you're making it sound like franklin inherited a 5th year JAG, instead of a kid some were saying maybe the 1st pick in the draft after what he accomplished in a sophisticated pro style offense under o'brien..
if you don't think he did the kid a tremendous disservice, there's really nothing left for me to add..
if you look at the two styles of football the range difference would be similar to Peyton Manning >< Tim Tebow... If that helps?
Pro style system in freshman year then asked to operate an option based system where his mobility isn't Tyrod Taylor but more Big Ben...
Hackenberg has the arm, the football iQ and leadership qualities... When giving proper protection, three count, five count he knows where his reads are and delivers but he needs to at least have a three count to release the ball... the last two years at PSU he was lucky if he got half mississippi, not even a full one count...
The Big Ten opponents are all established and stacked which meant they needed more than one accomplished offensive lineman... John Urshel currently of the Baltimore Ravens was the only good part of that line and he was mostly on the right side but the pressure seemed to come from the blind side and up the middle nothing any QB could do in that situation...