Which dovetails with the second objective. This is not to say sophomore Nathan Stanley doesn’t look like an intriguing young quarterback, because he does. He’s big (6-5, 230) and has a surprisingly strong arm for a kid not recruited all that hotly. Stanley’s pedigree is deceiving because he didn’t play much until he was a senior at his high school in a small western Wisconsin lakeside town. And even then, his team ran Wing T.
While his strong performance (5 TD, 0 int) in a 44-41 overtime win before a mostly hostile crowd at Iowa State proved his mettle, Stanley has not played in anything like this game, prime-time against the defending Big Ten champions.