Green and Lee however has been a much tighter battle. They're essentially equal other than the fact that Lee has had more experience and they use him to manage the game. Since the coaches are obviously flirting with the idea of putting him into the game, that means they think he can do just as good if not better than Lee. Hence, play Green the whole game and see what he can do (unless he royally fu#*$ up of course) to give him the experience that Lee has had.
Dude, Green and Lee are "essentially equal" only in your mind.
Coaches looked to Green for a spark midseason, then pulled him as soon as the going got tough. Talked about how they worked Green into the gameplan for several games, but never got around to putting him in because Lee gave us the
best chance to win in games that turned out to be tight.
And if you think Lee can't run it, you haven't been paying attention. Lee is faster AND shiftier than Green, who needs time to get into open space before he can become a running threat at all. Green may be more of a runner based on mentality, but you think the offense is going to be affording him those opportunities against a quality team?
I know people don't like Lee for what happened this year, but flip the roles and have Green struggle and start, and it'd be just the opposite.
Just because something isn't very good doesn't mean every other possible alternative is better. Green has shown only flashes of potential, and Lee is still head-and-shoulders above Green in terms of giving us a chance to win. But I guess you still maintain a victory in this game is secondary to getting a potential future quarterback some experience.
Neither Lee or Green deserves to be called very good at this point. But like Blackshirt said, Lee is better now. Why can't he be better next year? Why do people assume Cody is just going to make a quantum leap in understanding and ability?
To JTrain, it's true we've shown very little rhythm for the most part this year. But in any offense, the GOAL is to establish a rhythm. Without it, good luck winning any games. It's difficult enough for us to establish rhythm, as is. By rotating QBs around freely, it only makes it tons harder to do. The only reason to rotate a QB in is in hopes of finding a spark (or to keep the starter from having a mental breakdown). We've tried that (both) with Green this year, and he hasn't shown he can give us that spark. Why throw away any chance we have of getting some rhythm started?
So we'd be putting Green in only just to get his feet wet, which is all well and good when we're pounding a Sun Belt opponent into garbage time, but when we're trying to win an important bowl game against a solid Pac-10 opponent, I just want them to play to win the game.
*To add, it's an exceedingly tough pill to swallow, how lousy our offensive output has been this year. The regression and injuries to the O-line, the hurt RBs, lazy and incapable WRs, and out-of-it QB play. But that's what we have to accept and can only hope for better parts next year, instead of trying to believe that some other offensive scheme would have made these same guys into an explosive offense or something.
