[JohnOlenchalk]

@81: ever starting anyone in front of Trent Edwards was stupid.  Your point is well taken, however, I've seen no indication that Nunes can play the position at the D-1 level, and both he and our kicker are going backwards.  Shaw/Pep's playcalling may not be helping Nunes much, but personnel decisions, schemes, and time/clock management are highly questionable on offense at this point.
Are we going to have down years? Sure, but Nunes and Nottingham have been on campus for 3 years, you'd think at least one of them would emerge to look like a D-1 QB by now.  Something must be going on behind the scenes, but who knows, it could also be the stubbornness and inexperience of Shaw causing a lot of this.

@Oasis- the campus rumor was horsesh*t.  There were a lot of rumors, including one that persisted for a long time that Cordova was dating a Christiansen daughter.  Totally untrue as well.

Look, Christiansen believed that our QB's should call their own plays, and he put that expectation and pressure into practice on all of his QB's- that's another little known fact that I've never heard anyone talk about but Brad Williams and Eric Test.  Adding that to the mix, along with not having an predictable offense, and not giving his QB's any fundamental mechanics, well, let's just say that Bill Walsh saved Benjamins', Dils', and Schonerts' careers when he arrived in '77.  Jack was basically throwing the ball to a given QB and expecting him to be Bobby Layne.

[JohnOlenchalk]

@81: ever starting anyone in front of Trent Edwards was stupid.  Your point is well taken, however, I've seen no indication that Nunes can play the position at the D-1 level, and both he and our kicker are going backwards.  Shaw/Pep's playcalling may not be helping Nunes much, but personnel decisions, schemes, and time/clock management are highly questionable on offense at this point.
Are we going to have down years? Sure, but Nunes and Nottingham have been on campus for 3 years, you'd think at least one of them would emerge to look like a D-1 QB by now.  Something must be going on behind the scenes, but who knows, it could also be the stubbornness and inexperience of Shaw causing a lot of this.

@Oasis- the campus rumor was horsesh*t.  There were a lot of rumors, including one that persisted for a long time that Cordova was dating a Christiansen daughter.  Totally untrue as well.

Look, Christiansen believed that our QB's should call their own plays, and he put that expectation and pressure into practice on all of his QB's- that's another little known fact that I've never heard anyone talk about but Brad Williams and Eric Test.  Adding that to the mix, along with not having an predictable offense, and not giving his QB's any fundamental mechanics, well, let's just say that Bill Walsh saved Benjamins', Dils', and Schonerts' careers when he arrived in '77.  Jack was basically throwing the ball to a given QB and expecting him to be Bobby Layne.