Stay at a school where the head coach doesn’t want you and you’d have to hope for the starter to get hurt. That sounds miserable
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Question, since he transferred last year, does that mean he will be sitting out this season, then still have 3 years left? That makes sense with Gabbert returning.
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I thought there was a " CHANGE OF COACH EXCEPTION "- can some one clarify?
I was waiting to see how long it we be before someone won the thread with that post.
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He’s leaving Colorado because Deion brought his son with him to play QB, and no one is beating out the coach’s son as QB. (A lesson Big Ben learned in high school!) I have no issue with him leaving Colorado.
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Fox Sports said Shedeur Sanders is a Heisman frontrunner! He wasn’t even a Walter Payton finalist in FCS. He’s like the 4th best QB in the PAC 12, if that.
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Hahaha what a joke. In October, Deion said Shedeur should be in this past Heisman race, and that clearly didn’t work out for him.
Shedeur, through no fault of his own, might reach Jimmy Clausen levels of national disrespect before his time in Boulder is done.
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Houston is a mediocre program?
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That’s a good question. He likely does have to sit out a season since this is his second time through. Although I’m not sure about keeping all 3 years of eligibility. He already redshirted at Houston, so wouldn’t he still burn a year of eligibility next season?
I could be wrong, but I believe the change of coaches exception applies to incoming recruits who just signed their LOI. If the coach leaves, those players are released from their LOI and can be recruited elsewhere. Not sure if it impacts transfers in any way.
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I said that’s probably his plan, not a foredrawn conclusion. As a prep school senior, my kid was playing on the second line of a team that included two future NCAA D1 champions - one of whom played with the Rangers in last year’s Stanley Cup playoffs. He was being recruited by both Holy Cross and Brown. A torn ACL in his first game as a senior canceled both his hockey senior year and his baseball senior year - where he had been All Western New England as a Junior. The injury derailed the D1 option unless he agreed to play a year of junior hockey and risk further injury without a firm school commitment. Wisely, he chose to play high level D3 hockey at an elite academic institution and was able to play baseball, as well. There are basically only two levels of hockey so D3 is essentially the equivalent to FCS in football. So yes. Injuries do derail plans. But kids have them anyway.
I actually think he might find out it will be a bigger jump from an HBCU program to PAC-12 than he could ever imagine. HBCU is generally a level below good FCS. It’s a three level jump to the PAC-12.
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I welcome young Mr. Kopp with open arms. It has fulfilled a recruiting commandment of “thou shalt sign at least one QB in each recruiting class”. And given Gabbert’s injury history, having a QB with high level game experience, who apparently can throw the ball, is a good thing. I agree it might discourage Hesson and Humphries, but hopefully they don’t shy away from the competition.
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@CoolPapa Every team is now going to have a severe challenge every season keeping their QB room stocked. I’m guessing a number of better high school QB recruits are going to sign with offense-minded FCS programs - like Incarnate Word, Houston Christian, Abilene Christian, South Dakota, etc - to insure they get some playing time as a freshman or sophomore in hopes of moving up. It is beginning to look like FBS QB selection is going to increasingly done through the portal. Brett might be one of the last high school QB to grab an FBS starting job as a true freshman. In fact, he might be the last one period. I’m not aware of any after him. Does anyone know another one since him?
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Caleb Schaffer apparently has committed to Oklahoma. Former Miami (OH) lineman Caleb Shaffer commits to Oklahoma
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You are not incorrect. However, question is will these high school kids see the value of a program like SD or will they sign with the Bamas and then not see the field and transfer. As I said, I won’t fault any team for taking one or more QBs each recruiting class. It has always been a necessity and now, moreso than ever.
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These awards are rigged. It’s basically the same reason why Mr. Bean has never won a Nobel Prize. Or why The Hamburglar hasn’t been named person of the year by Time magazine. Rigged!
The QB position is unique. There are thousands of QB coming out of high schools every year but only 132 start for FBS programs and maybe 200 or so ever see the field in any given season in an FBS program. There are only an additional 130 starting jobs at FCS programs, meaning only about 400 QB see any playing time at the D1 level every year.
Unlike other positions in football and in other sports, the QB position - along with the ST specialist positions -are undoubtedly the most competitive positions in any team sport. That makes playing QB pretty much a dead-end proposition for most high school kids. That’s ironic because it’s probably the most coveted position in sports.
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i think it goes beyond this point … do you want to play for a coach of was openly insinuating that all you colorado players are pieces of shit … i been in that room before, i watched how it should be and was handled
as a coach, as a leader - you don’t talk to your people the way that dumpster juice licker did and expect good people to stick around
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Stars are reasonably correlated with odds of being drafted, it’s just that there are so many more three stars.
“here’s what the percentage of players drafted per recruiting rankings look like if you combine the two years of draft data: Five-star (61.6%), Four-star (23.3%), Three-star (5.95%) and two-star (1.25%).”
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it says on 247sports.com his eligibility right way
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