Time To Get Some Answers About Bilbo - Or Let Him Transfer

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OK, the season is over. I've watched the whole thing and I don't get it. I even joked on this board about the three play playbook they limit Bilbo to and it came true in the Georgia game! Despite that, he has performed. I'm tired of the silent treatment in the media regarding Bilbo and why he doesn't play. Brian Camp either for that matter.

The kid has talent. That pass he threw in the Georgia game was just like most every throw this year, had velocity and was a strike under pressure.

The thing about the limited ability to grasp plays smacks of bullshit. If that is true, then why is he good enough to depend on as second string if he doesn't know the plays well enough for the first? Either coach him, play him or move him to another position.

This lining up Jonathan Smith at quarterback the last game of the year was absolutely bizarre. Guess this was this staff's version of "pulling out all the stops". Jonathan is one fine athlete, but there are better ways of getting him the ball, and if not, let him try QB in the spring, not the 12th game of the year.

And if this staff is just going to waste his talent, have the integrity to say so, let him sit out his transfer year and take over for Eli Manning at OLE MISS.
 
I agree. Gailey owes us an explanation of why Bilbo hasn't seen more playing time. After all, prior to the Georgia game - I think this is correct - he scored a touchdown 50 per cent of the possessions he played quarterback.

It doesn't make sense.
 
Talk I hear is next year Bilbo is our tailback/receiver, and Smith with get a shot to be the QB...
 
Oh great.....Great plan.

I'd love to knoe the "true" story on Bilbo

Even in the UGA game, he looked like a man amoung boys IMO
 
FYI, from the Tech web site the bio on Bilbo.

HIGH SCHOOL: The Dick Butkus Football Network National High School Player of the Year . . . Mississippi Player of the Year by USA Today and Gatorade . . . Passed for 3,338 yards and 32 touchdowns while rushing for 326 yards and five more scores . . . Led Moss Point to a 13-1 record and the 5A state title . . . MVP of the state championship game as he completed 18 of 28 passes for 317 yards and four touchdowns in the championship game against nationally-ranked Clinton . . . Also kicked 10 field goals . . . Added 1,540 yards passing and 17 touchdowns and 527 yards rushing and nine scores as a junior . . . Ranked the No. 5 passing quarterback in the nation by Max Emfinger . . . Rated among the nation?s Top 25 quarterbacks by Tom Lemming . . . One of the SuperPreps? Top 285 prospects in the nation . . . Tabbed to Prep Star?s Dream Team as one of the nation?s Top 120 prospects . . . Chosen for the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game . . . Team captain for coach Jerry Alexander at Moss Point High . . . Also an all-state baseball player who was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers as a pitcher.
 
Bilbo at tailback/receiver??? Geeteelee, who's your source? I don't think Bilbo would stay in a program that wouldn't let him play QB.

At this point, he should probably just transfer. His confidence is shot with CG as was evidenced in the Gag game. How can it not be, with four series in a season, regardless of performance? I'd like nothing more than to see him have a Heisman-type season somewhere else. Maybe CG and the staff would see that there's more to football than memorizing a playbook.
 
Bilbo at receiver and Smith at QB....i hope that was a joke
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It bothers me each time I read his athletic bio that someone with that much talent has been buried on the bench. I don't buy for a second that he's having that much trouble with the playbook. If he was that deficient in learning, I don't think he'd have been as good as he was in HS.

I know this all goes back to a bunch of speculation, but since Gailey doesn't tell us anything, all we can do is speculate. There's no reason why Bilbo shouldn't have gotten more playing time against Duke or during the second half of the blowout on Saturday. For all the times that Gailey has said that Bilbo is too talented to not get playing time, he hasn't followed through at all in getting him on the field.
 
If you ask me his high school bio sounds like another Michael Vick - and when he's played he's produced like Michael Vick.

So why hasn't he played more?

Nuts!
 
maybe the new coach that comes in here in 2 years will find Bilbo on the bench the same way CG found Hollings
 
If you've got the ability to take it to the house, how many plays do you need anyway. Last time I watched yesterday, I couldn't tell what Vick was looking at downfield, he might have forgotten where he was for all I know, but when that fellow decides to tuck it and go, the defense in unison is saying "Oh, S__T". Bilbo can do that for us. Joe Hamilton made some mistakes vs. Notre Dame but he damn near led us to a victory over them too. Let Bilbo play!
 
I'm hoping he's our starting QB next year. He obviously has a great arm and some mobility. But let's not set expectation too high. I mean "performed like Michael Vick"? The only similarities are they play QB and are black. Unless you can run a 4.2 40 you can't produce like Vick. FYI, Bilbo was listed with a 4.6.

And Beezoner, what about Sat reflects confidence in either CG or Bilbo? He hurt his ankle according to what I heard and couldn't play any longer or he would more than likely have gotten a lot more time.
 
My point was just that Bilbo looked tentative, especially in his first series.

It's impossible to play at a high level if you know that you have to produce a scoring drive every time you hit the field or else you probably won't get another look.

This wasn't the confident Bilbo of spring practice or even the first few games this year when CG seemed to authentically be suggesting that he'd use Bilbo as an effective change of pace from you-know-who.
 
In chatroom over at the Hive this a.m., gg said he thinks J. Smith will qb next yr and Bilbo will be rb. FWIW.
 
Yes Fred was a QB. In fact, a reporter friend of mine told me that Friedgen said he wanted Smith to come to GT as a FULL-TIME QB, but Smith said he would rather play WR.

I thought Smith looked better than Suggs throwing that little roll-out pass. Suggs has really struggled with the easy throws, and the tough ones for that matter.
 
Hey, if Fridge thinks he's a QB it's good enough for me. Whoever the QB is we obviously need more production from the position. AJ seems like a good kid but he just isn't the answer given what we've seen this year.

I still hate to think of that arm of Bilbo's not being at QB.
 
Fred Smith was an all everything in high school.
He played for a small school (Class A) and was everything from QB, DB, kick returner, and everything else.
He was quite a find by Coach O'leary. But has not been as effective this year under this new staff.
 
And I am still wondering why Smith was not allowed to return kicks? He obviously is a threat to go and PJ is a great contributor but not at deep return.
 
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