He's an enormous success story. He had a good season last year and is primed for an even better season as a senior. It's great to see a hometown kid develop the way he has, and by all accounts he represents the school and city well. You can't ask for any more than that and we'll be lucky to have more players like him.
I do think he saw the field in a prominent role too soon, and it was unfortunate that he wasn't given more time to develop. That's not on him though. I understand the perspective that he's probably as good as he is now because he had that experience, but I don't know that to be true. I don't lay our failure to make a bowl that season at his feet, but he did have his struggles, and maybe we get to six with better play from the center position. We can't know that either though.
I do know that one very highly respected poster that has a ton of football knowledge was really down on Macky and did believe that Marrone was putting him above the team.:noidea: