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It's Dillon's time

buffaholic

buffaholic

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He is either the answer starting next year or he isn't.

If he is to be the answer that helps JE keep his job, they need to start playing him in mop up duty.
If he is not the answer, his 5th year of eligibility will mean little to the future.

Webb is not the future. This offense will be better next year, but not 6 wins better.
 
This came up on Rivals to be fair, and evidently yes. He has been practicing. Even if he can't throw the long ball, so what? We don't have anyone who runs that route.

Get him some game experience so we can see him be as competitive as possible in the spring. Put him in situations to succeed, not the situations that Hawk put Hansen in his Frosh and Soph years. Put him in during the blowouts. Let's play the young guys in the 2nd half who already have taken off the redshirt.

We are young. Is that a valid enough excuse to keep JE around? Not sure. But development of the young guys has to be up there near job 1.
 
buffaholic said:
This came up on Rivals to be fair, and evidently yes. He has been practicing. Even if he can't throw the long ball, so what? We don't have anyone who runs that route.

Get him some game experience so we can see him be as competitive as possible in the spring. Put him in situations to succeed, not the situations that Hawk put Hansen in his Frosh and Soph years. Put him in during the blowouts. Let's play the young guys in the 2nd half who already have taken off the redshirt.

We are young. Is that a valid enough excuse to keep JE around? Not sure. But development of the young guys has to be up there near job 1.
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Hell. No. Don't waste his redshirt in the middle of an apocalyptic season. It is just continuing the viscious cycle that we saw with Klatt and Hansen. Both were serviceable quarterbacks, and both would have had additional years of eligibility if not for completely pointless play time as true freshman. Let him keep maturing and get into spring ball fully healthy and able to compete for the starting job.
 
The flip side to this argument is that if he is the answer at QB, let's get 4 full years out of him - he's not bringing us to a bowl this year.
 
I don't care if he is 1000% healthy-no way I'd put him in now. Not only would he be throwing away a year of eligibility but he would be thrown to the wolves. Our OL is not playing well right now and we have a death row of teams ahead of us on the schedule that would be gunning for him. He'd get creamed way too many times, probably reinjured, and also lose confidence. I see that as a TOTAL lose-lose!
 
Throwing Dillon in for half of a 1-11 season with nothing to work with is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. With this OL it's downright dangerous. You don't waste a year of eligibility on this mess.
 
The pessimist in me also thinks redshirting him makes it slightly less likely he would ever transfer since he wouldn't be able to use the RS while sitting out a year.
 
I'd much rather try our luck with Wood or Hirshmann. I hate freshman. Wood and Hirshmann are both in their third year already. This is usually the time when QB's start to blossom.
 
Let's just stop this now. In a lost season you do not burn the red shirt of a kid who had shoulder surgery in Dec and really could be valuable down the road. Just silly talk
 
If I was Dillon, and Embo told me I was going in, I would laugh at him.
 
Honestly. Has anyone even seen Dillon in practice? Threads like this are based on hope. Not reality.
 
OP was not a suggestion in any way that Dillon could help us win this year.
A thread on Rivals states he has been practicing for some time.

Embree has likely got until next year, but this team has to really step forward next year (if not sooner).
You are not going to take a big step forward if you are playing a RS-Frosh next year with no experience at this level.
College programs do this ALL the time. They get a QB's feet wet as a true freshmen so that they are groomed and ready to go for 3 years.
See how Utah uses Travis Wilson right now. They are grooming him to be the starter next year. He needs live bullets now to be ready for that.

The opening premise was "if he is the answer" and "if he is healthy"..... None of us have a clue. But Embree has an opinion.

IF he is the answer (and healthy now), I would expect Embree to start getting him slices of PT to groom him to be the leader of the revival. Don't expect Embree to ever be looking ahead further than next year.
 
I don't see us being markedly better next year (4-5 wins would be a big jump), so I'd rather he take those live bullets next year after another offseason to add some meat to that frame. Kid's going to get crushed and with a lanky frame and recovering shoulder, that sounds like a recipe for disaster.
 
No way it makes sense to play Dillon now. I'll trade his best year for his worst year every time. I'd argue that you would do more harm to him by sending him out there to be killed by the best 3 schools we play, mentally and physically. This year is a throw away.
 
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