Ha! To each his own:
You clearly don't hope you're wrong because your only concern is defending the move to keep Clifford.
Most would...in 2022 though was Kentucky better at any position on offense? Levis played well in 2021 IMO
I guess that if a rookie quarterback takes his team to the playoffs and wins the first round game, that is mediocrity. But in my mind, that's not too bad. Wouldn't you give a kid like that another year to prove himself?
Maybe. But his career experience amounts to “Pennsyltucky”. 🤣
Don’t have to; you are the one with the reading comprehension problem. Let me try to explain it in terms your feeble mind can hopefully grasp. People can hope Levis has a successful NFL career while pointing out that he didn’t play better at Kentucky than Clifford did at PSU. Some of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.
That wasn't the discussion. The discussion was the talent they had around him. It doesn't matter if Levis was better at Kentucky or Clifford was better at Penn State. It's who would have been better at Penn State.
I am really confused here. Methinks you have to define ‘played better’.
But Levis wasn’t better at PSU…if he had been, Clifford would have transferred. That’s kind of the point.
Pro scouts don’t care as much about who played better as they do who they feel has the better tools and better potential. A lot of LB’s played better than Parsons in college, but who got drafted higher?
Terrible example. Micah got screwed by the Wuhan virus, the B2G and Pa. Would have killed it in 2020 had it been a normal season.
Probably would have, but the point is he didn’t yet still got drafted high. How about another example…Danny Wuerffel…not many played better than him in college yet he didn’t get drafted until the fourth round.
Coaches don't always make the correct evaluation. Who knows if Levis would have been better or was better on practice. The point is where they're at now.
Because Wuerffel was surrounded by elite talent so his success was more about those around him. Same argument one would make for Bennett. They theory is if you put Wuerffel in Vandy during those years he's awful.
Clifford was the right choice…..for that time. He had all ready started for a full year, which makes a huge difference. He was better at the RPO which we were running a lot of then…..while Levis is a great straight ahead runner he doesn’t have the shiftiness and quickness the RPO requires of a QB. And we had a terrible O line which means we needed a QB that could scramble a lot.
I totally disagree and I love the guy. He is a legend in SE Ohio when he won the HS state championship for St. Xavier with a dislocated shoulder.
Running straight ahead on a called play is completely different than doing a RPO read, making the quick cuts, scrambling around. Levis is not an RPO guy. In this year’s offense he would have been better than Clifford ….but that was yesterday and yesterday is gone.
And I'm not saying Franklin made the wrong choice. I think Levis leaving greatly benefited him. I'm not convinced we don't win more games if Levis was the starter for 2021 and 2022 than we did with Clifford but the reality is no one knows. It's all just an assumption.
I think that's a good point. A better choice is not the same as "wrong choice". SC was a good QB and really played well in the Rose Bowl. He was a gamer with limited physical abilities. He is just like the last few QBs we've had in Trace and Matt McGloin. With QBs like that, you have to have gamers someplace else. With Trace, it was Saquon. But the offense is really limited with they gamer is limited in the number of touches they get. If you have a great athlete at QB, that is a big advantage. PSU hasn't had that in quite some time...perhaps Robinson IMHO.
Well said, and I honestly believe Allar has the potential to be our best QB since Kerry Collins. That's probably not fair to him but the next 2-3 years are going to be fun seeing what he's capable of doing. Hopefully, he gets to hear his name called on Day 1 of the 2025 draft.
I can't see this guy's replies because I ignored him months ago but stop replying to him. I can tell from your response that he has his classic agenda, backhanding PSU by inferring it is the idiots at PSU and Franklin of course who had no clue about Levis and the juggernaut that he is. And spinning his Kentucky performance like he is the next Elway. Joke. He is as predictable as the sun will rise with his lame takes.
that all may be true. But WL if going to go in the first round of the NFL draft while SC may not get drafted at all.
Then why didn’t any colleges recruit Levis out of high school (except Franklin)? With all that talent dripping off him someone should have scooped him up. Clifford was better at PSU had a better year than Levis had at UK. I guess you can’t understand that Levis is being drafted based on potential, not what he’s done.
I've said countless times he's being drafted on that potential
No one recruited him out of high school, so apparently the potential wasn’t there at that point.
Everyone missed it? Then the coach that did recruit him didn’t think he was good enough to start…and all the coaches on the staff didn’t think he was good enough…that’s a lot of people missing it. And when he gets drafted high and does nothing in the NFL, who will have missed it then?
