player of the 20-some starting. That’s true.
But the rest of the team has more effect on record than he does alone, so people need to look past record and championships and look at individual ability in context of competition and supporting cast.
Eg. I think people give Robbie Bosco a bump for our only NC and Max one for having the most wins.
The other thing is we probably bring a lot of NFL career into consideration too even though it has nothing to do with how good they were at BYU. Combine recency bias and NFL bias and you get ZW’s precipitous fall from his drag to now.