Once again, there are very, very few schools that have a very good record with QBs. One question to all you supposed QB experts...if there have been so many great college QBs, then where are they in the pros. It is laughable on Sunday to watch all but a handful of teams play Quarterback Musical Chairs with their starting QBs and most of the time, injuries have nothing to do with it. But hey, if you must whine about something, I guess you might as well pick QBs. All I can say is that LSU has mostly signed 4* guys from HS. QB is simply the hardest position to project from HS to college.

IMO, the best LSU QB since Tommy Hodson would have been Zach Lee. I saw him play multiple games in person and he had it all....intelligence...cannon of an arm...great mobility...looked off receivers...threw a nice fade route which means he had touch....good, timely decision making...etc, etc, etc. But yeah, it was clearly Les Miles fault that the Dodgers owner paid Z Lee $5,000,000 when that spot should have been $1,000,000 and that Z Lee had a great SR season when his baseball projected round was like the 5th after his JR HS baseball season. Clearly Les Miles fault all of that happened.

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Posted by Vito Andolini

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Posted on 12/16/14 at 3:59 pm to Purple with Gold

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Once again, there are very, very few schools that have a very good record with QBs. One question to all you supposed QB experts...if there have been so many great college QBs, then where are they in the pros. It is laughable on Sunday to watch all but a handful of teams play Quarterback Musical Chairs with their starting QBs and most of the time, injuries have nothing to do with it. But hey, if you must whine about something, I guess you might as well pick QBs. All I can say is that LSU has mostly signed 4* guys from HS. QB is simply the hardest position to project from HS to college.

IMO, the best LSU QB since Tommy Hodson would have been Zach Lee. I saw him play multiple games in person and he had it all....intelligence...cannon of an arm...great mobility...looked off receivers...threw a nice fade route which means he had touch....good, timely decision making...etc, etc, etc. But yeah, it was clearly Les Miles fault that the Dodgers owner paid Z Lee $5,000,000 when that spot should have been $1,000,000 and that Z Lee had a great SR season when his baseball projected round was like the 5th after his JR HS baseball season. Clearly Les Miles fault all of that happened.

You seem to be missing the point, Sport. No one is arguing that other schools put QB's in the pros year after year, I would limit the discussion to college, and the fact remains that Les has a bad track record of getting production out of QB's that he has recruited. JaMarcus and Matt were already on the roster when he got here, and both had great college careers. After that, we really only had a season and a half of solid QB play (end of Mett's junior season and his senior season, which, while it wasn't perfect, was an overall success).

So in 10 years, Les has recruited one good college QB, Mett. That was my original point, and it still remains a fact, regardless of how many other schools have had trouble finding good QB's. You listed a number of examples of failed college QB's, yet there are also, lots of examples of coaches getting good production out of QB's who were relative unknowns in high school (e.g. Nick Marshall being perhaps the best example lately).

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