Remember, this whole thread is about Crowton. Again, putting pts on the board is the whole point of an offense. Beck's '04 offense (under Crowton's direction) was horrible at putting pts on the board. Beck's '05 offense, (under Anae's direction) was a whole heck of a lot better.


Beck did indeed take a quantum leap forward in leading a productive offense from '04 to '05. You can't really argue that no matter how much you keep trying. There was not the same quantum leap from '05 to '06, even though Beck did manage to throw fewer picks (from 13 to 8, which had the greatest impact on his TD/int ratio) and went for longer completions.


He became more efficient from '05 to '06, no doubt, but his production remained roughly equal. Consider his position among all qualified NCAA QB's in these stats from '04 to '05 to '06, in that order:

Efficiency: #53, #33, #2
YPA: #39, #54, #3
Yards: #37, #5, #5
TD's: #48, #9, #5
Completion Percentage: #67, #12, #3


I'm not saying Beck didn't step it up another level his senior year. He did. But the drastic increase in production, in what the offense was doing, in what Crowton and Anae were ultimately responsible for, happened from '04 to '05. Crowton simply got a heck of a lot less out of Beck than Anae did.