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Under Tom Jackson, (1-aa), Matt DeGennarro as QB was quite an accomplished passer and led a high scoring balanced offense for four years.
The same could be said for Skip Holtz (1-aa), and Shane Stafford (QB) who led the program to first post season play ever.
Both of those coaches were able to recruit talented QB's who could perform admirably at that skill level of play.
Cornelius Benton was the better QB, but Matt kept raising his game and never gave a reason to change the depth chart. Corny started a few games as underclassmen when Matt went out with an injury against North Carolina, but as soon as he could DeGennaro was back in. Benton got one year as a starter after DeGennaro graduated and ended up as a late round draft pick of the Steelers. Didn't last in the NFL - but he was there. The QB that came after, and before Stafford is a pretty high level administrator at a high school in Bergen County. I wonder if Diaco knows that....anyway. Stafford never really got any looks from anyone for the NFL, and that's a shame because I think he could have made it. He had a pretty good arena football career with another All American from UCONN - Carl Bond - out of New Haven.
The transition years from 1998-2000 were rough under Edsall, but he recruited Orlovsky and we had very good QB play from 2001-2005, Edsall brought in some decent QB prospects, but didn't bring in the complete package at QB after Orlovsky 2006-2010, and still counting looking for that high level production at that position.
We're starting a FNG at QB again this season. 10 years since Orlovsky left. Frazer was the closest to the complete package since.
It's unfortunate that Casey's career ended early, he had the tools to compete.