Who said I'm only going off P5 offers? Park has had adequate opportunity to show why so many schools were recruiting him out of HS. Sadly for him, he has shown that his talents are more suited for church league flag football than P5 football. At least he gets the advantage of playing in the Big XII and not a real power conference like the SEC or Big Ten.
Iowa's TE Kittle ran faster 40 than Lazard. Should move to TE
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Who said I'm only going off P5 offers? Park has had adequate opportunity to show why so many schools were recruiting him out of HS. Sadly for him, he has shown that his talents are more suited for church league flag football than P5 football. At least he gets the advantage of playing in the Big XII and not a real power conference like the SEC or Big Ten.
Higher QB Rating than Beathard last year and more TD's. Ouch!
If Beathard played behind that ISU OL, he would have been knocked out way sooner in the season. And Nathan Stanley would already be anointed. As it was, he made it to a bowl game where the announcers were begging for him to be replaced because of the beating he took.
ISU's QBs were benched mostly because their play suffered from taking too many hits. Luckily, they actually have a decent OL coach now, so I expect that trend will be coming to a stop.
Lanning plays in a defense optional league.
Park's completion percentage against teams with 6 or more wins was 51%. That is with a good receiving core, one of the best TEs in the Big XII, a Doak Walker candidate, and one of the nation's most versatile players. In a defense optional conference to boot.
That's really bad.
No, I'm just basing that off of what I read in this thread. Sounds like Iowa State has tremendous talent; I would guess they must have won at least 7 or 8 games last year with all that offensive firepower.
Big12 didn't have one top 50 defense. YIKES. It's best defense (k-Stste) would have ranked #10 in the BigTen. OUCH!
Why do we keep trying to make Park a better QB than what he was?
His completion percentage on the year wasn't even AVERAGE among FBS teams. He BARELY had an above average TD/INT ratio.
This is despite playing 3 of the 25 worst defenses in all of FBS in Texas Tech, Kansas and San Jose St.
Almost 60% of his TD's on the year came in those three games.
Why can't we just be excited that he's much better than anything else we've trotted out lately without pretending this kid is the next Joe Montana???
I think it's a relevant statistic
One he was very very much average in last year. Something like 48th overall in FBS
Quit acting like he lit the world on fire.
Just be excited for what he is. An improvement over QB's of the last decade
He's got one of the best returning QB ratings in the Big 12. That's big time.
When you play Big 12 offenses week in and week it tends to skew the rankings. The Big 12 defenses did just fine against other P5 teams.
Iowa and Nebraska remind me a lot of each other. Surprised to hear the King comment. Still feel bad for him.
