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Can't remember the first name of Miss Robinson but I was in love with her. Mrs Robinson probably could have had .... Oh, never mind. Coo coo cuchew. Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Elaine. Everyone was in love with her.
Can't remember the first name of Miss Robinson but I was in love with her. Mrs Robinson probably could have had .... Oh, never mind. Coo coo cuchew. Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme.

Elaine.

Oh, on McEntee, he may indeed come back if the former guy wins in 2024. And as the starting "QB", just not on the same team.
Katharine Ross retired too young. Every guy loved Elaine. My problem was I was newly engaged at the time. Still going strong after almost 53 years despite my ancient secret crush.
 
You completely missed the point of the post. My question was what position did the P5 schools from which he had offers recruit him for. NOT what position he was recruited for by HCJM. That much is well known. The discussion started when it was noted that he had a lot of P5 offers and therefore people were predicting he had a great chance of starting right away for UConn. I asked, were all those offers to play QB? No one has answered that yet. Are we caught up now?
He is ranked as a top 40 QB prospect in the county by 247. He quarterbacked a Florida/National Powerhouse that was nationally ranked number 1 at points during his time there and always in the top 5 and was the first QB to win 3 state titles from that historical powerhouse program. It is a given he was recruited by P5 programs as a QB and backed up in the articles that HuskyMedic has posted. Your hypothesis that he wasn't recruited by P5s or Miami as a QB has long since been disproven and your question above has been answered, yet you continue to ask it. Your point is not to inquire about anything, it is to force some insane narrative you have in your head that the guy I described above is not good enough for P5 QB football and that's it.
 
You completely missed the point of the post. My question was what position did the P5 schools from which he had offers recruit him for. NOT what position he was recruited for by HCJM. That much is well known. The discussion started when it was noted that he had a lot of P5 offers and therefore people were predicting he had a great chance of starting right away for UConn. I asked, were all those offers to play QB? No one has answered that yet. Are we caught up now?

Even if he wasn’t recruited as a QB by some institutions, it does not matter one iota.

Do you have any idea how many QBs recruited as athletes turned out to be amazing college QBs?

Tyler Lorenzen was one of the best QBs we have had and Iowa State wanted him to play TE.

I forget which one but there is an NFL QB hall of famer who was recruited as TE more than a QB.

Ever heard of Steve McNair? One of the reasons he played FCS was that Alcorn State was willing to let him play QB.

I don’t know where your argument is going.
 
Among the transfers we did see a tweet that he signed so this would make that he would already be in the building
How could he be in the building? It was announced the campus was shut down for Covid protocol and students can’t return until the 29th.
 
He is ranked as a top 40 QB prospect in the county by 247. He quarterbacked a Florida/National Powerhouse that was nationally ranked number 1 at points during his time there and always in the top 5 and was the first QB to win 3 state titles from that historical powerhouse program. It is a given he was recruited by P5 programs as a QB and backed up in the articles that HuskyMedic has posted. Your hypothesis that he wasn't recruited by P5s or Miami as a QB has long since been disproven and your question above has been answered, yet you continue to ask it. Your point is not to inquire about anything, it is to force some insane narrative you have in your head that the guy I described above is not good enough for P5 QB football and that's it.
Relax. He is coming here. He is welcome. I looked at several of those articles. None of them said he was recruited to play QB by those schools. I am guessing that the authors did not know. But if there are so many out there saying that he was going to play QB, by all means go ahead and post a couple. I was only asking a question. Don't get so puffed up. We will see who starts the first game.
 
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I looked at several of those articles. None of them said he was recruited to play QB by those schools. I am guessing that the authors did not know.
How about the Miami Herald article by the long time U beat writer?

-> UM is pursuing a bunch of Class of 2022 quarterbacks and hopes to sign one or two. Among the quarterbacks offered scholarships by the Canes:

Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas three-star dual-threat Zion Turner, who told Canesport that Miami is his front-runner, with LSU and Texas A&M also places he wants to visit...

Georgia-based four-star dual-threat Jacurri Brown, Rivals’ No. 191 player in the 2022 class; he grew up a UF fan, and the Gators and Canes are among a bunch of teams pursuing him... <-


Since you seem to be looking for specific wording - how about you provide a link that specifies he wasn’t offered/recruited to be a QB by a school…
 
Relax. He is coming here. He is welcome. I looked at several of those articles. None of them said he was recruited to play QB by those schools. I am guessing that the authors did not know. But if there are so many out there saying that he was going to play QB, by all means go ahead and post a couple. I was only asking a question. Don't get so puffed up. We will see who starts the first game.
Pretty much every single article he is in was either titled talking about quarterbacks solely or had Zion talking about how the coach would make him a better man and how he fit as that team's QB in their system or both. Since medic has taken Miami for ya, I will post a West Virginia one: 2022 4-Star Quarterback Zion Turner Plans Upcoming Visit to West Virginia

“I feel like my skillset matches up with any offense. I feel like I can do it all and West Virginia has the coaches and staff there that can help me become a better quarterback and help me elevate my game. The strength of my game is my ability to make plays and use my legs to help stretch out defenses keep them honest.”
 
Plastics. And you have to be of a certain epoch to get that. Luckily my kids are doing well enough that they don’t need to worry about what the market is currently doing to their inheritance.

My only QB prediction is that it probably won’t be Johnny McEntee.

Lol, my kids are a bit worried but I’m telling them this will be an opportunity to buy when we get to the Haines bottom. Cant time the market and don’t need to when you are 30. As far as there inheritance, my hope is to live to 102 and the remaining money I would have left covers the cost of my cremation and the cost to get my ashes to Sicily. I wish I could say I did this intentionally, but I’m in the process of rolling over a 401k. Lucky for me I made the request about 2 weeks ago and I’ll sit on the check for a bit before I rollover.
 
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Except he is not a four star QB is he?
He is ranked 4 star in my rankings, so yeah, he is. One thing we do know for certain that he was recruited as a QB by multiple P5 programs, and that your whole theory is down the tubes.
 
He is ranked 4 star in my rankings, so yeah, he is. One thing we do know for certain that he was recruited as a QB by multiple P5 programs, and that your whole theory is down the tubes.
For the third time, I have no theory. Just asked a question. And no one has yet answered it. All those articles say is that he was a HS QB recruited by xyz P5 team.

Oh, and sorry about not being aware of your rankings. I will try to follow more closely next time. Sheesh!!
 
For the third time, I have no theory. Just asked a question. And no one has yet answered it. All those articles say is that he was a HS QB recruited by xyz P5 team.
Many people have answered your question. The answer is there is no answer. This is a Schrödinger's Cat scenario. Until a coaching staff comes out and says why they recruited someone, we won't know one way or the other. And until then we need to assume he could have been recruited at these P5 schools to play QB or another position. Heck, even Mora's staff may be considering him at another position. We can't answer that question either until someone shares their insight.

Now, behind closed doors, it is certainly possible that perhaps say Rhett Lashlee told him that we would love you at Miami but not as a QB. But most would more likely assume that since he has played QB his whole HS career and won multiple championships as a QB, he was at least initially recruited by all these schools as a QB. But like Schrödinger's Cat, we won't know until someone opens the box.
 
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For the third time, I have no theory. Just asked a question. And no one has yet answered it. All those articles say is that he was a HS QB recruited by xyz P5 team.

Oh, and sorry about not being aware of your rankings. I will try to follow more closely next time. Sheesh!!
The reason they don't say he is being recruited as a quarterback is because that is implied to any reasonable person. One would have to specifically say he is not being recruited as a quarterback for one of the best quarterbacks from one of the best programs in the country not to be recruited as a quarterback.

So if your question was is there any article with the exact wording saying that "Zion Turner was being recruited as a quarterback" then you should know that just is a stupid question in the first place. However, if your question was is he being recruiting as a P5 quarterback, then that has been answered in basically every article, see the West Virginia article that specifically talks about him considering West Virginia as him and the coach have talked about their plan for him developing as a Quarterback there.

You are either trolling now or you just have absolutely zero understanding of the human language. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say trolling, but either way, I hope you one day find that exact wording you are looking for.
 
This is a very smart way to recruit the position. When you bring in athletic kids for the QB spot, the upside is that you get a dynamic QB, the downside has an out if you are able to convince the kid to switch positions, and if he transfers he transfers. If you are bringing in immobile non-athletes, you don't have that potential alternative use, and if they decide to stay they are essentially dead weight. Provides much more inherent roster flexibility.
 
Back in the 70s, Vince Dooley, the head coach at the University of Georgia, recruited Doug Flutie and Jim Kelley with the idea of making them cornerbacks. True.
 
A thousand stories like that. Jamarr Chase talking yday about Les Miles telling him he wasn’t good enough to play WR at LSU and was recruited as a CB.
 
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Back in the 70s, Vince Dooley, the head coach at the University of Georgia, recruited Doug Flutie and Jim Kelley with the idea of making them cornerbacks. True.
Might be true but Flutie has said on several occasions he had 3 scholarship offers. BC, Maine and UCONN.
 
Let's go another direction RS Tuthill. Saint Thomas Acquinas is one of the top High School football programs in America. Let's say 20 Universities threw Mr. Turner offers to play football at their school purely because they thought if they threw out many STA offers, the HS HC would feel obligated to send one of the 20 annual kids getting D1 scholarships to that university. Once at UCONN, should we care?

The truth is what the rest of us all know. Supply & Demand. Quarterback is a unique college position and scholarship. Bigtime p5 send one kid a year the slot. That's 65 times 5 or so. But therefore, most of that 300 exalted QB slots are kids with uber HS talent but no window to get on that football field and star. As the musical chairs game plays out, there are lots of really highly evaluated kids that never star.

UCONN now is fishing in that sea. The 25 top FBS kids aren't gonna swim into our part of the portal. The top HS programs may think our BRAND is ok for their star QB to try. We play big programs on tv. With the portal, we get a quarterback room with several probabilities of solid field play. Let the best one win. We don't care about the mishagas that led each to arrive at our Burton Center. We only care about one winning the job; Charlton being able to develop QBs prospects into a number 1; moving the chains and completing passes to a solid WR wing of playmakers and scoring points. Turner or Roberson or Millen or Krajewski or Phommachanh. JUST NEED ONE ...
 
Well we haven’t begun the competition yet! Hopefully one clear winner emerges, but that doesn’t mean you cant have 3 or 4 capable quarterbacks on a roster. Don’t forget that Ohio State won a national championship with a 3rd stringer in 2014.

I skip the obvious we aren't Ohio State. Even that year was a fluke for them. You at most have one guy and one guy who will be transferring/graduating at the end of the season.

Teams that have multiple "good" starting QB's are ones that can recruit one every year regardless of who they already have on the roster.

Take Penn State. They have one top 25 level QB and a bunch of dreck becuase their other expectes starter transferred last season to be #1 at Kentucky or some such place. They're back up(our new guy) couldn't be trusted in actual games and was demoted for a true freshman that they had no intention of playing.

They now have a stud coming in this year, so they are back to par with a graduating #1 to be replaced next year by this new guy, plus they will likely recruit another stud just in case this year's recruit doesn't pan out.

You can figure out for yourself which of the above plan doesn't work for us.

We get the cast-offs and hope to get lucky. I'm on board with Mora buying as many lottery tickets as he can. I'm just not naive enough to assume one of those is a grand prize winner. I'll settle for competently serviceable whomever it is.
 
I skip the obvious we aren't Ohio State. Even that year was a fluke for them. You at most have one guy and one guy who will be transferring/graduating at the end of the season.

Teams that have multiple "good" starting QB's are ones that can recruit one every year regardless of who they already have on the roster.

Take Penn State. They have one top 25 level QB and a bunch of dreck becuase their other expectes starter transferred last season to be #1 at Kentucky or some such place. They're back up(our new guy) couldn't be trusted in actual games and was demoted for a true freshman that they had no intention of playing.

They now have a stud coming in this year, so they are back to par with a graduating #1 to be replaced next year by this new guy, plus they will likely recruit another stud just in case this year's recruit doesn't pan out.

You can figure out for yourself which of the above plan doesn't work for us.

We get the cast-offs and hope to get lucky. I'm on board with Mora buying as many lottery tickets as he can. I'm just not naive enough to assume one of those is a grand prize winner. I'll settle for competently serviceable whomever it is.

AND ... therefore, we are better off than we were in August 2021. And every day we get a little better. And Charlton is far better at developing a number 1 than whatever we thought we were doing last summer.
 
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