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Post by HC92 on Jun 3, 2022 22:13:13 GMT -5
It also suggests that you’re not going to win the game for your team. Sluka can definitely win a game for his team.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Jun 4, 2022 4:05:23 GMT -5
I hope Sluka "manages" to rip off another 70 yard run against a FBS team.
If he's a manager, I would say he's a hands-on manager. And in a good way.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jun 4, 2022 6:33:16 GMT -5
The positive connotation is the QB is steady, savvy, experienced and can be depended upon to not turn the ball over in crucial situations. The opposite of Cam Newton. Yes, I believe the term is generally bestowed in a positive light. I made it sound more negative than I intended in my initial description -- of course I think very highly of the HC QB's I described as "game managers". Dependable is the right word. A guy whose not necessarily going to take the game over with his legs or a big arm but also a guy where you don't have to tear up half the playbook when he takes over as your team's starter. Mark Sanchez his rookie and sophomore years in the NFL is a guy I would've thought would develop into this type of QB. Of course, on less talented Jets teams he turned out to be a turnover machine.
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Post by sader1970 on Jun 4, 2022 7:28:47 GMT -5
Perhaps the term "manager" has negative connotations today and the word much preferred nowadays is "leader." Kind of chaps me off as decades ago I was taught that an excellent manager needed to "plan, organize, lead and control."
A leader doesn't have to be able to manage but to be a successful manager, you have to be a good leader.
I took the article as praise for Sluka who manages games by deciding whether to run or throw depending on what the circumstances dictate.
The leader thing always brings back memories of a hilarious Rich Little impression of John Wayne. It's WWII and Wayne as commander is giving a very inspiring speech about attacking the enemy even though they are vastly outnumbered and an almost certain suicide mission and ends with a trailing comment ". . . . . . now I wish I was going with you . . . . "
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jun 4, 2022 8:34:27 GMT -5
Tom Brady is probably a decent game manager too but guarantee that term hasn't been used to describe him since maybe Week 13 of his rookie year with the Patriots.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jun 4, 2022 8:40:31 GMT -5
I think “game manager” was used more often decades ago when quarterbacks called their own plays.
“Field general” was also used
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Post by sader1970 on Jun 4, 2022 8:43:17 GMT -5
So maybe the guy who wrote this article is, you know, “old?” 😉
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 4, 2022 8:56:26 GMT -5
Tom Brady is probably a decent game manager too but guarantee that term hasn't been used to describe him since maybe Week 13 of his rookie year with the Patriots. Peyton Manning also. "Omaha!" Sluka is in position to improve more between seasons than a player relying mainly on physical skill development.
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Post by hcpride on Jun 4, 2022 9:03:42 GMT -5
My take is that the writer is aware Sluka doesn’t have a cannon and won’t be greased lightning v Buffalo but won’t lose us the game. At the same time all our FCS foes are facing a tough matchup with us at just about every position on both sides of the ball (so Sluka is not necessarily the difference). By inference we could plug and play another competent FCS quarterback without much drop off.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 4, 2022 9:49:18 GMT -5
Agree it could be a wash. There are better passers but the defense could concentrate more on pass coverage without Skuka's run threat.
I'll still take Sluka and looking forward to seeing improvement after his first full year of playing followed by a full off-season of coaching. Exciting that he has up to three more full seasons in purple.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jun 4, 2022 9:51:05 GMT -5
Sluka is a tremendous talent. I do not think the Buffalo writer is properly appreciative of what Sluka can do on the football field
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 4, 2022 10:21:38 GMT -5
Tyler Purdy's 5.0 yards per carry and pass catching ability will be back also.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jun 4, 2022 11:41:43 GMT -5
Tyler Purdy's 5.0 yards per carry and pass catching ability will be back also. I think we are bringing back 99% of our rushing yards from last season and 3 players (Purdy, Sluka, Oliver) who averaged over 5 yards per attempt and 2 (Fuller, Forrest) who were over 4.5. I can’t imagine we have ever before returned (1) that high a percentage of prior season’s yardage and (2) that many high yards-per-carry runners. Plus we have that exciting incoming RB from NJ
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Post by hchoops on Jun 4, 2022 12:21:09 GMT -5
In his soph year of 1983, Gill Fenerty (arguably, with Osmanski,[no stats available] the best offensive players in HC history) rushed for 1101 yds, averaging 6.3. Chuck Doyle rushed for 610, 3.6 ave. Sandy McMurtry, 440, 4.4 ave, and Pete Muldoon, 137, 1.2 ave for total of 2288. All returned in 1984. I do not know if there were other rushers who returned. The team rushed for 2540. Those four would be 90%
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 4, 2022 12:30:01 GMT -5
"Bullet Gill?"
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Post by hchoops on Jun 4, 2022 12:33:37 GMT -5
Gill the Thrill
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 4, 2022 13:00:34 GMT -5
Ah yes. Bullet Bill and Gill the thrill.
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Post by hcpride on Jun 5, 2022 17:26:09 GMT -5
In his soph year of 1983, Gill Fenerty (arguably, with Osmanski,[no stats available] the best offensive players in HC history) rushed for 1101 yds, averaging 6.3. Chuck Doyle rushed for 610, 3.6 ave. Sandy McMurtry, 440, 4.4 ave, and Pete Muldoon, 137, 1.2 ave for total of 2288. All returned in 1984. I do not know if there were other rushers who returned. The team rushed for 2540. Those four would be 90% Chesney lands a couple of legit blue chippers like Muldoon and Fenerty to add to this squad we’ll be off to the races. Or at least back to the top of the FCS.
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Post by hchoops on Jun 5, 2022 17:34:12 GMT -5
I think the chances of a transfer from a school like LSU are very low.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jun 5, 2022 20:43:34 GMT -5
Less incentive to transfer from FBS => FCS these days since you no longer have to sit out a year when transferring to another FBS school.
And in the last 25 years overall, Holy Cross hasn't had all that many impact transfers. Can't remember even one during the Gilmore era until the return specialist Robertson at the very end who came to us from the Naval Academy. And then Chesney brought in Considine from Wake Forest.
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