Maintaining Success

[HoustonCajun]

Because Napier never gave a quarterback the same preparation he gave Levi Lewis.

If LL's helmet never came off none of the current roster would have a down under their belt.

Napier rode LL to our success expecting to parlay that into an SEC job and it worked. Didn't worry about our future QB as he wouldn't be here. Surely there were games where he could have substituted in preparation for this year, yet he did not. The plus is our win streak, conference championship, bowl win and national ranking which outweigh the minus, no QB next year with any meaningful experience. Hopefully, one of our QBs will step up and lead us to continued success.

[covcaj]

Napier rode LL to our success expecting to parlay that into an SEC job and it worked. Didn't worry about our future QB as he wouldn't be here. Surely there were games where he could have substituted in preparation for this year, yet he did not. The plus is our win streak, conference championship, bowl win and national ranking which outweigh the minus, no QB next year with any meaningful experience. Hopefully, one of our QBs will step up and lead us to continued success.

I don’t think it’s fair to a scribe motivation to what Napier did with the quarterback situation, however, there is no question that he could have given at least a little bit more experience to the number two quarterback. And, if no other reason then to protect Lewis

[CajunEXPRESS]

Napier rode LL to our success expecting to parlay that into an SEC job and it worked. Didn't worry about our future QB as he wouldn't be here. Surely there were games where he could have substituted in preparation for this year, yet he did not. The plus is our win streak, conference championship, bowl win and national ranking which outweigh the minus, no QB next year with any meaningful experience. Hopefully, one of our QBs will step up and lead us to continued success.

Experience is way over rated. Good practice isn’t overrated. The most wins in school history before Levi was turned in by an underweight HS freshman quarterback. He won 8 of nine games he started. Everyone knows it’s Jake. Brian Mitchell won 7 out the high school box in ten game seasons.

Fields has several years of development. LL started at Maryland on several occasions.

If any of these unplayed quarterbacks are worthy they got enough experience.

[CajunVic]

All I’m saying is that we have several to choose from that are believed by some to be better than Levi. If that is the case, we should not have a QB issue. Why do some of you want to make more of it than that?

[zephyr]

Mr. Vic, in all fairness, there were only a few posters who continually suggested that Levi should be pulled because we certainly had a better quarterback on the bench, with absolutely no proof. For the most part, people did what people do on discussion boards they discussed Levi’s shortcomings. I have been a Levi supporter and still am, and think overall he did a superb job, but there’s no question that he did have limitations in certain types of plays. There is a difference between pointing out those limitations and saying that he should be benched.

The people he is referencing were not here discussing shortcomings. The people he's discussing were on here with comments such as "Levi sucks, we need to put in Fields" or "man this guy sucks, I can't believe he's still our QB. We are winning despite LL". etc.

Those were not discussion board thoughts and they were not criticisms. It's similar to the Marlin situation here where there are a number of guys who just don't want to hear the negative comments about Marlin anymore and they say people just want to _____ without actually making criticisms but the difference there is that LL won a ton of games and people still complained.

[covcaj]

The people he is referencing were not here discussing shortcomings. The people he's discussing were on here with comments such as "Levi sucks, we need to put in Fields" or "man this guy sucks, I can't believe he's still our QB. We are winning despite LL". etc.

Those were not discussion board thoughts and they were not criticisms. It's similar to the Marlin situation here where there are a number of guys who just don't want to hear the negative comments about Marlin anymore and they say people just want to _____ without actually making criticisms but the difference there is that LL won a ton of games and people still complained.

I am not disagreeing that there were some who were bashing Lewis unashamably and unjustifiably and wishing to have an unproven quarterback put in his place. That was ridiculous. My only comment was that it was relatively few posters as a percentage of all posters.

[zephyr]

I am not disagreeing that there were some who were bashing Lewis unashamably and unjustifiably and wishing to have an unproven quarterback put in his place. That was ridiculous. My only comment was that it was relatively few posters as a percentage of all posters.

Man, I'd tend to agree with you but when I was in those game threads, it just seemed that nearly half of the guys wanted him pulled and the other half like myself ended up defending him the whole time.

[CajunEXPRESS]

So Marlin hasn’t had enough leash. This dog can’t hunt.

Truly I hope he never loses another game as coach here, and that’s actually saying I hope he’s the winningest basketball coach ever at UL. Are we supposed to stomach mediocrity year after year. It’s insulting to compare an unpaid athlete to an overpaid coach in any form period.

[CajunVic]

So that’s about 35

[ZoomZoom]

Levi Lewis, ZERO interceptions the last 5 games. FOUR all year. Sometimes throwing it away is better than the alternative. Just sayin’.