we were a 7 point underdog, played superbly against Texas in a game considered 50/50 and had thrown a bomb for a TD to Fuller again against Virginia, had us down to the 24 yard line to take a two score lead against Virginia the play before he was hurt. He was considered a very good college QB at that point and we were considered a national championship contender with him at QB. He was very unlucky with the injury and showed nothing but a classy attitude with the letter he wrote at his point of transfer thanking ND and saying he would always be a Domer. He could have gone to Harvard, obviously very intelligent and once again was bitten by lady luck for his stint at Florida where he was loved by his teammates. Frankly Kizer was lucky that a lot of passes he threw were not picked against Virginia, Georgia Tech and that a few of his fumbles were recovered by teammates. Kizer looked much sharper against Texas the next year and we were robbed when there was no penalty on the Hunter cheapshot hit.( perhaps the most egregious lack of a call for targeting at the time). The game he Zaire got in against Stanford when Kizer was playing horribly, we never had good field position on any of his three drives and in fact our center snapped the ball over his head on one of them. He made a great run to good us out of really bad field position after the poor snap which was unfortunately called back for a penalty. It was bad luck in all that game for him too.
I happened to like Golson too and thought you guys were too harsh on him because he had the ability to bring a team back, remember the great win against Stanford the year before, and his ability to drive the team at the end of first halfs. We were never out of a game with Golson. As for Kizer he had a superb, accurate arm but had 7 opportunities to lead us to victory in 2016 and did not bring us back once in those seven.