posted by FatHobbit
Idk, for his career at Washington he is 923/1430 for 64.5%, 11,983 yards, 94 tds and 34 ints. His record as a starter is 39-15. I'm not saying he's the best ever but i'm not sure "so so bad" is really accurate either.
From what I read, Browning was a really good QB at one time, but as his college career went on, for whatever reason his numbers declined. I think this year was his worst year as a starter for them by far.
As for "good year, bad year", it's kind of a gray area for me. On one hand, if you said 13-1, B1G champ and Rose Bowl champ at the beginning of the year with a first-year starter with one game of legit experience (ie: not against a scrub team in the final minutes) and all that defensive turnover, I'd have called it a great season.
On the other, when you take into consideration that their one loss was a blowout to a mediocre-at-best team, they had multiple close calls against other mediocre-to-poor teams and that the PAC-12 is down to the level that it was hard for me to not look at yesterday's game as almost a "lose/lose" where if they won, they easily should have and if they lost, it'd be an embarrassing way to end things --- then winding up where they did was a bit disappointing. Because it's real easy to think, "What if they showed up at Purdue?" or "Would they have gotten by Oklahoma and Georgia to be the fourth seed if that Purdue game was a complete fluke instead of the game they did lose out of 3-4 they could have easily lost?" and then wonder how things would have turned out if they did get in.
They won, Urban gets to go out a winner with his first Rose Bowl win in as many attempts and everything seems set up for a smooth transition, so that's all cool. But, damn, it's hard to not shake the feeling that it SHOULD have been more.