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QB Cole Welliver enters Transfer Portal

I wish this was not happening but you can not blame him. As someone said above he probably wants to get on the field somewhere and show what he has so he can maximize his future value. You will not do that in the 3QB position and maybe mot even in 2QB position. I wanted this recruit to be a homerun for us but not being around the team and not understanding all the dynamics I trust this was best for all involved. Hope he lands somewhere good dor him and plays well.
 
king conn said:
It took the best QB play in a decade to " beat out " an uninspiring and unaccomplished Evers, and even then Mora tried everything to force him on the field

Given that, do you think Welliver standed any chance of removing him from QB 2? He was given the scout team from the git go this spring and never got the chance to work with the twos.
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According to the yard he was by far the best QB we had in the spring that he was basically named the starter for this season by fall camp of last yr. Instead of sticking it out for more than a yr the kid high tailed it instead of competing. Once again not a big loss.
 
businesslawyer said:
All the coaches can control is making sure they’re playing the guy maximizing the team’s chances to win in any given year. If someone else isn’t good enough, no matter what the fan base thought of him based on recruiting ranking and offers, so be it. If someone is going to be good enough but isn’t willing to wait, it’s what it is.

Get the best players you can, pick the best ones to put on the field and win games. That’s all you can do at the moment.
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Exactly right.

Building depth will be very hard in the current portal environment, especially for a program like UCONN.
 
king conn said:
It took the best QB play in a decade to " beat out " an uninspiring and unaccomplished Evers, and even then Mora tried everything to force him on the field

Given that, do you think Welliver standed any chance of removing him from QB 2? He was given the scout team from the git go this spring and never got the chance to work with the twos.
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In fairness, Jim has never coached before and is beholden to the boosters.
 
Our returning QB threw only 4 picks last year. He wasn't going to lose his job. I wonder if Cole was told he wasn't going to get any NIL this season because chances are he wasn't going to play. Teams can't afford to carry non-productive assets despite the promise.
 
Um looks like he an offer from another school and took it. End of story.
 
Waquoit said:
Our returning QB threw only 4 picks last year. He wasn't going to lose his job. I wonder if Cole was told he wasn't going to get any NIL this season because chances are he wasn't going to play. Teams can't afford to carry non-productive assets despite the promise.
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It absolutely will be “a thing” that young players are viewed as progressing at an acceptable enough rate to keep a schollie but not at a fast enough rate to keep their NIL money. Is that the case here? No idea.

Him going to Rhody would be great. If he does well there and post-Fagnano we don’t have a better QB, he can come back. If he heads back to the southwest, he’s gone for good. And, obviously, if he is handed money by a P-4 school, it will stir more unrest in the Boneyard that we should have been playing him.
 
Buffett10 said:
According to the yard he was by far the best QB we had in the spring that he was basically named the starter for this season by fall camp of last yr. Instead of sticking it out for more than a yr the kid high tailed it instead of competing. Once again not a big loss.
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Frankly, I think we would've gone undefeated and have been in contention for a playoff bid if he had started.
 
Chin Diesel said:
For us fans the offer list a transfer gets and the team he picks tells us more about the quality of the player than anything else.
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Agreed. And anyone on here saying this player is ahead of that player because of something as scant as minutes of a social media post/YouTube highlight reel or a drive in a scrimmage is just guessing. I stick with a coaching staff that sees a player for hundreds of practice hours, thank you.
 
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