HS QB Recruitment and Development

[Pelosigalore]

IMO, High School QB recruitment and development is the biggest failure by far in the Stoops era. I guess there’s been some bad luck along the way with Drew Barker getting injured. This staff has not recruited and developed any QBs at all. We might have to go all the way back to Andre Woodson as the last one at UK.
Not good for long term success.

 

[bthaunert]

It has definitely been a weakness in recruiting. Here are the QB's that UK has signed out of HS under Stoops and their FBS stats:

Reese Phillips - 45 career yards of passing
Drew Barker - 747 career passing yards and 5 TD's
Gunner Hoak - 271 career passing yards and 3 TD's
Danny Clark - 0 career passing yards
Walker Wood - 15 career passing yards
Amani Gilmore - 0 career passing yards
Nik Scalzo - 0 career passing yards
Beau Allen - 132 career passing yards

That's really bad. I know that in the era of the immediate transfer, it's not as important. but damn that's bad.

 

[Coach Marrow]

It has definitely been a weakness in recruiting. Here are the QB's that UK has signed out of HS under Stoops and their FBS stats:

Reese Phillips - 45 career yards of passing
Drew Barker - 747 career passing yards and 5 TD's
Gunner Hoak - 271 career passing yards and 3 TD's
Danny Clark - 0 career passing yards
Walker Wood - 15 career passing yards
Amani Gilmore - 0 career passing yards
Nik Scalzo - 0 career passing yards
Beau Allen - 132 career passing yards

That's really bad. I know that in the era of the immediate transfer, it's not as important. but damn that's bad.

Outside of Drew Barker, that’s such a depressing list.

 

[Pelosigalore]

It’s even worse than I imagined!

 

[IFerg1969]

When you never REALLY commit to the passing game as a staff, you get half-assed results. There are reasons why the UK passing game has mostly sucked under Stoops, the least of which is "bad luck". Not saying they haven't had some. But 14 years in, if you really wanted to be able to throw the ball proficiently, you'd be doing it. And "YES", they've been terrible at developing HS QBs.

 

[ArtLaibsGhost]

If I was recruiting against us I would show that list to every QB recruit on my list. If you were a highly ranked QB prospect out of high school WHY would you come here. Besides his horrid game and clock management, its my biggest gripe about our coach. He doesnt even try to develop QBs and the proof is in the pudding. We have had one good actual QB and 1 serviceable one in 12 years. Most of the QBs he recruits rarely get a chance to play more than one or two series a year, as Stopos aversion to running up the score as well as offensive ineptitude, make it difficult to give the backups any reps.

 

[jlkirk]

If I was recruiting against us I would show that list to every QB recruit on my list. If you were a highly ranked QB prospect out of high school WHY would you come here. Besides his horrid game and clock management, its my biggest gripe about our coach. He doesnt even try to develop QBs and the proof is in the pudding. We have had one good actual QB and 1 serviceable one in 12 years. Most of the QBs he recruits rarely get a chance to play more than one or two series a year, as Stopos aversion to running up the score as well as offensive ineptitude, make it difficult to give the backups any reps.

I cant get $9 Million plus out of my head...