June Jones is letting wins over bottom rung teams get to his head. Last night on ESPN's College Football Bowl Show he dissed Tim Tebow as the system quarterback, not Colt Brennan.
First of all, this whole term "system quarterback" is a little silly. Every coach has a system and every team recruits quarterbacks to best fit that system. So essentially everyone is a system QB, but the notion that Tim Tebow is more of a system quarterback than Colt Brennan seems silly.
Let's look at the offensive output of the quarterback in June Jones system the last 6 years:
2007: 424 for 606 / 5,402 yards / 50 TD : 19 INT / 135 rush yds, 11 TD
2006: 444 for 559 / 5, 549 yards / 58 TD: 12 INT / 396 rush yds, 6 TD
2005: 379 for 574 / 4,611 yards / 37 TD : 15 INT / 212 rush yds, 1 TD
2004: 370 for 634 / 4,402 yards / 38 TD : 18 INT / 122 rush yds, 2 TD
2003: 444 for 754 / 5,382 yards / 42 TD : 27 INT / 69 rush yds, 2 TD
2002: 407 for 731 / 5,406 yards / 35 TD : 26 INT / 221 rush yds, 2 TD
Here's what we know about Hawaii: they have their system that's different than most others ... pass as much as possible. Colt Brennan is a better quarterback than Timmy Change and Hawaii's defense has, if you can believe it, actually improved over the years hence the crazy TD improvement.
Now, Urban Meyer ...
2007: 222 for 327 / 3,172 yards / 29 TD : 6 INT / 941 rush yds, 25 TD
2006: 255 for 399 / 3,305 yards / 29 TD : 14 INT / 499 rush yds, 11 TD
2005: 241 for 385 / 2,720 yards / 20 TD : 7 INT / 244 rush yds, 6 TD
2004: 232 for 344 / 3,164 yards / 33 TD : 5 INT / 723 rush yds, 11 TD
2003: 203 for 328 / 2,568 yards / 17 TD : 5 INT / 525 rush yds, 6 TD
2002: 227 for 396 / 2,758 yards / 27 TD : 11 INT / 925 rush yds, 22 TD
Clearly, Urban has his own unique system with an exceptional QB leading the team this year. After looking at these numbers, June Jones comment appears less ridiculous when you consider both quarterbacks followed the "system" guidelines and excelled more than any other has in previous years. I'd still give the nod to Brennan being more of a system QB because Hawaii's game plan has never changed. Just throw it, whereas Urban Meyer has worked his system around Tebow and given him more opportunities to run because of his size and strength.
What also bothered many about Jones comment was that Tim Tebow isn't an accurate passer. He's 2nd in passer rating with 68.5 completion percentage. That's hardly poor.
There's also this stat:
Tim Tebow's Interception per Pass Attempt Ratio - 0.0189
Colt Brennan's Interception per Pass Attempt Ratio - 0.0297
I know Jones is just running his mouth to support his QB, but I find it classless he continues to dog other teams and schools in the process. Let's see how Brennan performs against the Bulldogs and we can have some finality to Colt Brennan's success.
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