Webb Slinger

Call it a hunch but when the CU staff pursued former Kansas QB Jordan Webb earlier this summer, this corner of Buff Nation knew he would be the starter. Connor Wood, the former four star Mr Man from Mack Brown's stable, didn't light it up in the spring. Nick Hirschman may have been in the program for a bit, but throw on the ASU game last year.

Enter Webb; after just a little more than a month in the program and he's the man.

The optimists will point to his 19 college starts, while the skeptics will point to the four wins among those starts. The optimists will point out that former KU coach Tuner Gill was over his head, while the skeptics will new KU coach Charlie Weis wanted to eat Webb.

Whatever is going on in Boulder, it is still too early in the Embree Era to over analyze this decision. Webb could simply be a caretaker until some recruited QBs are ready to take the spot. Or Webb could be the next dude in the trend of "rent-a-former player" (ala Russell Wilson) that seems to be the way for some teams. With a schedule a step down from last year's, this move might prove to make the most sense, regardless of Weis' appetite.

(After all, the Buffs haven't had a recruited high school QB be an effective starter since Koy Detmer. Think about that, no big time QB in Boulder since 1995? Ouch.)

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