Good to see another person with a sane post, that new transfer in qb touchdown stats dont move me, here's his stats that i saw he's 11 & 8 as a starter, and against similar competition, his stats were mediocre. So i dont get all the hype, but what ****es me off is seeing coach diaz at it again, that **** seems to smart to keep sounding ridiculous:
Miami head coach Manny Diaz praised Martell in February:
"Tate is a person that if he was standing in this room, within 15 minutes there would be 15 people standing around him. He's just got that personality people gravitate to. He's a natural leader of men. He's a guy that, when he was in seventh grade, drew up his own playbook. He just loves ball. He loves playing the position of quarterback.
“Tate Martell, in addition to what he can do on the field with his athleticism and his ability to to make plays with his arm and his feet, we looked at Tate as a gym rat, he’s an excellent X’s and O’s guy, he’s a guy that loves the game and he’s always in his playbook.
We thought he would help change the culture in our quarterback room.
On January 1st we weren’t sure we had a quarterback on our campus we thought we had talented guys like N’Kosi Perry and Jarren Williams were very talented but we just felt like that room lacked the maturity level to really lead a program like the University of Miami.”
Same soup, just reheated:
Diaz is not only excited about the skill set that King brings to the position. The head coach is also impressed by the leadership traits King has shown since arriving at UM in January.
“He is probably the type of quarterback Miami has never had,” Diaz said. “Miami has had some good quarterbacks, but not with the dual threat ability that he possesses. It is exciting because his skill set is exciting, he has been in big games, and he has put up the numbers and it is exciting because of who he is when you get to know D’Eriq and how he ticks and thinks about the game. You hear all these cliches about being a student of the game and being a gym rat, but he is.”
Being a student of the game, being a gym rat. We obviously needed a reboot in our QB room. Not just in terms of on the field production, but the culture in that room. To have a guy like D’Eriq who cannot only put up 50 touchdowns but is off the charts in all those cultural things.
I told D’Eriq I want him to make the team better after he leaves. By his on the field performance and by showing our QBs how to be a big-time college football QB.”
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Coach diaz phucked up last year by handing & naming a crybaby as the starter instead of going with the proven winner and team leader in perry. Now it sounds like coach diaz has already named the starter at qb in the new transfer guy, but once again, like last year, im going with my boy perry, who's never flinched since he's been here, has always been committed to his teammates and is 6 & 3 as a starter. He's not just gone hand over that starting qb job to nobody and if coach diaz wants to lose even more team credibility than he did last year by starting crybaby jarren and than giving transfer tate booku playing time, it wont be long for him here. He better have a True qb competition, one things for certain, the players will once again know who should be starting.
Also, this will be the toughest defense the new transfer qb has gone up against in his career, i dont expect him to be doing to much of nothing. Coach diaz tried to be slick last year during the qb competition by trying to hide who kept turning the ball over, lol, we already knew, let's see what happens this year, cause at 5'10, and coming to play in the ACC, he's no russell wilson. Our d-line and secondary bout to force coach diaz to have to go with the best arm and qb with the most potential and if rhett lashlee goes with his criteria for naming a starter than that'll be this guy:
