Agreed. Just not sure these are the right guys. And not sure if he knows how to coach them, even if they are. I'm optimistic, but the sample size of last year...ugh.
If you could answer those questions based on anything you saw last season, then I'd be sure that you've got better eyes than I do. I was just responding really to your comment about being a defensive guy, and maybe flaming out on offense. I don't think that Diaco needs to become an overnight Dana Holgersen offensive mind guru or something - to have success as a head coach. All he needs to do is be a good head coach, and that means really 2 things to me - when it comes to offense - #1. Setting the course for the ship so to say, that makes sense for co-ordinating and building game plans that involve all 3 phases of the game effectively, and then putting people in place to make it happen and most importantly - effectively monitoring it all so that expectations are high, and are being met. #2. and this was my point - if he's going to have success - it's highly correlated (not cauasation - for those that would correct me on it) that he find a good QB, and preferably, a good QB depth chart.
I like to believe that the guy is intelligent enough, and has the ability to self-critique enough, that all he'll need with game day decision making issues on offense is experience, and he's got a year under his belt already.
I just want winning football again - especially at home on our own field, and again to your point and mine - it's been a long time since we've had consistent, high level performance out of the QB position - obviously there is more to it all - but that is a very important piece of the puzzle. We haven't had sustained winning football for any extending amount of time really since the 2008-2009 seasons, never mind protecting home field. The 5-0 run in 2010, was nice, but lots of people forget how badly played to start that season 3-4. The excitement for the 2008 West Virginia game at home was AWESOME, but we laid a Randy Edsall egg in that game. I want Diaco to get to that level again, and then get over that hump. Quarterback. It's what Edsall lacked.