When someone told Nate Montana ate a young age, "the name on the front of your jersey is just as important as the name on the back", he took it a little too literally. Coming out of high school in Santa Clara, Nate Montana was faced with a choice that would shape his future as a college quarterback. After not being offered a scholarship from Charlie Weis, Montana could chase his dream of following in his dad's footsteps at Notre Dame as a walk-on. Or, he could enroll at an FCS school that actually wanted him as their quarterback and not a publicity stunt in order to sell some throwback #16 jerseys in South Bend. After spending 2009 at Pasadena City College further trying to prove himself as a legitimate BCS conference QB, Montana chose South Bend as his destination in hope of embodying the story of 'Rudy' his own father claims to have never held true. Truth be told, Montana never had a shot to amount to anything but a 3rd string quarterback at Notre Dame, but his name was intriguing to Irish fans. And after a tumultuous year in which his dad started advertising Skechers, he got caught pounding suds underage with Timmy Abromaitis, and a football season in which he accumulated 18 total pass attempts and an INT, Montana is headed for the rolling plains and open skies of...Montana. Seems fitting. At least now Nate can wear his jersey backwards and no one will notice, and considering they're in Montana, nobody will care.
To be honest, Nate Montana isn't worth an entire blog. He's just a third string QB done in by the immensity of his father's shadow. It's like a more realistic version of James Van Der Beek's story in Varsity Blues, except nobody named Billy Bob was involved and all of the cases of whipped cream bikins and premarital sex are unbeknownst to us.
The fact of the matter is however that with or without Nate Montana, Brian Kelly has a quarterback controversy on his hands. On one side of the proverbial fence, you have Dayne Crist, who will be a senior come next fall and has put together relatively productive numbers when his legs weren't in the ice bucket last season. Contrarily, you have Tommy "Gun" Rees, a freshman who fearlessly stepped in as ND's signal-caller during that abominable home collapse at the mercy of Tulsa and actually won his first four games as a starter for the Irish, including upset wins over Utah and ND's arch-rival to the West, USC. Not to mention, Rees ran the the offense like one of the Irish greats of old in the Sun Bowl, culminating in a 33-17 vicotry of the U, the new home of former Michigan QB, Tate Forcier, otherwise referred to as the biggest tool in major college sports.
I think you all can formulate the choice I am campaigning for here. After yet another disappointing season in South Bend, it seems like a no-brainer to play the potential rather than hoping that a player who has been plagued by injury throughout his entire career can somehow keep his body in tact en route to a BCS bowl season.
I'm an advocate for Tommy Gun not only because he is a Lake Forest product, a Scout if you will, and I'm the biggest Lake County homer there is, but it is honestly the most logical choice for Notre Dame football. After last season, I hope Notre Dame knows that Tommy Rees is the answer indefinitely, not probably, otherwise we'll stay down like the economy. Did I get that right?
As for Pick of the Day, the Pulse Man delivers again in calling the demise of the #1 team in the land. Jacob Pullen got hot and the rest of the Wildcats followed suit in demolishing Kansas in Manhattan last night. For tonight, the Pulse Man is cooking up some home brew and likes the Bulls to cover the OVER on their game against the Bobcats which is set at 182.5.
Record:(54-39-0)
Pick of the Day: Bobcats @ Bulls- Total Points, 182.5- OVER
Now I'm done. Rack me
Frost
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