QB U?

[Leroy Lizard]

Which teams would fill the top five slots for developing top-flight QBs this past decade?

[Mark_in_Tulsa]

NFL quality or CF quality?

[Leroy Lizard]

NFL quality or CF quality?

CF quality.

[sooner59]

No order...

Oklahoma (Heupel, White, Bradford, Jones)
USC (Leinart, Cassel, Booty, Sanchez)
Purdue (Brees, Orton)
Missouri (Daniel, Gabbert)
Michigan (Brady, Henne)

EDIT: Crap, well I went off of a mixture of both NFL and CFB. I'll think about it further.

I guess I will defend this. (tOSU, Florida, Texas....or anybody else) had multiple great passers. Troy Smith was decent, but other than that...meh.

[Tigeman]

I've had this same discussion with others in the past.

Is there another school that has anywhere close to the # of QB's that were heisman finalists as us?

SuC is possibly up there with us for developing talent.

Palmer and Dip$hit.

We have White and Bradford.

In addition to that we have Heupel as a finalist, and white and Bradford as finalists twice!


Florida has 1 heisman this decade in Timmy and one finalist in Rex Grossman


Notre Dame has 1 finalist and 1 almost in Clausen


So in order I would say,

1. OU
2. USC
3. Florida
4. Notre Dame

[Sooner_Tuf]

Ohio State?

[Leroy Lizard]

No order...

Oklahoma (Heupel, White, Bradford, Jones)
USC (Leinart, Cassel, Booty, Sanchez)

I think you could make a case for Palmer, Lienart, and Booty. Cassel barely played QB at USC (he only completed 19 passes total). Sanchez has been a good pro, but he only had one good season at USC and it wasn't particularly notable. (Jones threw for more yards this season than Sanchez posted his entire collegiate career.)


Purdue (Brees, Orton)
Missouri (Daniel, Gabbert)
Michigan (Brady, Henne)

Brady was not a product of this decade.

[Harry Beanbag]

1. USC
2. OU
3. Texas
4. Ohio State
5. Texas Tech

[Dwight]

1. OU
2. Hawaii (Chang and Brennan)
3. SUC
4. Texas Tech

[sooner518]

if we're listing teams with 2 great QBs, not sure how you can leave off UT with Radio and Colt, who were both better than Booger and Gabbert

[Partial Qualifier]

(Leinart, Cassel, Booty, Sanchez)sounds like a porn script

[Mad Dog Madsen]

1. USC
2. OU
3. Texas
4. Ohio State
5. Texas Tech

^^^THIS. In this order... End of discussion! :P

[sooner59]

I think you could make a case for Palmer, Lienart, and Booty. Cassel barely played QB at USC (he only completed 19 passes total). Sanchez has been a good pro, but he only had one good season at USC and it wasn't particularly notable. (Jones threw for more yards this season than Sanchez posted his entire collegiate career.)



Brady was not a product of this decade.

Good call. I forgot Brady was that far back. And I just completely forgot about Palmer.

[OUmillenium]

We have been really blessed (hard work not withstanding) to have had qbs this good for so long.

Watching other bowl games it just looks strange when qbs aren't as good as LJ. Mallet, for example, really does some strange things.

side note - we have had a lot of great receivers as well. Other than last year, we have not had very many "drops" by our receiving/TE over the last 11 years.

[Mad Dog Madsen]

side note - we have had a lot of great receivers as well. Other than last year, we have not had very many "drops" by our receiving/TE over the last 11 years.

Besides Mark Clayton and Ryan Broyles, who esle is do you consider "great?" I think that before this year our receivers have only been good at best IMHO. ...And part of that is due to our great QB's putting the ball right on the money.

[Dwight]

Besides Mark Clayton and Ryan Broyles, who esle is do you consider "great?" I think that before this year our receivers have only been good at best IMHO. ...And part of that is due to our great QB's putting the ball right on the money.

I would consider Jermaine Gresham to be great

[Leroy Lizard]

It looks like it's between OU and USC. Here is how I figure they stack up

USC
Lienart*
Palmer*
Booty
Sanchez

OU
Bradford*
White*
Heupel**
Jones

* Heisman
** Finished second in Heisman race

In terms of player development, I think USC's QBs were more highly recruited than ours. (I think both Sanchez and Booty were five-star recruits. Not sure about the others.)

Of course, our outlook is brighter to take a clear lead with Jones. Not sure how well Matt Barkely will do, but expectations are not as high.