Football season is over, you say? Time to move on to basketball, you say? Rubbish. Football season never ends, particularly in the college ranks, where recruiting – both talent evaluation and acquisition, to spout an Al Groh-ism – is a year-round task.

But you have to begin every offseason by looking back at the prior season. You have to evaluate your strengths and your weaknesses. You have to determine what you can fix, and how you can fix it. If you cannot fix something, you have to figure out how to plan around it.

In that spirit, I am going to take a position-by-position look back at the 2006 season, discussing what I learned at that position from the season. For some positions, that will be more; for some, less. Some comments will seem rehashed, some will seem new. But always keep in mind that when you are looking back, you are doing so with the idea of looking forward.

With that in mind, here is what I learned from the 2006 season, starting with the quarterbacks:

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