Date: February 4th, 2020 3:30 PM Author: bonkers nibblets home
I think its a smart move, SEC doesnt produce good quarterbacks (zero SEC qbs played in nfl playoff game this year) and avg princeton grad makes more than most nfl players
Date: February 4th, 2020 4:12 PM Author: soul-stirring range
I used to always think about this shit, and Im sure I started dozens of threads years ago.
Various hypos: what if you were 5 star stud in FB or BB, would you consider doing something totally unexpected, like going to a small school, or West Point, or Harvard, or a weird Bible school or something.
Just for the flame and lulz of it.
You can change the hypo such that youre good enough to be assured of NFL/NBA or youre not, to play with the results
Date: February 4th, 2020 4:30 PM Author: soul-stirring range
there's probably a sweet little school where you could be THE GREATEST ATHLETE TO STEP FOOT ON CAMPUS even as a four star, the fact that youre breaking the mold would get you media attention, and youre ridiculous stats playing against nobodies might still get you into the combine and the draft, and you would fucking cream every pussy on campus. Youd be an alumni legend, etc etc.
All instead of being Player 73 on Nick Saban's roster.
Date: February 4th, 2020 6:16 PM Author: Azure Stead
he'd have to dominate every record at some no-name school versus just being competent at bama. he knows he might not make the starting roster and is cutting his loses with princeton.
Date: February 4th, 2020 4:29 PM Author: Bossy blood rage
I think about this too. I don't think it is crazy. If this guy (or someone else to use your hypo) is good enough he will get a shot at the NFL-- they will find you. His options as a future pro player are not that much worse by playing at Princeton and his options if he doesn't pan out as a top player are better at Princeton.
Date: February 4th, 2020 6:31 PM Author: lake fortuitous meteor weed whacker
Yeah not a QB though
And again, if you do well enough you will still have an NFL career, and before your brain turns into swiss cheese maybe you can get out earlier and have a better network to do whatever you want to do in your career.
Still, passing up Bama is hard, but he wasn't gonna start over Tua anyway
i actually highly doubt this kid had an actual scholarship offer from alabama. unless one of the stories explicitly says that and I missed it. he probably didn't have scholarship offers from any of the California programs either. he played at a d5 CIF school. great career there but I think the story is overblown
Date: February 4th, 2020 6:43 PM Author: bonkers nibblets home
That Sunday morning, White went to Saban’s home with the six other recruits on campus and toured the property — checking out the palatial estate, its bevy of Mercedes and off-road golf carts. Saban pulled him aside. We want you to enroll on Feb. 12, he said, in eight days.
I don't doubt the kid got an official visit and that saban tried to talk them into going to school tehre. that's what bama does, they oversign and then "grey shirt" guys (i.e., under the table cut them and get their scholarship back). I just don't buy this guy got a scholarship offer beyond less than 50% partial to the school that had tua and Jalen hurts on its qb depth chart at one point. especially when he can't even get on the field for Princeton
I mean, he's still a baller for having played at that level CIF football. but he only played at a division 5 school. he parlayed his high school career about as well as he could have. looks like he can't get on the field at Princeton or doesn't want to. is 6'2" 185 so not particularly big. hope he enjoys mba and then whatever tech-finance-ish type of job kids like him get these days
Date: February 5th, 2020 10:26 AM Author: Talking cerise set
Bama and schools like it recruit a couple 4 and 5 stars every year at qb. No kid is a guarantee to ever even see the field at a school like bama let alone make the nfl, and even less likely to get a second contract (where they really make the money). Many wind up transferring to Southern Miss or FAU. So, the question may very well be UAB or Princeton?