re: Telling Quote by John Diarse in Tigerbait article

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Sad part is, they were light years better than what we put out there this year.

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I would disagree with this. For a senior pupil of Jimbo Fisher, he was God awful. The only reason he played was because Russell wasn't ready. He made some plays, but the 1st quarter of the UF game he looked like Harris against AU.

My point in addressing your quote is that sometimes you miss, even when going by a plan. It happens. The staff took Rivers, brought in Mett, and thought they had Keihl wrapped up. Jennings was supposed to be a guy like the McMillan kid we are recruiting right now. He was a project, but had to play because out of the group we got, Keihl bailed (and did so at a point in the process that we didn't have a chance to bring in anyone else that year) Mett was great, but only had two years to start, and Rivers didn't develop and bailed too. People forget, but there was a backup plan. It just didn't work out.

If you look from Harris onward, they are laying a framework to have a progression of the same style QB from here on out. Hopefully they will retool the offense to match, and we will have continuity going forward.

As for Jennings, I think has was thrown in before he could be ready for what we did last year. He isn't built to run that any time soon. Neither is Harris. We won't know whether time would really help or not before throwing him into the fire because he's sitting in it now. Matt Mauck proved that it is possible to start absolutely horribly and look like you have 0 potential to pass the ball and get better. Randall is the flip side of that. Jennings probably sits on the Randall side of the equation, but we won't know that until he's done.