OT: Former Michigan QB commit Messiah DeWeaver transferring

Submitted by Magnus on

Former Michigan QB commit Messiah DeWeaver is transferring out of Michigan State. With Brian Lewerke looking like a pretty good starter for 2018 and perhaps beyond, the writing seems to be on the wall.

In case you don't remember, DeWeaver (class of 2016) committed to Brady Hoke but when Jim Harbaugh was hired, the two parties seemed to come to a mutual understanding that Michigan might not be the best fit.

ThadMattasagoblin

December 30th, 2017 at 8:57 PM ^

Borges was the worst qb evaluator ever. Didn't take Deshone Kizer, didn't take a qb in 2013, took Malzone. The only two qbs that were functional were Speight and Morris and neither were worldbeaters.

LSAClassOf2000

December 30th, 2017 at 10:24 PM ^

I will say that skipping a year between recruiting QBs never made sense to me, but then I don't do the job so I have been wondering what experience / inexperience leads to someone believing that this is a good thing to do. If I had to guess, I would lean on my opinion that Hoke's staff just did not have a good feel for QBs, but it seems like there is more to it. Still seems like a dumb thing to do, but I've always been curious to know what someone who deals with recruiting thinks about that. 

Mr Miggle

December 30th, 2017 at 11:00 PM ^

Didn't do a good job of having anyone on the staff skilled at evaluating them. Didn't place nearly enough value on having sufficient depth at the position.

I don't think he looks at QBs as integral to how he thinks football is supposed to be played. They're more of a necessary evil.

rob f

December 31st, 2017 at 7:21 AM ^

that Morris neither passed nor threw for a TD in his Michigan career, why be so harsh as to use the term "absolutely terrible"?

He had one start vs. Minnesota and we all know what the end result was. But prior to his concussion in that game, Shane's lack of success vs Minnesota is much more on the shoulders of Hoke and Borges than on Shane. Hindsight is 20-20, but that offense and game plan were so very bad that even a seasoned QB would have struggled, let alone a rusty, inexperienced Morris in his first start since his junior year in high school.

Magnus

December 31st, 2017 at 10:00 AM ^

How would you phrase it if an opposing team's QB completed 51.1% of his passes for 0 touchdowns and 4 interceptions throughout his career?

Also, Morris started the BWW Bowl against Kansas State after Devin Gardner got hurt, and he played in 17 total games. It's not just the Minnesota game.

Morris's numbers are worse than literally every other QB to start a game since the mid-1990s, which is as far back as I went when looking at the subject.

So if you don't want to call that "absolutely terrible," then that's okay with me. But the numbers don't lie.

Mr Miggle

January 1st, 2018 at 8:08 AM ^

Look at the rest of the offensive coaches Hoke brought in. It was a very weak group. 

Borges was in complete charge of designing that offense, making the play calls, everything except the stupid manball edict from Hoke. And he had to make it all work with only one decent position coach developing his players. Compare them to the collaborative group we have now.

I think Borges is probably a pretty good OC, given a normal amount of help. His weaknesses were as a recruiter and a QB coach.