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Surely Jack West just needed more playing time...

There is no acceptable answer for why West started over McKee vs. KSU.

I don't know if you consider this acceptable or not, but I think that since West was the older (slightly) more experienced guy, and McKee didn't look substantially better than him in practice, Shaw decided to start West.

Nope. It's simply not credible to claim McKee didn't demonstrate he was the better QB in practices. There was an ulterior motive and it arguably cost Stanford a game and national TV embarrassment. College Football is a game of constant urgency. David Shaw doesn't have it in too many cases.

I had someone close to the program tell me Stanford's football people were putting out some bullshit about McKee didn't know the playbook as an excuse for why West started. To me, and I said this before the game started, it was just cover in case West didn't perform well. McKee didn't miraculously learn the playbook in one week before the USC game.

Maybe West was sleeping with Shaw’s daughter? (Longtime Stanford fans will get the reference).  Shaw does give preference to more senior quarterbacks generally, but that’s not an ulterior motive; that’s just Shaw’s bias towards experience.

I’m sorry, an ulterior motive?  Come on.  Occam’s razer would tell you that McKee didnt impress in practice.  He would hardly be the first QB to be mediocre in practice and much better in actual games.

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Surely Jack West just needed more playing time...

There is no acceptable answer for why West started over McKee vs. KSU.

I don't know if you consider this acceptable or not, but I think that since West was the older (slightly) more experienced guy, and McKee didn't look substantially better than him in practice, Shaw decided to start West.

Nope. It's simply not credible to claim McKee didn't demonstrate he was the better QB in practices. There was an ulterior motive and it arguably cost Stanford a game and national TV embarrassment. College Football is a game of constant urgency. David Shaw doesn't have it in too many cases.

I had someone close to the program tell me Stanford's football people were putting out some bullshit about McKee didn't know the playbook as an excuse for why West started. To me, and I said this before the game started, it was just cover in case West didn't perform well. McKee didn't miraculously learn the playbook in one week before the USC game.

Maybe West was sleeping with Shaw’s daughter? (Longtime Stanford fans will get the reference).  Shaw does give preference to more senior quarterbacks generally, but that’s not an ulterior motive; that’s just Shaw’s bias towards experience.

I’m sorry, an ulterior motive?  Come on.  Occam’s razer would tell you that McKee didnt impress in practice.  He would hardly be the first QB to be mediocre in practice and much better in actual games.

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