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I'm not a fan of redshirting for the sake of redshirting. It makes sense to redshirt linemen, if you can, to get them a year of a real weightlifting program before they play, but skill players that have the ability and if the team has the need, they should play. Period.

As we look back at the season, having backup like Chapman come in and deliver the wins against Miami and Kent should make us thankful. Is he the Next Coming? No Do we still see him as a potential full time starter? Definitely Not. I agree with all of that, but I'm still grateful that he had the ability to deliver a couple of wins for us when we needed him.

I love how you put so much stock in Miami being a bowl team. They are 6-6. They are a bowl team because any program with a pulse gets to go to a bowl. I will give them credit, though. They have things going in the right direction when it looked pretty dismal for their current staff. I am not complaining for the sake of complaining. I am complaining while playing armchair quarterback because the Zips competed in the absolutely putrid MAC East and are sitting home instead of going to a bowl. That means that the Zips do not have a pulse. If you are not upset about that and make excuses for the program, great. Enjoy your outstanding participation trophy. If Kato is the real deal, and many think he is, he should play. If you're "high on" the kid, get him in there. Football can be highly unpredictable. Woodson may never see the field again for any number of reasons. Kato may be forced into being the man next year with absolutely no experience, then people will be moaning about what a shame it was that he didn't get some game time experience in '16. This whole concept of bringing quarterbacks along slowly is complete bunk. Redshirt freshmen quarterbacks win Heisman Trophies. I have no dislike of Tra'von Chapman whatsoever. After being much maligned, I was happy for the kid when he redeemed himself in the 2nd half of the Kent game. I hope that he has a wonderful and productive life. I also have two eyes and they told me that a 3rd team WR who sat the bench for pretty much the whole of 2016 was a better option at QB.

I read the rules. They permit homophones!

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

I agree with LZip on this one. This young man did his best when called upon and it didn't work out. Let's get off his back and focus the discussion more on what the coaching staff is doing to strengthen a potential weakness. We have no reason to get complacent in the QB area. This year was a very bitter pill to swallow based on all the great things we thought this team had going for it as the season began.

Ugh, we should not be losing out on supposedly talented, local recruits to freaking Buffalo.

Meh we have missed the boat on two local players who certainly would have been program changers in Nance and McCollum in recent years.. They are out there, you just need to find them.

Did anyone watch Wheel of Fortune tonight? The final big-prize puzzle had "On The Map" as the clue. And the letters came up..... _ _ RON OH_O I couldn't believe it. My wife and I almost jumped off of the couch.

Zip_ME87 correctly lauded Brad for being in the UA Honors college. As a business grad from U of A(a long time ago), I wanted to point out that in the 2015-2016 calendar year...Victor Souto was selected for Beta Gamma Sigma, a prestigious business school honor society. Victor was the only non-american born person selected to join Beta Gama Sigma in 2015-2016. (as ZIP_ME87 said, Victor is a long way from home and taking classes in his second language. As a business school grad, I greatly respect and admire Victor for his achievements in the business school classrooms.