Taylor Heinicke - quarterback

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Old Dominion plays in the FCS, but their sophomore quarterback Taylor Heinicke plays at a whole other level. in his first full season as a starter (he became the starter midway through his freshman year), Heinicke re-set the FCS record books after being ignored by all the "real" football programs despite dominating Georgia high school football.

no FCS quarterback has ever been better at slinging the ball than the young Old Dominion signal caller. the Monarchs' 64-61 win over New Hampshire on Sept. 22 was a career-defining game for Heinicke as he passed for 730 yards and had 791 total yards - both single-game records for Division I. The 2012 Walter Payton Award winner went on to complete 398 passes and throw for 5,076 yards - both FCS single-season records.

the following profile does a good job of detailing the impressive season Heinicke has had: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/12/18/old-dominion-heinicke-captures-2012-walter-payton-award/

Philadelphia, PA – The second sophomore to win the Walter Payton Award says his team's season was all about the seniors.

Taylor Heinicke says the seniors were there first when Old Dominion's fourth- year football program was being built to a high level of success.

The Monarchs didn't jump to their highest level, though, until Heinicke became the starting quarterback in the last season and a half, and many other people knew it, including the senior class.

Just as impressed were voters of the 2012 Walter Payton Award, who on Monday night made Heinicke the 26th recipient of the outstanding player honor in the Football Championship Subdivision. He received nearly half of the first-place votes from a national media panel - 72 of 145 - and 531 points to capture the award over Stony Brook senior running back Miguel Maysonet (284 points) and Wofford senior fullback Eric Breitenstein (197).

"People kept working that much harder for the seniors," Heinicke said. "They came here based on a pamphlet and something that could have happened, and it did."

Heinicke didn't have his redshirt lifted as a true freshman until the fifth game of the 2011 season, but he went on to become the runner-up for the Jerry Rice Award, which honors the FCS freshman of the year.

He then soared to greater heights this season. As ODU finished 10-1 in the regular season, the 6-foot-1, 195-pounder from Atlanta led the FCS in passing yards (4,158), total yards (4,535), touchdown passes (35) and points responsible for (24.2 per game). He rushed for 377 yards and eight touchdowns.

Heinicke, a mechanical engineering major, commanded the national spotlight on Sept. 22 when he set Division I single-game records with 730 passing yards and 791 total yards in Old Dominion's 64-61 victory over New Hampshire.

The Monarchs considered themselves the unofficial champion of CAA Football because they posted the best record at 7-1, although they were ineligible for the conference championship because their program will depart for the Bowl Subdivision after this season.

Including ODU's two playoff games, Heinicke finished the season with an FCS- record 5,076 passing yards. He threw for 44 touchdowns, rushed for 11 more and had 5,546 yards of total offense.

"It's huge, very humbling," Heinicke said. "It's the Heisman of the FCS. That's a huge honor, very humbling and I'm very excited about it. I can't thank enough of my family, my coaches, my trainer back home. All this hard work is really paying off."
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yeah, ODU's football program got decent in a hurry..
they're already tryin' to level up their schedule & conference (Conference USA in 2015). I read they have some games lined up with VaTech & UNC in the near future too.
800 yards for one player, is something you dont see at any level of football. This individual game (to me), was the media's most underappreciated/overlooked football performance of 2012.. :usa2:
 
Best QB in Virginia!

Is Old Dominion's Taylor Heinicke the Best Quarterback in Virginia?

By Ian Cohen on September 6, 2013 2:00 PM ET
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ROB OSTERMAIER/NEWPORT DAILY NEWS/MCT VIA GETTY IMAGESBy most standards — or at least the standards in place to evaluate a season opener against East Carolina — Old Dominion quarterback Taylor Heinicke’s performance last Saturday was heroic. The junior ran up a 38-of-51, 338-yard, 3-touchdown, 0-interception passing stat line while running for 52 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries. Old Dominion fell short in a 52-38 shootout, but the importance here wasn’t that Heinicke was fighting for the Monarchs’ first win as an FBS school; it was that he was fighting for the football relevancy of his entire state.

Heinicke’s Saturday looked more pedestrian in the face of Jameis Winston’s Scannersspecial against Pitt as well as Heinicke’s own 730-yard day against New Hampshire last season, but let’s look at it this way: He nearly doubled Virginia and Virginia Tech’s combined passing totals from this past weekend.

Neither team runs the option, and both were putting guys out there with starting experience. A 3.6 yards per attempt is pretty dismal for a plodding running back. That was the yards per passing attempt for Virginia’s David Watford, who rang up a 18-of-32, 114-yard box score. Meanwhile, I understand that Logan Thomas was always going to struggle against Alabama, but not even Reggie Ball ever threatened to put up 59 yards on 5-for-26 passing. When was the last time an ostensible NFL prospect put up the kind of completion numbers that instantly reminded you of a particularly carefree night from J.R. Smith?

The state of Virginia is certainly a big enough state to accommodate three FBS programs, and it’s always been an incredibly fertile recruiting territory. The 757 area code could definitely be called a hotbed, and Old Dominion is actually in Norfolk. And though Heinicke is from Atlanta, he plays like he’s local; nearly all of the Tidewater region’s best quarterbacks have been dual threats like himself — Aaron Brooks, Michael Vick, Tajh Boyd, Ronald Curry, EJ Manuel, Allen Iverson.

In that sense, Old Dominion appears to be the only Virginia team playing the kind of fast-break offense you’d expect given the talent in the region. As a true freshman, Heinicke took control of the Monarchs at midseason and put up stats that transcend “video game numbers” because everyone knows that NCAA Football 14 on any level will force you into at least two bull**** interceptions per game.

Last season, Heinicke completed nearly 69 percent of his passes while racking up 25 touchdowns and one interception over the span of nine games. And that interception came on a Hail Mary. He won the Sweetness Award (unofficial, but better name for the FCS best offensive player in the FCS) in 2012 with the same completion percentage, 5,076 passing yards, 44 passing TDs, 11 rushing TDs, and 14 picks (which is excusable when you throw the ball 579 times).
This is the sort of thing that Old Dominion can use to its advantage going forward, particularly when trying to recruit offensive skill players.
Think about it — when was the last time watching Virginia or Virginia Tech was fun? Last season, the Commonwealth Cup saw Phillip Sims and Logan Thomas line up for the Cavaliers and Hokies, respectively. Based on what we saw in that game, if the two of them ended up battling it out in the second quarter of an NFL preseason game, it wouldn’t be too big of a surprise.

Yet, after failing to fully depose the considerably less decorated Mike Rocco last year, and showing almost no positive intangibles whatsoever going into 2013, Sims transferred to Winston-Salem State. Meanwhile, Thomas reminded you that a former high school tight end playing quarterback is something desperate intramural teams do, as he regressed badly during Virginia Tech’s worst season in ages. The Hokies ended up with a 7-6 record, the sort of thing they hadn’t experienced since their time in the Big East, and 2012 ended fittingly with a cornea-searing 13-10 win against Rutgers in a bowl game I won’t dignify by naming.

In other words, perhaps Old Dominion has a window of opportunity to go beyond replicating its basketball team’s success and achieve something similar to Shaka Smart’s Virginia Commonwealth squad. If it can’t exactly manage the postseason success, Old Dominion has the ability to recast

“Havoc” as an offensive force, making its name with a breakneck, TV-friendly style of play that differentiates it immediately from its stodgy counterparts in the state. It’s a shame that Old Dominion won’t be playing a full FBS schedule until next year and will be facing off against the uninspiring likes of Pittsburgh, Idaho, Maryland, and North Carolina this season. And maybe that window is closing: Watford’s keeping the seat warm until Greyson Lambert proves he might be the one blue chip UVA quarterback recruit who doesn’t flame out, and this being Virginia Tech, it'll probably be 10-1 before we even blink and will beat Clemson in the ACC Championship. Or it’ll lose to Boston College and still beat Clemson in the ACC Championship, because these things happen in the ACC.

But in the meantime, Heinicke is almost certain to come back for his senior year and we’ll have Old Dominion setting itself to be the East Coast’s preeminent (if not only) pure-offense football team and maybe the greatest instant FCS-to-FBS success in history. If it doesn't honor the state’s long-honored football tradition of blowing things just when it’s starting to look good.
 
Heinicke looking like Tarkenton..

[video=youtube;iSbfLVEDurY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSbfLVEDurY[/video]
 
Average American said:
Heinicke looking like Tarkenton..

[video=youtube;iSbfLVEDurY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSbfLVEDurY[/video]
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This guy is Americas best kept secret. He could put up heisman like dual threat numbers this year. Looking forward to seeing ODU compete in C USA this year. They will have 4 televised games this year so tune in!
 
He will participate in East vs West Shrine game.
 
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