[Husker] Ganz

[Steve Stone]

Nick wrote:

(big snip)

>If you want to find fault with Billy C in this, I'd say it was his
>slavish dedication to his prototype QB, three step drop and throw,
>despite what his line was actually allowing him to do.  As we saw
>after Sam went down, Joe is best when he moves.  His drop back passing
>is fairly average (tends to strong arm the ball and it rises on him),
>but get him moving and his accuracy and completion percentage goes up.
>  He admits this himself - he sees his strength as moving and throwing.
>  Where I sit, the problem was not with Billy C's evaluation of talent;
>since the competition was so close, Billy C knew he had two good
>quarterbacks with different skills, but chose to stay with the NFL
>prototype over the kid who could take advantage of the lapses in line
>play.  Was that due to promises made to Sam and his Dad?  In part I
>would assume (but that's sort of open to conjecture because we don't
>really know), but I think a majority of the blame lies in Billy C's
>arrogance and firm belief that his 'system' could overcome.  The
>'system' ultimately didn't fail, but his prototype QB wasn't the
>answer.

Thank you, Nick, for making my case better than I could have.

Best wishes,

Steve