Jake Heaps teleconference

For the people who want Olsen to start, what's your reasoning behind that? It wasn't until Williams went down that he became the guy. Now that we have Heaps (who will give about the same production as Williams imo) why force Olsen into it when he doesn't appear ready?

No need to force Olsen as the starter. I am, however, rooting for him to WIN the competition. Having a young qb play well this season is the key to us being back. We need a young stud to lead this offense. The national hype would be absurd if Olsen can turn out to be a young stud qb. Hype = more recruits; more recruits = more winning.
 
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For the people who want Olsen to start, what's your reasoning behind that? It wasn't until Williams went down that he became the guy. Now that we have Heaps (who will give about the same production as Williams imo) why force Olsen into it when he doesn't appear ready?

Star ****ers.
 
For the people who want Olsen to start, what's your reasoning behind that? It wasn't until Williams went down that he became the guy. Now that we have Heaps (who will give about the same production as Williams imo) why force Olsen into it when he doesn't appear ready?

No need to force Olsen as the starter. I am, however, rooting for him to WIN the competition. Having a young qb play well this season is the key to us being back. We need a young stud to lead this offense. The national hype would be absurd if Olsen can turn out to be a young stud qb. Hype = more recruits; more recruits = more winning.

I can certainly understand your line of reasoning and that would be the ideal situation if and only if Olsen is up to the task. He has to earn it. I think he needs another year of seasoning but who really knows at this point. I can tell you that knowing Goldens mindset, he will go with Heaps as long as Heaps proves to him tbat he won't drive the car off a cliff.

If Olsen does not start this year the QB battle in 2015 will be epic. Jersey kid vs California kid. Fortay vs Torreta part Deux! LOL
 
And how do you know this?

dont sleep on Olsen...he is competitor first and foremost

What makes you say that? Golden pulled every motivational tactic in the book over the last two years to get him to take things seriously. thus far, none of it has appeared to motivate him.

I'm not taking a jab at you, but am curious why you think he's more of a competitor than any other player. his actions have indicated the opposite.

Reading, listening to the coach's interviews, and making note of Olsen's suspensions.
 
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I'm not a golden basher, but this move totally looked like a cover to give Williams the job back. AG has proven one thing to me for sure. He will ride with his sr qb! That is Ryan Williams. He was looking for a guy to hold the reigns until RW was ready. And not lose any of his young guys confidence, or the team leadership. AG really pays attention to who the team will follow, who the team views as the leader. He does so to a fault. He should have gone to SM at the end of JH's tenure and he should have gone to RW late last year. But he sticks with the guy he thinks the team supports most. He knows these guys love RW. But he does not want to shatter a guy like Olsens confidence so he brings in a guy like Heaps to hold the fort down until RW is healthy. Calling it now, RW will start at Nebraska no matter what happens in the first three games, possible that he goes to split scenario, but he is waiting to give it back to RW. Just like Rs was waiting to give the reigns to JH over RM. It was obvious to all of us. I could see RW getting a lot of second team reps in blow out wins in the second two games of the year, if healthy enough.

I just don't think Olsen can possibly play well enough to win the job from Heaps, because if he can play that well he would have been a lot closer to RW when he got hurt and it was obvious he was waaayyy behind in the qb battle. Just my opinion...
 
He was behind because golden loves these sorry qbs williams sucks and heaps is average at best olsen is a competitor period he'll make it go
 
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