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[quote author=stupac2 link=topic=14930.msg161074#msg161074 date=1461271837]
If we're playing both guys against Unbelievably Spoiled Children, I will be worried. If he wants to give them each 2-4 series to start KSU to see what happens when it's a real game, then fine, whatever. But this schedule doesn't give us much room for screwing around.

The last coach to try this was Jack Christiansen in 1974 against Illinois. Jack benched Guy Benjamin after the first half in favor of Mike Cordova. The end result was like 40 to 10 Illinois.
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Exactly. The whole "if you have two QBs you have no QBs" adage isn't entirely right, but it's pretty close to true. Can anyone think of any time in the modern area (say from the 70's on) where platooning QBs worked? The position is so depending on developing chemistry with everyone else (center for snaps, entire line for blocking, RBs for handoffs and blocking, WRs with timing on routes) that you really want to maximize the number of reps one guy gets. I can understand throwing a guy in as a random change of pace to see if the defense can counter, like we started doing with Hogan and did a few times with Burns, but in general the idea of running two QBs just worries me.

If they're really so neck-and-neck that Shaw doesn't have a starter after playing KSU (and remember, we have a bye that week) then flip a goddamn coin and just give it to one of them. A team needs a starting QB.

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[quote author=stupac2 link=topic=14930.msg161074#msg161074 date=1461271837]
If we're playing both guys against Unbelievably Spoiled Children, I will be worried. If he wants to give them each 2-4 series to start KSU to see what happens when it's a real game, then fine, whatever. But this schedule doesn't give us much room for screwing around.

The last coach to try this was Jack Christiansen in 1974 against Illinois. Jack benched Guy Benjamin after the first half in favor of Mike Cordova. The end result was like 40 to 10 Illinois.
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Exactly. The whole "if you have two QBs you have no QBs" adage isn't entirely right, but it's pretty close to true. Can anyone think of any time in the modern area (say from the 70's on) where platooning QBs worked? The position is so depending on developing chemistry with everyone else (center for snaps, entire line for blocking, RBs for handoffs and blocking, WRs with timing on routes) that you really want to maximize the number of reps one guy gets. I can understand throwing a guy in as a random change of pace to see if the defense can counter, like we started doing with Hogan and did a few times with Burns, but in general the idea of running two QBs just worries me.

If they're really so neck-and-neck that Shaw doesn't have a starter after playing KSU (and remember, we have a bye that week) then flip a goddamn coin and just give it to one of them. A team needs a starting QB.