Yea there is, and i actually think applebee is better even though he sucks. The downside is one more year (minimum) of built in excuses by the pumpers about how we cant judge mack until franks or trask is on the field, yada yada yada.
Of those 4 teams you mention, clemson and osuck run a spread so of course they dont have one. We dont run a spread big dawg, square peg, round hole. Regarding the other, bama, they dont even come close to winning with their QB. They win with everything except him. That kid just hands the ball off and throws 5 yards on 3rd downs. I can see how that might look like exactly what mac would want b/c thats exactly the crap qb play weve seen for 2 years, but unfortunately its also why we suck out loud. Mac's offense needs a legit qb to make it work. Until we recruit all the other positions like bama does, we cant take some innacurate, no defense reading, dink and dunk when hes forced to, run first and regularly turn the ball over quarterback and expect to improve in any way.