Dylan McCaffrey gets The Opening invite from Elite11
Sounds like he had a pretty quiet weekend (midranked Day #1 and #2, won the leadership award), but did well enough to punch his ticket to Nike Land.
Congrats!
well they did invite 12 of them...
in an organization where Trent Dilfer has a big say.
Are we still mad at him because he didn't really like Shane Morris?
No. I just personally think he is a tool in regards to his commentary, and can't stand him.
I actually think that given Shane's on-field performance, he (Dilfer) was proven right in regards to lowballing Shane in the overall Elite 11 standings.
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....and maybe this rule should apply to all positions, not just qbs.
Did you see his color commentary on the broadcast of the 49ers season opener last year? He was absolutely gushing over the SF owners/mgt and kept saying they were going to be letting out the Ferrari (Kaep) this year. Basically implying that Harbaugh was limiting Kaep and making him a Camry, and that he was the problem the year before.
I gotta say I was actually pretty impressed with Dilfer Saturday albeit a small sample size. He was definitely in charge of everything on the field, was managing the drills well, joking/laughing it up to keep the kids loose. And when he came over to the stands to address the parents he was very professional and really did a great job of explaining things and answering questions.
I have to say I have a newfound respect for the guy as I thought he was pretty much a baffoon prior to that.
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Look at what people aren't saying about McCaffrey. There is no one praising his throws, many of the articles from recruiting sites that only saw the throwing portion barely mentioned him. McCaffrey is a high upside recruit who still needs a lot of work to learn the position but has sky high potential.
It's even more impressive that he makes it to the opening considering the other guys have a lot more time playing QB, or private coaches or only play football instead of other sports. And that is exactly what Harbaugh wants, a QB who still has a lot of growth potential who he can work with.
Dunno. Am just going by the 247, Scout writeups after the on-field portions of day #1, #2, #3, as well as Scout's overall rankings.
Who is Whitfield?
George Whitfield, he is "QB guru" that brought Jameis and Bryce Petty to AA when Harbaugh first got hired.
He also trained tons of other Qbs including Devin Gardner at one point.
He will be at the Aerial Assault QB camp.
Ah I see.
Guess we should weight a noted QB guru's eye v. recruiting analyst's opinions, huh?
Brantley is Whitfield?" (Sorry, you youngins won't get this!)
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Wasn't that the Elite 11 qualifying rounds, to narrow down the field to the actual Elite 11 that would participate at the Opening in Oregon? And shouldn't they change the name to Elite 12 now?
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And that is the only number that contains the number of letters its name defines.
You mean the Big Televen? Oh, wait... How many are there, now? B1G!!!
Let's see... the Big 12 currently has 10 teams. They could expand to 12 or 14, or they could disappear and have zero teams. Should they also be the Big 10 or change to the Big 14, or maybe even the Little zero!
http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/112609/with-network-off-table-b…
the top 11 in the country, who competed to win the title of the best. Then Dilfer/ESPN took over and like everything else, expanded it out of all meaning, so now they are choosing the 11 from a larger field.
(head explodes)
EDIT: directed at the Mitchamaniac
Clearly M needs to rescind the offer and move on to a better QB prospect...
It was my understanding that becuase they run with 6 teams during the 7 v 7 portion of The Opening it made sense to bring 12 from the E11 so each team had 2 QBs. Am I missing something?
Wherever Dilfer went to school, it's obvious he is biased towards Michigan. He probably treats the Wolverine committs like shit. If any of you cant see that you're a MORON. He's an envious little dweeb who shouldn't even be doing the elite 11. How is he even on tv? The guy sucked pretty much all of his career. Of all the past awesome qb's to play in the pro's and I get to watch dipshit Dilfer tell the world that UM recruits aren't anything special year after year. Fuck that shit.