Agreed AC has 17 games under his belt and hasnt improved
Yr 1 62% completion 1,958 yrds 13 td 9int
Yr 2 61% completion 2,121 yrds 13td 11 int 52 qbr.
These the stats of budding greatness?
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I think the entire situation for AC was unfortunate. What made him good was his big play ability. What he needed was time to learn and grow. Itās hard to be a high variability guy without any learning time. Most successful QBs are guys who have years under their belt of learning. AC was never put into a position to succeed and the on field strategy never backed him up either.
I wish him well in his next stop and wouldnāt be surprised to see some highlight plays pop up.
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Iād like to have seen what AC could have done with another OC, but am also not upset about the transfer tbh. I still think he has potential as a QB but chances are it was never getting reached here, he needs to go down a level and build his confidence back up against lesser competition.
With that being said though, fire Des into the sun pls. Assuming Elliott is getting one more year can we at least see a change at OC and maybe some innovation within our offense.
Iām not saying he was the best QB, but the fact of the matter is through both years he has had better completion percentage, better TD%, and actually LESS INT% than Muskett.
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Joe Burrow showed middling results in his first couple years, but they saw the potential and then he had that 2019 year.
This is not the NFL, you canāt look at one year of no progress and say thatās the end of a playerās development.
I know what youāre trying to say but the comparison of Burrow here seems like very different situations.
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Ha. Going from OSU to LSU is different than UVa to Florida Atlantic you think?
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Fair, but if you want more, Kenny Pickett did not play well until his Senior year, Carson Palmer was similar. Jason Campbell may be the perfect example of this, three years of roughly equal TD-INT numbers and then was one of the best QBs his senior year. The fact is in college, if you see the potential, you are oftentimes better going with that than with a slightly better, non-improving guy.
College football is funny because you canāt just leave to go pro. NFL rule is essentially 3 college seasons so in most cases redshirting is the best thing you can do. Unless youāre just that high level of a talent getting that year to get your body where it needs to be and adjusting to the game and life is crucial. Wouldāve loved the opportunity to see AC with that.
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AC with time to season would have been ideal. My concern with him now is the bad habbits have been wired into him. And it will take hours of drilling to undo those instincts. If he goes down to a mid tier G5 level he could get away with some of it but not at this level. Even with great playcalling things will go sideways and the instincts are off for him.
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But then again where is the potential really at for AC? All the guys you just mentioned were at the very least projectable, all above 6ā3 with good arm strength and just needed to learn good decision making.
Realistically what is ACās ceiling? Heās a decent scrambler but doesnāt have a good arm, doesnāt see the field well and makes poor decisions under pressure. You can work on those last two traits but thereās not a lot you can do with the first two. And is it really worth staking your program on a guy with those limitations when heās already a work in progress on the intangibles of the game?
247 saying anything good? Debating on subbing for the off season.
Considering the state of the program for the last twenty years, Iām willing to risk staking on a guy who may or may not work out than constantly rotate out new guys to go 4-8 every year.
I donāt know if Colandrea would have been the answer, but I think he would have had a better chance than the vast majority of everything from the past two decades (besides Bryce Perkins)
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Mostly just giving portal updates. Not looking pretty.
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For losing or gaining players?
Iāve never figured out navigating the 247 board. Most confusing board to me by far. People say thereās good info there, good luck finding it. Their reporters are very good though.
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Losing.
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On the same boat.
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Anything about staff and how big are the players we losing? Does one of them wear #5?
Am not gonna take specific names out because theyāre behind paywall threads, and thatās bad practice.
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