BOL: Former Clemson QB Chad Kelly Visits Alabama on Sunday

GrayTide said:

Absolutely. This why highly rated HS QBs should understand this before committing. Luke Del Rio had offers from Oregon State and Okie State and chose to walk on at Alabama? Somebody needs to advise these young men before they make a huge mistake.

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Many thought Del Rio's desire to walk on was more about his future in coaching and being able to learn from CNS.

Now, he may have also thought he was good enough to play eventually at Bama.

I remember several saying they really believed that if AJ would have gone down last year that Del Rio would have been given a crash course in mid season and he would have probably passed Blake Sims by. Who knows what might have happened, then.

Of course, many also thought Del Rio might be in a good position to win the job this year, but then Coker transferred and since he was promised the job by CNS Del Rio saw the writing on the wall and transfered.

davefrat said:

excuse me for being confused by the 1000 different versions of blake smith's recruitment that have been posted in this thread.

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It seems that Blake walked in the door battling for the chance to be Bama's QB, and he is still waging that battle.

http://www.tidefans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86134&highlight=blake+sims

RTR91 said:

Philip Sims is a bad example of the difficult of projecting development. The 2010 QB class was just bad overall.

Rivals' ranking for pro-style QB

1. Jake Heaps
2. Philip Sims
3. Connor Wood
4. Brett Nottingham
5. Jesse Scroggins
6. Blake Bell
7. Tyler Bray
8. Paul Jones
9. Zach Lee
10. Scotty Young

Rivals' ranking for dual-threat QB

1. Devin Gardner
2. Robert Bolden
3. Barry Brunetti
4. James Franklin
5. Terrance Broadway
6. Johnny Deaton
7. Brion Carnes
8. Jeffrey Godfrey
9. Jeremy Johnson
10. Sean Robinson

How many of those QBs done something significant in college? James Franklin and Devin Gardner are the only two I see, and Gardner hasn't done much. He just plays for Michigan.

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Boy that was a pretty bad year for QB recruits...

CrimsonEyeshade said:

Uh Dave, it's Blair Sims.:biggrin2:

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my bad.

blake smith is a guy i went to high school with...don't know where that one came from.

Talk about QB controversy...


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JDCrimson said:

Boy that was a pretty bad year for QB recruits...

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Yep, but look down that list to #44. Blake Bortles, wasn't he the #1 QB pick in the recent NFL draft? Kind of makes you wonder about all these #1 recruiting classes we have had.

GrayTide said:

Yep, but look down that list to #44. Blake Bortles, wasn't he the #1 QB pick in the recent NFL draft? Kind of makes you wonder about all these #1 recruiting classes we have had.

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it makes me wonder why the art of recruit ranking misses the QB position so much but when I look at our team versus most others the #1 recruits are very very evident. 47 (if thats right) players in the NFL takes a lot of the wonder away too

Jon said:

it makes me wonder why the art of recruit ranking misses the QB position so much but when I look at our team versus most others the #1 recruits are very very evident. 47 (if thats right) players in the NFL takes a lot of the wonder away too

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Maybe because it is such a mental position.

GrayTide said:

Yep, but look down that list to #44. Blake Bortles, wasn't he the #1 QB pick in the recent NFL draft? Kind of makes you wonder about all these #1 recruiting classes we have had.

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It shouldn't. You can't count on any one guy panning out, but if you've got 25 of them you're going to be fine.

GrayTide said:

Yep, but look down that list to #44. Blake Bortles, wasn't he the #1 QB pick in the recent NFL draft? Kind of makes you wonder about all these #1 recruiting classes we have had.

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More of our players overall pan out than not. OTOH, Our coaches (and all other coaches for that matter) miss players in your own backyard that go to smaller schools become NFL stars. There's only so many players you can evaluate and you have the pick the best 25 or so out of the 100's you evaluate in a given year.

I wonder if the bulk of our QB evaluations comes more from our OC's or CNS. I wonder what, or how much input CNS has on those decisions of who to sign. That's not meant to be a knock on CNS, I just wonder how those decisions are made. I think CNS realizes that any OC that comes here and has success isn't going to be here forever, so I imagine he doesn't let an OC have full discretion of taking who he wants because they won't likely be here when those players are seniors.

Bama hasn't had a senior QB play for the OC that recruited him since... Jay Barker?

CoachJeff said:

Bama hasn't had a senior QB play for the OC that recruited him since... Jay Barker?

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That's probably right.