Haysus says we are looking at Karam

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The backup at Tech who has already graduated with a very high GPA and still has two years left. Will come in as a graduate student and will not cost us a ship.
 
Really hope this works out and Karam is a Horn in 2012.
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What would he bring to the team in terms of production and potential....and what effect would this have on Brew, McC and Ash.....not to mention a jc qb which is unlikely?
 
And Karam was so good he beat ou how many times? Texas how many times? How much did he play in 2 years?

A grad student is preferable over a Juco, but a grad student who has little or no GAME experience is just an older freshman. The guy at Oregon State seems to be the best fit. Texas doesn't need a ND failure or a sand aggy clipboard holder.
 
viper you're right. I think they may favor him since he wouldn't cost us a ship since he'd be in grad school. I'd rather see someone who has experience over someone who would be expected to be a game manager so i'm definitely in favor of an Oregon State transfer. Either one would allow us to redshirt Brewer which would be HUGE.
 
First of all, I'm effin' tired of rolling over that banner ad at the top of htis page and seeing and hearing McCulley Caulkin. Ughh. I guess if I was a hornfans sponsor that wouldn't happen.

Ok, now that I've vented, I agree that we can't not take a look at this guy. Like many have said before, we have to at least CONSIDER doing something differently than we did this past fall. Maybe he's the guy, maybe he's not. But Ash and McCoy can't look at this past season and think "nothing needs to be fixed." Bring in some competition, (hopefully) redshirt Brewer, and move forward.
 
How much worse could the QB situation have gotten? Thankfully we have Brewer and Overstreet coming. I'm all for additional QB insurance. The more, the merrier.Just let em compete.
 
There's a good article on Karam's graduation and pending transfer, which shows he graduated with the highest football GPA at Tech in only 2.5 years and was the backup to Doege this season. Karam was offered by a long list of schools including OU and Stanford. He majored in pre-law, so it would seem that a place like Texas (with a good law school) would be attractive to him.

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The way the grad student rule works is that the school he goes to has to be offering something that is not offered at the school he graduates from. Since Tech has a law school in Lubbock, he will have to pick another major.
 
ViperH, are you sure about the different subject/curriculum aspect? I took a quick look at the NCAA manual and didn't see that mentioned. There is a lot of chaff to plow through in the manual so I could have missed it.
 
Well, an Arab quarterback at UT would certainly be a first..... Kinda weird actually, maybe instead of tebowing, he could do salat after every touchdown. That'll be the day. I don't think hes Muslim however, but he might be half Arab.
 
This is a very intriguing possibility. After reading some other profiles, he appears to have some skills. That is a fairly impressive offer list out of HS.

The most impressive part to me is that he graduated pre-law in two and a half years.
 
What a ******* that poster is. Un-*******-believable! The Muslim thing? Yeah, because you can't be American and patriotic because you are Muslim. Bigots like him give the southern States a bad name.
 
oakdale, la.--in addition to the karam connection, the birthplace of one rc slocum as well.

as a tech fan, let me say you'd love jacob karam as a person. he has every intangible in the world. never really got to see what he could do once the lights came on.
 
All indications are that Karam is very smart (offered by Stanford and Vanderbilt), applies himself diligently to his studies (graduated with the highest football GPA ever at Tech in 2.5 years), is talented (an accomplished pianist) and was a well liked member of the Red Raiders.

A big question, however, may be the relatively low # of passes he's thrown while at Tech... "Karam finished the 2011 season as the No. 2 quarterback behind starter Seth Doege and completed nine-of-17 passes for 104 yards and two touchdowns." The (old) video on Rivals says he is pretty accurate on short-to-medium passes but doesn't seem to have the greatest arm strength.
 
Here's the thing...if we get somebody on campus who can do just the ordinary quarterback things, I could care less if he's Buddhist, practices voodoo, offers up sacrifices of vestal virgins, is a communist, or comes from the mysterious planet X. If he can play the piano, great...if he can play football moderately well, especially quarterback, fantastic. I do NOT get somebody playing the ethnic and religion cards on Karam or any other potential UT player.
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If the rules are the same for him as the Oregon State QB he can't be eligible within the same conference as the team he's transferring from next season. That's a NCAA not a conference rule.
 
I mentioned Karam's ethnicity because I think it would be cool to have a quarterback of Arab descent at The University of Texas. There are scores of Christian (like Karam) and even Jewish Arabs (one is a friend of mine). It has nothing to do with religion. Instead, it's cool in the same way it's cool to see so many Hispanic, Asian and Samoan players these days. Shows the world is getting smaller -- and we're all the richer for it. My secret wish is that we advance to a point where there could be a sweet poster of Karam throwing passes from a flying carpet and no-one will get their panties in a wad.
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His high school team played Garrett Gilbert's in the playoffs; a friend of mine who played at Rice went to the game and said he never saw a high school game with two qbs that good on opposing sides. I told him I watched the Brackenridge v. Lee game back in the 6os with McVea and Baer and he was jealous. He thought Gilbert looked the better of the two.

Just saying.
 
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