In addition to Riley Skinner, the 2006 ACC Rookie of the Year who led Wake Forest to a highly unlikely conference championship and Orange Bowl bid, did you know Jeff Mullen quarterbacks have, in sum, won two conference player of the year awards, one preseason player of the year prize, led a team to its first 10-win season and set major career and single-season passing records?

Granted, the aforementioned achievements didn’t happen under Mullen and at Wake Forest. Not necessarily his fault. He happens to coach quarterbacks. If not for the offensive line, which has a larger pool of players every year, the QB position would have the highest turnover in college football. It certainly has the highest ratio.

Look at WVU, for a possible example. Three quarterbacks. One sophomore, two true freshmen. You can see where that’s probably headed. And yet, who knows what’s ahead for those players?

This is worth mentioning because while players like Zac Taylor, Ben Mauk, Brett Hodges and Allan Hodges all played for Mullen and then went and succeeded elsewhere, Coastal Carolina has a quarterback named Zach MacDowell who Mullen recruited and coached during what Mullen refers to as the “Riley Skinner Show.”

The writing was on the wall and MacDowell was on his way out of Wake.

“There are two different kinds of kids,” Mullen said. “Some kids are team-oriented and some kids want to play a little more.

“I’m not trying to label a kid a certain way, but it’s difficult for a quarterback. You can’t play two or three at a time.”