Taulia Tagovailoa transfers from Alabama to Maryland
https://twitter.com/tauliaa12/status/1261440258941452288?s=21
Not sure if the tweet will post correctly as I’ve never shared a link on here before. Title says it all, big get for Mike Locksley.
Maryland to win Big10.
50:1
And they'll meet Tennessee in the semifinals.
What's the story here? Guy his caliber doesn't just up and leave a school where he has a good shot to be the QB of a national championship team to go to a school like Maryland just for the hell of it, even if he had a strong relationship with Locksley.
Maybe he hates Saban?
Of course, most people hate Satan
But not all...
So, your boys photoshop this at some top secret disinformation bunker in Omsk?
Sounds like all his ex players hate that POS. But he gets them to the league, so?
Probably lost his job to Mac Jones
I bet part of the story is that Tua had a very good relationship with Locksley when he was at Alabama and encouraged his brother to play for him at Maryland. Sarkisian's offensive schemes are not as well suited to the Tagovailoa bros' skill sets.
How much you betting ? Not too much I hope.
He didn't have a shot at starting. Mac Jones is the incumbent starter and Bryce Young is very clearly the heir apparent
Mac Jones has two years of starting ahead of him, so he left. Locksley recruited him to Bama. Maryland needs a QB, always.
Mac Jones isn’t going to hold of Bryce Young for long.
Doesn't want to sit a year behind Mac Jones. This is the transfer portal era. If you're a top 150 recruit and you're not starting by year 2, you're looking to find a place where you will. The question will be is he eligible? I'm not aware of any reason to suggest he warrants a waiver, unless not being named the starter is now one of them.
So Jones won the qb competition
Mac Jones is the starter unless Bryce Young shows out and passes him. Taulia had no path to start unless Jones and Young both got injured. Bryce Young is the real deal. He's somewhere between Kyler Murray and Lamar Jackson but with better arm talent than both of them imo
How serious are you being? I’ve never seen his film (not that my opinion means anything) but if you’re right, my god that’s scary.
Well, on a scale of 1 to Fred Jackson, probably Fred Jackson
...but with MOAR BEVERAGES
...which is roughly the equivalent of turning the volume up to "11".
Recruiting services think so, and he’s short, so that part is very Kyler.
Watch some of his film. It's wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo8sU_DOAyU
Short like Kyler. Fast and shifty like Lamar. Can really sling it
i watched the first few minutes. kid looks solid, though a bit small. those films were made in our old home stadium. fun to see, lots of games and fond memories.
He’s got some good accuracy but didn’t see a ton of arm strength in the first 2 mins I watched. Not saying he can’t get there, but it didn’t look like he’s hitting many 60 yard bombs on his first day.
Fred!
Solid player but better arm talent than Murray and Jackson? GTFO - those are at least 2 of the top 5 arms in the NFL right now and dudes are only 4-5 years older than him. Also, let's not forget that Murray was a legit MLB talent (not just got drafted in the 20th round). Young will be a stud, but nothing I see on his film justifies that statement.
"those are at least 2 of the top 5 arms in the NFL right now"
I don't watch a lot of NFL these days, but I find this hard to believe. Or were you just joking?
"those are at least 2 of the top 5 arms in the NFL right now"
Huh? According to who? A lot of people actually consider Lamar Jackson to be one of the worse arm talents in the NFL. And I've always thought that a lot Murray's throws hang in the air too long while Young has a nice array of balls he can throw
Maryland is still gonna go 4-8 aren't they?
It's sad.
Depending on the non conference slate, it might be 5-7.
They’re going 0-0, just like everyone else.
That would be Locksley's best-ever season as a head coach. He would have so much momentum at that point that nobody would be able to stop him.
Maryland sure seems unable to get out of their own way. But the champ in that regard is Illinois. They have close access to Chicago and St. Louis. Both prime B1G recruiting areas. And yet Illinois sucking is as certain as death and taxes.
Chicago? Sure.
St. Louis? Not sure. It amounts to a border town and it's closer to Big 12 schools culturally than Big 10 schools. Maybe even SEC schools.
Rutgers wishes that was true. Look at all the talent that comes out of that state. Rutgers signs none of them.
Now that Greg Schiano is back coaching at Rutgers, he might have a better chance of keeping in-state talent for the Scarlet Knights. Both he and his coaching staff have great connections to New Jersey’s high school football coaches. Two of his assistants are former head coaches at a couple of the top parochial football powers in the state – Nunzio Campanile (Rutgers’ interim head coach last year coached at Bergen Catholic where one of his brothers is the current head coach) and Augie Hoffman (former NFL player who was head coach at St. Joseph Regional of Montvale until he joined Schiano’s staff this year).
Among New Jersey’s top 14 recruits for the class of 2021, five have committed to Rutgers and two others are projected to commit to Rutgers. LINK
One of Schiano’s defensive assistant coaches is Ross Douglas, former Michigan and Rutgers player who started at linebacker every game during his senior season at Rutgers. LINK
It's worth noting that Taulia is not Tua. His arm talent is no where close to his brother's
I saw him throw at the Elite 11.
He’s, um, undersized.
Wasn’t going to see the field at Bama.
In fairness... has some talent....
No one will question Locksley’s ability to recruit and lure players in. The question is can he coach.
Theres little evidence suggesting he can. At least not as a HC.
His career HC record is 6-40, with half of those wins coming this year. That has to be some kind of record for a guy who was hired as a P5 coach.
Does he get to 10 wins or 50 losses first?
I know a lot of 'Bama fans, their universal reaction to this news was a shrug. It will be interesting to see what he does in Maryland for sure, but I am not expecting Tua levels of production.
Maryland has talent but this kid isn't the piece that sets the table IMO.