Point is sport you complained about someone giving an opinion...sort of the pot calling the kettle black.
Here is a comment about Retig from Mike Detillier in an interview with Scott Long and in Dandy Don. Mike: I would like to see Hayden more to be honest. He was wildly inconsistent throwing the ball in limited time we got to see him in practice. He's a timing guy, built for the three-wide receiver set offenses and throwing to a spot. Doesn't have that real strong gun to make those throws to the chalk. The set-up throws to spots, that is not what LSU runs or will run. In time, like Rivers, he moves on to another college.
There is a great article out there somewhere about arm strength. It starts with the natural strength then gets into form, strengthening exercises, development, etc. I would love to find it and refresh my memory. Quite fascinating to me as a kid who had a gun when I was young even though I was always much smaller than the people I was competing against. Every now and then a guy would develope later and throw much harder but usually everyone stayed at about the same level as they matured.
Tell me if I'm reading too much into this, but this comment tells me our QB depth isn't what we thought it was. We have Jennings, for whom, after the Arkansas save but a lackluster Outback, the jury is still out. We have Bolden, who has some experience but hasn't even rated mopup time here. We have Rettig, see above comment. And we have an incoming HS'er with good credentials but....well, he'll be a freshman.
That is why it is a little surprising that Rivers didn't wait until summer to transfer. Spring practice looks like a wide-open quarterback battle.
