Unless you are a recruiting juggernaut like OU or Ohio St, there's a good chance that starting a Freshman QB will negatively affect QB recruiting. While Taylor Martinez and Tommy Armstrong were here, we constantly heard that we lacked QB depth. We had two P5 starters (Gebbia and Vedral) that left NU because they didnt want to spend their careers backing up Adrian.
No one should be surprised that our extremely talented, former Freshman QB is starting as a Senior. Everyone should be surprised at the lack of improvement from his Freshman season til now and the number of games he gave away during his career.