On the last drive in last weeks game Greg made some very impressive throws and looked like he was moving the offense with confidence until a bad snap turned into a disaster of a play ending with a lost fumble in the redzone. With that being said I think that this kid deserves his fair shot at running the team with Vick still out with his knee injury, he has shown growth and maturity bouncing back from his incident last year with Fisher (wish he was still with us). with Sprague second to last in the conference in terms of QBR and throwing just one touchdown in 5 games what do we have to lose?

+1

While that's true, Windham did look like he's a better passer than Sprague, though a worse runner and ballhandler. In the end, I trust the coaches to evaluate which QB gives Ohio the best chance of winning.

the problem isn't that our 3rd string QB lacks playing experience, the problem is that our 1st and 2nd string QBs lack playing experience too. JD needs every snap he can get regardless of what's on the scoreboard.

Some thoughts:

1) Obviously, Windham is the better thrower but Sprague is a better runner and game manager (at least for now). I don't know how long Windham was gone from the team so it makes sense he is a little rusty with the offense.

2) Windham seems very uncomfortable with the read option, and perhaps the option in all its forms. He seems to struggle making a quick decision.

2a) So imagine my surprise when we have the ball at the BG one yard line and we have an opportunity to give our young guys some confidence with a score and Mr. Albin decides to run the read option from the 1 yard line.

2b) Who the hell runs the read option from the 1 yard line?

2c) In the limited time I've seen Windham play I know he can't get that play right...and yet there it is. From the 1 yard line of all places.

2d) Windham is a pro-style QB. If he's going to play we need to adapt the play calling to his strengths. I realize this is a novel idea and would require some extra effort and intelligence on the part of the staff. But I think we can pull it off.

3) New topic. Why did Vick get such a short leash and yet Sprague can take a massive dump all over the CMU game but we never see Windham? And last week we can't get any points on the board but again, no change. The drop from Sprague to Windham is not very much (if anything). Pulling Vick out of games still is really confusing to me...particularly given how unimpressive Sprague is.

Anyway, I'd like to see more Windham than we have. At least we'll know what he's capable of.

Except when Holtz is predicting correctly that we'd beat Penn State. Or, when May was giving us all that luv before and after we beat Michigan and when we made the Sweet 16. Then they seemed astute and great fountains of sports knowledge.

Guess you have higher standards than I do. ;-)