He had a very good season in 2016. Scoring TD's while he was leading the team wasn't a problem. Defense and special teams were.
If you want to point the finger of blame at any part of the offense, that finger of blame gets squarely pointed at Malik Zaire.
Malik Zaire shit the bed in two games where he was given significant playing time (Texas, USC), where his ineptitude cost us those games. We were scoring at will with Kizer at the helm against a porous Texas defense, but when Zaire was playing QB, every drive stalled.
Then at the last moment against USC, he had a chance to heave it into the end zone to at least try a Hail Mary. Instead, he simply gave up, or didn't have the courage, and threw an 8 yard pass to St. Brown, which had zero chance of any kind of scoring. You have to at least *want* to give your team a chance, even if it's not very good.
The fact that he couldn't beat out a true freshman, Felipe Franks, at Florida, even though Franks was vastly inferior to Kizer, shows that he simply wasn't QB material.
Kizer kept us in those games
Replies to: "Kizer kept us in those games"
- New Years Bowl games - arizonairish - 5:12pm 12/27/20
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- Johnny manziel...will fuller [NT] - beefy78 - 7:23pm 12/28/20
- Eliminate any pretext of football players as student athletes ... - CC72 - 6:58pm 12/27/20
- Finally someone stating the truth about the NCAA and what ND will never do. - jamie - 9:02am 12/28/20
- It is what it is. Complaining about it goes nowhere. Either play with the mostly corrupt big boys - Frank L - 10:43am 12/28/20
- Finally someone stating the truth about the NCAA and what ND will never do. - jamie - 9:02am 12/28/20
- Re: New Years Bowl games - ryanfi14 - 6:07pm 12/27/20
- Except that Alabama doesn't have a 5 star QB throwing to 5 star WRs. - NDavenue - 9:17am 12/28/20
- Kizer is the one who has underperformed unless you don't count 3-8. [NT]
- THEISMANCARR - 9:47pm 12/28/20
- Kizer kept us in those games - ndunabomber - 10:10am 12/29/20
- They regularly get 5 stars and players they evaluate as roster worthy, Book would be a walk on at - holybull101 - 10:23am 12/28/20
- Book and Mac Jones were fairly comparable as recruits, at least according to rating services. - Napoleon - 12:04pm 12/29/20
- Book was never going to walk on any place. He is a damn fine - ColeyO - 11:44am 12/28/20
- That wasn't my point. Fact is that Bama isn't playing 5 star WRs and QBs this year. - NDavenue - 10:44am 12/28/20
- Fast receivers is the reason. Ours are solid but have to perform well within their ability. Alabama' - THEISMANCARR - 9:49pm 12/28/20
- To be fair... - ndunabomber - 11:10am 12/28/20
- Except that Waddle essentially hasn't played this season. - NDavenue - 12:23pm 12/28/20
- Kizer is the one who has underperformed unless you don't count 3-8. [NT]
- THEISMANCARR - 9:47pm 12/28/20
- Recruiting. Recruiting. Recruiting. - ELP - 8:53am 12/28/20
- I would also add a "5-Star Coach & Staff" - both of which have been lacking since 1995 [NT] - NEPA Irish - 8:49am 12/28/20
- Except that Alabama doesn't have a 5 star QB throwing to 5 star WRs. - NDavenue - 9:17am 12/28/20