I don’t see any evidence that they would have played Carney. They easily could have. They could have decided he was the guy to ride out the mistakes with in the name of development. They did the exact opposite of that. It’s abundantly clear they didn’t see any value in developing him.
I can see the redshirt thing being of some importance to the player, but with the no restrictions environment re player transfer it shouldn’t be of any importance at all to the football program.
It's just hard to believe that he would be worse than what have seen out of Filardi. I guess we'll never know the answer...
He didn’t look in practice. He was never good that’s why they brought Angeli in
I think if a legitimate opportunity was there he may have reconsidered the redshirt. But yeah, overall it’s a bit baffling.
Other than Fran's word, if he gave his word to the player and his family that he would redshirt this year.
Trust the coaches?
redshirting is a thing in lacrosse (but you can't have played at all). I assume you meant "Filardi" not "Angeli" as to how good a lacrosse player he is. Joe Filardi is a very good lacrosse player. As OrangeXtreme mentioned he is an LSM -- Long-stick midfielder. That is, a midfielder who is one of the four defenders that plays with a long pole. It is a critical position on a successful lacrosse team. I believe he was rated as a 4 or 5 star lacrossse player coming out of high school. He committed to SU first as a lacrosse player and then had discussions with Fran and the football coaching staff and with Gary Gait's blessing decided to be a walkon on the football team. I believe he wasn't recruited more highly by P4 schools for football was because everyone believed he was going to play lacrosse, not football. Joe has played his heart out on behalf of this football team. He should not be disparaged for being the QB the coaches chose to play.
They got Ricky before Luke was on campus and they also paid him, there wasn’t going to be a real competition between him and Collins. Then Collins was bad so it went to Angeli thank goodness. I think the malpractice in his handling is the 1-2 series in the games he played without ever giving him a real shot. They wouldn’t even let him throw down field despite the fact that they threw out Collins over and over and then Filardi. It was a garbage showing on all fronts when it comes to coaching. I don’t believe for a second he could be any worse than Filardi.
Who cares, That kid isn’t good enough to win us any games.
A few weeks ago you said belin was a tearing it up and he hasn’t seen the field. Your qb assement track record is poor. If he’s was so great why hasn’t he sent he field.
Maybe, but I doubt Fran would have committed to have him play in any games. If Steve had stayed healthy he would probably have played QB in 100% of the plays after the Colgate game. And if we were still getting blown out Rickie would have been put in.
