I've went through this a many of times already, but I'll say it again -- Cody is completely green (no pun intended) as a passer. He has quite a ways to go, regardless of the stats he put up. His offense in HS was so simplistic and relied heavily upon YAC guys like Dugat. I wish they kept YAC stats in high school for a guy like Dugat.
Agree on the between Witt and Lee battle. I think what some people here are forgetting is the reason we have Spring football. It is not to prepare a freshman to start at quarterback. It is to prepare the #2 guy who saw little real action the year before. Do you really believe the coaches are going to waste the Spring giving all the important practice time with the first team to a H.S. kid just because he has great athleticism. Next Spring will be the chance to do a majority of the work with Witt and Lee, now that Joe is gone, to make sure one of them is ready.
Witt fumbled two snaps in a game he was in earlier this season. I forget who it was against. Then today, he had a really close call there that could have cost us the game.
Forgot the fumbled snaps. But the run today, anybody could have lost the ball on that hit. He'll be fine by the start of next season as long as we don't open with USC.
my money is on either Zac Lee or Patrick Witt with Spano as maybe if he has a big spring.
I've went through this a many of times already, but I'll say it again -- Cody is completely green (no pun intended) as a passer. He has quite a ways to go, regardless of the stats he put up. His offense in HS was so simplistic and relied heavily upon YAC guys like Dugat. I wish they kept YAC stats in high school for a guy like Dugat.
Cody also has to work heavily on his throwing motion. You can search where I talked about this before, because I'm entirely too lazy to copy and paste that again.
But this is worth repeating -- STOP PUTTING SO MUCH PRESSURE ON THESE RECRUITS! After Lucky, Beck, Leon Jackson, Dillard, Bowman, Andre Jones, Picou, Murtha, Asante, etc., we would learn that all recruits will not live up to this insane hype the recruiting websites put on these kids. Some of them even had solid careers and some flamed out hard, but they came nowhere close to the 'stud' status we all wanted them to be.
A kid like Cody Green is almost like a Jamarkus McFarland. If you follow Rivals, McFarland is the 20th best recruit in the country. However, McFarland is so damm raw that there is no way he can compete from day 1. He puts up his stats and is a terror, but he gets by solely on athleticism and strength. Like McFarland, Cody gets by mostly on his athleticism playing against some bad competition. But also like McFarland, Cody has unbelievable upside that needs to be developed over time.
It's almost like a baby out of the womb. You don't make it walk on day 1.
Starting Cody on day 1 not only cheats Cody out of a great year of development he needs to become the player he can be, but it cheats the program out of an even better version of Cody we can get.
Plus is Cody is the talent most believe he is, he will take over the world after a RS season, win 4 Heismans, solve the Middle East crisis and fix the economy. He can do all of that in 4 years, even with that RS season.
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I've went through this a many of times already, but I'll say it again -- Cody is completely green (no pun intended) as a passer. He has quite a ways to go, regardless of the stats he put up. His offense in HS was so simplistic and relied heavily upon YAC guys like Dugat. I wish they kept YAC stats in high school for a guy like Dugat.
Cody also has to work heavily on his throwing motion. You can search where I talked about this before, because I'm entirely too lazy to copy and paste that again.
But this is worth repeating -- STOP PUTTING SO MUCH PRESSURE ON THESE RECRUITS! After Lucky, Beck, Leon Jackson, Dillard, Bowman, Andre Jones, Picou, Murtha, Asante, etc., we would learn that all recruits will not live up to this insane hype the recruiting websites put on these kids. Some of them even had solid careers and some flamed out hard, but they came nowhere close to the 'stud' status we all wanted them to be.
A kid like Cody Green is almost like a Jamarkus McFarland. If you follow Rivals, McFarland is the 20th best recruit in the country. However, McFarland is so damm raw that there is no way he can compete from day 1. He puts up his stats and is a terror, but he gets by solely on athleticism and strength. Like McFarland, Cody gets by mostly on his athleticism playing against some bad competition. But also like McFarland, Cody has unbelievable upside that needs to be developed over time.
It's almost like a baby out of the womb. You don't make it walk on day 1.
Starting Cody on day 1 not only cheats Cody out of a great year of development he needs to become the player he can be, but it cheats the program out of an even better version of Cody we can get.
Plus is Cody is the talent most believe he is, he will take over the world after a RS season, win 4 Heismans, solve the Middle East crisis and fix the economy. He can do all of that in 4 years, even with that RS season.
