He is very smart.
He had more pressure in the pocket than perhaps any other QB in college football last year. He is very accurate. He doesn’t overthrow or under throw receivers. If you want to bring up his TD to INT Ratio, I’ll submit most of that goes back to the amount of pressure he faced.
In no way am I taking anything away from Keenum, but I wonder how he would have done any better than Weigman this past season working with the level of protection he had?
I believe we’ll see a significant uptick this fall in CW’s numbers if he finally has the offensive line we’re all expecting (hoping for)…
I think it’s entirely possible he throws for 3,000 yards and has something in the neighborhood of a 30-8 TD to INT Ratio this season. If he does, he’ll absolutely be a Heisman Candidate. Especially if the Coogs have a second straight double digit win season.
Whereas Wiegman played a Big12 Schedule with a ConfUSA offensive line. I gotta give them credit though, by the end of the year they were playing more like an AAC oline.
Keenum lit up every p5 team he played. He put 600 yards on Penn State.
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The so called drafting experts ranked the following as either a back or not even making it in the nfl:
Joe Montana, 3rd round.
At the time critics thought he was basically another “body”
Tom brady, sixth round
Even the patriots did not think he was going to make the roster.
These two are in order/disorder the best QBs in NFL history.
Listening/reading the same drafting experts and everyone can come to the conclusion that most of them are full of b.s.
This might explain why the same franchises tend to make it to the Super Bowl. These same franchises surround themselves with true experts. Additionally some OC/DC can’t make the jump to HC.
What I truly admire about Weigman is that he stayed with it and bounced back with his ints trouble. That is the mark of real potential. The rest is for him to write his own history.
Oh yeah, remember he was a five stars…That means nfl bound…
We already know you didn’t watch Keenum play. Just stop acting like you have this great insight.
We were getting 10% or less of the funding from the conference that our big 12 neighbors got, for nearly 30 years. We’re still on half pay until the fall. Back then there was no extra kick from nil, not that it would have helped because people care more about the status symbol than just pure dollar signs.
The one p5 opponent that really blew up a Keenum era team was UCLA at the Rose bowl, and that because case blew out his ACL in the second quarter chasing down a fluke interception. We crushed them the following year.
Keenum finally got a proper chance in the NFL and he won like 14 games and got to the NFC championship. He was high level from his RS fr year on, as a 2 star recruit. Weigman is good and might do some amazing things this fall, but you’re arguing from facts not in evidence.
It’s a thread about the best UH QBs. Both of their names are in the title of the thread.
I was pointing out that perhaps “another poster” was being a little “shortsighted” on Weigman. I clearly said I was not taking ANYTHING away from Keenum.
In a sense, this thread “causes us” to compare Apples to Oranges. Two different styles of QBs.
Keenum did thrive under pressure. So does Weigman… …and I’ll submit he faces MORE of it.
Keenum set “passing” records. He had over 2200 career attempts. He had 700 of them in one season.
Weigman had 356 attempts last year, a career high.
Weigman plays in a different system where the Coogs ran the ball 60% of the time last year.
Conner Weigman had a breakout redshirt junior season for the Houston Cougars after transferring, throwing for 2,705 yards and 25 touchdowns with a 147.4 passer rating. He was a dual-threat asset, adding 700+ rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns, and capped the season as MVP in a 38-35 Texas Bowl victory over LSU.
Weigman accounted for over 3400 total yards and 36 TDs. He arguably did all that while being under more pressure than any QB in college football.
If Connor stays healthy, the oline proves to be what many think it can be, and the team makes the playoffs…
Then… Yes.
Even with a magical season, which is certainly possible, the odds of a Heisman for Weigman are not high, at this point, because he’s never going to get the pass attempt numbers that so many on here pine for.
But if his comp % is 70%, or more, and he has a high TD to INT Ratio, and the Coogs make the playoffs, he could be in one of those 4 seats in New York in December.
I think Connor’s odds of playing in the NFL are much higher than his odds of winning the Heisman.
To be accurate, we were down 24-3 after the int and ACL tear, and the final was 31-13, so I wouldn’t say we got blown out because Case went down.
It’s hard to swap QBs on different teams and determine who would do better because there’s more factors than just our personel and the opponents. There’s scheme and even chemistry that go into it.
