I'll agree to disagree with all of this. If you put Bish, Ell, or Collin on last years team, there is no QB carousel and the team doesn't lose 5 games. We are just as good, if not better this season with those guys. If he wins the Big 12 he will have a season similar to the other three, I don't think he's a better college qb than any of those guys. For me his ceiling is the best of the next group that has Waters, Beasley, and May.
I have no issue with disagreement. I'd consider Jake a "sneaky good" QB for all of the reasons you mentioned in another post.
Regarding the QB carousel last year, I think that was more of a function of two things: First, Jake turned the ball over a ton the first few games, and that's going to get you yanked, and two, I think everyone realized we were attempting Marc Dunn Pt. 2, and that didn't fit any model that Snyder realistically liked.
Snyder has had success with two types of QB's: Exceptional runners that can throw fairly well, and gigantic battering rams that hammer you mercilessly with the QB run game that can throw a little bit. Either we have a very dynamic QB run game (Bishop, Ell, and Sams to a certain degree), or we have battering rams (Beasley, Klein). You even see this dichotomy in the kinds of kids we've recruited to play QB. For example, in the Klein mold, we have Hubener, Ertz, and now this Laird kid. Big, tall kids that have funky throwing motions, run upright, and ram themselves into the line. Then, in the Ell mold, you had Sams and now Delton. Guys that are dynamic on the ground, but did (and will) require significant investment in the passing game because, while they have good arms, they are not accomplished or polished passers.
I think Snyder knows how to use those kinds of guys. He doesn't know how to use Jake, which made his recruitment all that more bizarre, and why it's taken this long to figure out exactly what we want to do with him. Had we taken Nick Marshall, and somehow found a way to keep Sams, we probably could have ridden the same type of offensive scheme from Marshall, to Sams as a bridge, and then to Delton. Now, by deviating, we're going to do an about face on the offense again next year and go back to the lumbering QB run game because that's what we have on the bench for the foreseeable future.