OK - who wins the game on Sept. 9th ?
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Yes, he was the former Hawkeye QB, then hawkeye DB and then redskin.
Didnt turn out terrible for him switching, did it?
I'm just glad Lanning gets to keep playing, way too good of an athlete to keep off the field even if we don't need him taking snaps. Park seems to fit the offensive mold that Campbell wants better, and Lanning can also be used effectively elsewhere. Everybody wins.
Definitely. He was bouncing around his RS year so he has seen some work there before this year also. Gotta put the best athletes out there and let them make plays.
What I see are two guys who were at qb (lanning as a jr and bowen as a rs) and both starting the next year. I might see what you are saying though. Lanning was doing some LB work as a RS and he had some background there, so he might have an unfair advantage there.
I'm not going to get into the Lanning thing, as I have no idea how he will do, but I really can't believe you just tried to compare that situation to Matt Bowen's switch from QB to safety before his sophomore year. I honestly think he might have switched before his freshman season ended.
Definitely an experiment to watch. I am sure Lanning will make mistakes early on and will grow as the season goes on. Which doesn't bode well against iowa.
So how is Bowens RS freshman year different than this year for Lanning? Lanning worked some there during RS and moved after last season to get spring drills in. Pretty similar to Bowen from what I've heard. I'm just asking about comparable first years changing. Didn't Bowen start as a freshman?
We had Stevie Johnson come in and play after playing basketball and we went to a bowl that year. It happens more often than these hawk fans want to admit. I just used bowen since that was one of their own.
No, he didn't start until his junior year. He had 1-1.5 years of defensive work under his belt before he ever even started as a junior.
Not. Even. Close.
Much better example than Bowen. Proven that it can be done. Interested in seeing how Lanning does.
He lettered his freshman year on special teams and his sophomore year as a backup defensive back.
Who claimed this? Iowa fans arent doing that, it is Clone fans saying their RB = Iowa RB. That is laughable.
I suppose I was using "Air Raid" as more of a blanket statement for the Spread Offenses almost all the Big 12 uses. And, while I agree the Big 12 is trending away from being pass happy, there was a 5 year stretch where a large chunk of teams did nothing but air it out. Baylor post RG3, Tx Tech (obvi), Oklahoma State with Weeden and then tried and failed with Chelf and that scrambling QB they used, and TCU liked to go deep with Boykin, who could also run.
Oklahoma and Texas have always been very balanced in their attack, although TX hasn't had a decent QB since McCoy (almost longer than us)
I'd only call Tech a true air raid. Tech doesn't care if they throw 50 times. Any other spread in the Big 12 wants to dominate on the ground as much as they do in the air. Baylor, for instance, basically ran a play-action offense out of spread formations, running 55% of the time. They passed for a lot of deep touchdowns, but usually because the defense's safeties had crept into the box to stop the run.