[Austroturf]

If I were betting I would bet that West starts again.

I agree 100% with the Phogge-meister, because to start McKee would be tantamount to acknowledging that Shaw made the wrong choice in Week 1, starting West. And Shaw, like Trump, WILL NOT ADMIT THAT HE WAS WRONG. He's that stubborn.

If there's one thing that we know to a certainty about Shaw, it's that he is willing to change his starting QB during the season. He has done it three times. He clearly is not too stubborn to make a QB change.

Correct.  But he sometimes does it too late.  In 2012, we had losses to UW and Notre Dame before Hogan took the reins in game 9 against Colorado and won every game the rest of the season.  In 2016, as I have noted, we had three losses before Shaw made the switch to Chryst for game 8, which resulted in six straight victories.  In 2017, Costello stepped in for the injured Chryst for two games (UCLA, ASU, both victories), then was relegated to back-up for three games (Utah, Oregon, Oregon State), then finally got the starting nod against WSU in game 9 of the season.  I remain convinced that giving Costello the starting role after his success against UCLA and ASU would have resulted in a better record.  But we will never know.  So Shaw makes changes, but only when he is up against the wall.  

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If I were betting I would bet that West starts again.

And that would be such a travesty.  Let the raw kid play now and earn his stripes.  He is currently the only future we have at QB (if he doesn't get injured).  

Has there ever been an example of a team platooning QBs that was successful?  When Stanford did it with Burns and Chryst, we were 4-3 before Shaw finally handed the reins to Chryst, who then went on to win five straight (with a sixth technically coming in the Sun Bowl when he got injured).

Actually there is. Washington won the NC in 1991 platooning QB's.

Thanks for the info.  This one example show that success with platooning QBs is indeed rare.

[Austroturf]

If I were betting I would bet that West starts again.

I agree 100% with the Phogge-meister, because to start McKee would be tantamount to acknowledging that Shaw made the wrong choice in Week 1, starting West. And Shaw, like Trump, WILL NOT ADMIT THAT HE WAS WRONG. He's that stubborn.

If there's one thing that we know to a certainty about Shaw, it's that he is willing to change his starting QB during the season. He has done it three times. He clearly is not too stubborn to make a QB change.

Correct.  But he sometimes does it too late.  In 2012, we had losses to UW and Notre Dame before Hogan took the reins in game 9 against Colorado and won every game the rest of the season.  In 2016, as I have noted, we had three losses before Shaw made the switch to Chryst for game 8, which resulted in six straight victories.  In 2017, Costello stepped in for the injured Chryst for two games (UCLA, ASU, both victories), then was relegated to back-up for three games (Utah, Oregon, Oregon State), then finally got the starting nod against WSU in game 9 of the season.  I remain convinced that giving Costello the starting role after his success against UCLA and ASU would have resulted in a better record.  But we will never know.  So Shaw makes changes, but only when he is up against the wall.  

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If I were betting I would bet that West starts again.

And that would be such a travesty.  Let the raw kid play now and earn his stripes.  He is currently the only future we have at QB (if he doesn't get injured).  

Has there ever been an example of a team platooning QBs that was successful?  When Stanford did it with Burns and Chryst, we were 4-3 before Shaw finally handed the reins to Chryst, who then went on to win five straight (with a sixth technically coming in the Sun Bowl when he got injured).

Actually there is. Washington won the NC in 1991 platooning QB's.

Thanks for the info.  This one example show that success with platooning QBs is indeed rare.