re: State of Gamecock Recruiting for 2019

I say that because he’s the only QB we have offered that we have a legit chance at.

Hilinski is probably the backup plan right now.

Howell and Phommachanh are pipe dream guys. We have zero chance with them.

Our only Scholarship QB's at that point would be Bentley, Urich and Joyner.

I didn't think we normally had more than three scholarship QBs at a time.

I think we gave a preferred walkon spot to a QB out of Hammond or heathwood this class too.

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Orth > Mitch and Mitch was a "quality QB"

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Mitch wasn't bad till he got the blood infection after the hip pointer...then he was never the same it was like he got hit shy. But if you really think the public bag boy was better more power to ya.

I didn't say he had better potential but my point was he had better production at USC than Mitch so I don't buy into arbitrarily giving a scholarship to a QB every class

And if you think about it Orth out performed Nunez and Scarnechia and competed with McIlwain so you can belittle him if you want but he did a helluva lot more at QB for this program than those 4 scholarship QBs.

Mitch beat Orth out and had a serious injury that hindered him mentally going foward and the guys you mentioned lets go one by one Nunez was a WR from the get go but wouldnt accept that and would only play QB so simple that a QB with walkon status would beat him out, Scarnechia was a project that Spurrier took on in his senile years as a backup cause they didnt get thier guy, and BMac was a true freshman who had 1 spring to learn the system and then tossed into the fire and still beat Orth out for the job but caved into the pressure. So to use those as your arguments isnt very solid, im not saying orth was bad but he was on the low end of serviceable but i would much rather recruit they guys that Werner wants an its common practice EVERYWHERE to take a QB in each class, to prevent Orth situations from occuring. If you are okay with an Orth at QB for 2 friggin years then be my guest and watch us play like we did with him under center but id rather not.

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So to use those as your arguments isnt very solid

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My point is that just because you sign a QB to a scholarship doesn't mean they are worth it so using 4 failures that got beat out by a walk on is very solid support for my argument, despite whatever excuses you want to make for their failure.

I'm fine with targeting a QB every class but I don't think it's necessary to sign one every class. Especially when we've got young options in Urich and Joyner as second and third string. Wasting a scholarship on another Scarnechia for the sake of signing a QB in 19 would do more harm than good in my opinion because of the hard 25 limit in place.

But lord knows you don't understand other people can have opinions other than your own.

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We've GOT to have someone this cycle who can spin it.

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Agree 100%. I'm not sure if it was him or the staff, but I would've preferred full court press on Howell rather than Schrader. Both are good prospects, I just believe Howell has better throwing mechanics at this phase and will not require as much development.

And PS, I was just pointing out to BB that Mitch didn't win that game and NC wasn't a "top 10" team. Giving that shithole undue credit will never fly with me.

What do you mean by project for Urich? I thought he played QB in high school?

Howell is someone that we literally have ZERO chance with.

If we put the full court press on him, we would have our dicks in our hands by the time NSD rolled around.

We’re going after Shrader because we think we could land him.

If we don’t, we’re in trouble.

I’m not convinced Joyner will be able to play QB in the SEC either. We will have to wait and see.


We need to take a QB every year for the competition and depth aspect.

An SEC team should NEVER have to trot out a Nunez or Orth.