btw - I'm 99% sure that Nebrich fit that profile of a recruit coming in that needed the extra year of physical development time to get game ready to compete. It's a credit to that kid that he was able to physically develop his body as far and as fast as he did, because at UConn, they don't incorporate funny chemistry, I'm sure he was on a protein diet, and consuming enough protein shakes to make the strongest stomachs sick. My guess is that his footwork and throwing mechanics are probably thrown off a bit from what he was able to do in high school becuase of it. When you add 25-30 lbs in 6 months, and you're starting from only a buck 70 or whatever, you're changing your body structure by 15-20%. That's absolutely going to have an effect on how you move your body in a complicating motor pattern, and maybe a big reason why he was overthrowing a lot of balls when he got into the games, going to take time to adjust - development time.
When you're a 270 lb lineman, and you put on 15-20 lbs of muscle, it doesn't change your movement patterns much, but for the smaller players on the field, that need to make very agile movements in open spaces, physical size, and changes in your body and how you move your body is a big issue. the same kind of thing happened to Frazer a while back, he bulked up to like 245 or something after the 2009 season and his game went to hell.
I just hope the kid keeps pushing, it's not easy to impress a guy like Deleone, who it's been said about, gets physically sick thinking about relying on freshman, and he did enough to get where's he at so far.
