In my opinion Joey will not have the opportunity to start. JT will come back and have another great year. Therefore he loses another year and then the great recruit will come in and Joey's chances become less. The only chance is if JT is injured. Too many QB's under Urban lose their opportunities to play. This happened at BG, Utah and Florida.
I understand that Joey had a chance at Vanderbilt (they wanted him badly), to bad he did not make that choice.
I hope he gets to play, a fellow poster sent a link which showed that Meyer has extreme confidence in Burrow. I hope he gets two years to play. If not he was a good soldier and I hope he gets a shot to play at the next level. I have no ill-feelings toward him. I wanted him to come to Ohio and make a name for his self. We could have ran the table this year, but he chose a differnet path. It takes a special kid to want to come to Ohio and put the program on his back. Big Ben did it at Miami, hopefully we get our Big Ben.
Pretty sure OSU recruited Big Ben as a safety only, while Miami told him he'd be their guy at qb, so not an exact analogy with JB.
wrong they recruited him as a tight end and then offered him a chance to play QB, Miami already had him sewed up, when OSU came to their senses.
From Ben's website
Ben’s talents weren’t a secret to the Miami (Ohio) University staff, which invited him to its summer camp before his senior season. Ben performed well but left with no scholarship offer.
“We waited until he played a game,” Miami head coach Terry Hoeppner said. “I didn’t want to be the genius to offer this guy who never played quarterback a scholarship.”
In that first game, Ben threw six touchdowns. “I said, ‘That’s good enough for me,’” Hoeppner said.
Ohio State University also went after Ben, who set state high school records for yards (4,041) and touchdowns (54) playing in a high-powered offense similar to Miami’s.
In the end, Miami won. Ben saw a shot at being a four-year starter after then-No. 1 QB Mike Bath’s eligibility expired. “It came down to what would be comfortable for me and what felt right,” Ben said. “I prayed a lot about it, talked to my family about it, and it seemed like the right fit.”
Ben took a redshirt season in 2000, but won the starting job in 2001. After struggling in his first two games – trips to Michigan and Iowa – he fared better in his first home game, completing 20-of-25 passes for 264 yards and two touchdowns as the RedHawks beat rival Cincinnati.
“It might have helped to be thrown into the fire that early vs. Michigan and Iowa,” Miami offensive coordinator and QB coach Shane Montgomery said, “because really, the light turned on.”
http://bigben7.com/biography /
Big Ben was no Medi, he believed in himself and his coaches.
http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Roeth/Roeth_bio.html
Last Edited: 10/18/2016 12:56:42 PM by allen