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OK, so mount them on their chests or shoulders or something instead of their caps?
What about the chain gang -- the line-to-gain and down indicators? They're always positioned at the line of scrimmage and the line to gain. Couldn't they mount cameras on those?
And if he's serviceable but not a super star, then what?
Burning it, then essentially not playing him had no real upside.
All the time as in once? Leal was unprepared. Motley looked fine to me as a backup
Motley's preparedness wasn't as much of an issue as the play calling when he was in the game.
+1.
I have no problem with believing that he cares about the players he helped recruit. I should have added that to my comment.
Happens once, I understand. Happens all the time then we have an issue especially when you see Motley doing well with a full compliment of practices.
I've got faith in Fuente. Lawson wouldn't be the first QB to think he can coast to the starting spot. If he does, then Fuente will get someone else ready.
I really hope Motley doesn't transfer. He's important Lawson insurance. Unless Fuente thinks Motley can't handle it.
I think you have a great perspective on the situation
With a QB that had made no starts and had thrown almost no passes in his college career. Outside of the Pitt game, which was a disaster on the o-line, the offense was able to move the ball but the defense couldn't make stops when it needed to. Just because we didn't win a lot of games doesn't mean the offense didn't adjust to Motley's skill set like you think it does. We ran more read option plays and more deep routes to take advantage of his arm strength and hide his inaccuracy in short range throws.
Yep, agreed. If Lawson thinks that he is just going to be handed the starting job he is in for a rude awakening. Fortunately I have faith that he knows he is going to have to earn it.
Motley proved to at least be able to throw in his run as the starter. Whenever he wasn't the starter, though, he seemed wholly unprepared to do anything but run.
Yeah, I noticed he was more engaged by the UVA game.
He's got a chance. Fuente is the QB whisperer. Cornelsen is a very talented position coach. But I imagine that there is a Plan A (Lawson takes the role) and a Plan B (maybe Motley for a year, Jackson or someone else in 2016). I still expect Fuente will find another QB for this recruiting class to compete with Jackson.
Adjusted the comparison up top to apples-to-apples
There was a better chance of him transferring if there wasn't a coaching change. He isn't going anywhere now, and has already stated that he is staying (he talked to VT fans after the UVA game and stated that he wasn't going anywhere.)
Also, FWIW he was back standing and celebrating with rest of the team on the sidelines during the UVA game.
What difference does it make?
IF he turns out to be that good, he'll only stay at the school for 3 years with or without the "shirt".
We went 3-3 starting with Motely, losing to ECU, Pitt, and Miami, a win being against Furman. I'm not sure I would call that success?
Not to mention we had an all time low in offensive yardage achieved vs. Pitt...
Lawson was promised that he wouldn't be redshirted
technically he wasn't redshirted.. but we did waste 1 whole year for him to take 23 snaps with 60% of those being qb keepers which a freshmen in high school could have ran.
If true then wtf is Motley doing taking snaps? Once Brewer goes down Lawson should have been in. You can say you don't throw a true freshmen into a game like that but we threw Motley into the same shitty situation and he was just as fresh as Lawson. Why not get Lawson real reps vs a top 10 team and see what he can do in a half. We had an easy 2 weeks to get Lawson ready with Furman & Purdue. If in those games he shows he isn't up to it then take him out and we go Motley.
2-3 I can agree with..
...and Loeffler cares about these guys. He wants them to do well. I'm sure he sees that he has left good talent here and that there is quality offensive coaching coming in to utilize that talent.
Scot Loeffler may be a lot of things, but he's not an asshole. He clearly cares about his QB's.
If he is as good as people say and we hope..... He aint staying 5 years.
It wont matter in the long run if he was red shirted or not.
I was hearing this very same thing about Lawson all year from people inside the Ath Dept who are frequently at practice, literally to the exact words that Lefty used in the quote above...
Not sure this is a "someone's to blame situation" as much as "it is what it is". The little things matter, if he wasn't doing the little things with regularity, you can't expect the team to throw him out there more in games. He probably projected all world when he showed up and they had a month to decide whether to use him or not, then he didn't execute in practice quite as well and progress the way they had expected based on his first few weeks, and a decision had to be made. "It is what it is." New coaches, new start, hopefully he improves and takes the strides he needs to in order to confidently put him into games next year.
Brewer, go to SMU.
