This one's a little long but I took my maroon-tinted glasses off to write it so I really do hope all you t-sips read it...
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I can't stress this one fact enough: Vince has started for One and a half seasons, and Reggie has pleyd for 3 seasons. Yet ags still try to compare stats between the two by giving Reggie that extra year+ experience. If you want to compare stats, look at Vince this year and Reggie last year....
Switch, the only reason I don't count this is the fact that Reggie spent all of one season learning an offense his rookie year and then had to completely wipe the slate and start over again when Fran's regime came in. The truth is, our offensive (and defensive for that matter) schemes are a bit complicated for anyone to learn, and once he got them down it was like he was a freshman all over again.
POINT 1: I think of next season as only his second since he wasn't even consistently the starter until last year and had to learn a whole new offense the year before.
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If VY played on normal D 1 teams where there were not huge lanes and he had to actually sit back and read defenses - he would suck.
Maybe, but I believe that if he played for a Pac 10 or ACC team he probably would have won quite a few games for them just with his feet, and possibly with a few passes. The disparity in defensive talent from the Big 12 to any of the lesser conferences is staggering, and I don't think there's anyone who doesn't believe that a stud running back playing QB could wipe up the field with some of those "defenses" out there in D1.
POINT 2: Vince Young's athleticism is definitely a huge advantage, especially against the slower defenses you play. In fact, I believe it may be the difference-maker against Ohio State this year (unless they really planned well) but IMO would rarely be enough to beat a fast and strong SEC or Big 12 defense on its own.
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I would love to hear what games you think he tried to lose.
Well he did a good job trying on T+1, if you ask me. As I recall it was Benson and your defense who won that one against us, despite the goal-line fiasco at the end of the first half. There were other times that he showed his weaknesses and teams were able to take advantage of them, but the other huge strengths on your team bailed him out (but then what are team-mates for?)
POINT 3: Vince made some big mistakes which would take him out of consideration for the Heisman IMO, but because he is part of a ridiculously talented team those mistakes didn't come back to haunt him (except for OU, but you can't blame losing to Stoops on VY).
Here is a big reason he won't do well in the NFL; he just can't seem to get that Swoosh right-side up for the photo-ops. He's going to change a lot of bad habits he's learned under Mack Brown to succeed at any position in the NFL. Eric Crouch was an amazing college QB, but where is he now? Wearing crappy clothes to a Heisman awards show and shucking corn on his daddy's farm.
POINT 4: As an athlete, few come close to Vince Young's talent, at ANY level. However, I believe that NFL coaches and coordinators will be frustrated by his lack of football knowledge and spend many long nights going over film and game plans to get him to where he needs to be.
Final Conclusion: Would I love to have Vince Young playing for the good guys? Absolutely. Would he do better at QB in our system than Reggie? Probably not, we don't have the beasts on the line to protect him. Would Reggie do better in t.u.'s offense? I think so, but only because he's already throwing well with little protection (4 INT's all last season???). If he had your monsters on the OLine protecting him, I think t.u. would be in MNC contention last season.
