I don't know, I'm all for competition, this just seems to be a bit of a square peg in a round hole. Wiegers is very much your pro-style/Iowa football (run 1st)/ pocket passer. Was looking forward to our offense and Keen evolving from the Roback days to a more forward thinking, dual-threat, multi-set, TE/HB incorporated, philosophy. Now we're going to try and build an Iowa/Michigan style offense around a 1 year transfer? I sure hope that's not the plan, because we're not magically going to get the production of the Iowa rushing offense.
Let's assume that Wiegers and the starting Iowa QB were very similar, and neck-and-neck to win the job.
https://www.landof10.com/iowa/iowa-quart...an-stanley
Stanley's stats on the year over 13 games were 196/351 (55.8%), 2432 yds, 26 TD's & 6 Int's. 49 rushes for -115 yds. Per game averages 15/27, 187 yds, 2 TD's, .5 Int's.
55.8% is OK, not great. 26/6 is really good! But if we were to only get 187 yards out of our pass offense/QB, do we really think we can become a 250+ yards per game running team? Seems like a huge stretch to me.
Again, if his arm talent, smarts, and maturity is head and shoulders above everyone else, I guess you borrow him for a year and build the offense to his strengths.
If he's not, let's evolve the offense and develop one of our young guys.