Franks living w/ Appleby.....

[ChiefGator]

This really stood out to me:



Just really speaks to how raw both of these kids are. Franks not having a QB coach and Trask not having any QB experience. To bring both of them in in the same year probably was not the best idea.

Probably not but what was the alternative, fewer QBs?

 

[78]

Gauging by the pic, Trask should turn some heads by being multi-racial with three arms.

 

[GatorJ]

Probably not but what was the alternative, fewer QBs?

No. Better QBs.

 

[GatorJ]

Well, not sure I agree. If you are going to land projects, at any position, you should land as many as you can, and be ready to cut bait if it seems obvious they don't have the stuff.

If you mean it would have been better to recruit a better QB, I agree. However, that wasn't (and still isn't) in the cards. Allen is a huge project too.

We had no QBs with ANY real college experience. I get a raw QB like Trask or Franks (I prefer Franks - lots of hs experience as well as big game experience and TDs). But to go with a quarterback that needs a lot of polishing and then one who has never really played (along with a QB that was not particularly good at Purdue and another QB that's bounced between multiple programs and never really started anywhere) - maybe, just maybe - it would've been a good idea to bring in somebody who really understood the position and played in high school.

 

[ChiefGator]

No. Better QBs.

I agree but if better QB's were an option would not our coaches gotten them? That was the point everything is options and how you get the best players is a great question. I sure don't know how to do that if I did well the Gators would have all be best players in every sport.

 

[Concrete Helmet]

while remaining hopeful for a chance to play professionally.

 

[TN G8tr]

I seem to remember Urban changing the offense on the open week, but my memory is not that reliable so perhaps some other poster could confirm or deny.

Yes you are correct. Leak was having some difficulty, if not getting protection. That's when Billy Latsko came on the scene. Simply putting in a FB really helped Leak. Not sure how much of the offense changed but the read option stuff was severely slimmed down.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Of course the real question was why he went into the season thinking he was going to run the option w Leak (or Brantley).

Adding the FB had to do with his running scheme not otherwise working in the SEC.

 

[TheDouglas78]

I seem to remember Urban changing the offense on the open week, but my memory is not that reliable so perhaps some other poster could confirm or deny.

An Open week after having Leak for a full year before that point. It shouldn't have been new news at the point of the open week in 2006, being Leak was the quarterback all of 2005. Why did we go into the season thinking Leak was a runner?

 

[ChiefGator]

An Open week after having Leak for a full year before that point. It shouldn't have been new news at the point of the open week in 2006, being Leak was the quarterback all of 2005. Why did we go into the season thinking Leak was a runner?

Thanks but perhaps because he was in HS is what I thought. I believe that a fullback like Billy would make a large difference in our offense.

 

[G8trwood]

What I heard was the offense is complicated and nobody is on the same page...:)

 

[TheDouglas78]

Thanks but perhaps because he was in HS is what I thought. I believe that a fullback like Billy would make a large difference in our offense.

Lasko is an criminally underrated Gator.

 

[MertzJay26]

Don't care about dude's living situations

 

[ChiefGator]

Lasko is an criminally underrated Gator.

Not by me. He made some very big plays himself, he blocked allowing other big plays, he was great in the classroom and on the building site. Without his contributions we would have much less success. I seem to remember a fake punt that he was involved with and some pass in the flat in a critical situation. Could be incorrect as my memory is questionable, perhaps someone else can confirm or deny.