Stocco
Tolzien
Wilson
Stave (!!)
Houston (!!)
Horni
Coan
All developed under Chryst. Not too bad, save for Horni's regression in his last season. That was more his own doing though.
The !! guys were submarined by the prior coach too. That same guy who made Houston into a punter and tried to make a WR into a QB. I'd have liked to have seen what they could have done under PC for 4-5 years. Houston could have been something special, I think.
So, I was thinking about some of the selection stuff in there. In terms of inherited QBs, he got Stocco on stable ground and got an underrated year out of Donovan.
But let's run through the set of QBs brought in:
Sherer - A shockingly decently-rated guy, he just developed quite poorly (he was an inherited recruit from whoever the last guy ways)
Tolzien - This was good
James Stallons - Evaporated off the face of the earth
Curt Phillips - Four-star, injuries were an issue, but basically never a threat to start and after four years with PC, threw one of the worst balls you'll see
Jon Budmayr - Never a threat to start and eventually torpedoed by injuries
Joseph Brennan - I think I recall him being a person
Wilson - I think Chryst helped here or there, but Wilson was already very, very good. UW put a good offense around him and bumped him a bit and it was great. He was also needed because the backup was so bad.
Bart Houston - PC recruited him and then left. On one hand, I get that he was left to Andy Ludwig, a sometimes good, sometimes bad OC and QB guy. That said, PC gets a full two seasons with Houston on the back end. He's the best QB recruit to ever come to UW to that point. After a full year in the system, he manages to get through two games and then gets benched with a bad performance against a brutal Georgia State team. He worked his way back because Horni was so-so, but that gets like half credit.
PC is gone for a stretch, but the opening depth chart he left went 1. Another grad transfer 2. Second-year walk-on 3. Phillips and his bad arm. That's not super
When PC returned:
Hornibrook - A great find, great development story and awful regression story. That he got 2017 out of the kid was awesome, but PC also catches some flack for 2018.
Kare' Lyles - Did nary a thing
Jack Coan - Has turned a decent recruit into a very solid game manager
Then you have Wolf, who has that sheen of maybe he could be underrated good and then Mertz and then no one.
Like, it's a little hit and miss. Of the guys you mentioned, Stocco, Tolzien are the best work, and Coan is pretty good give or take we don't know how it ends. Wilson was good also, but he was really super at points at N.C. State and UW supplied the infrastructure. Houston and Horni are covered above. Stave, I don't quite know what to do with. He only played two years for PC, one not playing. PC got him back on track as a senior, even if it wasn't statistically impressive, but 2012 and 2013 might just be signs that Stave was more self sufficient then he gets credit for.
Anyway, wasn't saying he's not quite good, just maybe has a couple holes in the resume. If he wants to make Mertz a beast, I'll take it.