OT - New Mexico QB Easton Bruere chooses Butler Community College
Easton Bruere has been mentioned on this Board a couple times. He was the "Best Recruit Nobody Has Heard Of" according to Bleacher Report. A prospect with gaudy numbers in New Mexico who had beaten Zach Gentry's team in the playoffs, yet had zero scholarship offers.
Apparently, the national attention didn't attract the sought-after scholarship, as he has signed with Butler Community College in Kansas:
http://krqe.com/2015/02/05/easton-bruere-chooses-butler-community-college/
While it would have been nice to see the kid get a scholarship, I'm not surprised that he did not. The Albuquerque Journal had an article on him that gave some of the reasons that he did not get an offer, including problems with his statistics (counting-wise), his lack of an elite trait, and the nature of the team's offense making it easy to post big numbers (lots of shovel passes). Couple all that with the fact that teams only have so many scholarships, and his predicament is understandable.
http://www.abqjournal.com/535596/sports/outside-looking-in.html
My only question is, if he had a 4.0 and no character problems, why not go to a good college and walk-on? If you are that good, why not go for the good education and then prove your worth during try-outs? Maybe I'm being ignorant (I was definitely not a student-athlete), but that would seem like the best route.
EDIT: Paragraph above DOES reflect my ignorance. Apparently Butler is a great route to getting a scholarship.
February 18th, 2015 at 10:07 AM ^
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February 18th, 2015 at 10:09 AM ^
Thank you for the clarity. I did see that they had won a number of championships at their level. That makes sense.
February 18th, 2015 at 11:30 AM ^
It's hard to get a lot of snaps in practice. If you're lacking elite arm strength or size or speed, you're not likely to get much of a chance to show the coaches what you can do. Pinpoint accuracy, I suppose, but decision making, reading the defenses, going through your progressions, not so much.
February 18th, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
Sounds like he is on the fast track to being a Heisman candidate at KSU in 3-4 years.
February 18th, 2015 at 10:33 AM ^
Bill Snyder built his program thanks in large part to transfer players. Maybe we'll see both Bruere and KSU in the playoff in a couple years.
February 18th, 2015 at 10:54 AM ^
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February 18th, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
Maybe I'm not knowledgable enough, but when was the last time a walk-on QB became starter? I know it happens a lot for other positions, but I just don't think it really happens with QBs.
February 18th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^
February 18th, 2015 at 10:36 AM ^
He wanted to come here despite having scholarship offers to other schools. I don't think Sheridan was in the same boat. I'm pretty sure that Griese's worst day as a QB here was on par with Sheridan's best.
February 18th, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^
Sheridan shredded Minnesota. Absolutely shredded them. What's my point? I'm not really sure.
February 18th, 2015 at 1:14 PM ^
I still smile when I think of Sheridan's one glorious day. He has one great game tape of him as an elite Michigan QB. He deserved to have his one day in the sun. I hope he gets many more as a coach.
February 18th, 2015 at 7:07 PM ^
...point blown to bits.
February 18th, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
Griese was son of an NFL player who had a little success in his time and probably had no problem with his son's tuition, and Sheridan's dad had coached at Michigan and around the NFL, now back home as Lions linebackers coach. Not the standard walk-on profiles.
Update: Nick is now (or at least starting in 2014) an offensive graduate ass't at Tennessee.
February 18th, 2015 at 10:47 AM ^
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He started.
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February 18th, 2015 at 11:53 AM ^
No football at Wichita State? That's a shocker...
February 18th, 2015 at 12:00 PM ^
Nice...I see what you did there
February 18th, 2015 at 1:06 PM ^
Wichita doesn't seem to care much about college football. There's some K-State fans, but when Michigan plays at the same time as K-State and KU I can always find plenty of room at the bars.
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February 18th, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
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February 18th, 2015 at 10:54 AM ^
If he wasn't qualified academically by the NCAA, he'd have to wait two years. If he's any good, teams will want to have him around longr.
February 18th, 2015 at 1:15 PM ^
Panter played at the same Butler Community College. It's not Kensington-Butler. Buco football is a powerhouse in the state; however, they did just lose their HC, Troy Morrell, after 15 seasons. It's a great JUCO with great athletic programs at all sports. We regularly get a few players a year where I'm at.
February 18th, 2015 at 10:38 AM ^
"I'm very unsurprised that he did not."
Your grammar is hurting my brain.
February 18th, 2015 at 10:41 AM ^
I was part of a team that prepared for Bruere in his junior year, and I have seen Gentry. I'll be honest, it would not shock me if Bruere doesn't end up at a MWC or C-USA team and puts up some massive numbers. Smart kid, likeable and coachable, and a winner. Going JuCo for a year or two will make a world of difference. He will be eased in to the speed at higher levels instead of redshirting, sitting for two years, and starting his JR/SR years at a bigger D1 school. Good choice for this kid!
February 18th, 2015 at 10:47 AM ^
If numerous schools in Division 1 looked at him and decided he wasn't good enough for an offer, then he's not good enough for an offer. It's the same things thousands of high schoolers go through every year.
Good luck at Butler. If he's good enough, we'll see him playing D1 somewhere eventually
February 18th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
A quick look at Butler's notable alumni in football include names like:
- Demarcus Lawrence
- Zach Mettenberger
- Markus White
- Jermaine Williams
- Robert Goff
- Ron Fellows
- Rudi Johnson
There are others, but there's a few notable NBA names to come from Butler as well as some players in the MLB currently.
February 18th, 2015 at 12:23 PM ^
Mettenberger was highly recruited out of HS though.
February 18th, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^
February 18th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
So in four years, Bill Belichick will select him with a third-round pick, everyone will say "Um, who?" and then he'll probably throw for 4,000 yards in his first season.
February 18th, 2015 at 11:55 AM ^
McLane Carter, the QB from Gilmer, TX that Harbaugh visited in mid-January, committed to Incarnate Word University in San Antonio.
His HS coach, Jaff Traylor, was hired as TE and special teams coach at Texas.
February 18th, 2015 at 12:05 PM ^
February 18th, 2015 at 1:00 PM ^
It has kind of been mentioned here, but JuCo can sometimea be a very good career decision. I actually have a small business mentoring baseball prospect and more than a few I have guided towards JuCos for varying reasons.. A lot of the times it is the right call as it allows the player to play right away, which will help development rather than redshirting or sitting for two years. The caveat with football being that there is a playbook/offense to learn and the time to grow into a leadership role as a QB.
It will be interesting to see how his career plays out against similarly rated recruits.
February 18th, 2015 at 1:50 PM ^
He was unrated. The bar is pretty low.
It will be more interesting to see how he pans out versus some of the generic 3-star QBs who WERE offered scholarships.