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[Steve Stone]

Skylar Dodds wrote:

>I think Ganz did pretty well too.  However, it kills me that some people
>think he's better than Keller.  Ganz made some great plays, but he REALLY
>missed some easy passes (and I'm not just talking about the INTs) that
>Keller would have hit (One he made up for by running the ball in the very
>next play).

I usually agree with Skylar's posts, but I'd like to make a couple of points:

1) Of course Ganz missed some easy passes, but so did Keller in every 
game, even with the benefit of plenty of playing time. Would Ganz 
have missed those easy shots if he had had Keller's game experience? 
No one can say, but I doubt it.
2) In my view, the two are not really comparable because while Keller 
does indeed have a stronger arm, Gant's much more mobile. Remember, 
the so-called WCO originated to take advantage of the skills of a 
mobile short-range qb.

>I like Ganz, I really do.  He's paid his dues and didn't complain at all
>from the sidelines and he's worked hard to be as good of a backup as he can
>be.  But Keller has a MUCH better arm and better vision and is a much more
>talented QB.

I think Keller's the better pro prospect due to his stronger arm, but 
as to having better vision, I'd like to have someone like, say, Dan 
Foutz, analyze it as I couldn't say so on the basis of what I saw on 
Saturday.

Talent is as talent does.

>Final Thought: If Purify can destroy the #1 CB in the Big XII, why did we
>wait until this week to throw to him more than 5 times?  It's a SHAME he
>doesn't have over 1,000 yards and 20 TDs...

That's just one of the many personnel mysteries to which we will 
probably never get a definitive answer.

Steve Stone