Absolutely. Labas is clearly a better QB than Deacon. Deacon's best landing spot was an unknown FCS school (I honestly had never heard of Utah Tech before). Labas landed at a decent MAC school. Labas has looked impressive at CMU (had a big spring scrimmage game, and great stats in game 1) while Deacon struggled to win the starting job and then completed less than 50% of his passes for less than 5 yards per attempt.
The fact that Labas got zero snaps last year is insane. If he really was high all the time and skipping practice (unsubstantiated message board rumors), such that he really could not be trusted, then why wasn't he just cut from the team?
You are the first I've heard say Labas was skipping practice. I doubt that's true. What's been said is that he was late to meetings. If he was skipping practices, my guess is he would have been dismissed.
Not insane at all that Labas didn't play. Actually, it would have been closer to insane to have played him, assuming the rumors are true. You can't have a guy that isn't invested leading your team. It's makings to absolutely ruin a team.
Listen, I hate repeating rumors about people. Especially college kids. I really do. But I also hate people that think coaches are crazy.
Here we have a situation that doesn't add up. We have incomplete information and have to play a little detective. And this one is really easy.
Why did KF move Hill ahead of Labas two weeks after Hill had arrived to campus in the spring? The detective knows that everyone understands that, on paper, Labas is the better football player. He also knows KF to be loyal. So if the players happened to be neck-and-neck in practice, KF would give the nod to Labas. Similar to his loyalty, KF is thorough and process oriented. The detective knows that it would be unlike KF to move Hill ahead of Labas so quickly without feeling that Hill was clearly the better player.
Unless there was something else to the story. Turns out, there were rumors of such.
So the detective realizes that the reason loyal KF moved Hill ahead of Labas so quickly in spring was either because the rumors were true, or because KF and staff felt Hill to clearly be the better player, making them completely clueless, as everyone else understands Labas to clearly be the better player.
So guess which option the detective chooses as most likely. Think long and hard about it.....That's right! The detective does not make the assumption that a staff of experts in their field are clueless. Like I said, easy case for the detective.
This argument is like most of the rest of them on this board. They have a side that is fueled by the assumption that KF and staff are clueless. And they are all ridiculous.
KF is an intelligent man. But would any of you want him coming into your office, telling you how to do your job? Of course not.
It should also be mentioned that last year's team was incredibly unified. They all fought for each other, and that included Deacon. Not one of them was distracted by the thought that someone else should have been playing QB
