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My take on Jake Heaps

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Think Matt Flynn and Russell Wilson in Seattle. If one of the young QBs is ready, Coley and Golden won't hesitate to start him. If they're not ready, Heaps provides insurance. You don't want to be forced to play a young QB before he's ready. That could be a confidence-killer.

This move should tell you what Pete and I have been trying to say for months: Olsen has been struggling on and off the field. He is only a redshirt freshman and has a lot of time to turn it around. I've seen signs of growth in 7on7s. But the pressure is on him now from all sides.
 
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Don't we have a thread on this already????

Posting like he owns the **** place...




























































I know, what a smart ***...
 
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We haven't set the bar very high for who we offer scholarships at QB, so I don't see why any uproar over this.
 
I think its a great move....he was the #1 QB coming out of high school for 2010....he had a good freshman year at BYU cause he had a good supporting cast....he started to struggle his sophomore year (sophmore slump) and they immediately switched QBs to the guy he beat out...then he went to Kansas..in all fairness they aren't very good andhavent been for a while, so he had no supporting cast which caused him to struggle...I believe he will be the starting QB for us come week 1 cause of experience and he doesn't have to do too much plus hemakes good decisions....good get IMHO....
 
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I have a hard time believing that Heaps would be transferring anywhere that he wasn't given certain assurances that he would be a front runner for the starting job right away.

Personally I'd rather lose 6-7 games with Kaaya starting than win 7 or 8 with Heaps starting, and then likely taking a step back next year with Kaaya as goes through his growing pains. It would be different if Heaps was the kind of talent that could lead you to a BCS bowl, then I could see it. But if the difference in talent is negligible, why waste a year on a guy who won't be here next year over a guy who'll be here for the next 3?

The only benefit in my eyes to Heaps starting is it means that Golden feels his seat warming up and knows he has to produce results to keep his job. So he'll go with the "safe" bet at QB who might be able to win 7 or 8 games and then Golden can trot out his "trending up LULZ!" charts and graphs in the hopes of buying himself mre time. Could that also lead to him ****canning his slackjawed paisan at DC when things go south week 1? Hopefully. If he starts Kaaya, while good for UM in the long run it would be the move a coach feeling no pressure on himself to win games immediately would make.

Now he could read the situation wrong, but its unlikely that Shalala is suddenly going to develop a keen interest in winning games and fire him if he fails with Kaaya under center.
 
Olsen and Kaaya just arnt there yet, so this works. if it was anything more then a 1 year thing id be against it, but that 1 season should do wonders for whoever starts in 2015
 
I agree just cut Crow so the net effect is zero. Than this move has no effect on numbers (sanctions) as well.
 
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Pretty confident that he will have far more talent to work with here at Miami, than Kansas and BYU..... Not a bad move.
 
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The best thing to come out of this is that it gives you the ability to redshirt Kaaya now. Imo, the biggest blow to Williams going down (other than losing our starting QB) was that we might not be able to redshirt Kaaya. Even if Olsen starts, we will at least have a legit backup with Heaps and be able to get that year of separation between Kaaya and Olsen.
 
No idea how anyone would complain about this addition...in all honesty I'd be willing to bet the staff views him as the "bridge" that gets us from game 1 to whatever game Ryan Williams is ready.

Look at him as a long middle reliever.
 
Seems ok. I'm willing to see what's he got. In any event, our starting QB wasn't going to be called on to 'win' us any games this year...just don't turn it over.
 
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