I just talked with a guy, whose brother talked with a friend who talked with Frank, and the word is that Irons will start against Miami. Frank made this decision, reportedly, after reading the traffic on this board.

Edit: This same source said that Tony Campbell will suit up just this one week with the football team and play QB. In high school he once threw a 70 yard TD pass. Way to go Saul! Just one big Bobcat Family.

Just an old-timer's view...

First, the "staff" member could be just about anyone from a trainer to the assistant ticket manager, so my preference is to always defer to the coaching staff to evaluate players. Not that they are always right, but as a fan you really have no other choice, do we? Football is not a democracy.

Second, I agree that expressing your displeasure on social media is the quickest way to run more sprints, especially if you have been told to steer clear of it (I would think this would be logical).

Third, I have seen quite a few players in my lifetime that had a tendency to look great on a few plays in practice, but for some reason are not getting all the game reps. Usually it is because the player also misses other assignments, fumbles, jumps offside more often whatever. Without having been to every practice, who knows?

Fourth, when you are 4-1 is not the time to start complaining about playing time, if that is what was meant. I would give the young man the benefit of the doubt and figure he might be just be frustrated in himself as much as the staff.

Fifth, if a fulltime coaching staff member is expressing views like this to non-staff members, then I would encourage them to consider what happens. It is pretty disloyal, just for starters.

You have your opinion. You are welcome to it. The bit about young players not getting to play ahead of others is not solid. Provitt is seeing lots of time. Papi is getting lots of time, returning punts ahead of many who have done it well and he has been at Ohio the same time as Irons. Crouch is finding the field as a freshman. Irons is "Discouraged." I choose not to assume what that means. I expect Mr. Wood is discouraged, Mr. Sprague might be discouraged, Basham must be discouraged. Poling watching the second half vs Minn must have been discouraged. Patterson and Brown were probably discouraged by their fumbles last season. You are not happy. So what else is new.

I think some of you have a weird obsession with this kid. First I heard from a very good source this kid threatened to transfer before the season started if he didn't play alot this season. That right there is selfish and not at all a team player, and what about brown? He's not tweeting (disappointed) after a win neither is AJ and AJ is getting a quarter of the caries he did last year. If you watch the game close AJ is always out there pumping players up offense and defense. It take someone with heart, skill, leadership and being a team player to be a starter. It's just weird to me everyone on here goes crazy for this kid but not one word on brown or how good the team is doing! Our running game isn't doing so good because of play calling not skill.

What kind of arm does Irons have on him? If he can't play RB maybe he can play QB.

/sarc

By the way, it's not as if we've ever asked for a given player to play with this much curiosity/fervor.

This appears to be a once in a 10+ years situation. So, let's find out.

Doubt that this is true, but if it is, I don't think Frank responds very well to threats. It's also interesting that a buddy of his from the same school came here this year and is being redshirted. Don't you think he talked with Irons before making his decision? Look, I want to see Irons get meaningful reps in a game as much as the next guy, but I don't question the coaches for not playing him yet. I know they have their reasons, and they are a lot closer to the action and know a lot more about the game than I do.

Hell with it. You guys who trust the staff and will wait until the staff decides to see what Irons brings--even if that means never--are absolutely right.

Why try anything new? Our offense against stupd cow, Minne, and 'kron has was scintillating. And the prior 30 games before this year showed that this staff is putting brilliant football out there game after game after game.

Add in the fact that all evidence is that trying Irons would have massive, ruin the program repercussions and it makes no sense to try Irons.




That there are so few calling for Irons here may have to do with the fact that this dynamic program has all of--wait for it--perhaps 35 people who post on these threads in a given week. This program is exploding! Fan excitement is at call-the-police levels.

On a relative basis...and an absolute one, the number of posts calling for Irons is more significant than you state, cc-cat.

Is this the same source who is saying Marshall and us are joining the American Athletic Conference?

That's how it's usually done...not how it's done for superior talent.

Give him a chance; if it doesn't work, then fine.

Some guys are so good...big, fast, whatever..that they can get more out of a run than others. To think that everyone will achieve the same makes no sense.


Y'know, you who don't want to give the guy a chance because you trust the head man because he's been the head guy so long and, so, you trust him...how ya liking Barry O? He's had some huge victories ('care, Osama, etc) but many of you have no problem second-guessing him. But our staff is sacrosanct in the face of 10 years of no MACC?

If only there were some kind of tryout that the coaches could hold several days each week so they could figure out who's their guy for each position...

Meet #4 Papi White

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:13798376