If you watched the game, you know that Guiton made his share of mistakes in that game and he only saw action in the regular season because Miller went out of two other games with injuries. Purdue didn't exactly do themselves any favors down the stretch either.
I agree with the bolded. I'd heard it said by Texas fans that the only reason GD had success was because of Ricky Williams, Vince Young and Colt McCoy, but I found that hard to believe as he did well without Heisman caliber players like that at NC. However, seven games into this season and still more of the horizontal passing game and I can't imagine how he kept his job as long as he did. I don't think it would have hurt to see Rudock midway through the third to give him several possessions in a game that was way out of hand. Let's keep in mind though that not ALL of the blame should fall on JVB for the passing situation. NO QB in the country....or the backups that have seen meaningful time has been 100% on the numbers all the time. I can't even begin to count the number of passes our receivers have dropped passes or the number of times an announcer has said, "that pass was a little off the mark, but the receiver should have caught it." Keenan Davis and CJF are the 4 star players that everyone thinks would make the offense better when they were recruited, and yet they consistently miss easy catches. I don't expect circus catches every game, but the ball shouldn't have to be thrown perfectly every time for them to catch it.
Let's face it though, this was a game where NOTHING went right. A 100% healthy Weisman and having Scherff and Donnal for the whole game probably wouldn't have made a huge difference. Even if they had started Rudock and he was the second coming of Chuck Long, it wouldn't have mattered. How do I know this? Because those guys didn't give up 38 points at home. If we had lost 14-0, a strong case could be made for how some changes could have changed the outcome, but not getting drubbed 38-14. They just picked a bad night to play really horrible.
