Cundiff wasn't a whiff. He was the one who got "homesick". Even still, the list of QBs that have departed is pretty damn stunning. Some couldn't cut it, some probably could but they needed to watch, mature and develop.
These QBs are their own worst enemy. Even a kid a that gets a scholarship for D-II (Not FCS) program as a QB is an elite athlete from where he comes from. I can't even begin to imagine the BS that gets pumped into the heads of a QB headed to an FBS program. Friends and family must look at these guys like they are the next Peyton Manning.
I think that these kids are their own worst enemy. In my humble opinion, the only types of QBs that should be starting as a RS Fr. or earlier are the type that will be a future All Conference selection, at a minimum! Lagow is probably a decent QB, but there was no way he should be seeing the field until his third season.
Everyone think that it is such a great thing to have a 4 year starter. But I think that we have only had one guy that was good enough for that and he has been gone for quite some time. I think we started guys like Boyle, Cochran, Nebrich and Box out of neccesity, but it put these guys in terrible positions. Football isn't a sport where you get better as long as you are playing. I think that playing a QB too early can really hurt a guy's future not only mentally, but as we have seen, physically as well.