Who is to say that Gray ever would have learned the whole system no matter what it was? He is still getting a "special package" of a few plays put together for him as recently as the MSU game.
I think you people assume too much. Elegibility will always count. Start putting that fact of life into jr. high players heads. You have got to have the grades and the test scores or it is going to set you way back.
Believe me, Gray would have gotten lost in the process here at Minnesota under the failed brewball experiment. Perhaps, the stability of the program that was here before would have given him a chance to have four or five years in ONE system. With brewball, constant change, chaos, lack of discipline, change of schemes, lack of a decent offensive line and running game and too few decent receivers was always going to make life too hard for quarterbacks.
Sorry, you just can't "what if" things to death. Things play out the way things play out. What is...IS. Could of, would of, should of...kinda, sorta, maybe.
If Gray sticks around, he should only have one more offense to learn. There will also be some other qb's in the mix. Time will tell what time will tell.
To your first paragraph, Horton said in his postgame that although M. Gray had a package, but they used plays from the regular offense when he actually was in.
To your second paragraph, you are correct in one sense. It is important to instill the need for good grades and good test scores to high school and middle school athletes. Especially to those who are teetering on the edge. The issue with you saying that in this thread is relevance. M. Gray had the grades to be eligible, they were not perfect, but he got them. M. Gray got the test score the first time he started practicing. The ACT and all of their infinite wisdom deemed it impossible that he had gotten such a good score without cheating, so they waived his score and made him take it again. He passed again. So as much as I appreciate your sentiments on how academics need to be emphasized, in M. Gray's case, the point is null. He got the grades, he got the test scores, and there is nothing that could lead anyone to believe he is currently struggling in the classroom.
To your third paragraph, You bring up a good point. Perhaps it is better for M. Gray and his career and gopher fans in general that his ACT was flagged. If it wasn't, he'd be a junior and we would only have one year left of him. As it is now, there is still 2 more years of M. Gray. It may end up benefiting everybody but Brewster that his ACT was flagged.
To your fourth paragraph, if you read the OP you would have clearly known it was a what if game. Some people like to discuss it, others don't. You obviously do, or you wouldn't have posted in this thread. So the message of your fourth paragraph is not a valid argument, because your post in this thread says you disagree with your own statement. You say you can't "what if" things do death, but in the 3rd paragraph you attempt do just that.
To your fifth paragraph, you are correct. M. Gray will have some competition and he will learn a new system. To suggest he is too dumb to learn just proves your own ignorance. You have no evidence of his football IQ other than claims made by people on radio who also probably do not know his football IQ. To not state he is the clear frontrunner also displays your ignorance, as he is the only QB on the roster getting time besides Weber. You also have probably never seen Alipate or any of the other QBs ever take a snap at any level.
Thank you for contributing to my thread.
