Nice to read the comments..agreeable or not...on my original posting. I do think Ganz is an alright QB. But he needs to do what many of you have said and just concentrate on getting better instead of commenting on "slights" that he perceives from fans and previous coaches. We all want the same thing..the best player to play PERIOD. If it is Ganz...great. If it is someone else..great. I don't second guess coaches pulling the trigger on who starts. They have more riding on their decisions than we do after all.
To those of you who think Callahan started Keller last year because of his friendship with his father, I disagree. I honestly believe that Callahan thought Keller outplayed Ganz in the practices. For Callahan to risk his coaching career by playing someone who he thought was not the best QB (Keller in this case) would be odd. I remember that Keller played pretty well in the Spring game last year and certainly looked like he was good enough before his injury. As many others have said, Keller was in the same boat that Ganz was in as far as playing from behind in almost every game and having to try to score. It just didn't seem like it earlier in the year because you had higher expectations for the team and defense. Was it either Keller's or Ganz's fault that the Defense was so horrendous that they felt so much pressure to score every time to compensate?
I would say Ganz was just below Keller on the depth chart and something that helped Keller (and is helping Ganz this year) is his EXPERIENCE in playing in D1 games. If not for that, Ganz would have more of a fight on his hands. I still think Zac Lee is a better QB and will probably show it when it is his time to start...whether that be this year or next year. It could be Witt too by then.
I just want Ganz to stop talking about any "slight" he feels and play the best he can. Or actually better than that.
i agree with just wanting the guy to play, but when looking at how he played last year you have to look at the circumstances that he played in. as a few posters have mentioned we were playing from behind in all of those games except for kstate. you will throw interceptions when you are playing from behind and the D knows you are going to pass!
Kellers completion percentage was overblown due to the fact that he always threw to the iback (took the easy throw because he was afraid to throw downfield).
The same goes for ganz if we arent playing from behind this year, you can automatically expect his touchdowns, interceptions, and basically every number to be down a bit. when you throw the ball more you have more of a chance for your completion percentage to be low, with less throwing this year (as long as it is still a reasonable number) you will see ganzs completion percentage increase.
both keller and ganz are better qbs than most on this board give them credit for, however they are a different type of qb from each other and it shows. ganz will be a MUCH more productive qb than keller was this coming year, even though lee or witt will probably get more playing time throughout the year than ganz had last year.
anyone who has coached football as i currently do could see that keller was being held back last year and if it wasnt obvious enough that callahan was holding back the qbs you could really tell when he yelled at ganz for taking off and running even though he scored a td. if keller had not been held back i think he would have also been a very productive qb.
judging from what i have seen, i would rather have ganz as my qb than keller anyday just because he presents a greater threat to a defense.
i do think that either lee or witt could step up and take the job but i also think that ganz definitely deserves the chance to be starting and get most of the snaps.
