I don't see where he is giving up on him. I thought Tyler made some really nice throws today, and I thought he directed some really good TD drives for us today. All of his mistakes were freshman mistakes that will get better in time. Better to make them now than later. What I want to see from him is improvement.
Also, I don't think it's MSU fans booing QB's that have hurt QB development. I think it's the fact that:
1. We have had poor QB coaching. Exhibit A: Woody McCorvey. Jackie sucked at devleoping QB's as well.
2. We have had running back centered offenses. Croom's, Jackie's, Emory's etc. Now, we have put out some good RB's at least. We've basically only asked our QB's to "manage" the game, or we've put an athleted playing QB like Relf back there, and that's not a good recipe for QB development. But for most of my MSU fan life, it's been give it to (Micheal Davis, Kevin Bouie, Norwood, Dicenzo, Dontae, JJ, AD, etc) about 40 times and ride that horse as far as it will go.
3. We've made poor decision regarding QB development- like burning Omarr Conner's redshirt during a 2-10 season and then shuttling him between WR and QB throughout his career. Also, starting unnecessary two QB systems- see Tyson Lee/Wes Carroll.
4. Recruiting people like Ty Evans, Mike Henig, and other assorted pieces of ****. Thank God Dan pulled the plug on Josh Hollingsworth when he first got here. And yes, I will give Tyson Lee a pass here since he was a walk-on.
5. God bless Kevin Fant. The one QB that we've had that actually looked functional, and then we surround with five fat tubs of lard that can't block, a 300 pound running back in the game for his apparent "superior blocking skills" to Jerious Norwood, receivers that couldn't catch, a Joe Lee Dunn defense that had d-line from Arizona Western, and a bunch of other people that only tackled people after the whistle, and John Micheal Miss a Mile.