"Mystery" JUCO QB is Jacob Park
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While I think Lanning showed a lot of potential last year, I agree that when a team wins 2-3-4 games, the next year nobody's job should be guaranteed. That is unless that person ran for 1,300+ yards as a freshman.
Shouldn't a very talented Ohio RB be able to get a scholarship somewhere? Why would he end up walking on here?
Not including the last game (when the whole team appeared to just want to get the season over) I thought Lanning played better than expected considering he got hardly any snaps at qb before being handed the job. Yes he bounced some (which is usually better than missing high), but he threw a lot of great passes too. But I agree, competition will only make everybody better and Lanning is definitely a kid that could help the team in other ways if he gets beat out.
I take it this kid is not very good. Reminds me of when KU tried getting a couple former 4 star QBs without a home. And that is all they were; former 4 star QBs who were overrated in HS and couldn't cut in college. But I don't blame them for giving him a chance bc they need somebody if Lanning doesn't work out
What? Why isn't Iowa State announcing this and making a big deal out of Lanning, a starting QB, being on national TV?
Year after year, Iowa State has lacked a play maker at QB in a league filled with big time QBs. I really like Lanning and I think he has the potential to be special, but I also like that the staff is going to make him earn it. Adding Park and Kepmt to the roster gives Lanning some real competition in the form of older guys that showed potential coming out of high school. For our team to be successful, we need a really good QB. Hopefully one of these guys is him.
So you think Alabama, Georgia, TCU, Texas, Notre Dame, and many others all are bad judges of talent? They don't recruit based on Rivals rankings.
There are guys that teams miss on all the time especially QBs. Those offers were from high school. He left Georgia and those schools didn't come calling or he would be there. He didn't even play last year. Some kids look great in camps but turn out to be duds. Go look at past 4 star QBs from the last five years. There will be really good players. Ok ones and then there will be guys that you have never heard of.
Jake Heaps was the number 1 QB recruit in 2010 and Dayne Crist was the number 2 QB recruit in the class of 2008. They ended up at KU after they couldn't cut it at other schools and just tore it up at KU bc of who offered them in High School.... Oh wait they sucked. Never mind. And those were guys that actually played at their former schools.
That didn't take long. I need to check the spreadsheet to see if I won the pool.
"Because these two people in the past were bad, this guy will be bad as well."
Cam Newton left Florida, went Juco, and went to Auburn... But Rholts right you can't find good QB's this route. I wonder why the staff wants a bad QB?
I don't think it would be 100% fair to judge Lanning wholly on his performance in last year's offense. He's a solid quarterback, I think solid enough to run Campbell's offense fluently. Whom is best in 2016, anyone's guess. I just think it's beyond premature to make a judgement on the depth chart in February 2016. There is a lot of space between now and when footballs start flying in fall camp.
I don't see how anyone couldn't be excited for someone like this to come to campus. He either beats out Lanning, and is our starting QB. Or he doesn't, and we're no worse off than we were last year at this time . . . :twitcy:
