Based on the story by Phil Miller today it wouldn't surprise me if JD Pride becomes the #2 quarterback. Can Parrish or Alipate run well? It sounds like he wants an athletic QB.
No offense to you or JD Pride, however there is no chance that happens. Pride was recruited to get Henderson to come here. Much like John Nance was recruited to get Floyd here.
Pride is not a D1 quarterback, regardless of system.
gospel according to you? Sure, and mcknight was only here so his buddies would come too. Experts.
There's a lot of over-thinking going on here. Kill's "system" is matching the play-calling to the personnel. He will run plays that use the abilities of the QB at hand. Alipate will be fine. He has plenty of running ability. Parrish is still a year away.
What this means is that they can tailor the offense to suit the personal. This is not Brew forcing a running team to run the spread.Lots of stuff going on in the Limegrover offense for defenses (and me!) to dissect. QB under center and in the pistol, jet sweeps, motion, pistol play-action fakes, zone-read and midline option, bubble screens, I-Form, multiple personnel packages. This is an example of what Kill means when he stated in the press conference that he likes his offenses to be multiple and put pressure on a defense.
This kid is no good. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh but he is a average running quarterback in HIGHSCHOOL. This kid by no means dominated high school. The only reason his team was good because they play 4A football and had Crockett at runningback.
And for those that say he had other D1 interest, his papa generated all of that because he played D1 football. NO BCS schools were going to offer him besides Minnesota because his dad went here.
His arm is average at best.
mark my words-HE WILL NEVER PLAY QB IN COLLEGE AND MAYBE WILL BE ON THE SPECIAL TEAMS UNIT AS A SENIOR.
6'0" kids who run (legitimately) between 4.5-4.6
Sorry, Bob. You may be right, but I think you have an agenda here, and your analysis is tainted. I'm just sayin'. JD is a nice kid, but I don't think QB will be his position.
I'll buy what Bob's selling.
If Marcus Sherels ran a legitimate 4.34 40, than Pride could have ran a 4.55 40. Timings are a crapshoot anyway. The only way to truly gauge 40 speed is that have athletes run on the same electronic system.
If Marcus Sherels ran a legitimate 4.34 40
The only way to truly gauge 40 speed is that have athletes run on the same electronic system.
I am just saying that JD Pride was one of the fastest guys in the state his SR season and he wasn't tiny (6'1", 190).
He didn't, though.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/87297447.html
He ran twice, and was timed at 4.37 and 4.41 with stopwatches. And, as someone else mentioned here, the rule of thumb is to add .24 to stopwatch-timed 40s. That would put him in the 4.6-4.65 range, which is where he would be in reality.
Bingo - which is why it's ridiculous when anyone attaches the word "legitimate" to any non-laser-timed 40. Those in fact are the only way that a 40 is legitimate.
6'1", 190 while not tiny is certainly NOT big. We can all agree that Brew's guy Harold Howell is the definition of tiny