Talked to Tuiasosopo after the game I was with him in the coaches tent after the game, and asked him about Corp and how quickly they realized he wasn’t throwing well or a real threat.

He said “Oh, yeah, it was wet and he has small hands. He wasn’t going to hurt us.”

Never heard that before but then I doubt Scott Wolf or Chris Dufrense or the yell leaders running the WeAreSC board are ever going to notice something like that. It’s something only coaches and people with very discerning eyes would notice.

I also read another comment that bad two points: 1.) Aaron corp was successful in HS running the veer option, and 2.) it’s Pete fault for not installing the option, either last week, or permanently, since everyone except a few West Coast schools are running the spread option.

First, dismiss the first part of 2.). College offenses are established during recruiting, to get the players you want to run your scheme, and spring ball, to teach the offense and establish assignments and roles. You don’t re-install offenses mid-season.

But 1.) and the second part of 2.) make interesting points. First, Aaron’s Corp’s success was within a veer option offense. Carson, Matt, JDB and Mark all played in passing offenses high school. Unless a recruit is an off the charts physical stud (VY, Pryor, Tebow) I think Corp will be PC’s last recruit from a veer/spread option offense.

The second point is interesting. The pro-style passing offense is becoming rarer and rarer in high school. Southern California is about the last place where it is still used with any frequency. Eventually, the talent well is going to dry up. Carson, Matt and Mark were taught the fundamentals of a pro-style offense in high school, SC just polished them and got them ready for the NFL. JDB played in a shotgun style offense, but he flung the ball, threw for over 8000 yards in 800 attempts in about two years. Corp, on the other hand, ran for over 1000 yds his senior year.

SC has been very fortunate attracting QB’s with NFL bodies and schooled in pro-style fundamentals. Eventually, SC is going to run out of Carson’s and Mark’s and Barkey’s and they are going to be stuck with Aaron Corp types: lanky option QB’s with weak arms who might win you a few games in college but with absolutely no hope of ever sniffing a practice squad in the NFL. And that may be when Pete finally retires.
 

As the original article said, his stats were no worse than Barkley’s. And he didn’t put the ball on the ground twice killing drives. Why aren’t we calling out McKnight and Havili, aren’t those the guys that killed us?