Brad Kayaa

[CaneFan79]

Please don't take this personally but fu*k you

In response, I was expecting a detailed disertation on why Brad Kaaya has almost unlimited potential to be a top D1 QB, based on a thoughtful analysis of his positive athletic attributes.

Nope, I get a feeble-minded, keyboard tough guy.

You coming back to comment when (hopefully) the new UM coach has this guy riding the pine until he transfers to Alcorn St?

You dumbass, that game was late in the season and Kelly was playing for Howard Schenllenberger, not Al Golden. If you think you've gleaned anything from Kaaya's performance last night, you're a moron.

Yep, I'm a moron for having serious doubts about a QB RECRUITED by JAMES COLEY, who will be COACHED by JAMES COLEY...

Golden said he didn't want to see "That Look" in Louisville; too bad he, Coley and Kaaya were Exhibit A.

I'm sure Brad Kaaya is a nice young man and most importantly (for the real world), a good student. He is, however, not the answer at QB.

No, you're a moron because you've declared a true freshman a bust after one game when he was put into ridiculously bad situations by the staff during his first start, which happened to be on the road. But I'm sure there's other reasons you are a moron, too.

Are YOU that much of a moron to believe I based it on just one game? Yep, never looked at his HS career, who recruited him and why, the offensive scheme here at UM with the current coaching staff (funny, you are here defending the QB handpicked by our inept coaching staff, yet on other threads are demanding their ouster...Strange). Okay, lets see who is right and who is wrong in a year or two.

 

[weownfsu]

In response, I was expecting a detailed disertation on why Brad Kaaya has almost unlimited potential to be a top D1 QB, based on a thoughtful analysis of his positive athletic attributes.

Nope, I get a feeble-minded, keyboard tough guy.

You coming back to comment when (hopefully) the new UM coach has this guy riding the pine until he transfers to Alcorn St?

You dumbass, that game was late in the season and Kelly was playing for Howard Schenllenberger, not Al Golden. If you think you've gleaned anything from Kaaya's performance last night, you're a moron.

Yep, I'm a moron for having serious doubts about a QB RECRUITED by JAMES COLEY, who will be COACHED by JAMES COLEY...

Golden said he didn't want to see "That Look" in Louisville; too bad he, Coley and Kaaya were Exhibit A.

I'm sure Brad Kaaya is a nice young man and most importantly (for the real world), a good student. He is, however, not the answer at QB.

No, you're a moron because you've declared a true freshman a bust after one game when he was put into ridiculously bad situations by the staff during his first start, which happened to be on the road. But I'm sure there's other reasons you are a moron, too.

Are YOU that much of a moron to believe I based it on just one game? Yep, never looked at his HS career, who recruited him and why, the offensive scheme here at UM with the current coaching staff (funny, you are here defending the QB handpicked by our inept coaching staff, yet on other threads are demanding their ouster...Strange). Okay, lets see who is right and who is wrong in a year or two.

Considering Kaaya has played one game at UM, you did base it on one game. And the QB being "handpicked" by the coaching staff doesn't mean **** either. Great programs like Stanford wanted him, and UCLA and USC wanted him too. So other people who have good reputations wanted the kid too. he's played one game. Like I said, if you gleaned anything from his performance, you're a moron.

And you also based Kaaya being a bust on his HS career? The career that ended with him winning California;s Player of the Year award and winning his school's first state championship? Awesome analysis, bro.

 

[CaneFan79]

Please don't take this personally but fu*k you

In response, I was expecting a detailed disertation on why Brad Kaaya has almost unlimited potential to be a top D1 QB, based on a thoughtful analysis of his positive athletic attributes.

Nope, I get a feeble-minded, keyboard tough guy.

You coming back to comment when (hopefully) the new UM coach has this guy riding the pine until he transfers to Alcorn St?

You dumbass, that game was late in the season and Kelly was playing for Howard Schenllenberger, not Al Golden. If you think you've gleaned anything from Kaaya's performance last night, you're a moron.

Yep, I'm a moron for having serious doubts about a QB RECRUITED by JAMES COLEY, who will be COACHED by JAMES COLEY...

Golden said he didn't want to see "That Look" in Louisville; too bad he, Coley and Kaaya were Exhibit A.

I'm sure Brad Kaaya is a nice young man and most importantly (for the real world), a good student. He is, however, not the answer at QB.

how did dorsey look at VT his freshman year? or even at Washignton his sophomore year?

Take a close look, Brad Kaaya is not Ken Dorsey, 'nor is he Kenny Kelly, 'nor Scott Covington, 'nor is he Mark Richt or Vinny Testeverde. I used Jim Kelly (keep sending prayers his way) to illustrate that a first time starting True Freshman CAN win a game. Does it happen often? No, but don't give him a pass for his poor play just because of it. Has Coley proved to be a lousy play caller? Yes. Did the O-Line suck? Yes. However, Brad Kaaya is not faultless and the quicker we fans get over this "QB as the Messiah" complex, the better we will appreciate the team, AS A WHOLE, when they finally (Lord and new HC willing) achieve great success.

 

[Joecane]

SEVENTY-NINE:

 

[weownfsu]

In response, I was expecting a detailed disertation on why Brad Kaaya has almost unlimited potential to be a top D1 QB, based on a thoughtful analysis of his positive athletic attributes.

Nope, I get a feeble-minded, keyboard tough guy.

You coming back to comment when (hopefully) the new UM coach has this guy riding the pine until he transfers to Alcorn St?

You dumbass, that game was late in the season and Kelly was playing for Howard Schenllenberger, not Al Golden. If you think you've gleaned anything from Kaaya's performance last night, you're a moron.

Yep, I'm a moron for having serious doubts about a QB RECRUITED by JAMES COLEY, who will be COACHED by JAMES COLEY...

Golden said he didn't want to see "That Look" in Louisville; too bad he, Coley and Kaaya were Exhibit A.

I'm sure Brad Kaaya is a nice young man and most importantly (for the real world), a good student. He is, however, not the answer at QB.

how did dorsey look at VT his freshman year? or even at Washignton his sophomore year?

Take a close look, Brad Kaaya is not Ken Dorsey, 'nor is he Kenny Kelly, 'nor Scott Covington, 'nor is he Mark Richt or Vinny Testeverde. I used Jim Kelly (keep sending prayers his way) to illustrate that a first time starting True Freshman CAN win a game. Does it happen often? No, but don't give him a pass for his poor play just because of it. Has Coley proved to be a lousy play caller? Yes. Did the O-Line suck? Yes. However, Brad Kaaya is not faultless and the quicker we fans get over this "QB as the Messiah" complex, the better we will appreciate the team, AS A WHOLE, when they finally (Lord and new HC willing) achieve great success.

You're right. He's Brad Kaaya and we have no clue how his career is going to turn out based on his first game as a true freshman.

 

[Awsi Dooger]

Kaaya had nice touch. Of course, snowflakes have nice touch also. Nobody chastises a snowflake for getting there too fast.

I wouldn't feel so bad about the status of the program if Kaaya demonstrated 10-15% more natural arm strength. We have fewer stiffs out there. Still a handful but not 1/3 of the starters. But we also have touted recruits who don't look so fantastic 2-3 years into the program. To salvage that type of blend the quarterback has to be special. You aren't going to be special if your arm isn't at least at the Dorsey/Leinart level. Still too early to tell with Kaaya but I was discouraged. I was trying to fight the notion that he looked like Kyle Wright with more of a Jacory Harris arm.

That final possession was important to me. Kaaya had been stung early. Naturally he's rattled with dancing feet and suffering mechanics, like throwing off his back foot. He's tense and tense limbs don't lend to power and distance, just like golf. But in that final possession Louisville doesn't really care. They care a little, but not fully. Perfect opportunity for Kaaya to relax and throw some darts, if he has them.

It was modestly improved. I won't go beyond that. Still discouraged. If this program can't rely on cheap yards and points I don't know what we fall back on. Cheap points won the Florida game last year. Same at Pittsburgh, which was doing plenty to win the play to play struggle. Cheap offense kept us in the game for three quarters at Duke. Heck, even when Virginia Tech was mauling us we'd still hit the occasional deep ball as a tease. Only late at North Carolina did we work for a victory via little chunks and somehow it worked.

Last year I called the offense a V, with that V starting at the nose of our center and aiming into the defense. At least with Stephen Morris it was a V and not a triangle. Now it's a triangle with a quarterback who can't reach beyond the outer arms of that V.

Will the receivers keep going? Last season and in recent seasons they've been energized to keep running. No matter how inept we look there's always the threat of that blitz deep ball. Last night the receivers seemed discouraged, sensing we're boxed in with a quarterback who allows the defense to rotate forward and congest. Obviously our game plan contributed to that. I'm not sure any of our quarterbacks scare anybody deep. That means we need to be considerably better than standard within the short schemes, not comically worse.

The good news is that lots of college defenses are absolutely awful. Kaaya has that going for him. Next week everything will ramble. Posters who love screen passes will be treated, and scream that we should have done it yesterday. Disregard that those plays would have been slaughtered. Swing passes will dominate. They aren't bad plays. Kaaya's current level needs a steady diet of swing passes. BTW, if you are going to throw flanker screens against a top defense at least make it a tunnel screen with a running start. The opponent will blow the defense once per game. Flatfooted flanker screens require a bottom 30 defense, kind of like ours in recent seasons. That might be the problem. Those plays work in practice.

 

[gongorad]

I expected more from Brad. Maybe because of the hype machine from Pete and the staff that he was the next great one. I think deep down we all knew better and it would take much more time... It's great that the board is back to normalcy and the "we bak" talk is gone now that the season is started. Now the regularly scheduled program of the apologists versus the doom and gloomers... Time to watch some Canefreak 2001 vids...

 

[jwayne]

It was supposed to be Williams and Olsen at 1&2 with Kaaya and Rosier redshirting this season.
Now it's Kaaya, Heaps, Olsen and Williams.
What happens if Kaaya has happy feet and short arms throws or struggles? Who plays once Williams is cleared?