or 1B this year, he bolts. I love TR because he is Irish, but he is certainly 4th talent wise. He can start somewhere else, and he's a baller, so I'm thinking he goes. Would love him to stay, but thinking he'll be happier elsewhere.
 
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Irish YJ said:
Hendrix won't go anywhere due to degree/studies. TR is the first to bolt in my opinion. If he isn't 1A or 1B this year, he bolts. I love TR because he is Irish, but he is certainly 4th talent wise. He can start somewhere else, and he's a baller, so I'm thinking he goes. Would love him to stay, but thinking he'll be happier elsewhere.
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Why would TR bolt? He must know there's no future in the NFL for him. Even if he ends up last on the depth chart, he'll likely finish his degree and call it a good deal.
 
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Why would TR bolt? He must know there's no future in the NFL for him. Even if he ends up last on the depth chart, he'll likely finish his degree and call it a good deal.
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I don't know Whiskey, Jim Sorgi made one fine nest egg for himself for my beloved Colts as Peyton's clipboard holder... just sayin'...(but you're probably right)
 
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Kiel has said that he willing to redshirt this year if that's best for the team, and given the distinctively different scenario that Coach gave him in the Spring Game, I'd be pretty boggled if he did not.

Tommy's screw-up might very easily take him out of the mix unless Andrew and Everett are really mentally boggled by the actual intricacies of real game management and seeing the off-the-line-of-sight defenders.

If anything that we seem to actually see in the little bit of real ball we've gotten to witness makes any sense [and I'm first in line to admit that none of this ever seems to make good sense], then this should be Andrew and Everett being groomed rather urgently for this QB job. Both have big, somewhat different, talents. Both can really wing the ball. I don't think that the "eye-test" is going to have anything to do with it, since they're both plenty impressive at that. Who will be able to manage the game both pre-snap [which was Tommy's only great strength] AND during the play [which often was not] ?

I, like all the rest of us, want one of these two guys to have the "light go on". COACH CAN NOT DO THAT FOR THEM. We must sit back, chew our fingers, say a few prayers to Saint Rockne, and hope. .... Tough duty.
 
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I agree with whiskey, I think he'll stay for the degree.
 
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Article was definitly pointless, shows how little there is out there to talk about. Gunner may have seen the entire second half of the spring game, but for anyone there and or that watched the game, knows the 2nd half had a running clock, and MAYBE lasted 5-7 minutes. I'm not even sure he got 10 plays called from the line of scrimmage. If Golson and Hendrix, two QB's, who are obviously smart enough to enroll at ND, haven't figured out the playbook yet, I'm guessing Kiel is probably in the same boat. I wish Kiel was ready, but he obviously is not. Now if he were to of played in the 1st half, this article may hold some water, but the 2nd half was a scrimmage within a scrimmage.
 
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read that it was a bleacher report article and didn't even bother clicking on it.
 
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Didn't you like the way anyone who thought otherwise was "asinine?" Who treats the audience like this? Gimme a break.
 
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Realistically, I don't think Tommy Rees could start for most of the MAC teams. The MAC has produced some pretty good NFL quarterbacks (Pennington, Roethlisberger, etc.). I don't see Rees sticking in the NFL, and I'm doubtful he will ever get the chance. I can't see anyone drafting him as a quarterback or for that matter signing him as an undrafted free-agent. He's too slow to convert to a receiver. So what do you do with him?

Too many interceptions and total turnovers to risk putting on the field even for a MAC team. Who else (besides Notre Dame) would accept 19 turnovers and still have that player on the field?

I think he ends up transferring and finishing out his career as a back-up somewhere else.
 
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I will weigh in on this. I don't think Tommy could make it in most of the dynamic MAC programs. You don't want to be that slow and go to any of the other MAC teams. Tommy wants an ND degree, so he may take his year after graduation somewhere else. But I can't for the life of me figure where in D1.
 
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Bogtrotter07 said:
Didn't you like the way anyone who thought otherwise was "asinine?" Who treats the audience like this? Gimme a break.
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Most of the writers on BR appear to be under the age of 25 from their pictures, so not really a wealth of experience behind their writing.
 
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