I think I will get skewered for making this post, because the stats have been really bad for Mitch this year, but I'll say it anyway.
I have way more faith in the staff making a decision as to who gives us the best chance to win a game than we do. I know folks keep making fun of how Mitch looked the last year or so in practice/scrimmages/bad teams, and how he has looked against actual P5 teams. I don't disagree that he has been bad when the lights come on, and I would say decision making is by far his worst trait.
That being said, I still think Mitch gives us the best chance to win games, and I think the staff feels that way too. Simplify the playbook, give him more of an offensive gameplan like we gave Santino, and also the blocking we got against Pitt, and I still believe Mitch can be a serviceable quarterback. I don't think he is the QB of the future at all.
We asked Santino to basically do nothing the entire game, and ran the most vanilla playbook possible. He made 2-3 good throws all game out of 21 attempts, and he came up big when it mattered down the stretch. Based on what I saw throughout the game, I don't think that will necessarily be repeatable if we did it 10-15 times a game instead of 1-2. He balled out to get us the win, no doubt, and full credit to him.
Nothing at all that the staff is doing decision-making wise has anything to do with the fan base or "sticking it to us". Those are asinine assertions and just dumb. They are trying to find the QB who gives us the best chance to win games. Period.