2022 UConn Football Commit - Jack Stewart (New Canaan, CT)

[TheDrifter75]

 

[freescooter]

I hope it works out, and I hope he is a late bloomer and becomes a difference maker. But he played zero downs at Michigan. Oh, and can somebody tell Lou Marinelli to STFU.

 

[Buffett10]

Stewart had offers from all over D1 but walked on at Michigan, his New Canaan Offensive Lineman teammate Jack Conley was also highly recruited and IIRC ended up at Boston College. Needless to say, New Canaan had a great team the years they both blocked for QB Drew Pyne, currently enrolled at Norte Dame.

He wasn’t a walk-on at Michigan

 

[CONN78SEJ]

He wasn’t a walk-on at Michigan

Another poster stated that before my post. I thought you guys knew everything.

 

[formerlurker]

Another poster stated that before my post. I thought you guys knew everything.

You were the first and only one to mention he was a walk-on. Gotta own it.

 

[BlueMAB]

I hope it works out, and I hope he is a late bloomer and becomes a difference maker. But he played zero downs at Michigan.

/s

I can't imagine a player who can't crack the depth chart on a 12 win 2nd/3rd ranked team having any sort of impact at a program that has had 10 wins in the last 5 seasons.

/s

 

[BlueMAB]

You were the first and only one to mention he was a walk-on. Gotta own it.

See Post #12 - gtcam.

 

[formerlurker]

Oddly enough, my posts skip from 11 right to 13. My apologies to @CONN78SEJ .

 

[Waquoit]

See Post #12 - gtcam.

You're probably the only one that doesn't have that guy on ignore.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

See Post #12 - gtcam.

There was another one besides gtcam’s post, it was mysteriously deleted not too long after someone pointed out the truth.

 

[huskysupporter]

/s

I can't imagine a player who can't crack the depth chart on a 12 win 2nd/3rd ranked team having any sort of impact at a program that has had 10 wins in the last 5 seasons.

/s

It’s just as possible that Stewart doesn’t see meaningful action as it is he is a significant contributor.

But as I said in earlier post it doesn’t matter how much he plays it’s that a formerly highly regarded player from Fairfield County is at UCONN now. If we can get players from FFC to come here that would be fantastic.

And also have to laugh at Lou Marinelli, the coach who has always been a critic of UCONN. Now he is excited to see one of his kids at UCONN. Yeah, ok Lou.

 

[Exit 4]

Ah, classic boneyard thread going on here.

Welcome Jack, pumped to have a big man from CT by way of the B1G join the Husky Revolution. Excited to see what is next for you this fall.

 

[Waquoit]

And also have to laugh at Lou Marinelli, the coach who has always been a critic of UCONN. Now he is excited to see one of his kids at UCONN. Yeah, ok Lou.

Lou sounds like a piece of work, true. Still, it couldn't have hurt to butter him up a bit 20 years or so ago. Did we even try?

 

[BlueMAB]

It’s just as possible that Stewart doesn’t see meaningful action as it is he is a significant contributor.

But as I said in earlier post it doesn’t matter how much he plays it’s that a formerly highly regarded player from Fairfield County is at UCONN now. If we can get players from FFC to come here that would be fantastic.

And also have to laugh at Lou Marinelli, the coach who has always been a critic of UCONN. Now he is excited to see one of his kids at UCONN. Yeah, ok Lou.

No; it's not "just as possible". Unless you think our recruiting is on par with Michigan's, he's more likely to be a "significant contributor" than he is to not see any "meaningful action". The fact that he played zero downs at Michigan doesn't matter because he's no longer competing against Michigan's talent level.

We agree on Lou.

 

[huskysupporter]

Lou sounds like a piece of work, true. Still, it couldn't have hurt to butter him up a bit 20 years or so ago. Did we even try?

He had axe to grind with HCRE v. 1.0. Then Coach P was supposed to help because high school coaches supported him. Whoops. Has always sounded like Lou is in love with himself.

 

[hardcorehusky]

When Mora hired his son, that was the ice breaker. PP at UConn got played by Marinelli as far as I am concerned. Hope this recruit is the first of many from that program and part of the state. If Mora can't break the code, no one will be able to.

 

[Husky68]

"Frazer signed a national letter of intent to play quarterback for the Fighting Irish on February 1, 2006.[3] After sitting out his freshman year as a redshirt, Frazer was told that he wouldn't compete for the starting quarterback position after spring practice in 2007.[4] On July 1, 2007, he announced that he was transferring to Connecticut. At Connecticut Frazier was the starting quarterback from 2008-2010.[5]"

Seems some guys who can't cut it at top programs turn out ok at UConn.

 

[huskysupporter]

No; it's not "just as possible". Unless you think our recruiting is on par with Michigan's, he's more likely to be a "significant contributor" than he is to not see any "meaningful action". The fact that he played zero downs at Michigan doesn't matter because he's no longer competing against Michigan's talent level.

We agree on Lou.

That’s actually a huge indictment on our admittedly poor roster right now. He wasn’t on any two deep during his time (and someone said not third string I believe).

It could be that Michigan was absolutely stacked. Could also mean he was not good.

I think we can all agree we are rooting for him to be a significant contributor. I just think the odds can go either way.

The key is we got a FFC kid that was highly recruited.

 

[UCTitleTown]

When they had Ben Mason from Newtown who was the most dominant defensive player I've seen in CT, they made him a fullback.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

It’s just as possible that Stewart doesn’t see meaningful action as it is he is a significant contributor.

But as I said in earlier post it doesn’t matter how much he plays it’s that a formerly highly regarded player from Fairfield County is at UCONN now. If we can get players from FFC to come here that would be fantastic.

And also have to laugh at Lou Marinelli, the coach who has always been a critic of UCONN. Now he is excited to see one of his kids at UCONN. Yeah, ok Lou.

I think he was more a critic of Edsall and PP and the clown show, rather than UConn the school or football program.

 

[huskysupporter]

I think he was more a critic of Edsall and PP and the clown show, rather than UConn the school or football program.

It was equal. And he loved Coach P supposedly as did all the high school coaches.

 

[huskysupporter]

"Frazer signed a national letter of intent to play quarterback for the Fighting Irish on February 1, 2006.[3] After sitting out his freshman year as a redshirt, Frazer was told that he wouldn't compete for the starting quarterback position after spring practice in 2007.[4] On July 1, 2007, he announced that he was transferring to Connecticut. At Connecticut Frazier was the starting quarterback from 2008-2010.[5]"

Seems some guys who can't cut it at top programs turn out ok at UConn.

There have been several transfers from Big programs that have come to UCONN.

 

[BlueMAB]

That’s actually a huge indictment on our admittedly poor roster right now.

Of course it's a reflection on our roster. How many players on our roster would have cracked the 2 deep at a top 3 program last year? It's why we can safely say he's more likely (not guaranteed) to contribute at UConn than he is to "not" contribute at all.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

I think he was more a critic of Edsall and PP and the clown show, rather than UConn the school or football program.

He never sent a kid here since he came to Connecticut dating back to the Nadzak years.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

"Frazer signed a national letter of intent to play quarterback for the Fighting Irish on February 1, 2006.[3] After sitting out his freshman year as a redshirt, Frazer was told that he wouldn't compete for the starting quarterback position after spring practice in 2007.[4] On July 1, 2007, he announced that he was transferring to Connecticut. At Connecticut Frazier was the starting quarterback from 2008-2010.[5]"

Seems some guys who can't cut it at top programs turn out ok at UConn.

I believe Lorenzen was the starter in 08. Yes to 09 and by default because of Endres' multiple suspensions in 10. He was barely a 50% passer and even Michsel Box was tried after Enfres was kicked off before him. He was always under threat of losing his job.