Rees was recruited for Weis's offense. So, that's the first thing people should think about before they scapegoat him. Then, because Kelly decides he's the best QB on the team to run his offense in 2011, he gets crucified by a fanbase who seem to have an inability to place anything in context. If you're going to blame anybody, blame Weis and Kelly. Weis left us with one upper class QB, and Kelly made the decision to play Rees. He did his best. It wasn't good enough. But this mocking of Rees has become creepy. He is an ND kid who is doing his best. If there was Joe Montana sitting on the bench, we'd have seen him.
We are who we are, a team with two average sophomore QB's and one promising freshman who has no game experience. We also have average upper class receivers in Goodman, Toma and Walker. People better take a deep breath and put everything in context, because the likelihood of a massive jump in QB play and passing game productivity is unlikely, unless Golson is the second coming of Terry Hanratty and Daniels (or the incoming freshman receivers) are the second coming of Jim Seymour and Rocket.
We are a rebuilding program facing an incredibly difficult season in 2012. No amount of fanbase impatience, or mocking current players, is going to change the fact that that combination is going to be difficult, and that it's going to be awhile before we can hope to look like an elite team again. Is it too much to ask people to look at the facts, temper their short term expectation and go with the growing pains without mocking and scapegoating players? Kelly must recruit and develop us to elite status. Let's hope he can get it done.
