OU backup QB transfers

OU is in no more peril if Bradford leaves a game to injury than any other BCS conf. team whose qb has thrown 3 gs & 30 tds in a season. Kthxbai.
 
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One of the really frustrating things for him is that OU used him in the early season and burned a redshirt year for him. However, when they really needed a backup in the Tech game they didn't use him.

I have no problem with the coaches making him 3rd on the depth chart if that 's where he belonged. But, If that is the case, then why was he played at all early in the season when redshirting would be blown?

Any thoughts from the Sooners in the know on the rationale for this?

I wasn't too impressed with Hoezle in the Tech game and assumed Nichol was shirting. I had not realized he saw action in one of the early games so that using him in the Tech game would not have mattered at that point.
 
Halzle started out crappy, but picked up steam towards the end. They had a couple of chances to win that game, I think.

All in all, he's a serviceable backup.
 
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Didn't the OU staff have 2 springs and a full season to know what they had in Hazle (sp?)? If there was any question he wasn't a capable backup wouldn't/shouldn't they have known this before blowing a whole year on Nichol's eligiblity.

Why not use Hazle in mop up first and then use Nichol only in an emergency since the odds of needing him more than Hazle for meaningful time would be low if there wasn't a significant difference evident already in their overall combination of experience/knowledge of offense/talent level, etc. ?

Doesn't make sense to me to burn a shirt on a kid so early unless you clearly knew he would be your first option in a pinch (see Tech game).
 
Bradford will drive away QB's same way that Vince and now Colt are doing. OU from what I understand is looking at 1 or possibly 2 QB's in the 09 recruiting class and this should help land those.
 
the surprising thing about sooner transfers isn't that someone left, but that anyone is there to begin with.
 
Hazle looked awful the first couple of series but slowly got into a groove. OU led 7-0 on a pick 6 but wound up down something like 35-7 around the start of the 4th quarter. Tech recovered an onside kick with 31 seconds left to win 35-28 (or 34-27). That game ended just in time . . .
 
Orange,
One of the conditions of him coming to OU in the first place was that he wouldn't 'shirt. It was his idea, & the coaches agreed to it (although he didn't have to try very hard to convince them. At the time, it was pretty much the more options, the better). Remember, at the time he came in, Bradford had 36 less TD passes than he has now. It was about as open of a competition as you could get, & Keith wanted the same shot everybody else was getting.
 
OU under Stoops has a pretty good history of taking no-name QBs and developing them into college studs. Its not like they've had a bunch of 5 star QBs, in fact the only 5 star guy they got turned out to be a major bust.
 
Good luck to the young man. It is a good thing and a bad thing for a team when their backups leave due to performance of a starter. It does not mean this young man is not a competitor or afraid of competition. It means he wants a chance to play and compete on the field. Bradford makes that about impossible. Not bad for a qb that sucks so bad, eh Bradford?
 
KN leaving hurts, anyway you slice it.
What was weird is that he digressed from last spring it appeared.
He looked pretty good last year but struggled pretty bad in this spring game.
Here's a bad scenario for OU, say OU has a great year & SB is tearing it up again, he is projected to be one of the 1st QB's taken in what appears to be a weak draft for QB next year, he leaves, Hazle is a senior this year, Landry is the only one left for next season in an already depleted offense.
Next year it's possible that our only returning starters on O. will be our fullback & slot because we lose out entire OL, TE in Gresham will probably bolt, DM if he has another good year probably leaves, both starting WR's.
Throw is a QB that will probably only see little action at best in Landry & OU is in some serious trouble in 09.
 
Not redshirting did not hurt the kid. He went to OU to try and be the man since they looked thin at QB before Bradford blew up.

Nichol essentially will use his redshirt this year to sit out and still have 3 years of eligibility left
 
This says as much about the New Mexico kid, Landry Jones, as it does about Nichol, Bradford or Stoops.

You have to think Nichol saw that he'd never get on the field full time and that maybe he can at a place like Michigan State. If he really thought he'd start as a true freshman, he was being silly, even with OU's QB situation headed into 2007.
 
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