http://bleacherreport.com/articles/25291...=editorial

Anyone need a QB?

Every year there is an article like this one. The kid is a good kid, but nobody including his trainer has opined that he is D-1 material. That said Blake Bortles was one of these types of QBs. He just needs to suck it up and walk on somewhere.

Surprised he hasn't gone down to Boise and talked to them....

he's going to have to walk on somewhere....
and yes small time location is the reason, not because he is overlooked but because the competition level where he is playing is ridiculously low and really tells you nothing about how he will translate to d1...probably no one on his team or his competition will likely even play college ball..and for a qb that matters....for a skill position, running a 4.3 in Montana will be the same every where else...for a qb its different, it not all about the physical, you need to know how he reads defenses, calmness under pressure, threading needles, among hundreds if other things... throwing 5000 yards to a WR that runs a 4.5-4.8 when the dbs guarding him are undersized kids that run 4.8 wont impress anyone

his chance at getting offers was through camps, if he didnt get any there he will need to walk on somewhere

im sure he already has alot of preferred walkon offers..he unfairly but kinda necessarily will have to prove his way

(08-13-2015 08:42 AM)Juan Tibonya Wrote:  Every year there is an article like this one. The kid is a good kid, but nobody including his trainer has opined that he is D-1 material. That said Blake Bortles was one of these types of QBs. He just needs to suck it up and walk on somewhere.

Bortles had a lot more velocity on his ball coming out of HS.

(08-13-2015 08:59 AM)pesik Wrote:  he's going to have to walk on somewhere....
and yes small time location is the reason, not because he is overlooked but because the competition level where he is playing is ridiculously low and really tells you nothing about how he will translate to d1...probably no one on his team or his competition will likely even play college ball..and for a qb that matters....for a skill position, running a 4.3 in Montana will be the same every where else...for a qb its different, it not all about the physical, you need to know how he reads defenses, calmness under pressure, threading needles, among hundreds if other things... throwing 5000 yards to a WR that runs a 4.5-4.8 when the dbs guarding him are undersized kids that run 4.8 wont impress anyone

his chance at getting offers was through camps, if he didnt get any there he will need to walk on somewhere

im sure he already has alot of preferred walkon offers..he unfairly but kinda necessarily will have to prove his way

Thank you for this. Now I understand!

(08-13-2015 08:42 AM)Juan Tibonya Wrote:  Every year there is an article like this one. The kid is a good kid, but nobody including his trainer has opined that he is D-1 material. That said Blake Bortles was one of these types of QBs. He just needs to suck it up and walk on somewhere.

Yup. Last year it was a kid from New Mexico. He was a state record shattering QB---but the level of HS football played in New Mexico is so bad those accomplishments didn't garner a single scholarship offer. Not even the in state schools, who are both terrible, bothered to offer the kid. Not sure how it finally turned out for him.

(08-13-2015 10:00 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(08-13-2015 08:42 AM)Juan Tibonya Wrote:  Every year there is an article like this one. The kid is a good kid, but nobody including his trainer has opined that he is D-1 material. That said Blake Bortles was one of these types of QBs. He just needs to suck it up and walk on somewhere.

Yup. Last year it was a kid from New Mexico. He was a state record shattering QB---but the level of HS football played in New Mexico is so bad those accomplishments didn't garner a single scholarship offer. Not even the in state schools, who are both terrible, bothered to offer the kid. Not sure how it finally turned out for him.

JUCO

wow....Havre (where this kid is from) is Montana's 8th largest city, with a population of 9,310. It's 45 miles from the Canadian border.

(08-13-2015 08:07 PM)ECMAN79 Wrote:  wow....Havre (where this kid is from) is Montana's 8th largest city, with a population of 9,310. It's 45 miles from the Canadian border.

What is telling is either Montana programs aren't on him or the Vandals. Kids do fall through the cracks...hopefully he gets a chance to prove himself on some level.

It seems his parents have a case of overactive pride. There is no story here.