Reportedly one of the stronger arms, perhaps one of the strongest, belonged to a guy who did nothing for us and would not work to develop his potential. That was Greg Jones, a QB out of Miami Edison in the '80's. He transferred to WVU as did another guy who did very little at UM, Basil Proctor.
All the know-it-alls here who constantly spout off about how we have to recruit like Johnson did in the '80s are delusional. You all should be working for the media and writing fake news. Try to find some of the signed recruits for JJ's first two or three classes. We signed maybe 1/3 guys who became players, another third who were mediocre at best, and the remainder were hot garbage. So many duds...so many. Jimmy was smart and managed to use the passing system and some of the passiing talent that Schnellenberger left him, an offense that closed the gap with teams who had really more size and strength in the trenches (that's why Howard called the passing game the great equalizer). JJ then went on to implement and find enough talent to man an aggressive and physical defense that created havoc with opposing offenses.
I just can't get over how stupid some of the comments are. We recruited so much useless trash, especially Jimmy's first two years. Guys like Jones, Basil Proctor, so many others. JJ and staff managed to find just enough players to put together a team that gave everybody fits. Jimmy's last two (maybe three) classes had a decent collection of guys with talent.
Getting back to arm strength--I used to hear and read that Greg Jones had a cannon. Other than that,he was useless. I think he ended up Major Harris' backup at WVU.
