Lombardi picked his spots. The late Henry Jordan once said (and I paraphrase): "Lombardi treats us all the same--like dogs." That simply wasn't true and a great number of Lombardi's players came forward to point out that Lombardi was quite individualized in his approach to players.
Culture is the program and equals win for Fleck; that’s his formula/the team’s identity.
I didn't say "starter". But, who else has played a meaningful minute at QB this season? Even when Tanner should have been pulled, he wasn't. It's not because we don't have talent behind Tanner. Look around college football and you'll see coaches from bluer blood programs pull their QBs when they struggle. Yet Fleck is incredibly resistant to letting anyone push him.
I think the argument is lost on you. The point is Fleck's Pets get a much longer leash. It's a natural thing. I didn't make it up. It has it's up sides and it's down sides. Pretty much like everything in life.
DumbitDown, many a running back has sat down for varying amounts of time after a fumble.
I can do one better.
I wonder if he/others will be signing any hosannas to Mr. Morgan after we beat the Shunks on Saturday?
Good post. Will be interesting to see how DumbItDown Murr twists that with a dumb response.
I personally couldn’t give two shits about practice. It’s practice! It’s not a game. All you have to do is watch with your eyes and see the shortcomings it’s not hard. Now does that mean there is a better game day option behind him? I don’t know, no one else has played meaningful snaps other than the wildcat. That being said he’s the best the program has had but I personally would say that I thought AAK and Weber were better overall but that’s just me. I love Tanner Morgan and appreciate all he’s done but I think he’s struggled with loss of dad or coaching changes or both. But the practice deal, yeah that doesn’t matter for the most part. It’s what you can do when the real bullets start flying that matters.
Yep, and when those bullets have been flying Morgan has managed to come out on the winning side more than any other QB in the history of Gopher football
...and it only took him ~4 years.
Actually more like 3 years. Half of 2018, 2019, shortened 2020, 2021. His 2018 starts and 2020 starts basically add up to one season.
I will agree, sort of... Fleck has shown that players who don't buy into his "row the boat" philosophy won't see the field, though. I have a feeling that Wright didn't see the field sometimes because of this. I remember when Fleck had Brennan Armstrong (who turned out to be a heck of a QB for Virginia and is the best QB Fleck has had commit) but when Armstrong had some drinking problems, he was "encouraged" to open up his recruitment.
Are you saying that Zack Annexstad... the kid who bought into Fleck's culture hook, line and sinker and won the starting job over Morgan only to lose the job over injuries... isn't one of what you'd call Fleck's pets?
PJ said he thought his QB at Western Michigan had not really bought into what he was selling for a long time until he realized the guy was just sort of subdued compared to PJ… he still played him.
Lots of conflating happening here.
You don't read your own posts?
Tanner Morgan is the starting QB because the Fleck, Sanford & Simon triumvirate think Tanner gives the team the best chance of winning... Period.
"think" being the operative word. Because they aren't even considering other options when they should be at this point.
With all due respect how do you know what has or has not been considered? All you have to go on is who has been under center in games. You have no clue what goes on in practices/meetings....
Interesting point. Neither do you or anyone else responding. So, I just call it like I see it.