re: Would Marc Helfrich's style work in the SEC?

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His previous two qbs were 1AA guys because he couldn't recruit and develop one. Alarming.

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His previous 2 were FBS guys because nobody worth anything wanted to sit behind Mariota indefinitely.

Bryan Bennett, Jake Rodrigues, Morgan Mahalak, Damion Hobbs and Jeff Lockie were all guys whose time overlapped Mariota. Bennett transferred first to SE Louisiana. Rodrigues and Lockie battled for #2, then Rodrigues transferred to San Diego State. Damion Hobbs left after spring ball. Mahalak was in the dog house for a couple years then transferred to Towson. He was left with Jeff Lockie, who did not perform under pressure.

Then he had Travis Jonsen, who got hurt in spring ball. So they got Vernon Adams from Eastern Washington who carried them part of a season. Then the start of this year it was Jeff Lockie, Travis Jonsen who'd been injured all his freshman year and never played, incoming freshmen Terry Wilson and Justin Herbert. So he got Dakota Prukop. Who might have been good since Alabama wanted him too.

In hindsight, yeah Helfrich had some "misses" at QB (or maybe it was Frost) but he also didn't get enough of them. Mariota's presence ran off the incumbent starter before Mariota ever played, then 2-3 guys who would have been his eventual successors.