Does it show that I'm worried about life after Jarrett? It should, and it's still soon enough after the season that I'm okay with saying it. There's time enough to deal with acceptance etc.
By now you've seen the picture of Jarrett crying when he announced that he was leaving USC to enter the NFL draft... but it's really Kiffin and Sarkisian who should be blubbing.Since Paragon would freely admit he finds it tedious to gather the numbers, I rolled up Jarrett's receiving yards by season (including the bowl game for that season, such that the 2005 Orange Bowl counts toward 2004), and put them against the team's stats in absolute and percentage terms:
| Jarrett Receiving | |||
|
YEAR
|
REC
|
YDS
|
TD
|
| 2004 |
55
|
849
|
13
|
| 2005 |
91
|
1274
|
16
|
| 2006 |
70
|
1015
|
12
|
| TOTAL |
216
|
3138
|
41
|
|
Team Receiving
|
||||
|
Year
|
REC
|
YDS
|
All REC TD
|
Total TD
|
| 2004 |
282
|
3532
|
34
|
65
|
| 2005 |
312
|
4157
|
32
|
90
|
| 2006 |
273
|
3430
|
29
|
50
|
| TOTAL |
867
|
11,119
|
95
|
205
|
|
Jarrett's % vs. Team
|
||||
|
Year
|
REC
|
YDS
|
REC TD
|
Total TD
|
| 2004 |
20%
|
24%
|
38%
|
20%
|
| 2005 |
29%
|
31%
|
51%
|
18%
|
| 2006 |
26%
|
30%
|
41%
|
24%
|
| TOTAL |
25%
|
28%
|
43%
|
20%
|
On one hand, one is tempted to think, well of course, he's a good player. But when you consider that in 2004 he was a true freshman, in 2005 he was playing on a team with Bush flying and White hammering in touchdowns, and that 2006 was an "off" season which saw Conquest Chronicle readers reflecting the general sentiment of many SC fans and favoring Steve Smith as the overall season MVP... and then look again at his having generated over a quarter of SC's receptions and receiving yards, nearly half of their receiving touchdowns, and one-fifth of their total touchdowns over the past three years, well then you get pretty good idea of how big a gap that Turner, Hazelton, et al have to fill next year.