Sorry man, but you're wrong. Clausen was a nightmare in every respect. I know you want the moral high ground as a fan but you don't get it until you put JC in his rightful place which is well, well below either BQ or certainly Ian Book. Even with me taking liberties speaking about Clausen in the way that I have in this thread, which is largely born out of frustration with all the shit that a clearly, demonstrably superior QB like Ian Book has to take from the peanut gallery.
And to repeat one last time, that JC is so unappealing, let's just put it that way, let alone quite undeserving of the fulsome credit he gets strictly as a player and a talent, it's almost hard to conceive of any other fan not feeling the same way I do. But alas that is not the case as JC continues to be treated like a demigod among ND fans.
So if you want to go ahead and bend the knee as they say these days, then maybe we can compromise. Because Clausen is a joke, a bad joke in the history of ND football. A punch line... he's the opposite of someone you would ever put on a pedestal, or even feel any affection for, on the basis of every characteristic in the book. From soup to nuts. There is literally almost nothing about the JC story that isn't deeply regrettable - except that it finally ended after three terrible years. And that's essentially a factual statement, not mere opinion.
As far as your corny rhetorical question of Why is that..... Because Clausen is a nightmare! That's why he comes in for such singular scorn. I've been counting the ways, shall I keep counting them? That's my rhetorical question to you....