boo hiss - Kovacs not winner of walkon award
Prolly no surprised cuz (a) a QB > SS, and (b) PSU players are getting love for still being PSU players. But McGloin wins former-walkon-of-the-year award:
Unrelated yet oddly related question -- does either McGloin or Kovacs get invited to NFL camps? Either one make a team? I have no idea how Kovacs stacks up for the NFL. Dood has the heart of a beast, man; but size and speed, all those stupid metrics they do, I have no idea how he charts out.
December 3rd, 2012 at 4:46 PM ^
Somehow I doubt either one gets invited.
December 3rd, 2012 at 4:56 PM ^
outside the NFL. He'll have a healthier brain to show for it.
December 3rd, 2012 at 4:59 PM ^
Kovacs = coaches at [fill in blank].
December 3rd, 2012 at 5:02 PM ^
Michigan
December 3rd, 2012 at 5:31 PM ^
Mike Hart - HC
Wheatley - OC
Kovacs - DC
Hoke - AD
Denard - Associate AD of amazing smiles
No, most definitely not gonna happen, but it'd be pretty awesome if it did...
December 3rd, 2012 at 6:12 PM ^
December 3rd, 2012 at 6:24 PM ^
land on _____." Most likely Mars, but whatever. But, I guess those two positions aren't mutually exclusive.
December 3rd, 2012 at 6:14 PM ^
June is looking like he deserves a spot on that staff.
December 3rd, 2012 at 5:04 PM ^
There's a super small, though non-zero, chance that Kovacs is at least invited to a camp. There's a 0 chance that McGloin is invited to a camp, he's beyond terrible.
Edit: I should clarify, McGloin's arm strength is even worse than Chad Pennington's post 6 arm surgeries.
December 3rd, 2012 at 5:45 PM ^
I'm senseing an extreme "Gingers don't have souls" undertone to your comment on McGloin. You may well be on to something.
December 3rd, 2012 at 5:17 PM ^
not the right pick. Kovacs is still the sh*t.
December 3rd, 2012 at 5:57 PM ^
December 3rd, 2012 at 5:57 PM ^
I mean, let's not take anything away from Matt McGloin, he's a fine player and has done well.
Of course, that being said, he's no Jordan F*cking Kovacs.
December 3rd, 2012 at 11:56 PM ^
I would say not all hope is lost for Kovacs. If Cody Grimm can start at safety for the Bucs then Kovacs can make a special teams squad at least. And as for the rabblerabble measurables people film is 90% of the evaluation process in the NFL.
December 3rd, 2012 at 6:14 PM ^
December 3rd, 2012 at 6:14 PM ^
December 3rd, 2012 at 6:16 PM ^
I feel like given a chance, Kovacs could be in the upper echelon of football "brains" of NFL players in pretty short order. He's got a great nose for the ball and is great with angles, and will always be in the right spot. Bad part is, once he gets to the right spot, he'll bounce off NFL quality RB's like a pinball.
I could be wrong, but those pro guys are big. And mean.
December 3rd, 2012 at 6:42 PM ^
I think his bigger problem will be covering a deep half for teams that want to play cover 2. I could see him being a special teams star, though.
December 3rd, 2012 at 7:21 PM ^
Kovacs really isn't all that tiny, but he is slow by NFL standards. He is able to mask that in college by using great pursuit angles and play recognition skills, but that won't be nearly as effective in the NFL. I don't know why he couldn't do well on special teams though, hopefully at least one NFL team feels the same way.
McGloin won't get a shot even if O'Brien gets a head coaching job for a team desperately in need for a QB.
December 3rd, 2012 at 7:32 PM ^
Eric Smith, a walkon strong safety at Michigan State, managed to get drafted in the 3rd round by the Jets earlier last decade. I don't have a ton of film on him, and there's obviously a big time gap between them, but they seemed to play similair roles and have simlair impacts (outside of the whole them being white thing). I don't think it's THAT bleak for him.
December 3rd, 2012 at 8:05 PM ^
December 3rd, 2012 at 8:50 PM ^
on the plus side, Kovacs won the "Went to the Better School" award over McGloin.
December 3rd, 2012 at 10:07 PM ^
Kovacs would be an amazing coach. I've never seen a defensive player who diagnoses offensive schemes quicker or form tackles more consistently than him.
December 3rd, 2012 at 10:43 PM ^
kovacs is a walk-on?!
December 3rd, 2012 at 11:49 PM ^
December 4th, 2012 at 12:25 AM ^
in the CFL