Will Omar Stay for his SR. Season?

[BGALUMNI]

This might be a bit early to start talking about this, but I think it is worthy of discussion at this point. It will be really important at the end of this season though.

Most draft boards have Omar ranked very high if he came out next season. I think depending on who else comes out next season, like Vince Young and Chris Leak, would make a difference as well in his decision making.

I would like to see BG go undefeated and Omar pull a Matt Leinart and come back, but I think it would be tough for him to stay though, but I really hope he does.

What I don't want to see is a Junior let down like I saw from Brad Smith from Mizzou. While I am glad that Smith is back at Mizzou to try to put another loss on Nebraska, I hated watching him do poorly, because it meant the team did poorly as well.

[BGALUMNI]

I think he stays no matter what. Especially if it means he gets another chance at a Heisman...(On the chance he gets it this year, I don't he could pass up the chance to win it twice...just too tempting and if he doesn't, I think he would like a crack at it.)

If BGs runs the tables of course he will get a ton of attention. IF Alex Smith doesn't exactly do well this season in the NFL, I would think Jacobs stays to prove that he is deserving of a 1st round pick.

Just my opinion though.

[tcochran]

I am a huge Falcon fan and I think the team will do very well this year. However, the idea that Omar could leave early is a bit ridiculous. Our strength of schedule last year was in the bottom 10% of division I. I do believe Omar will get a chance to make a pro team, but not after his Junior year.

[Jacobs4Heisman]

I am a huge Falcon fan and I think the team will do very well this year. However, the idea that Omar could leave early is a bit ridiculous. Our strength of schedule last year was in the bottom 10% of division I. I do believe Omar will get a chance to make a pro team, but not after his Junior year.

Ummm I think we all want Omar to stay, but as has been discussed ad nauseum in earlier threads, Omar is projected as the number 2 QB behind Leinart (some publications rank him #1). Depending on team need, This could make Omar a top 5 pick, but probably top 15 at the worst. If he gets even close to last year's numbers, there is a high probability he will go pro. I don't want him to, but I couldn't blame him.

[04forheisman]

once again.............omar to nfl.....brandon to BCS..........coach stud and AT in at BG

[transfer2BGSU]

I'm looking forward to seeing O4 this fall!

I'll come back to this discussion after the bowl game.

[BGFan]

I am a huge Falcon fan and I think the team will do very well this year. However, the idea that Omar could leave early is a bit ridiculous. Our strength of schedule last year was in the bottom 10% of division I. I do believe Omar will get a chance to make a pro team, but not after his Junior year.

Must be why he's already ranked second as a quarterback draft prospect for next year in some of the publications.

He would have to have a really bad year to drop off the radar screen that he's already on.

My guess is that he'll go if given the opportunity. If he's as good or better this year as he was last year, he's gone. Why risk the possibility (however remote) of tanking your senior year and losing the opportunity of going that high in the draft, not to mention the money that goes along with it?

[hammb]

If the guys writing about next year's draft are close to accurate then I would be rather suprised to see him stay. Of course those guys are not always right, but usually when they predict someone as a top 10 pick they are usually at least among the first round.

If Omar comes close to duplicating last year's numbers he'll be a top notch prospect for sure. He already has very few holes in his game, as it is. In all honesty the biggest knock on him coming out will probably be our system.

[kdog27]

However, the idea that Omar could leave early is a bit ridiculous. Our strength of schedule last year was in the bottom 10% of division I. I do believe Omar will get a chance to make a pro team, but not after his Junior year.

Umm yeah... Do a little research and report back.

[BGALUMNI]

Research is not his strong point.

SOS is crap for the most part anyhow. What looks like a great schedule pre-season, might end up being terrible by the end of it.

Having a D1 team that has been up and is a pre-season top 25 team normally is great, but it stinks if that team under performs.

[Germainfitch1]

I am a huge Falcon fan and I think the team will do very well this year. However, the idea that Omar could leave early is a bit ridiculous. Our strength of schedule last year was in the bottom 10% of division I. I do believe Omar will get a chance to make a pro team, but not after his Junior year.

Must be why he's already ranked second as a quarterback draft prospect for next year in some of the publications.

He would have to have a really bad year to drop off the radar screen that he's already on.

My guess is that he'll go if given the opportunity. If he's as good or better this year as he was last year, he's gone. Why risk the possibility (however remote) of tanking your senior year and losing the opportunity of going that high in the draft, not to mention the money that goes along with it?

I would say you are way off here. Most if not all of those publications have never seen Omar play a down. They live of making sensational predictions and then getting some right and some wrong. The wrong ones are forgotten. The right ones they can use as quotes in ads.

he would not have to have a bad year to drop off the first round.After being put on that radar he we now be under a microscope and any and all limitations and weaknesses will come out. Uconns QB was ranked really high before last year.

[tcochran]

I have to recant my last post. I said BG was in the bottom 10% in D I strength of schedule. After further research I found BG was in the bottom 2%. BG was 115 out of 117.

[Falcon30]

I have to recant my last post. I said BG was in the bottom 10% in D I strength of schedule. After further research I found BG was in the bottom 2%. BG was 115 out of 117.

So what?1

1 See Roethlisberger, Ben.

[BGALUMNI]

I have to recant my last post. I said BG was in the bottom 10% in D I strength of schedule. After further research I found BG was in the bottom 2%. BG was 115 out of 117.

LOL...SOS is a POS...

SOS is only part of the equation and a very small part at that.

Utah was 117, so does that mean that Utah was a horrible team? No.

Look at pre-season SOS and post season SOS and there is normally a HUGE difference. Teams do better than expected and some do worse than expected. If Wisconsin has a bad year, then BGs SOS is going to take a hit. IF BG wins, then everyone has to root for Wisconsin to win out to help BGs SOS...

I would think that real football fans would know that the SOS really means nothing and is just a figure based on polls, which in themselves are faulty. No matter how scientific a process may be, if you start out with skewed or faulty data, you are going to get a near useless product.

[Schadenfreude]

I have to recant my last post. I said BG was in the bottom 10% in D I strength of schedule. After further research I found BG was in the bottom 2%. BG was 115 out of 117.

So what?1

1 See Roethlisberger, Ben.

If I remember right, Ben announced he would declare early before the Miami radio network had wrapped up its coverage of the Independence Bowl and signed off for the night.

Omar may wait a few more days than that. Or not.

I agree with those who would rather not talk about this. It's just too early.