Paul Jones Will Redshirt

I just hope Jones does take this as a time to continue to learn and grow and not get discouraged by being the “odd man out”. I think having Jones and Bolden, if we can keep both on the roster for another year or 2, will just be nasty. It doesn’t matter which guy you have in, you know they’ll both have great ability and a strong skill set.

with the current situation (Bolden not redshirting…yet), he’s pretty much the only one guaranteed a year to start (assuming we don’t pull in some other QB phenom in the time being).

IMO he should start the 1st game and get all the exposure of game speed and getting the playbook down. At best, it could pay big dvidens on the road in game #2!

My buddy was a manager with the team and did not instill much confidence in me that Newsome could get it done. McGloin, I’ll give him props be just doesn’t seem to be a good enough all around athlete, starting him will stall the program, I think he is probably at his ceiling. He should be a great backup. Bolden provides room for growth and a chance at winning now. If he falters, we have good back up plans.

…but not that surprising. It was always obvious that one of the two true freshmen was going to redshirt; given all that we’d heard about Bolden (and the relatively little we’d heard about Jones), it’s no surprise that Jones would be the one redshirting.

So now, the reps will only be split three ways. Given that Bolden is the best combined running/passing threat, and that he has been able to come so far despite only being on campus for a couple months, I’d really like to see him emerge as the starter. Hopefully the bad scrimmage he apparently had on Tuesday was just a hiccup, and that he will be able to make the most of the increased number of reps.

Some leaps of faith are taken here, so bear with me.

WHEREAS, What if it is Bolden? Newsome then has one of two options, as I see it: 1) transfer, but I think he’d wait at least a year for that, or 2) switch positions, which some have claimed is a possibility (I mean, Columbus has a WR starting at QB, so why couldn’t we have a QB slide to RB/WR)

WHEREAS, what if Bolden has three strong to incredible years (2011 and 2012 are poised to be great, by all accounts).

WHEREAS, what if Bolden jumps early? It’s not unfathomable.

WHEREAS, PJ will have two years of eligibility left.

NOW THEREFORE, all three QB’s can stay and play.

BE IT RESOLVED.

When the analyst asked the other guys on the crew “who would you start at QB for YTS?” Both said Bolden, hands down. They said they would “live with the freshman mistakes for his upside” and that given what he had shown “he has an incredible future”

I feel the situation may well become a McGloin Newsome combo until game 3 when Bolden gets a serious look and potentially we have a Bolden Newsome combo.

The notion of two QB’s made both Jay and Joe flinch, but you know its going to be a tough choice given what happened in 2007.

3 of them were “top 10” in their class and none have plans to sit for multiple years

I think it is a bad situation to have Newsome start Bama then switch to Bolden midseason. I mean when Bolden starts and goes undefeated in the Big Ten, I don’t want to hear casual football fan ranting “We would have been undefeated had Bolden been in all year etc.”

I also don’t think that if he takes some blows in the Bama game that it will crush his confidence. He strikes me as a fighter and will use that as motivation all off season to get better and give them a licking come next September.

to go off scholarship for the 2011 season, to create more separation? Take a grey shirt? I it’d be slim-to-none if Newsome and McGloin transfer, for depth issues. But is this allowed by NCAA rules?

when choosing between Bolden and McGloin or Newsome. Then, can we not also assume we won’t be running advanced playbook the first few weeks – including at Bama. Even with veteran QB’s in the game, when we have “fought in the trenches” type games like OSU, Bama, etc. we tend to have a vanilla offense.

Why not be vanilla with a few advanced plays in there from the get go, including Bama and give Bolden a shot if he has better tools – giving him more time to learn more plays each week. I understand McGloin knows the PB inside and out but that is his only ace in the hole. Same expereince basically, leadership, c’mon, a QB is a QB and one like Bolden doesn’t seem like he lets his huddle call the shots.

So… (from what we’re hearing)
Running Ability – Bolden or Newsome
Pocket Presence – Bolden or McGloin
Footwork – Bolden or McGloin
Mechanics – Bolden or McGloin
Arm Strength – Bolden
Accuracy – Bolden
Touch – Bolden
Experience – Newsome
PlayBook – McGloin

Let’s bring Bolden along now with the same vanilla offense we see at the start of every year and buy him time to learn it all. I want the best athlete at Bama with some grasp on the PlayBook, not the guy who knows the PB inside and out but is half the athlete.