10 Reasons why we can win 10 games in 2009:

No thats not my point, he has experience playing for alabama. Im saying that coming from a great offense in high school helps, didnt hurt chase daniel that bad. I lived in Colleyville for 10 years and watched this kid play and he is a good quarterback, and i did say albeit not that much but it does help.

are you still upset that he slaughtered plano east 31-0?

http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/mcelroy_greg00.html

 

I understand that Southlake has a good program, as I've lived in DFW since '97. However, Matt Stafford was all-world @ Highland Park, too, but threw about as many ints as Lee his freshman year.

Besides, I thought the Bama fans were annoiting Star Jackson as the heir apparent QB.

 

thats when i moved there. got a couple of friends that live off of Ohio in Plano. Anyway what you were saying earlier, our quarterback struggles, Im not saying that Carroll totally prepares you to come right in and succeed in the SEC. Im saying it dosent hurt. Jarrett Lee quarterbacked for Brenham High School and finished his career with 6090 yards and 70 touchdowns. McElroy only started 1 season went undefeated and finished that 1 season with 4636 yards which ranks 5th all time in Texas, and 56 touchdowns which ranks 2nd all time, first was Graham Harrell. Matt Stafford had a pretty good sophomore season, a horrible junior season and then a great senior season where he passed for 4018 yards and 38 td's.

Will McElroy succeed right off the bat? Who knows, im not saying that, im saying that in that system under Todd Dodge it was beneficial for him and they wont fall off too much. They have alot of freshman, sophomores, and juniors on that team, and JPW dosent really have to go out there and win games for them. If he did i dont think they would be undefeated thus far this year.

Star Jackson is a dual threat quarterback and maybe Saban will go that route, but who knows.

 

I'm off of Legacy and Independence, not too far from Ohio.

 

- Bama's QB situation wont kill them because they will have the best defense in college football. Basically before the season we thought we could hide Hatch behind our defense and running game -- thats what Alabama will do until they get experience.

- I'm interested to see how good Arkansas will be with Mallett. Hate on Petrino all you want but you could tell that his team was getting better game by game.

 

Be interesting to see what Ubie's offense looks like without a quarterback who's allergic to krptonite.

 

LSU should be 4-0 next year heading into the three game stretch of UGA, FLA, AU. Likely comes out of that 5-2, then have five games remaining. They should beat Tulane and La. Tech. So, the three final SEC games to me again will make or break the season. Went 0-3 this year vs. Bama, UM and Arky. To me 8-4 seems likely, with a little luck 9-3 and a banner year at 10-2. Disaster would be 7-5 again.

 

IRT to #3, I would hardly call Greg McElroy inexperienced, and even if he is he won't be by the time they play LSU. He is another, SL Carroll 5A POY, he won that award the ONLY year he started at SL because he had to sit behind another SL Carroll 5A POY named Chase Daniel.:geaux:

 

Perhaps--but Jarrett Lee was still mighty inexperienced when he got to the Bama game this year.

 

I still have QB-concerns for next year. While I expect substantial improvement, I still see us struggling there in tough games.

My primary concern about next season is our lines though. Even assuming that Black & RJF come back, and that Alexander gets a 6th year of eligibility, we still lose 6 starters/primary back-up contributors (3 on each, OL & DL). I like the guys we'll have stepping up at DL, but our center position worries me, as well as depth along both lines.

Other than that, Byrd, Beckwith, and Curtis Taylor should be pretty easy to replace.