Exactly. The posters here who bitch the loudest about the lack of contact in spring practice would be the first to condemn the coaching staff if we lost a quarterback or other major player for the upcoming season due to an injury that occurred during live contact drills or scrimmages in the spring. Joint or bone injuries suffered in March or April likely mean a player is lost for most or all of the season in the fall.
thing is, absent true game conditions, you can't really begin to credibly evaluate QBs today, and especially can't fairly evaluate single vs dual threat QBs.
last yr we lost our best QB to no contact practices for the first 10 games.
it would be great if QBs could be credibly evaluated in sterile no contact situations, but they can't anymore than basketball players can be credibly evaluated just on shooting and dribbling drills.
a catch 22 dilemma i concur. damned if you don't. maybe damned if you do.
that said, if the first couple official games could be used to sort out what wasn't sorted out in practice, then that would lessen the downside of no contact on the QB practice.
for that to occur, the first couple games would need to be exempted from bowl game calculations, and coaches who overestimate their ability to evaluate in a vacuum, may still not utilize said games to evaluate and allow for in squad competition.
last yr with Williams wasn't some rare outlier, this issue exists more than many want to admit.
ya think San Fran knew what they had in Purdy last yr, till Purdy was forced into action late in the season last yr?
and had Purdy not been forced into action, San Fran probably still wouldn't know, and their team personnel decisions would still be impacted by their not knowing.
and Dexter Williams might have gone 4 yrs at IU, or transferred in disgust first, with IU never knowing.
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