Jiminy Cricket
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(Actually, it is also the link for all BYU stats, but since I thought all of you were only concerned about QB stats, I used that title. :tongue: )
ckparrothead did a truly admirable job of analyzing Beck's QB stats compared to other BYU QB's, but for those of you interested in the raw stats, you can find them at www.cougarstats.com .
By the way, for those of you who will be looking at the stats, here is some background about BYU football that will help you make sense of them.
"Modern" football at BYU arrived in 1973 with the hiring of LaVell Edwards, and BYU truly arrived on the national scene in 1979 when they beat a Top 10 team on the road (Texas A &M).
Right around 1979, BYU's offense had been developed, and the offense and staff were consistent from that point on. Thus, stats from players from 1979 until 1999 truly can be compared, as they were all playing for the same coach, same coaching staff (for the most part), and same offense.
In 2000, long-time OC Norm Chow left BYU (leaving it in the hands of long-time staffers who struggled), and LaVell Edwards left after 2000, turning things over to Gary Crowton.
Crowton had one of the best offensive years in NCAA history running the spread in 2001 with NFL QB Brandon Doman (poor-man's Mike Vick), Doak Walker Award winner Luke Staley, and a superb Oline. They gained 7000 yards that season, but the rest of Crowton's tenure was awful, and it was into that situation that John Beck came back from a mission to.
After 2004, Gary Crowton was forced to resign, and Bronco Mendenhall took over, bringing in an old BYU player, Robert Anae, from Texas Tech to bring back the old BYU offense. Texas Tech runs an offense based on BYU's traditional offense (Leach got his start in coaching as a grad asst under LaVell Edwards. He was a BYU student when he got the coaching bug).
Robert Anae was a first time Off coordinator in 2005, and the Texas Tech offense had strayed over the years from the old BYU offense, but as Anae adjusted to being a Off coordinator and adjusted to the type of athletes BYU recruits (e.g., big, physical olines and backs, not as athletic wide receivers), the offense changed over the year back to the two back pro set, and by the end of 2005, Beck was truly running the old BYU offense of yesteryear.
In 2006, Beck continued running the offense (his first time running the same offense two years in a row), and his stats showed what a difference that made to him.
ckparrothead did a truly admirable job of analyzing Beck's QB stats compared to other BYU QB's, but for those of you interested in the raw stats, you can find them at www.cougarstats.com .
By the way, for those of you who will be looking at the stats, here is some background about BYU football that will help you make sense of them.
"Modern" football at BYU arrived in 1973 with the hiring of LaVell Edwards, and BYU truly arrived on the national scene in 1979 when they beat a Top 10 team on the road (Texas A &M).
Right around 1979, BYU's offense had been developed, and the offense and staff were consistent from that point on. Thus, stats from players from 1979 until 1999 truly can be compared, as they were all playing for the same coach, same coaching staff (for the most part), and same offense.
In 2000, long-time OC Norm Chow left BYU (leaving it in the hands of long-time staffers who struggled), and LaVell Edwards left after 2000, turning things over to Gary Crowton.
Crowton had one of the best offensive years in NCAA history running the spread in 2001 with NFL QB Brandon Doman (poor-man's Mike Vick), Doak Walker Award winner Luke Staley, and a superb Oline. They gained 7000 yards that season, but the rest of Crowton's tenure was awful, and it was into that situation that John Beck came back from a mission to.
After 2004, Gary Crowton was forced to resign, and Bronco Mendenhall took over, bringing in an old BYU player, Robert Anae, from Texas Tech to bring back the old BYU offense. Texas Tech runs an offense based on BYU's traditional offense (Leach got his start in coaching as a grad asst under LaVell Edwards. He was a BYU student when he got the coaching bug).
Robert Anae was a first time Off coordinator in 2005, and the Texas Tech offense had strayed over the years from the old BYU offense, but as Anae adjusted to being a Off coordinator and adjusted to the type of athletes BYU recruits (e.g., big, physical olines and backs, not as athletic wide receivers), the offense changed over the year back to the two back pro set, and by the end of 2005, Beck was truly running the old BYU offense of yesteryear.
In 2006, Beck continued running the offense (his first time running the same offense two years in a row), and his stats showed what a difference that made to him.