Bailey Hockman has been criticized a lot this season, and not a lot of people have had more to say than me. I wrote this after the Virginia Tech loss, the gist of which was a confused and lengthy rant about why it took so long to bench him. And it’s not that the criticisms of the junior signal caller have been invalid. Prior to losing his starting quarterback job, Hockman had largely struggled his whole career at NC State.
The Hockman experiment in 2019 was messy and seemed far from inconclusive.