Heaps looked like a solid QB in the making the latter half of 2010 under Anae and against weaker competition. Let me be clear. Solid not great. Solid not amazing. Heaps went into RES calm and confident and should have walked out of there with a W, and he was a true freshman.

If Anae stays, at worst, Heaps ends up with about 10k yards passing and 80 TDs, good for top five all time at BYU. Anae leaves, Doman takes over, Heaps regresses mentally and lacks the maturity to get through some personal and team problems, Riley comes in and averages 4 yards a carry on the ground...the rest is history.

Go watch Heaps 2010 v. Heaps 2011. They're two different QBs. Anae had Heaps playing with confidence, making reads, and throwing with some accuracy. Heaps in 2011 was throwing at the ground, sailing balls, waiting for something, anything to develop, and looked awful. Hoffman, Wilson and others later said they never understood what Doman was trying to do with the offense and that if felt like he was hitting the reset button every Monday.

In the bizarro world in my brain Heaps develops under Anae, Apo never gets hurt and remains a red zone threat, and Stout stays out of trouble and mans the middle for 2.5 years. My goodness I wanted that trio to succeed.