jbdphi
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Well, sure, people can come up with absurd examples and say what about this or what about that, but the reality is that this kid threw for 25 tds last year, which is 11 more than we had last year and 15 more than we had in 2010. both years we had 9 inteceptions. If we can cut down on the inteceptions slightly and still throw 25 tds, that's a pretty reasonable tradeoff. He also threw for over 3000 yards last year. Again for comparisons, UConn threw for 2300 last year and 1965 the year before. for what its worth, the last time UConn threw for over 3000 yards in a season, Dan Orlovsky was behind center. And he had 15 incerceptions and 23 touchdown passes. Didn't hear too much complaining about that. I don't know if this kid can put up those kinds of numbers at this level, but if he can make the passing game a real threat it will be well worth it.
Of course we all want the guy to be a success but let's not pretend that 14 picks at a Juco program is the same as at an FBS program. I agree wholeheartedly though on your last sentence. The threat of an actual passing game will help the team substantially. My only point in my previous posts was that statistics can be incredibly misleading. If a guy pads stats against weak competition but struggles against better teams, he still might end up with seemingly decent stats but it wouldn't really be representative of his entire performance.