David Ash

In my opinion our fanbase is conditioned to believe we must have an other worldly QB to be successful under Mack. Mack’s only conference championships were when Vince & Colt performed at superhuman levels. In years when we got good to very good QB play we came up short. One of Mack’s stated objectives with the sweeping changes of last year was to eliminate dependance on any one player, particularly the QB. Heretofore we relied on superior players, not schemes & players.
David Ash appears to have the skills to be a good to very good QB. In high school he was a very accomplished passer. He has the proper strength,size & speed. By all accounts he is a great young man & leader who the other players believe in. He is smart, intense & competitive. He hasn’t complained or pouted. The ony fair analysis of Ash is not vs other current college QBs but against other true freshman QBs surrounded by similar circumstances.
What Ash did not have was ANY college experience, no skins on the wall, a competent offensive line, good or consistent WR play, healthy, experienced RBs (after Missouri), or another QB on the roster to mentor him. As of today he has experience & a couple of skins on the wall. Almost never does a freshman QB perform consistently well. Have any of us performed at our top level of performance our first year out of UT or in any subsequent employment? Did we need experience to get better? Under normal conditions this should have been a redshirt or training year.
All of us are looking forward to next year & hopes that Ash will improve. He should play better but the results of our season are not solely dependant on Ash’s improvement. Our 2009 team is the only championship team from any school I remember with a lousy offensive line & that only happened because Colt & Shipley were extroidinary & Nebraska had no offense. If our oline isn’t substantially better Ash, Gray, Bergeron, Brown, Shipley, etc won’t win a championship.
I like Ash as a player & what I know of him as a person. I like him representing my school. I hope & believe he will be successful as our QB if he isn’t first eaten alive by our fans.

but Mack has taken us through seasons where he has no backup and that would mean you would have to take the ability of Ash to run out of the game plan.

It is clear Brewer wants to redshirt and Overstreet probably needs to also.

We need a backup that can help Ash.Now I don’t think anyone wants to have to depend on McCoy after what he showed against a Baylor D that let thier bowl game opponent drop 56 points on them.

Will Case leave?Most hope so if the accounts of his and his father’s tudes are true.

We need to rent a QB for a year.Where will we get one?We don’t need a progress stopper but Ash shouldn’t mind competing for the starting position if he is the kind of player we hope he is.

Gilbert was a Cal legacy, not a UT legacy. His dad, Gale, was the winning QB in the ’82 Cal – Stanford game with the famous ending running through the Stanford band for the winning score.

Losing QB that day? John Elway.

Our game against Baylor was winnable if we don’t have all the TOs by Case.

Watched Baylor D get sliced and diced by Washington.Yeah Washington!

I have seen no improvement in Case but Ash seems to have learned to manage the game better as the season went along.

If Karam will accept a schollie for a year we have some insurance if Ash goes down.IMHO it’s a win win situation for all involved except McCoy.

Its unfair to say Case didn’t do well, he won against the Aggies and almost came back against k state, he doesn’t have the upside that Ash has, but he i’snt horrible, and he also had 3 tds against Baylor, it was just an awful 2nd half for him.

a noodle armed,slow footed but mentally sound QB.As I stated above Baylor’s D stinks so he really was sort of horrible with all those turnovers.

I really hope he transfers because if he is our starter the boo birds will eventually come out just like they did with Gilbert.I think none of us would like to see another Horn player booed.