re: Jefferson's Legacy

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We've been spoiled recently with QBs that were wildly successful and instrumental in various ways to the program... Davey, Mauck, Russell, Flynn... they were all incredibly effective.

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Totally missed my point. Mauck was in reality no better a QB after the National Championship Game than he was before; it was purely a change in how he was perceived. That became his legacy; he was a great QB because he led us to the Championship. If Jefferson does the same, the result will be the same; however good he plays (which would presumably be at least somewhat better if we're going to manage a National Championship) the perception will be much better because he will have led us to a National Championship.

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He's unsure, hesitant, makes bad decision, and he's incredibly inaccurate.

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If he plays exactly the way he has the previous two years, and we still win the National Championship (which I find unlikely), he will still be perceived as being better because people will recall the big plays he makes along the way more so than the hesitation, inaccuracy and bad decisions. Just as much of Mauck's inaccuracy and poor decisions has been washed away by the memory of the National Championship win. Jefferson would most likely be recalled as not quite as good as Flynn or Mauck, but would become much more favorably compared to guys like Davey, Booty, Tyler, etc.