Just curious, why do you hate them so much? Think I have a pretty good idea, but not sure.
Guess you’re right. I would feel torn if we barely win with Salter but he’s awful.
The difference for me is that I can stay engaged if we lose with JuJu, but I don't think I can handle losing with Salter at QB.
People like to say, "I'd rather lose with Juju with him throwing 3 INTs and taking sacks than lose with Salter" and I don't buy that. If Juju comes in and looks terrible, the meltdown will be epic, regardless of him being a freshman.
I think it would be more on Shurmer that everyone gets pissed at. At this point, the season is on the brink. Juju has not had a fair chance. I think being a freshman will play into a tempered reaction. I could be wrong.
If Juju plays and has a poor game and they lose, the narrative will be they have to find a completely different QB1 for next year. It's just how unreasonable fans operate. This Juju/Salter decision has to be handled with kid gloves and CP has to be very careful with it. As soon as they make the decision to move off of Salter, there's no going back. If Juju looks good, it gives them a lot of momentum with the fanbase and recruiting going into the offseason. If he looks like ass and they keep losing, it absolutely destroys any momentum.
3-9 going with Salter the whole way puts this program right back to the Karl Dorrell era. Keep doing the same things with the same coaches and players and I'm telling you; they're going to need 2+ pages for the "injury" report coming out of the bye week. People don't understand how precarious things are right now.
I didn't say Salter the rest of the way. But 6 games of Juju has the chance to go sideways in an even bigger way if he's not ready. CP isn't just holding him back to appease Salter.
a person that I despised attended ISU and was overly proud of the degrees received.
There's a good chance we go 3-9/4-8 no matter who's behind center. At least with Juju, HCP has the "youth/preparing for future" narrative to work with in the offseason.
Not if Juju looks like ****, which is my point.
We want/need the narrative to be Juju more as Caleb Williams coming off the bench as a FR at OU to beat Texas.....than Malachi Nelson at his 3rd school QB 1 for a bad UTEP team.
Agreed, which is why the staff has to be very careful about when they insert Juju. To be clear, I'm not advocating for one thing or another, I'm saying that at the moment, I'm going to trust CP on when he thinks the time is right.
Believe it when I say it.
Not with what we run as his skill set, I doubt it. You all know what that means. I'd say play JuJu or at least give him a few series or specials. I'm not at practice though, so that's the other part of it.
And I'm telling you HCP has a very precarious hold on this team right now. With so many distractions, I wouldn't trust him to call a timeout at the right time, let alone make the best personnel decisions. Oh wait...
"I'm a rational engineer"
And if Juju goes out there and blows, what happens to that precarious hold on the team? Juju represents the hope for this program moving forward and if that looks ****ty in front of the home crowd on National TV because he’s not ready, it will have the same if not worse effect
Did you just use the exact script from last week?
Your score prediction and pretty much everything else is exactly what happened last week.
