OK DTN, and Tech Bretheren, and you gals out there, forget about last week's let down and forget about the current situation we have with quartebacks and let's discuss what "type" of QB may best suit the Red Raiders in this ever changing college football landscape.  I may use current and past personnel as examples here, but we 're mostly looking to the future.  Mike Leach has revolutionized the way football is played in the Big 12 and we see forms of our offense creeping into the schemes of many other teams.  Our offense, when clicking, is hard to stop, but folks in the Okla-Tex region and beyond are getting better and better at defending it.  Also, I like to compare our offense to the late '90s Texas Rangers teams.  They hit the homerun and won alot of games with offense, but when you get to the playoffs, good pitching/defense always wins out, put another way, when our offense isn't clicking for whatever reason, we can't do much else and we're sunk.  THIS is where my attention shifts to the type of QB we have.  Randy Galloway here in DFW is fond of saying, in reference to the NFL, "This league's all about the Quarterback." and folks, so is OUR offense, and as it appears when you look to team chemistry, field position, and the time the D spends on the field, our whole identity as a team is about the Quarterback.   

We're not the Steelers, what I mean is, we're not going to get 14 points from pick six's and fumble recoveries a game.  If our O stinks, it affects the entire team, but look at how those SEC teams win ugly with field goals and even Texas and OU sport some great defenses than can cover for a not so perfect offensive performance.  That's not going to happen here, at least not for a very long time, because those teams take kids talented and fast enough to be on the Texas Techs of the world's offense and puts them on defense.  Seeing Steven Sheffield the past few weeks has put an idea into my head though (Not a cannon, but touch, a fiest gamer, mobile, inspires the rest of the team).  Now that we're not so revolutionary and maybe getting a bit stale, the way I see it, two things can be done to improve our offense, A, B, or both A and B, hopefully.  A is a simple idea, getting even more and more TALENT into this offense.  Can't argue with that, so long as we ensure that talent comes with the character kids we've had, talent will make us progress to the next "level."  B is the mobile QB.  Now I'm not talking about the Vince Young type of mobile QB who is iffy on the pass and runs the option read, I'm talking about the pass-first mobile quarterback that's kind of like Colt McCoy, but more accurate down the field.  Here come the divergent view of you DTN readers.....We've all been waiting for the classic pocket QB who can stand and deliver darts, and possibly with last years' line that would suit us well, though even GH had to scramble to throw at times with THAT line.  But do we really need to have a 6'5" stud to blow through here and get drafted in the 1st round to legitimize our program, and debunk the "system QB" myth?  I think not.  College football is not a beauty pageant when it comes to "winning."  Talk to me about rankings some other time.  But some of the greatest college quarterbacks were people like Doug Flutie, Steve Young, Vince Young, http://cfn.scout.com/2/561911.html  If you click this link, you'll see alot of great college quarterbacks that were not neccecarilly succesful in the NFL, though some were.  Guys that are gamers are what is needed in the college game and I want to elaborate on this, but I feel y'all know exactly what I'm talking about here and we can discuss this.  I do, however understand that after seing Sheffield go down for a few weeks, that part of why Leach's offense is consistent is BECAUSE the QB stays in the pocket and gets rid of the ball, thus not getting takled much.  Can we find a kid who can scramble when he has to, when the defensive alignment calls for an obvious QB draw to keep the D honest?  How much better would we be with a QB who can roll out and help the O-Line from time to time?  Would an option twice a game make us that much harder to prep for? (Not too much cause a guy named "Sticks" couldn't take too many decleaters)  Does rolling out of the pocket take away half of the field?  All questions and comments I look forward to seeing.

Improve what we do and execute to perfection, or tweek this baby and see what happens?