Fernando Mendoza

[Cane6]

Without watching Hurricanes practices I think everyone would agree with you.

I know he put his body on the line at FSU in 2023, but he was crazy erratic and missing easy completions, and finished with like a 40% completion percentage if I recall

Who knows, I have a feeling Mario has his eye on someone that is currently on a playoff team

Bump

 

[TriStarCane]

I bet the receipts in here are glorious

 

[ben]

This is Judd’s team now.

 

[Yoyo423]

This is Judd’s team now.

Judd is so bad, Emory made him an afterthought.

 

[Tony4Canes]

Siap

Did he sign with IU??

 

[Pentagon Cane]

Cignetti can coach. Cristobal cannot. Mendoza dodged a bullet.

 

[Cane6]

This is Judd’s team now.

This

But with a 6’7” white guy with a Georgia accent

 

[nycane]

Cignetti can coach. Cristobal cannot. Mendoza dodged a bullet.

he got blown off the field by the only two good teams they played. Cam was just a heisman finalist come on lol

 

[RightSaidFred]

There are more than 2 quarterbacks playing college football. It should never come down to either Mendoza or Emory, there have literally been dozens of QBs in the portal and what the **** is our plan?

 

[Ryanmilli]

he got blown off the field by the only two good teams they played. Cam was just a heisman finalist come on lol

I generally agree with what you’re saying. But Cig has a good offense. Rourke’s thumb on his throwing hand was in bad shape towards the end of the season and it affected some of his throws.

 

[Pentagon Cane]

he got blown off the field by the only two good teams they played. Cam was just a heisman finalist come on lol

Put in full context. Indiana won 3 games in 2023. Cignetti won 11 games his first year. Cignetti has won at every level. The guy can coach.

You think Cristobal made Ward a Heisman candidate? LoL

 

[Negro-Wan Kanobi]

Cignetti can coach. Cristobal cannot. Mendoza dodged a bullet.

 

[E1k]

Bump

Literally should have thrown a pick 6 but their db did some stupid **** so it went for a JG touchdown

Then the drive he got injured he should have threw a pick a couple plays before lmao bruh people thinking that game showed anything was insane to me. I get it hard circumstances but man he barely could complete forward passes

 

[RVACane]

 

[PIPO]

he got blown off the field by the only two good teams they played. Cam was just a heisman finalist come on lol

Cignetti’s record as a head coach dwarfs Mario’s record.

 

[TOcane]

I generally agree with what you’re saying. But Cig has a good offense. Rourke’s thumb on his throwing hand was in bad shape towards the end of the season and it affected some of his throws.

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Did it look like that against OSU?

 

[Calinative]

There are more than 2 quarterbacks playing college football. It should never come down to either Mendoza or Emory, there have literally been dozens of QBs in the portal and what the **** is our plan?

I mean last year everyone thought we didn't have a plan and got the best QB in CFB. So lets see how it plays out. IMO I think Nickel can be legit, and wouldn't mind rocking with him year 1 - as long as it meant we kept spending very big the rest of this portal and Spring Portal.

 

[RVACane]

I mean last year everyone thought we didn't have a plan and got the best QB in CFB. So lets see how it plays out. IMO I think Nickel can be legit, and wouldn't mind rocking with him year 1 - as long as it meant we kept spending very big the rest of this portal and Spring Portal.

They have to fix the defense. Coaches, players… whatever it takes. If we can’t get someone in the portal, I’d rather take the lumps immediately with Nickel.

 

[PIPO]

I just don’t think anyone here can truly say Emory is good or bad.

The only ones that can are Dawson and co. They watched him everyday for a year and developed him. He sat and learned behind Cam, the undisputed top quarterback in college. Right, wrong, or indifferent, it’s kinda the hard truth. You can’t judge him from freshman year when he never should have played.

I think it’s telling we didn’t pursue any quarterback here (outside of the pipe dream for Mateer). So staff clearly thinks Emory > Mendoza.

This year has proved that roster is more important than the QB (98% of the time). I’m just at a point that they feel comfortable with Emory. If they go after any other quarterback, they feel he is the best quarterback out there.

That’s their decision and they just delivered the best offense in college football this year. We will see

 

[PIPO]

There is absolutely no way you watched Mendoza play this year and thought "we need him to be our starting QB next year or all is lost".