I have not found a way to embed graphs into the forum. For now I am parking the data here so I can graph it later and upload an image.
The basic message is that Feleipe Franks is moving into the top of tier 2 in terms of Gator QBs, and he did this by investing his off-season in QB camps and by working hard in practice.
Tier 1 QBs (rating above 160): Danny Wuerffel, Tim Tebow, Jesse Palmer, Rex Grossman
Tier 2 QBs (rating above 140): Doug Johnson, Chris Leak, Feleipe Franks, Will Grier
Tier 3 QBs (rating above 120): most Gator QBs since 2009
Bottom Tier QBs (rating below 120): too many to admit
Franks was in the bottom tier in 2017, and improved two tiers in a year in the same way Driskel, Brissett, and Grier all improved 20 points by switching teams.
Interesting: Your clarification does exactly what you intended--to sharpen and help to draw conclusions from the data: The ones you go on to note above.
The actual graphing would help someone still unclear or unconvinced VISUALIZE the "proof" (we are hard-wired for visual analysis, after all), but I think we now have a cogent view of the "who, how and WHY" of our "Gator QB ups and downs" over the last 20+ years--no small feat.
Now, whether ANYTHING, there or elsewhere can help us do better from here is unknown--perhaps unknowABLE...We kept trying to find the right Coach (its OWN near-impossible task and decision to divine in advance, as we have flounderingly demonstrated), and THINK we have finally LUCKED INTO one ( I use that expression, "LUCKED INTO", BECAUSE it IS in the end such a deeply complex combination of insight, psychology, timing and then, finally, a longshot roll-of-the-dice then WAIT AND SEE).
But that is all we can do now: WAIT AND SEE. We can comment, judge progress based on results as Coach himself sees, reacts and adapts...Trust his wisdom, experience, and the assumption that he has by now amassed enough of each to unflinchingly (and if necessary, devoid of sentimentality) keep his ultimate goal as Head Coach in the center of his focus: Build an elite, winning program once more at University of Florida.
The best, most reassuring evidence that we are right, correct in assuming "by-the-evidence" that Dan Mullen IS "The One", that "one special Coach" we have been searching for, the next one to forge the next "link in the chain" of Great Gator Teams and then proceed to SUSTAIN that goal, is simply the FEELING that he is a GATOR HIMSELF, that he ultimately WANTED this job, the specific job of "Gator Head Coach" in particular--and now that he has arrived has quickly and thoroughly immersed himself in that role: A Gator thru and THRU.
You DON'T get the feeling that the high pay, the simple fact of heading up ANY MAJOR COLLEGE PROGRAM, lead them to the very top of the hierarchy and oversee their installation there for years to come, is or WAS EVER alone his main goal: Unlike the others (even Muschamp, whom we THOUGHT was that guy just because he was FROM Gainesville--but life and learned-practicality had already taught him to recognize flawed assumptions and quickly adapt accordingly--and that's what he did: gave up whatever dreams he had and jumped at "the next opportunity", it turned out), I now truly believe that doing so at The University of Florida, as GATOR Head Coach, was Mullen's specific main goal--to the point of near-obsessive determination, even stubborness--that he had and would have continued to make his career choices with that same, unfailing ultimate consideration in mind. Maybe that's what it takes, and THAT is why he has slipped so fully, comfortably and convincingly into the role here now...and why he WILL succeed here now in the tough and over-the-TOP manner that is demanded.
