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Which former UW QB would be best for this offense?

evilpoke

evilpoke

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If you could choose one former UW QB to run this offense, which would it be, where he had that dual threat.

Unfortunately, my experience with UW football starts with Jay Stoner, so Benjamin would be BY FAR the most athletic QB UW has had that I've seen in person.

I had a similar thought for wide receiver, but Bouknight immediately came to mind. That dude was awesome if he had a little space.
 
Wyoming hasn't had a QB with Benjamin's athleticism in a long, long time, perhaps even never. I can't remember a particularly mobile QB in my lifetime.
 
calpoke25 said:
Wyoming hasn't had a QB with Benjamin's athleticism in a long, long time, perhaps even never. I can't remember a particularly mobile QB in my lifetime.
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I'd say Scott Runyan. He was the QB in Erickson's first year, but was a wishbone QB prior to that.

Good passer and mobile.

Go Pokes!
 
I was thinking it had to be a wishbone guy. I thought about Corontzos, but I had no idea how well he could throw.
 
The Wizzard of Ord, Randy Welniak! He was running the spread offense for Roach before it was known as the spread offense.

From UW's website: Welniak was selected as an All American in 1988, and is one of Wyoming's top ten quarterbacks in career passing yards, and rushing touchdowns. Among his many accomplishments, Welniak is a two-time first team Academic All-WAC, was selected as the WAC Player of the Year in 1988, and he became only the third quarterback in NCAA history to gain 300 yards passing and 100 yards rushing in a single game.

This guy was recruited by Al Kincaid to run the wishbone.....but turns out the dude could pass too!
 
Welniak is probably the best choice, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say Josh Wallwork would have been the most successful. That guy is the best pure passer that this school has ever seen. He doesn't have the speed that some of the others did, but his QB skills were top notch.
 
Page #5 of the attached has some good info. It looks like Phil Davis would have been a good QB for the spread too.

http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/wyo/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/CentralMichigan.pdf
 
It would have to be Welniak or Runyon. They were really the last QBs i remember that were very mobile and still had good guns. Most of our QBS since were pretty much drop back passers.
 
You may all laugh at this but Matt Swanson who I thought never really got a fair shot at QB would prob do pretty well in this system.
 
Wicks said:
You may all laugh at this but Matt Swanson who I thought never really got a fair shot at QB would prob do pretty well in this system.
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Haha. One thing Swanson got was the most chants ever for a backup QB at UW.
 
Remember Phil Davis? Good passer but an even better runner when Wyo. briefly ran the wishbone. Craig Burnett was probably the best pure passer I've ever seen at UW and Welniak was the most complete QB.
 
bladerunnr said:
Remember Phil Davis? Good passer but an even better runner when Wyo. briefly ran the wishbone. Craig Burnett was probably the best pure passer I've ever seen at UW and Welniak was the most complete QB.
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Bingo! Well remembered or researched, either way, spot on.
 
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