He HAD improved in that department. But, put him in a bowl setting, lights on, cameras up, Missouri's winning...and he went back to the old Ricky Stanzi. When his own coach has said about the guy that at times last year he thought his football IQ had to be in the single-digits, that's a red flag. And you know, not for nothing but in your "safe" year in college, when you only get your interception rate down to 2.2%...that's not flooring me. It was 3.5% in 2008, 4.9% in 2009, and is now 2.2% in 2010. Thing is most of these guys walk out with interception rates below the 2.0% mark, and we're supposed to be impressed because a guy got his down from 4.9% to 2.2%? Not sure about that. His career interception rate is 3.6%.
Incidentally if what happened to Stanzi also happens to T.J. Yates in his bowl game (return of the interception demons), then he too could come down my board a little bit. But I feel pretty confident that's not going to happen because I've seen the guy in enough high pressure situations this year, watched him come through enough, to where I feel he's going to perform under the pressure.