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Keali'i Ah Yat is currently the nations leader in passing yards

If he stays and wins the big one…he will be in the conversation with the likes of Dickenson, Huntsberger, Scotty Gregg and the rest of the all time greats. NIL is here and wouldn’t fault the kid for taking life changing dough. Leading a Montana Grizzly team to a championship would be legendary. Regardless how things shake out, he’s been absolutely fantastic. Let’s give Coach Hauck his props. We made the chipper 2 years ago and 9-0 this year. Damn it feels good to be a Grizzly.
 
hm.grwn.grizfan said:
Hoping we can hold onto him. There’s going to be offers this offseason, probably with opportunities to earn a bag. If there’s any kind of serious NIL money available at UM we should funnel it his way. Most important position in football and it almost feels like we won the lottery with ah Yat
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I would be shocked if he left. Legacy guy that has a chance to get his name up in the rafters at his fathers school. With a coaching staff that has done a great job of developing him. I don't think the Ah Yat's are hurting for money. Maybe if he wins a title in the next two years and decides he wants to take a shot at D1 like Gronowski for his senior season.
 
MissoulaMarinerFan said:
Yeah - when he got the concussion (can't remember what game) is when things started getting (more) weird with the QB rotation.
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I still wonder if it was concussion. Honestly dont know, I thought it may have been his shoulder. But it was the game he ran for all those TDs , western Carolina i believe. Coaches wanted him, saw through fifedom completely, but it was difficult to sustain his health all year.
 
nicktaber58 said:
I still wonder if it was concussion. Honestly dont know, I thought it may have been his shoulder. But it was the game he ran for all those TDs , western Carolina i believe. Coaches wanted him, saw through fifedom completely, but it was difficult to sustain his health all year.
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True - probably "concussion" makes everyone go "oh yeah, of course - those sometimes take a while and are tricky to come back from".
 
I thought Fife was clearly the better QB last year--the Portland State game was Exhibit A. But I also realize because Coach Hauck is so tight-lipped about injuries and understandably so--don't want to show our hand to this week's and upcoming opponents--that Keali'i was playing hurt at least some if not most of the year.

And I was skeptical coming into this year--I thought like our former QB Nick Montana who wasn't his dad Joe, Keali'i was not Brian nor would he ever be. Jensen was going to be our guy for 2025.

And boy was I wrong !!! While the level of effort hasn't changed--Keali'i always played his guts out and leaves everything on the field, but his physical maturation--he's no longer 180 lbs but 200 and his increased arm strength plus his mental maturation--his judgement on when to hand the ball off and when to keep the ball himself and run it, his check downs and what WR, TE or back to throw the ball to are just night and day better than last year !!!

I would still say Keali'i isn't as good as Brian the senior, but I would also say that Keali'i the redshirt sophomore QB is better than Brian was as a sophomore and I'll say it again, if he stays healthy, I think Keali'i will do something his dad almost did but came up short against Marshall, Chad Pennington and Randy Moss: win a national championship(s).

I have never been so happy to have been so wrong about our great young QB. !!!

( Michael Wortham deserves an assist for helping occasionally, resting Keali'i playing Wildcat QB plus as as his go-to-guy in the slot.)
 
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