He is awesome. I am glad to see so many of us appreciate what we have. I only wish he was paired with some of our more talented (especially defensively) teams of yesteryear. I hope his brother ends up exactly like him.
Who knows, his brother might be better. I thought I read somewhere that his arm is a bit stronger than his brother's and he's taller. He might be more of a classic pocket passer than Nathan is.
Great thread and totally agree about Nathan and TT; Ohio is lucky to have had both as QBs. To each their own, I think TT was a better "pure passer" during the 2.5 dominant years BShot mentions than Nathan is, although Nathan has been a gamer for a longer period of time. TT was better in the bowl games than Nathan has been to date (please, that last game winning drive in 2011 against Utah State in the Potato Bowl was something special). Nathan was rather pedestrian in the Frisco Bowl; AJ and the O-line carried the day that day.
But, who cares; its all semantics anyway. I agree, if Nathan's able to carry this team to a MACC, he is probably the greatest QB in Ohio history.
Brother is much more of a throwing QB than Nathan, really two different styles.
Not sure how true it is that Nathan is more of the running quarterback coming into the program.
At Fort Scott for his freshman year, Nathan averaged 2.5 yards rushing PER GAME. He had a total of 27 yards rushing from his entire season. He did not come to us as a running quarterback. That seemed more of Maxwell's calling card, whereas Nathan was a passing QB (averaged 215 YPG at Fort Scott through the air). In his senior year of HS, Nathan had 3768 yards passing, 385 yards rushing (290 yards per game passing, 30 yards per game rushing).
Looking at Kurtis's biography from Ohio Bobcat page, he had 4,250 yards passing and 705 yards rushing. I'd say that their games coming into the program, at least statistic-wise, are very similar, though Kurtis has a little more evidence of a desire to run than Nathan. As to whether he'll have such elusiveness and instincts, I don't think that's something you'll know until he gets into gameplay. That's not something that can be really seen through practice.
The regular posters of this board would be a better OL than Nathan played behind at Fort Scott. He was running for his life at times when the snap reached his hands, which is one reason he struggles in the pocket v being on the edge. But don’t take my word for it, LC shares the same thought through his connections.
This, too, doesn't really make sense. If his O-Line was so bad at Fort Scott, how was he still able to pass for 215 yards a game? With a bad O-line, why wasn't he scrambling more, thus having more rushing yards?
I'm not saying that Kurtis will also be a runner, I'm saying that nothing in our information about Nathan before he arrived at OHIO showed that he would likely put up such rushing stats. He wasn't a runner in HS, he wasn't a runner at Fort Scott. Then, he got to OHIO, and he seemed to change his style in a way that has made him remarkable. Will Kurtis do the same? He rushed more in HS than his brother, so there's some reason to believe that may be the case. We really won't know until/if he gets game action.
LOL!!!! He threw from so many yards because his legs broke down defenses and created opportunities down field by keeping plays alive. Really not that hard to understand. LC get's it.
Again, not saying that he couldn't run, but something changed when he got to OHIO. He didn't run anywhere previously, at least not that much. Now at OHIO, he has put up amazing rushing statistics. If his legs 'broke down defenses', he would have the ability to run down the field as well. He didn't take that opportunity while at Fort Scott, rarely rushing and only two rushes over 20 yards his entire time there. He has had rushes for more than 20 yards in more than half of his games as a Bobcat. He's a vastly different player than we thought we were getting, as evidenced by his recruiting thread:
http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPa... (L.C., there must've been some miscommunication on his sack statistics from that year.)
Now, if you watch Kurtis's video posted by OHIO from his recruitment, he too enjoys scrambling it appears.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1075377646266068992 In many cases (especially the last clip shown), he seems to scramble before the pressure is really on him. Yet there are not any clips of him actually running downfield, only scrambling and getting out of the pocket. I'd say, in that sense, the recruiting videos from the brothers actually seem quite similar.