Originally posted by wgjacket:
We got a quarterback on the bench that won seven games last years. If he had the same stats as our current quarterback everyone on this board would be yelling for his scalp. Compare this Clemson game with last year, if Gailey doens't call timeout before halftime we would of won. If AJ would of thrown an interception at FSU on the last drive we would of bad mouth him forever. Mark Bradley was right, I could not remember when so little respect was shown to a winning quarterback.
<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">Whatever you say.
He went 7-6, and the NC State game was the only game I saw that he did anything impressive.
Tony Hollings single handedly won the BYU game for us.
Otherwise, we beat 3 BAD teams in Duke, Vandy, and UConn.
The wins over UNC and UVA were pretty good, but please don't act like he was great for going 7-6. If he was so good, he wouldn't be backing up a true freshman.
And just for the record, I was one of the VERY few people who ever defended him on any of these message boards last year when he was playing so poorly, and I'm still appauled that he got booed on his home field.
However, he's not the guy for the job, and Ball is doing a good job with the opportunities he's been given. All things being equal, I would MUCH rather see him get some experience this year than have a 5th year senior out there producing the same record.