Had Allar started against Purdue...
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Saban and Swinney immediately come to mind. Possibly even Harbaugh as well, but time will tell regarding his decision from earlier this year.
Franklin played McSorley too much for too long, causing him to be dinged up and less effective at times, and same thing with Clifford. And nobody will ever really know regarding Stevens and Levis. We are potentially very thin at QB, at least on paper, and it's due to Franklin's management, or lack thereof, basically since he got the job, with one fluke conference title to show for it.
They started Clifford, so my guess is they thought Allar had a better chance of losing than Clifford.
Not a coach in the world would keep someone on the bench so they wouldn’t play better than the starter…that’s just stupid talk.
A coach who chased off two quality QBs was not going to admit (nor have exposed) the error of his ways in year 6. He was all in on Clifford this year purely out of stubbornness.
So they had a terrible season with the same exact record as PSU, and were within one point of an additional win? Not sure what point you are trying to make, but nothing new there.
With that said, I was talking more about the Lawrence situation.
No I said they botched their QB situation. They also lost to 2 average teams getting g blown out by one
Handling one situation right doesn't mean he didn't royally screw up Klubnik/DJU.
I remember years ago at a Cavs game saying to my friend, I would be willing to walk up and down the court for a couple hundred thousand dollars! I can't tell you how many Cav games I watched where LBJ didn't hustle. Professionals owe it to their team, owners and fans to hustle on every play. I played harder in pickup games than some of these spoiled, dissatisfied pro players/millionaires.
Clifford has ended up with a better career than Stevens. That also dispels the senioritis theory.
Levis has ended up with a similar career, but is considered a better draft prospect.
Did I miss the part where Stevens and/or Levis got to spend 6 full years in the same program? You may think you know, but nobody actually ever will. But we know what we got with Clifford.
Wrong. He didn’t chase anyone off, they got beat out, plain and simple. Neither were as good as Clifford.
Had Levis stayed, and the season played out as was, he's the starter from 2nd quarter of Iowa on. He potentially does enough to win 10 or 11 games that year.
He transferred. He's got 1st round hype. Seemingly worked well for all involved.
Stevens is who he is. A gadget play QB. Not big enough for TE. Not a good enough route runner for WR. He's bounced all over. That argument is played out.
