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Message: [QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5173975, member: 10113"] While I agree it is surprising, the modern era with teams actually throwing the ball 30+ times a game, only started fairly recently. Before the “air raid”, “fun and gun”, etc, passing offenses like BYU, Houston, Hawaii, etc., were the exception, not the rule. So there’s not a lot of years in the 40s 50s 60s and 70s, when a 1 year (or 2 year) starter was going to have 10 touchdown passes. Even in the 80s, look at McPherson‘s statistics that got him #2 in the Heisman race. Most people would not believe those numbers could be accurate! Then factor in 3/4 year starters like McNabb, Graves, McPherson, Dungey, Shrader, Nassib and you have about 20 years of Modern Syracuse history taken up by just six quarterbacks. Then you have Hunt, Nunes, Paterson, and a few others getting you close to 30 with maybe 10 quarterbacks. So initially, I was surprised by your info, but when I thought about it, it makes sense [/QUOTE]