Serious QB question...

[BigSpur]

So...I will fully admit I am not football coach, or recruiter, or even a self-annointed expert or even a novice for that matter.

Why is it that we cannot start a frosh or even soph QB? Connor would NEVER have played after the ECU game and if SG would have had even a mediocre season last year. We recruit these kids that are supposedly really really good HS QBs. Maybe not Hackenburg, or Murray, or Stafford or Barkley, but good enough to start for a LOT of D1 programs...but we get them and they disappear into the folds of the bench never to be heard from again until they transfer due to lack of playing time. Are they missed evals? Is it SOS being a hardass and that old boys club thing where you have to "pay your dues?" How is it Nosovitch is a year or two away from being ready to challenge for playing time?

Conner Mitch is a high 4 star QB. His film looks great. He'll enroll early. But will he even get a whiff of the field even after a spring, summer and fall? I dunno. I think this is a BIG reason SOS can't get a top QB here...that and missed evals. And what you're left with are Dylan Thompson and Seth Strickland. What do you guys think?

 

[FeatheredCock]

For better or worse, Steve Spurrier's playbook is a lot more complicated than pretty much any other coach's in the country.

This leads to the quarterback needing to almost eat, drink, and sleep in the playbook. It takes a very heady QB to run Spurrier's system. Arm strength and accuracy are minimal compared to the brain capacity it takes to play under Spurrier.

I think the complexity of the system is reasons that Blake Mitchell and Stephen Garcia always looked for WR1. It's very easy to second guess yourself if you don't fully know the playbook.

As far as QB's... Tommy Beecher, Reid McCollum, and Stephen Garcia were never committed to fully becoming a Spurrier QB. Beecher asked out of playing time, McCollum gave up football, and we know the Garcia story by now. I'm not sure Andrew Clifford is 100% committed, but he's sticking around. Aramis Hillary was a project that Spurrier took a chance on because we had an extra scholarship, and it just didn't work out. Chris Smelley, I don't know what happened there. Perhaps that could be considered a missed eval. Maybe David Reaves had something to do with all those failed QBs. He was probably assigned to talk to the QB recruits a lot more than Spurrier (and probably assigned the task of figuring out if they'd be able to handle playing under Spurrier). Dylan Thompson, I think he may have been considered more of a project, but he's a heady guy and a hard worker. Let's hope that shows up on the field.

Connor Shaw is the only guy out of this group that had any understanding of the playbook as a true freshman. That speaks volumes about Shaw's work ethic, but if Garcia would have done what he needed to do, Shaw couldn't have beaten out a 5th year senior as a true freshman. Garcia should've known the playbook as well as anyone on the team without the surname Spurrier.