Here are the scenarios I see churning through the coaching staffs mind:
If Harris throws the ball 25 times in the second quarter and second half with the offense wide open.
a. He does awesome and we pull away and win 35-14
b. He does mediocre, gets picked off once and misses a few key throws, scores a couple of TDs and that allows more time for MSU to throw the ball all over our porous tired secondary. We lose 28-31.
c. He does horrible, throws 3 INTs and is ruined like Lee was and we are stuck with Jennings.
When you have LF and the O-line performing like they did, the possibility of "b" and "c" is not worth it. Ride the horses. I just can't believe that folks on here are not willing to play to our strengths and would want to put the game on the shoulders of a QB with very little experience. There are 21 other players out there, so why not trust them? He put faith in the DBs and they just about let us down. If there is something to bitch about in that game, it was that.
Repeat after me "Throwing the young QB to the wolves like the AU game last year is a bad idea"...