UConn, since Orlovsky, has had the worst development and recruiting of QB imaginable. I think a lot of the kids we brought in were just not talented enough and then we never saw anyone excel. It's a putrid 10+ years.
These 4? I am optimistic. We have kids that I think can step up and play; they aren't grabbing a kid that is a big reach. I cannot think of many that edge out this quartet of candidates. (except that damn kid who starred at Fordham ... and Cunniff) Seriously, I think we might have something here.
Part of that was self inflicted. When we made the bump up to the Big East conference, Edsall turned the offense into a one-dimensional shell of a playbook that involved at most a dozen plays and as the offense became more and more one-dimensional, it sure appeared that Edsall had more and more trouble filling in the skill positions other than RB and FB. Negative feedback cycle of sorts.
It's also the nature of the QB position, that players move around and an injury can change things dramatically (or not getting an injury). If you have a player that can play the position for multiple years, there are going to be other players in the depth chart that if they want playing time - are going to get antsy in the pantsy.
To my knowledge since Orlovsky, Chandler Whitmer is the only QB to come out of UCONN that has taken an NFL snap in practice or any way otherwise. He was in an Eagles rookie camp. Nebrich at Fordham, Box I think played at a 1-AA school.
The best QB we've had since Orlovsky was a transfer out of Notre Dame that was 4th on the depth chart there, and he threw the football equivalent of Wakefield knuckleball. Before that Tyler Lorenzen couldn't throw to hit the side of a barn. Our projected starter right now, is a transfer out of NC State,and for a few years now, we've actually had QB's that can throw a ball mechanically pretty well. that's only the physical aspect of the position though. Frazer was a great QB, and couldn't throw as was Lorenzen.
We're not going to draw polished QB's out of high school programs very well, until we can demonstrate an offense on the field, that said type of QB will want to play in.
