[Redrum]

Every once in a while people who seem out in left field turn out to be correct.  I remember the wrap up to the the recruiting season when Olugbode decided to walk on.  HS football fans from the Santa Clara/ San Jose area were at first astounded Olugbode didn't get a Stanford scholarship offer and that he had such low interest from other schools.    That, of course, is a pretty normal response from local fans enthusiastic about a local kid.  But some of them posted unequivocally  that Olugbode would knock our socks off and was the walk-on steal of the decade.  Apparently our defensive coaching staff is now walking around wearing sandals.  It will be interesting to see if Olugbode follows the arc of playing, starting, starring... and be one of the great walk-on stories of  the Pac-12.  My guess is he fits the Harbaugh criteria:  just a great football player apart from all the measurables  the recruiting services love to promote.

"Josh [Nunes] has been in our offense now for three years, and he's getting to the point to where he can handle more volume," Hamilton said. "He's working his tail off in the film room and doing a real good job getting our guys together in the offseason, making sure he's spending quality time with the receivers and tight ends."

I don't read that quote from Hamilton as validation that Nunes has an edge to be the starter.  It says, basically, that Josh is working hard and after three years in the system knows the playbook.  That seems pretty neutral to me.    I think our "problem" remains the same:  enough guys show promise and at the end of Spring game none of them have separated from the pack...at least not in coaches' public pronouncements  or in the eyes of mavens who watch from the stands.  Too bad the Stanford bods won't let us or the mavens watch much practice to witness the emergence of a QB starter.

But, we knew all that and I didn't expect a revelation of anything on ESPN Insider.  Looks like Shaw is deliberately letting the light shine on Mason and Hamilton.  Anyone get the feeling he's prepping them for launch into the wider,  more merciless world of Div. 1 college coaching?

[Redrum]

Every once in a while people who seem out in left field turn out to be correct.  I remember the wrap up to the the recruiting season when Olugbode decided to walk on.  HS football fans from the Santa Clara/ San Jose area were at first astounded Olugbode didn't get a Stanford scholarship offer and that he had such low interest from other schools.    That, of course, is a pretty normal response from local fans enthusiastic about a local kid.  But some of them posted unequivocally  that Olugbode would knock our socks off and was the walk-on steal of the decade.  Apparently our defensive coaching staff is now walking around wearing sandals.  It will be interesting to see if Olugbode follows the arc of playing, starting, starring... and be one of the great walk-on stories of  the Pac-12.  My guess is he fits the Harbaugh criteria:  just a great football player apart from all the measurables  the recruiting services love to promote.

"Josh [Nunes] has been in our offense now for three years, and he's getting to the point to where he can handle more volume," Hamilton said. "He's working his tail off in the film room and doing a real good job getting our guys together in the offseason, making sure he's spending quality time with the receivers and tight ends."

I don't read that quote from Hamilton as validation that Nunes has an edge to be the starter.  It says, basically, that Josh is working hard and after three years in the system knows the playbook.  That seems pretty neutral to me.    I think our "problem" remains the same:  enough guys show promise and at the end of Spring game none of them have separated from the pack...at least not in coaches' public pronouncements  or in the eyes of mavens who watch from the stands.  Too bad the Stanford bods won't let us or the mavens watch much practice to witness the emergence of a QB starter.

But, we knew all that and I didn't expect a revelation of anything on ESPN Insider.  Looks like Shaw is deliberately letting the light shine on Mason and Hamilton.  Anyone get the feeling he's prepping them for launch into the wider,  more merciless world of Div. 1 college coaching?