[Hank 91]

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One thing I like about our current coach is that there is that rounds of speculation are fewer and less intense than our prior coach.

I'm not referring to the coach I'm referring to a certain UCLA recruit playing quarter... *in a remarkable miracle the unintelligibly muttering man, after resurrection, goes and dies again.*
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I'm not sure if this will revive the patient or paddle him farther across the River Styx, but last Friday night I saw the recruit in question play. I can't imagine how coaches evaluated quarterback recruits before the days of quarterback camps and 7 on 7 passing leagues. He made two nice throws all night -- one while rolling out to his left was particularly impressive -- but without Division I receivers, he looked fairly average to my untrained eye. I remember thinking the same thing when I saw Matt Leinart during his senior year. (Incidentally, Vontaze Burfect was across the field from Leinart in that game, and it was OBVIOUS that he was a beast on the NFL track.) I'm not saying that this unnamed UCLA recruit playing quarterback isn't good quarterback, I'm just saying that it seems impossible to evaluate high school quarterbacks on game play alone.

[Hank 91]

[quote author=Boston Card link=topic=11277.msg107427#msg107427 date=1417725793]


One thing I like about our current coach is that there is that rounds of speculation are fewer and less intense than our prior coach.

I'm not referring to the coach I'm referring to a certain UCLA recruit playing quarter... *in a remarkable miracle the unintelligibly muttering man, after resurrection, goes and dies again.*
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I'm not sure if this will revive the patient or paddle him farther across the River Styx, but last Friday night I saw the recruit in question play. I can't imagine how coaches evaluated quarterback recruits before the days of quarterback camps and 7 on 7 passing leagues. He made two nice throws all night -- one while rolling out to his left was particularly impressive -- but without Division I receivers, he looked fairly average to my untrained eye. I remember thinking the same thing when I saw Matt Leinart during his senior year. (Incidentally, Vontaze Burfect was across the field from Leinart in that game, and it was OBVIOUS that he was a beast on the NFL track.) I'm not saying that this unnamed UCLA recruit playing quarterback isn't good quarterback, I'm just saying that it seems impossible to evaluate high school quarterbacks on game play alone.