@KGPhoto. Why are you looking at Powlus? The QBs might not have been the stars of the team, but they were not the main problem either. Both Heaps and Cozart played to their strengths reasonably well, Heaps as the pro-style pocket passer and Cozzart as the scrambler; if QB would have been the main problem, switching to Cozart would have abated the problem, it did not.
Heaps in particular, consistently put the ball in the receiver's hand or threw very catchable balls that the WRs were unable to hold on to. Look at quality receivers in other teams and you will see that most passes thrown in their vicinity usually get caught; not with ours. How many games could have had different results if our receivers would have caught balls that had TD written all over? No question that having Harwell available would have made a difference and could have been a game changer, I guess we will see how he plays next year.
The most under performing unit was unquestionably the Offensive Line. You could argue that we did not have the personnel or that coaching was sub-par but the end result is the same. Grunhard is now gone and a new offensive coordinator is coming so there is reason to believe that Coach Weis knew that this was the weak link in the chain.
Returning players and having key players become eligible is encouraging; next year will the true test on whether the program is making progress or regressing. As I said before, any thing less than 4 conference wins next season would make Coach Weis seat very hot.
