This is that K/W UH quarterback leadership we’ve been missing.
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Burris, Mullins, Davis, Elston, Brown, Clements, Tune were great leaders in spite of all that, I guess. But what does an OG know?
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Within the last 35 years? No.
Clements and Tune did what they could but neither were K/W tier
It’s ok to not talk about the 70s every second of UH lore.
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It’s ok to do so as well.
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Leadership is strong with our QB.
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Tune was… 3rd all time in passing yards at UH, played in a CCG against a CFP team and held his own, won a bowl game and was drafted into the NFL.
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He also threw several game-costing interceptions and his best win was against 6-6 Auburn.
He’s 3rd all time in passing yards because Dana refused to play anybody else, even during the rare times we blew someone out.
Ware, Klingler, Keenum and Ward were pulled from several games due to having huge leads.
Nobody ever called for any K/W guy to get benched but people clamored during various points for Tune to get benched.
He was OK once he started reading his progressions but we all know he didn’t have that “It” factor like Keenum, Ward, Kolb or the others.
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This is what’s suspicious.
Oh… you’re right… he had 2 bowl wins… even better than I remembered!
His junior and senior years he was very good… he just didn’t have any defense.
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What game with Tune did we win that we weren’t “supposed” to win?
Keenum beat #5 Oklahoma State, Mississippi State, UCLA and Texas Tech.
Ward beat Pittsburgh, #3 Oklahoma, #3 Louisville and Florida State
Ware dropped 66 on Texas in Austin, beat #10 Wyoming and had our in-state rivals crying
Kolb beat Mississippi State and won the conference after we were projected to finish middle of the pack.
King beat undefeated, ranked South Florida who was projected to get the NY6 bid.
We were heavy favorites in pretty much every game with Klingler so that’s why I’m not mentioning him
Davis and Elston won Cotton Bowls.
Elston won at Kyle Field.
Mullins won 9 straight.
Clements won a conference championship.
You have your standards of how beginning letter of last name determines QB prowess. No one is taking that hill to die on away from you.
Everyone else is entitled to a less than superstitious formula.
So in other words, you have no rebuttal because you know I’m right. Tune was a decent QB for us in his latter years and there’s nothing wrong with that.
He had an above-average career and made it to the NFL. He accomplished more than 99.9 percent of guys who play football at ANY level could even dream of.
That being said, he wasn’t a game changer.
It’s fine to call it a superstition or a coincidence but pattern recognition is a real thing.
You’re entitled to your superstition. Most people are a tad more objective.
The fact you have to go back 50 years to where rotary phones were common and color TV was a luxury proves my point.
I have consistently said the K/ W trend has been occurring over the last 35 years.
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Alright… back on topic…
What game(s) does Wiggy have to win this season to start to get in the upper tier conversation…?
Was beating CU a better win than any of Tune’s…?
Too early to tell.
If Weigman can get to 8 or 9 wins, then the conversation can start being had
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Let’s do the Math. I’ll exclude the NFL, High School, and lower levels of college football.
99.9%
That’s 1 in a thousand.
Let’s use some round numbers…
135 Division 1 Teams, 100 players per team. > 13,500 players…
13,500 / 1,000 > 13.5
Was he one of the dozen or so best players in college football any year he was here?
Was he one of the top 2 players in the conference any year he was here?
Let’s just say he was good, perhaps very good. But NOT better than 99.9% of what any player could ever dream of being…
Proves? 
Let me guess. You never took logic or philosophy courses, right?
Agreed…
