Link: Video About A.J. McCarron on ESPN

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[Jack Bourbon]

Re: New Video About A.J. McCarron on ESPN

Nice to have Mobile back.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Re: New Video About A.J. McCarron on ESPN

Now if we can just keep him out of the MLB draft. With regards to Lugnut it is very hard to criticize the obvious. AJ McCarron is so obviously talented that it would be very very hard for anybody (with a straight face) to criticize his abilities then turn around and praise the other Elite 11 qbs. AJ finished among the top five in the Elite 11 camp and was getting rave reviews from the coaches there. Heck, at one point his quick release was being compared to Dan Marino.

I'll take this one step further. We all hate being criticized and knit picked by people like Josh Moon, Scabinsky and Lugnut. One sure fire solution to all of that is winning. Will it eliminate all together? No. But it will eliminate the true, bottom of the barrel pot shot articles that we have been accustomed to over the last decade. I remember in 2005 when we started off 9-0, drummed Florida on national tv, made the cover of the next sports illustrated. For the short time frame the media and the football community paid more attention to us winning than anything else. Now once we started losing again the pot shots and bashing returned.

Winning takes care of a lot of things.

 

[ElkhartTider]

should we even get excited about AJ?...


how likely is it that he gets drafted highly...?

 

[CapstoneGrad06]

should we even get excited about AJ?...


how likely is it that he gets drafted highly...?

I don't believe its that likely he'll be drafted as high as Destin Hood. If he's not going to be in the first few rounds, then its not in his best interest to go that route. Scouts that saw him work out in Jackson, Miss. recently, stated that he had talent, but needed to work on his mechanics. I really see him heading to Alabama no matter what. Gentry Estes wrote that article with a little slant.

 

[JAXFLBAMAFAN]

I don't believe its that likely he'll be drafted as high as Destin Hood. If he's not going to be in the first few rounds, then its not in his best interest to go that route. Scouts that saw him work out in Jackson, Miss. recently, stated that he had talent, but needed to work on his mechanics. I really see him heading to Alabama no matter what, and Gentry Estes wrote that article with a little slant. He's been known to stir the pot on occasion.

I sure hope you are right. This young man really sounds like the real deal.

It wouldn't surprise me to see him go MLB straight out of HS. From what I have been reading MLB prefers to get pitching prospects right out of HS. The thinking is that pitchers out of college are not nearly as good a prospect as the guys out of hs.

 

[IH8Orange]

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Maybe Tuberville told him that AJ is a silent commit for them. :biggrin:

 

[CrimsonBleedRed]

I don't believe its that likely he'll be drafted as high as Destin Hood. If he's not going to be in the first few rounds, then its not in his best interest to go that route. Scouts that saw him work out in Jackson, Miss. recently, stated that he had talent, but needed to work on his mechanics. I really see him heading to Alabama no matter what. Gentry Estes wrote that article with a little slant.

I agree with this assessment. Obvously AJ has talent to stick with baseball, but the problem becomes, does he had the talent to move quickly in the minors, or he a likely career minor leaguer who might get a call up later i his career? Personally, his route to the NFL is a lot clearly and more likely then the baseball route.

But it wouldn't surprise me if AJ doesn't at least try both sports at the Capstone, before focusing on one sport.

 

[UAinPHILLY]

From what I recall AJ skipped a baseball all-star game to concentrate on spring football. That doesn't sound like someone who is going the baseball route to me. Besides, from all I have heard he is unlikely to go as high as Hood or get a Hood-type deal.

I think the quotes are blown out of proportion. To me it sounded like "You'd be crazy to turn down that kind of money" joking rather than a serious indication he would like to play baseball.