Bear week

[ronfitch]

There is a big difference between "burning the red shirt" in the 3rd or 4th game into the season, and then playing the rest of the year
versus not playing at all until the 2nd or 3rd to last game of the season.

It was the third game into the season, against Northern Colorado after road loses to Iowa and Hawaii. After the Northern Colorado game, Farley went on to participate in another 11 games that year, starting once (against SDSU). In what was already a long schedule (12 regular season games instead of the typical 11, followed by two more post-season playoff games) perhaps Jared did not really know what his dad was thinking in regards to a red shirt that year.

As for Howell, to me it would seem the writing was on the wall when Farley started him against Indy State late season.