So, you don't need to first be officially in the portal? WTF is going on? How is any of this allowed within the rules?Just announced.
BREAKING: Washington State QB Cam Ward announces transfer to Oregon Ducks
The Ducks have a new QB in the mix for 2024. Former Washington State QB Cameron Ward is coming to Eugene.sports.yahoo.com
Love it … first year in the Big 10 the Ducks are on probation . They will fit right in tho….stealing signals ….
Yeah, I don't know if you guys have seen Super Pumped, the story of the founding of Uber and some of its early days (and mainly is about Travis Kalanick)--if not, you should, and it's on Netflix now--but this reminds me of a scene where Kalanick is proposing an insane user device tracking scheme, someone asks "is this ... legal?", and they all look at each other for a sec and then laugh raucously.
No way they are keeping him. He’s from SoCal he may end up a USC target. AZ was his best offer out of HS.
I doubt the kids care too much about the travel. It’s what, 7 games tops. Their parents might if they want to attend games. But NIL will probably get ma & pa first class tix anyways.
“Checking his draft status”. There’s not one reliable advisor telling him to go pro. He’d be a late round pick and get less than the NIL money.It's not certain. From the man himself, he's leaving WSU, but not necessarily going to Oregon. He's checking his draft status first.
I do not think it will be an issue. Football teams will fly by charter. Penn State is the only team that is even remotely close to the pain in the ass it is getting to Pullman. Other sports will have more issues. Still, my guess is it will be a nonstory moving forward.
I lost respect for him when he mentions NFL draft because he knows it’s horse shit. Just say going to the portal, who will pay me more versus lying to your teammates and previous supporters. Feeding us the horse shit..It's not certain. From the man himself, he's leaving WSU, but not necessarily going to Oregon. He's checking his draft status first.
Marginal arm, not fast or athletic, short, slow release, but accurate with a football IQ off the chart. Kinda like Johnny Unitas, Joe Montana and Tom Brady. You notice how the three greatest QB in NFL history lacked the physical tools to be great, but were better that any first, second, rounder ever drafted.
Not sure I’m following you here. I’m thinking our most physically talented QBs were Leaf and Bledsoe…but Bledsoe wasn’t on the most talented team ever, and Leaf did go to the RB.
Think about it, Drew was the NFL #1 pick on every draft board. Leaf, while a far superior as a college QB, wasn't for several reasons. Drew played with the Posse on defense, including Sasa, Eaton and Patterson on the d-line, the two best TE's in school history, a 1330 yard, 220 pound RB. Bobo, Pointer, Davis, Schexnayder catching balls. The 1997 team probably had the better receivers, everything else was inferior, and was far more Leaf dependant for wins. We were the #2 offense in the NCAA in 1997, but were only #35 with Drew. Also, don't confuse the deepest, 2002, with most talented! Gesser wasn't Drew or Ryan talent wise, never had a 1000 yard rusher to take the pressure off, nor was that defense at Posse level, which held Drew's opponents to less than 300 yards a game. With Gesser, Leaf or Minshew at QB the 1992 would have been insane, with Drew and his 18 TDs and 14 ints, and very ordinary 123 pass rating, not so much.
yeah, I’m going to say ‘97 had more offensive talent than ‘92. It’s probably close, and Leaf might have been the biggest difference, but the Fab Five and the Fat Five were both probably better units overall.
QBs "with all the tools" tend to be mismanaged. Drew was no exception, if the goal was to develop the the best QB long term. Unlike, Gesser, Leaf and Minshew, who had "cock of the walk" personalities. Drew was shy and timid, was never a born leader. Despite the all the tools, he need to carry the clip board mentally until 92, when we had the talent to carry him for a season, while he learned the game, with 1993 being his break out year. Instead, he was thrown to the wolves in 1990, losing 7 of his first 8 starts, that 55-10 loss to the UW was brutal for a true freshman. I don't think he ever fully recovered. Once he started to "feel it" and regain confidence at the end of 92, his dad Mac convinced him go pro, and he joined the Pats, the worst team in the NFL by a wide margin, to suffer even more years of abuse. Just because you will go #1, doesn't mean you should, if your goal isn't money.
Shy and timid are not words I’ve ever seen connected with Bledsoe, and neither of those fits the brief interactions with him I had/saw in 91-93…or the stories out of Walla Walla HS in the couple years prior. His demeanor at the time was closer to Leaf than Gesser/Minshew…just not as extreme.
I don’t remember watching Bledsoe in college other than the 92 AC in which I was rooting for UW as a kid in a UW family. One thing I’ll never waver from is comparing stats from QBs 20-30 years ago to today. No comparisons as today’s offenses are light years ahead of where they were back then and the QB numbers reflect that. 7 YPA gets you beat in a lot of games today and back in those days you’d be considered unstoppable.
I was gonna say - wasn't 1992 Bledsoe's last year, in the Snow Bowl? These 1993/4 references throw me.
