He put up some of the the best stats at quarterback in the nation last year! He was on the Heisman watch list going into the season. He lead a horrible 4-8 team his sophmore season that he LED to a 7-5 season and a bid in the cotton bowl as a junior. AM does not have the talent of UT or even the coaching. How can you take that out on Mcneal. He did all he could . I know you did not watch any of the games because he was not the problem. He lost 4 good wrs this year to injury and their best to the nfl. They had the worse pass defense in D1. His wrs would drop all his passes. That Michigan team they beat in the rose bowl was not that good either. The ohio state game was an impressive win but Vince did not singlehandely win that game.
According to Rivals.com TAMU had recruting classes ranked 8, 13, 10, 23 for a 13.5 over the last 4 years. Texas had classes ranked 20, 10, 15, 1 for an average of 11.5. That seems very comparable.
Who are you, McNeal's girlfriend? Auditioning to be his agent? He didn't even play yesterday, and the Aggies had the best game of their entire season. Case closed, time to move on. No sympathy from me for the highly recruited stud that never panned out. I lived through Chris Simms. Potential is useless unless you can execute and produce. Maybe McNeal will blossom on the next level. But as it is, he picked the wrong team at the wrong time, and we'll never know how good he could have been.
Since you seem to be focusing on passing stats, lets take a look at passing stats against common opponents. McNeal and Vince had 5 common opponents;Baylor,CU,Okie St.,OU, and Tech. McNeal combined stats: 67/131, 830 yds., 5 TDs, 5 Ints Young combined stats: 82/135, 1353 yds., 11 TDs, 3 Ints Smith and Vince had 4 common opponents; Baylor,CU,Okie St., Kansas. Smith combined stats: 63/116, 566 yds., 2 TDs, 2 Ints Young combined stats: 75/113, 1154 yds., 10 TDs, 1 Int These numbers dont even take into account rushing, victories, or playing time. Talk about homerism.
All I have to say is.. if you still think Reggie McNeal is still as good of a quarterback as VY... then I don't know man.[/QUOTE] classic moment in the making
Since apparently you guys consist on this crap , what have i been saying THEY WOULD DO THE SAME IN VINCE'S POSITION. Those AM and Missouri teams do not have the same talent. Do you not see that? Where are Vince's stats against the #117 pass defense (dead last) in the nation?
Stats for the season Reggie- 141 -265 1963 yards 53.2% 7.41AVG 80 long 16 tds 9 int rushing-96 carries 664yards 6.9 63 3tds Vince- 168 -268 62.7% 2576Yards 9.6AVG 23TDs 75 long 9int rushing- 128 793yards 6.2 80 8tds Yea vince had better stats, but not by as much as it would seem like! This does not take into account that Vince played a game and a half more and that Reggies WRs all suck and dropped so many passes this year. Yet this was Reggies bad year and he failed this year according to everyone, yet how bad was it really?
One of the things you apparently fail to realize is that Young and McNeal have alot to do with the POSITIONS they are in. Vince makes his teammates better, and does what is neccesary to WIN. McNeal led his team to a sub .500 season and was dressed in street clothes during his final game at A&M. You're obviously conVINCEd that McNeal/Smith are better. If you put more faith on what you saw on Sat. than on 4 and 5 games of statistics you're a homer.
But USC does have a very good running back, a better O line than A&M, and a much better D. Leinert doesn't need to run great if UT can't tackle and I've seen Leinert run and he isn't that bad. He's no Vick but if UT can't defend the option he doesn't need to. Its very possible this could be an aberration due to it being a big rivalry game but UT didn't look like a national Championship contender yesterday playing what should've been a very inferior team.
Because he was hurt and they held him out. He would be ineffective, and they could get mcgee some experience
