You do understand that his "best season" wasn't all that great, don't you? You're acting like he lit the world on fire while winning 4 games that season. He was good "as a freshman," but far from being where we needed him.
But here's the thing, at no time did I ever compare DR to AM. That was you. And it wasn't pertinent to the my original statement. But hey, bless your heart if you think DR will light the world on fire and won't experience a learning curve his freshman year. I won't lose sleep over your beliefs. But statistics and history are on my side as I try to temper expectations in year one. As Husker fans, we should have learned from the last 10 years that swilling the Kool-Aid isn't good for your health.
Now I am not saying he was thrust into how many games he won any year. Relative performance doesn't include wins though isn't separated from them exclusively otherwise no one would have known who Archie Manning was.
Yes, it was I who asked you to explain AM and his first year. What are we to expect? Better than AMs from DR? Is that bad?
Looking back at a similar scenario, AMs first year wasn't that bad either. We finished 52nd in passing and AM missed games due to running the ball, but still respectable, will DR be better? Top 40? Is that bad?
I'm trying to delineate what we should expect as well using AM as a marker to see what we may expect from DR.
Both frosh, both new staffs, advantage DR second year under MR and advantage DR in playing time and abilities.
AM did come with warts and all, and you could argue the team went down in ability after year one etc, but we aren't talking year two here, or less warts so to speak.
Look at his td to int ratio if you must later into his career, it isn't pretty, but again, frosh year surrounded by some talent, in my eyes more apples to apples with DR in comparison.
A casual expectation of warts and all, of course, but in comparison to what we've had lately, huge upgrade, and in the past, very promising warts and all.
