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Pretty sure most monosyllabic posters on other sites have seen Bull Durham

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Personally, I give TUPF an "A" for his brief, but very accurate, synopsis of the movie, not to mention the appropriate use of the analogy in this instance. I believe the accurate synopsis is what AO Sig is referring to here.

As we Tulanians all know, brevity is the soul of wit.

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I thank you for picking this up; my comment meant to imply that some on other sites have troubles remembering what they had for breakfast (although they seem to remember who was the quarterback for their favorite team 22 years ago).

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What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?

Obviously we are better able to breathe out of our eyelids, like the lava lizards....

Just another chapter in the continuing saga ...

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/04/09/falcons-bringing-quarterback-tanner-lee-in-for-a-visit/

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The FUTURE?! BAAAARRRRFFFF!!! Of what?!

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Mediocracy!

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What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?

Well, I will say that if Tanner Lee is your quarterback you won't have to worry about blowing any leads in the Super Bowl....

If Lee becomes someone’s mediocre starter he will have exceeded my expectations by a zillion.

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You want experience running the entire show? You got it. You want someone young and energetic? You got it. You wanted someone with absolutely no ties to Cowen/Dickson? You got it. - TU23

Jacksonville Jaguars... GM and coaching openings shall appear soon

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Using big words is not a personal attack

Jacksonville needed someone to come in and throw picks if Bortles gets hurt and can't do that himself

This tweet is rather spot on ...

https://twitter.com/TomFornelli/status/990333351763562496

If Lee becomes an NFL starter, on merit (no injuries), I swear I will never watch another football game again. It will mean that everything, EVERYTHING, I know about football is wrong. It also means that the NFL teams makes picks based only on measureables and nothing on intangibles and past history.

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He reminds me a ton of Christian Hackenberg from Penn St. or a little further back of Logan Thomas from Virginia Tech. Those guys had measurables, but it was just obvious they had no business at QB in the NFL. At least the Jags didn't spend a 2nd (Hackenberg) or 3rd (Thomas) round pick on Lee.

According to a Nebraska paper, Tanner Lee is the first Nebraska QB drafted as a QB in 30 years (they had one other who switched to WR before the combine) and the only Big 10 QB drafted this year.

Tanner Lee. You read that right. #Crazy

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“We will expect success in all endeavors and be prepared to assess and hold ourselves accountable when we aren't successful. Tulane is a top 40 academic institution and it should expect nothing less from its athletic department.” --Troy Dannen 11.5.16

SB Nation has a good overview of the situation


https://www.cornnation.com/2018/4/25/17 ... -can-do-it

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“We will expect success in all endeavors and be prepared to assess and hold ourselves accountable when we aren't successful. Tulane is a top 40 academic institution and it should expect nothing less from its athletic department.” --Troy Dannen 11.5.16

I immediately had to look this up because I didn't believe it. Sure enough, last Husker QB drafted was Keithen McCant by the Browns in the 12th in 1992. You'd have to go all the way back to Vince Ferragamo in 1977 (Rams, 4th round) to find one picked in the first seven rounds. Crazy indeed.

Couldn't have said it better myself. The author must have read this forum, he's so right.

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I forgot about Ferragamo, who was a transfer from Cal. The only UN QB I could think of in the NFL was Jerry Tagge, but he was early 70's. I think Scott Frost was drafted as a WR, but I couldn't think of anyone else.

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Frost played safety in the NFL. Crouch was drafted as a WR but got hurt before he could play. Played some CFL QB

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#stopbunting
#nomorekicking
#itwasallaruse

That turnover machine comment made me chuckle. And remember. All these comments were based solely on his Nebraska showings. Throw in his Tulane performance and you have to wonder when potential is actually overtaken by game time performance.

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Tulane Class of 1978 | NROTC Tulane - Submariner | From everywhere and nowhere

I had no issue believing it, they ran the option and their QBs were built like LBs and ran like CBs.

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Or ended up in the big house (and I don't mean Michigan's stadium).

I knew they ran the option or some version of it for a long time, but they weren't still running it in their last title appearance in 2001 were they? And even still, I know they haven't run it for the last decade+. That's a long time for a major school to have no QBs drafted.

I was discussing this with a fellow alum yesterday and he created a spreadsheet with every QB draft pick since the 2000 draft. The only current P5 schools with no QBs drafted since 2000 are:

South Carolina
Wake Forest
Minnesota
Maryland
Kansas
Colorado

Long story short, Nebraska was in pretty rare company.

Tangentially related, most QBs drafted goes to USC with 8 followed by LSU with 7 and then surprisingly, Louisville with 6.