CALiforniALUM said:Statements like these make me wonder how long you have followed college football. It is way more common than not to have a coaching staff establish a culture of competition in Spring camp only to pivot in Fall camp to name the depth chart at every position.fat_slice said:
My fear is that this sounds a lot like last year. They had no timetable to determine the QB and they in fact were never able to figure it out. In the first game they played three quartbacks.
If they don't name a starter soon in fall camp, I fear that no one again is separating themselves and that's a bad sign. Much higher probability of having all subpar QBs than all good to decent ones.
They have a new QB on the team in Modster, what kind of message would it send to other QBs on the team that Modster is the No. 1 when nobody has seen him throw? That would be unfair to the returning players. Likewise what message would it send to Modster to indicate that the No. 1 QB job is somebody elses, without anybody having seen what Modster can do and where he may stack up. That would be unfair to Modster. The idea here is to create a competition that raises all boats. Who ultimately starts or is No. 1 is an unnecessary decision at this point.
You are right - I'm not a football guru nor a college football historian... just a cal football fan. I'm not looking for the decision to be made at the start of spring practice. I'm just saying that the coaches could not decide who the best quartback was until several weeks into the season last year. That means either all the QBs are bad or they don't know and can't coach up talent. So here we are and they are again saying that they probably won't pick a starter until game day. I understand coach speak ... all I'm saying is that if no one breaks out of this competition, I fear last years QB play is what we will be replicated this year.
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