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http://www2.kusports.com/news/2009/nov/02/meier-could-be-answer/
Meier could be answer
By Tom Keegan
A great college quarterback who after three years of spectacular performances suddenly becomes a substandard one, can’t make the throws he used to make while yawning, loses his uncanny knack for avoiding sacks, loses his ability to concentrate well enough to take care of the football, and this all happens in the span of two weeks.
How can this happen? The only answer is that the nagging groin injury Todd Reesing hesitantly mentioned when asked about his health is more a factor in his performance than anyone is willing to say.
Coaches and players don’t like to blame things on injuries because it makes them sound like excuse-makers, but the reality is, if Reesing’s body doesn’t enable him to perform any better than he has the past two weeks, it’s time to consider handing the reins of this pivotal game against Kansas State to someone else.
Reesing has been cleared to play by doctors, but the issue here isn’t whether it’s risky for him to play. It’s not, or doctors wouldn’t have cleared him. The issue is whether it’s risky for the team to have him play if the limitations of his groin injury keep him from doing the thing he does best, which is to extend plays with sudden dashes and darts this way and that, just the sort of moves a groin injury inhibits, as opposed to the predictable movement required on set plays such as a quarterback draw.
It’s on Reesing to be completely honest with the coaching staff about exactly how it feels, how it impairs his ability, how it’s the same or different from the previous week. And it’s on the coaching staff to evaluate Reesing’s performance during practice to determine whether starting him gives the team the best chance to win.
If he doesn’t show enough in practice to prove he’s back, then the right choice for QB, obviously, is senior receiver Kerry Meier.
He’s rightly revered for the mature, classy way he reacted when he lost to Reesing the job he figured would be his for four years. Teammates would rally around him the way they rally around a healthy Reesing. It would emotionally jack the team, similar to how the team would be charged up for Reesing’s return down the road.
Sure, that would be subtracting a great receiver from the offense, but on many running plays it would be adding another blocker. When Reesing hands off, there is one less man blocking than when Meier runs it himself.
Sound preposterous?
Don’t think turn-over-every-rock Kansas State coach Bill Snyder won’t have minions dig up old film of Meier at quarterback for Kansas during the 2006 season, just in case. With a different offensive coordinator on hand for ku, even that would have limited benefits.
Obviously, ku’s best chance of winning the Sunflower Showdown is with a healthy Reesing at quarterback and Meier at receiver. Just as clearly, Meier could give the Jayhawks a good shot at winning.
Since moving primarily to receiver, Meier has completed 30 of 35 passes for 419 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions. Some of those came on trick plays, the others when the game was out of reach. Even so, it’s ample evidence to know he’s more than just a runner when used at quarterback.
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I for one wouldn't mind seeing Meier as qb instead of a wideout. The guy has some hands and seems to grab all the balls coming his way. :peek:
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it doesn't matter who ku puts behind center. at this point, the officials, all former texas high school officials and because of that, all texas subsidiary fans, are doing everything they can to fill the Big 12 coffers with dollars by awarding/making sure that only texas teams win games in which ku is playing, even if ku isn't playing a texas team.
you figure it out. black helicopters.
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Anyone who saw him spin out of a sure sack and fire a pill to the back of the endzone for a TD knows he is fine. The groin is an excuse and the Meier discussion is to frack with our game planning.
Reesing has huge games against the Cats.
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Anyone who saw him spin out of a sure sack and fire a pill to the back of the endzone for a TD knows he is fine. The groin is an excuse and the Meier discussion is to frack with our game planning.
Reesing has huge games against the Tibesar and Ron Prince.
fyp
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Anyone who saw him spin out of a sure sack and fire a pill to the back of the endzone for a TD knows he is fine. The groin is an excuse and the Meier discussion is to frack with our game planning.
Reesing has huge games against the Tibesar and Ron Prince.
fyp
You are going to be very bummed out on saturday. I'm not saying we lose, just that Reesing will be just fine. The ku offense is built to beat our defense. We tackle very poorly, leave lots of open space and struggle getting to the QB.
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Anyone who saw him spin out of a sure sack and fire a pill to the back of the endzone for a TD knows he is fine. The groin is an excuse and the Meier discussion is to frack with our game planning.
Reesing has huge games against the Tibesar and Ron Prince.
fyp
You are going to be very bummed out on saturday. I'm not saying we lose, just that Reesing will be just fine. The ku offense is built to beat our defense. We tackle very poorly, leave lots of open space and struggle getting to the QB.
ummm...so does uofk. This will be a battle of who's D can get at least one stop.
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Keroids is a little under the weather at this point. Only threw the ball to him 2x's v. Tech, and he dropped the pig on one reception after contact.
Side topic, I wonder if Dylan and Shad even talk to him at the dinner table, or if they are all GTFOOMFYFP...we know that they both skipped his game to come to the reunion :thumbsup:
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Sparkles is having a flare up, a little Cilais and he will be back "in control" over his "groin". My dad told me once that he had a "problem" with his "groin" and a pennicillin shot cleared that right up.