🏈 Opinions on Who Will Win Starting Quarterback Job

[JoshB]

We're going on Saban's ninth year in Tuscaloosa. We've seen what happened with the QB at LSU when he was in Baton Rouge. Yet, in this thread (and on other forums as well) people aren't even discussing Alec Morris. I don't understand how people aren't getting the progression of QB's under CNS. I'd have thought last year would have been telling.

What we know. If you are in a certain position in the spring under this staff you don't lose that position over the summer. Leaving spring, the team was being led by Coker with Morris running the 2's. The only thing that's capable of changing that is injury.

Now, here I see thoughts about Bateman, Cornwell, and Barnett taking the backup role going into fall camp. It's not happening. If fact, I wonder why some people are so focused on it coming into play.

I suppose this boils down to where these guys were ranked when they were coming out of high school. Think about it. No one has seen much of these guys at all: not a lot of Cornwell and certainly nothing with Barnett. There's no empirical data here to make a judgment, or guess, upon.

This is the same conversation we were having last year at this time. The media (those outside of the beat writers covering Bama) were throwing Coker's name out there. Yet, there were a group of us saying, "hang on a second...Saban doesn't work that way."

Barnett isn't going to get the nod unless the injury situation turns extreme. He's behind the others in learning the offense and certainly isn't in SEC football shape.

Things can change. But, in this situation, without some season ending injury thinking Cornwell gets the nod is anti-Saban.

Me? I'm looking to see what Morris can bring to the team...not what he lacks. We're looking at Morris being the backup for 2015 and the likely starter going into spring camp in 2016.

Morris won't be the backup in 2015 and 0% chance he is the starter going into anything let alone the spring. Just my opinion but I will be stunned if he ever sees the field this year or any other year in the future other than possibly holding field goals...

 

[TerryP]

Morris won't be the backup in 2015 and 0% chance he is the starter going into anything let alone the spring.

Strong statement with history going against it in every manner.

 

[TerryP]

He liked Curry and always felt like we did him wrong.

UA did do him wrong...as soon as they decided to give him the HC job.

It's funny to me thinking back about what I've heard said over the years. If you were to ask Curry, he'd say he didn't "fire/release" Spurrier. IF you flip that and ask the same question of SOS, he'd say Curry dropped him.

Now, personally, I don't trust much of what comes out of either guys mouth.

I do believe those who characterize Curry as some sort of saint are grossly mistaken. In a sense, not a lot different than how UGA fans view Richt.

 

[UAgrad93]

@Destiny's Child, Curry was ok to play for but Stallings was more personable. I seem to believe that Curry rubbed people the wrong way by always referring to Lombardi and not Coach Bryant. Coach Homer Smith was my position coach under Curry and I loved him. Coach Moore, not so much!

 

[UAgrad93]

He doesn't remind me of Greg when I watch him but that doesn't mean AM doesn't have the same mentality GM brought to the position. Physically, he does remind me of a more mobile Freddie.

That was my thinking when I thought of AM and McElroy. Hopefully, he will show more touch on passes than what Freddie used to do.

 

[TerryP]

Hopefully, he will show more touch on passes than what Freddie used to do

One of the biggest things I recall about Freddie was his TD to INT ration. Even in his last year, it wasn't spectacular. Over the three years he took snaps my recollection tells me he was about +10 (TD's.) My impression today while thinking back about him was he never left his high school mentality for the position: I can throw the ball hard enough to make this completion. That works in high school a lot of the time. At this level, rarely.

Ironically, that "throw the ball hard enough to fit in that hole" is something that fits what we saw with Coker; so far.

I realize it's very tempting for people to look at numbers from A-day and use that as a basis for their suppositions on the position for the fall. But, that leads me back to my first post in this thread.

Last year should have told people something considering Blake's performance at A-day versus the season. Hell, when has A-day told anyone, anything, about the QB position lately?