#1 prospect for 2022 decommits from Texas (bad news)
Southlake (TX) Carroll quarterback Quinn Ewers, a 5-star and the #1 prospect in 2022, decommitted from Texas yesterday. Probably because Texas kinda sucks.
This is bad, because six crystal ball picks came in last night for Ewers to Ohio State. And, unfortunately, Ohio State kinda doesn't suck.
October 29th, 2020 at 10:26 AM ^
This might be a good selling point for 4* QB's that don't have the inside lane to being top NFL draft picks but Ewer's should have #1 pick and probowl QB as his target (same as Fields and Lawrence). If either Fields or Lawrence turn out to be huge busts in the NFL, no one is going to look back and use them as recruiting selling points.
October 29th, 2020 at 10:08 AM ^
Not sure how well Haskins was developed. He's having a rough time...
October 29th, 2020 at 10:22 AM ^
The point is he got him there and he got paid!
October 29th, 2020 at 10:27 AM ^
Jury is still out on how long he'll be there.
Also, given all the osu qb busts in the NFL, GMs there have to be reconsidering the wisdom of drafting undeveloped qbs from osu.
October 29th, 2020 at 10:29 AM ^
Lmao. Burrow turned into the beast he is at LSU. He was fine his junior year then made his leap during senior year. OSU taking credit for him is laughable. Haskins has been trash in the NFL and Fields will likely end up the same way. OSU has a QB friendly system that puts 5* WRs in space. Once OSU QBs get to the NFL and have to make reads and actual difficult throws, they crumble
October 29th, 2020 at 10:58 AM ^
Any OSU fan that gives OSU credit for Joe Burrow is insane. Also, Ed O owes Joe Brady half of his money from last year. People are surprised at the slide LSU has taken this year? The writing was on the wall. That was Joe and Joe catching lightning in a bottle to win a championship. Not LSU, not Ed. Certainly not OSU.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:32 AM ^
Thanks for giving reasonable opinions amongst the insanity of Toledobuck. It's the same as saying Georgia gets credit for Field's success. OSU already has all the nice things. No need to steal the credit from LSU and Joe Brady.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:41 AM ^
Not to mention, credit is trying to be taken by everyone for Joe Burrow, while not just giving credit to Joe Burrow. Kid knew after the hand being broken that he wasn't going to be the guy at OSU, found an opportunity, and worked his tail off to accomplish what he did. And although Cincinnati is terrible, he is doing his absolute best to prove it wasn't a fluke.
October 29th, 2020 at 2:39 PM ^
Burrow deserves a lot of credit for LSU's title last year, but don't forget that LSU had a total of 14 players drafted last year - tying OSU (2004 or so ?) for the most ever. I'm sure he - and his family and advisors - did their homework about the talent that would be around him before picking LSU.. I kind of relate this to the OSU situation - and Bama and Clemson. QBs want mega talent around them - hence Miller, Stroud, McCord and possibly Ewers. Talent attracts talent.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:37 AM ^
That's my point . Haskins sat and then played 1 year. He needs more time to develop the critical thinking under live fire from a defense. Agree with a QB friendly system. You just made my point for me. Why wouldn't you want to play for him in that system and set yourself up to be a high draft pick? If Burrow would have been able to beat out Haskins I have no doubt he would have been just as successful at OSU.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:47 AM ^
Because QB friendly systems where you are rarely making difficult reads or throws does not develop your abilities to have a long and sustained career in the NFL and teams are starting to realize that. You seem to be suggesting that most top college QB's want to simply get drafted and make a rookie salary. I'd say that may be true for 4* QBs but the Lawrence's, Fields, and Ewers of the world have goals to have careers like Brady, Rodgers, Mahomes, Wilson etc., not like Haskins. Plenty of QB's find success on not so great teams.
With all that said, if someone said Michigan can either have insane college QB success or NFL QB success, I would obviously choose college success. Enjoy the success you guys have. No need to extrapolate success in other areas where there is none. Fields has a great chance to break the mold but that's still undetermined.
October 29th, 2020 at 8:58 AM ^
Ryan Day is a former NFL QB coach.
October 29th, 2020 at 9:09 AM ^
...So was Pep Hamilton...
October 29th, 2020 at 10:16 AM ^
Yeah but Day is actually respected, which is why they keep getting the top QB recruits
October 29th, 2020 at 6:00 PM ^
Day was not a known entity when he worked at BC (alongside Don Brown). If anything, Don Brown was more of a known name in coaching circles.
Look up BC's offenses under Day. They were nothing spectacular which speaks to how much talent is intrinsic to a coach's success.
Btw, I read ShaggyTexas (used to be ShaggyBevo). A Texas poster made a point:
Current Texas OC/QB coach Mike Yurcich was OSU's PGC last season. Current Texas DC Chris Ash was OSU's DC in 2014 and 2015. At OSU, they were stars. At Texas, they're underperforming and drawing the ire of of fans.
It's OSU's entire framework which is now making average coaches look better than they truly are.
October 29th, 2020 at 9:09 AM ^
Well, the good news here is that there is a reason Michigan will not be an attractive place for him to consider. Can you say, Milton, McNamara and McCarthy!!!
October 29th, 2020 at 9:37 AM ^
Whatever. If this kid commits to OSU, there is literally nothing he can do to Michigan that hasn’t already been done multiple times by other QBs in the last 20 years.
I ain’t afraid of him. I’m just indifferent to all the damage and humiliation he would probably inflict on Michigan, because it’s already been done multiple times over by Smith, Pryor, Miller, Barrett, Haskins and Fields. There is literally nothing this kid can do to put Michigan down that hasn’t already been done.
October 29th, 2020 at 9:48 AM ^
I think he will end up back at Texas. Childhood favorite team, some Nfl team will overpay for Day, and the depth chart at OSU. He would be able to start at Texas and even Alabama depending on what they do next year.
I also think Texas will have a new coach, and whoever they get(Urban) will recruit him HARD.
October 29th, 2020 at 7:52 PM ^
Coach Day offered this kid a scholarship when he was a freshman . I believe he was the first Division 1 coach to offer .
October 29th, 2020 at 10:05 AM ^
Great so now OSU get's the next Trevor Lawerance... Along with 2 other top 5 players in that class. Guess we get our ass kicked for 2 more years till we can start $$$$$ legally.
October 29th, 2020 at 10:06 AM ^
Sam Webb can blow smoke all he wants but both Domani Jackson and Will Johnson linked osu in their instagram and are tweeting about quinn ewers to osu. Its a joke that Michigan supposedly had connections to both kids and are going to get easily beat.
October 29th, 2020 at 10:19 AM ^
After my panicked post yesterday, I think a lot of these guys might be trolling. There's multiple 5 stars all putting @ohiostatefb in their Instagram bios, but then Domani Jackson went into Xavier Worthy's Instagram Live and commented "I'm trolling." So I have no idea what's going on but hoping this isn't like 5 5-stars all collectively deciding to go to OSU at one time
October 29th, 2020 at 10:28 AM ^
It would be truly hilarious if all these guys are just bored and trying to have some collective fun and chose OSU because it was their common schools of interest and none of them ended up at OSU.
But i'll predict that Ewers and Burton are OSU bound, the others are just trolling.
October 29th, 2020 at 10:39 AM ^
The lesson here is.......maybe stop being a Troll?
October 29th, 2020 at 10:42 AM ^
Great for the rivalry and gets more guys from Cali, Texas, Washington and all the west looking to the B1G.
I wouldn't mind more Green's, Charbonnet's and Giles's.
I'm glad Will and Domani are ready for the greatest rivalry in sports!*
*returning soon
October 29th, 2020 at 11:46 AM ^
Go to Texas, man! You can be a four year starter!!
October 30th, 2020 at 10:17 AM ^
That guaranteed 4 year starter stuff doesn't matter to many of the top recruits as they have confidence in their own ability and believe they can start anywhere they go. That's why the same 4 or 5 teams keep stockpiling all of the talent. They want to be with teams that get all the publicity and constantly in the national news which is what teams like Bama, Clemson, OSU, Georgia etc. provide.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
The Tom Herman era certainly has gotten off to a resounding start.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:37 PM ^
probably ending this year tbh.
October 29th, 2020 at 2:55 PM ^
You know, Tom Herman, Jim Harbaugh and Scott Frost has some pretty lofty credentials before getting their current gigs. Moreover, they were all preceded by at least one well-regarded coach who was inexplicably terrible (his worst career performance) coaching for said schools. Maybe it's not the coaches; maybe it's the Universities?
October 29th, 2020 at 7:49 PM ^
Who were the well-regarded coaches who were inexplicably terrible at each school?
October 29th, 2020 at 1:46 PM ^
I don't like Ohio State.
October 29th, 2020 at 2:34 PM ^
Doesn't Ohio State have Kyle McCord, the #3 ranked Pro style QB coming in the 2021 class? Only one guy gets to start and play and the odd man out usually transfers.
October 29th, 2020 at 2:51 PM ^
Assuming "nothing bad ever happens to Ohio State" is not a law of physics (proof of proposition pending), they can screw up a 5* just as easily as anyone (cough us cough) else.
October 29th, 2020 at 4:45 PM ^
Day sells snake oil