Brock Purdy

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Herm is going to crater that ASU program worse than you can possibly imagine. He probably didn't even know this kid was out there.
I agree with you. I just looked up ESPN’s recruitment rankings and Iowa State has 3 of the top 15 players from Arizona, which is the most of any school. University of AZ has 2 and Arizona State only has 1. Seems like we have a bit of a desert pipeline.
 
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OldCurmudgeon

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Playing multiple guys because of injuries is one thing or if you have a Lanning type that gets a few plays, playing multiple guys just to play multiple doesn't happen.

Oh? Have you heard of Steve Spurrier? He used to do it regularly.

"Of the seven conference titles he won as a head coach, four of those seasons included some sort of quarterback rotation. For example, his 2000 Florida team won the SEC and prominently featured both Rex Grossman and Jesse Palmer under center. Grossman finished the season with 212 passing attempts for 1,866 yards, while Palmer attempted 223 passes for 1,653 yards.

There were times during Spurrier’s Florida tenure that he rotated quarterbacks on nearly every play. Notably, he did so in a win over No. 1 Florida State during the 1997 season when Doug Johnson and Noah Brindise flipped constantly under center.

"If you've got two who can help you win, and there's not much difference between them, why not play both of them?" Spurrier told ESPN in 2015. "It's no different than any other position. At least, it never has been for me. There's nothing in the rulebook that says you have to play just one."

Unless Spurrier had a Heisman Trophy winner under center like he did in 1996 with Danny Wuerffel, who even split reps early in his Gators career, he usually felt the benefit of playing multiple quarterbacks outweighed the risk.

"We'd all like to have one quarterback who's clearly the best one and the team can get behind him," Spurrier told ESPN. "It doesn't always work out that way, and when it doesn't, sometimes you find out a lot more about those guys by the way they compete." -- https://247sports.com/Article/An-ex...-system-will-it-work-for-the-Notre-D-46888408
 

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People, I feel it is safe to say that the Purdy family arrived at their decision (partially at least) based on the respect and class the coaching staff afforded the family. It behooves us to at least show a decent amount of decorum.

A lot of long words in there... We're not but humble cyclone fans...

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DurangoCy

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Welcome aboard Brock! Will be excited to see what shakes out with the QB position in the future. The nice thing about this staff is they're going to get the best guys on the field.
 

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I have. Your turn.
Thanks for deleting it and most importantly, thanks for calling me out when I screwed up. It is definitely a learning opportunity for me to THINK before pressing the Reply Button. With everything going on around the media and Hollywood. I'm embarrassed to even put a comment joke like that. I can do better than that. That was really dumb of me. Again I apologize to everyone for my stupidity earlier.