This is an interesting reply and it got me to thinking. I've already commented how Swoopes has the long stride of The Pearl, and Earl had hamstring problems as well and wore pantyhose to help prevent them. Of course, I don't know if the long strides or the power in running, that both showed, have anything to do with it or not. It was just a thought.
I think part of the lack of playing time was Mack has always been scared of playing younger players and he felt the need to win so he wouldn't gamble on Swoops over Case. Case was a know quantity in games where Swoops was to much of a wild card for Mack in the close games.
LOL. I wouldn't worry too much about Swoopes being a student of the game. I give you Vince Young, for an example - who made a 6 on the Wonderlic. Yeah, I know, that's an unfair comparison as VY was an alien from another planet and not of this world, but his freshman year was as a RS and his soph year was not impressive.
VY was red shirted as a freshman as Chris Simms was the senior QB, backed up by 3rd year soph Chance Mock. Swoopes played because Case was gawd awful and because we had no back up for him.
