Agree on still being bullish on Heupel. But one point worth noting… The QB not being good is 1000% on Heupel. Everybody that knows anything about football assumed this year would go exactly the way it has went because of the quarterback plate. The quarterback either has it or they don’t. When you see a guy that’s a third or fourth year player take 75+ snaps over the course of a couple of games… You’re generally able to say whether they have it or not. 90+ percent of our Fanbase felt he didn’t have it. He’s horrifically inconsistent as a passer, he isn’t a guy that makes explosive/athletic plays with his legs, and maybe worst of all doesn’t have a great mentor game (making intelligent decisions at times, knowing where the pressure is coming from, throwing the ball on time…)
We can’t give heupel a pass just because the qb is terrible. WTF is his deal with Milton? How different might the narrative be on heupel head? Milton never showed up here? It was really bizarre that it felt as if there was a little to no competition going back into his first season. Milton trotted out and took the first nap and no matter how horrific he was in that first game and a half, nobody else ever sniffed the field until he was injured. then, within about 20 offense of snacks, you recognized that hooker had all three of the major skills that we hadn’t seen in Milton. It was blatantly obvious there wasn’t a fair unbiased competition and for him because Milton and Hooker aren’t in the same stratosphere as players.
How could a quarterback guru not recognize the difference in an A+ future NFL player in an absolute garbage player that should be playing at the lower levels of cfb? It makes no sense.
Not only should Milton have never started ahead of Hooker to begin with but… Heupel should have easily recognized (what we all saw) in that Milton would never be a great quarterback here, and made a plan for life after Hooker. There were a number of good players in the portal and we had Tavon Jackson, who went through a year in the program. But Jackson knew it was going to be Miltons job, and there is no amount of trash play by Milton (or spectacular play by Jackson) that would change this fact. Josh Heupel was gonna die on that Hill. So he did what was unquestionably right for him and left.
So we could’ve been prepping T Jackson or gotten a guy from the portal over the last 2 cycles. But we didn’t. Heupel was always going to hand this years qb job to Milton on a silver platter.
Why?
Am I the only one that feels Heupel’s unwillingness or inability to recognize Milton for what he is is bizarre? He’s literally tied his entire legacy as a head coach to this 1 terrible qb. Move on man my god. If you’re going to struggle at quarterback play, why in the ever living hell are we not doing that with a guy that is the future here? Nico is going to come in next year with absolutely zero experience.
