TheKnightReport - A look at Rutgers scholarship quarterbacks during the Rivals era
TKR takes a look at how recently signed QB Ajani Sheppard stacks up with other Rutgers quarterbacks of the Rivals era.
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Pretty low correlation between ranking and future performance.
Nice work, Richie, and also a great idea. I'm guessing certain positions have a higher star prediction rate than others. For example, I'm guessing that highly rated receivers have a higher chance of actual success than quarterbacks. Same with offensive linemen and defensive backs. Quarterbacks are harder to predict because their position is much more difficult to adapt to when they make the transition to college.
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Ummmmmmmm.......Rivals got started in 1998, not sure when Scarlet Nation/RutgersFan joined the network.
OL is tough too…it is why you see a lot of 2-3,star OL do well. Some of the 6’6 320 4 star OL are maxed out and win every battle in HS because of size. But are they coachable, can they figure out how 5 can block 8 Etc
I do think WR and DB may be the most sure things out of HS
Also, they've gotten by mainly on size, but college is a great equalizer for that. Are they willing to put the time in the weight room to turn that bulk into muscle, and to put the time in on the practice field to learn all the little nuances that allow them to get better?
The one that got away that probably would have changed the trajectory of the entire program was PJ Walker. Right in our back yard at Elizabeth and was NJ.com's offensive player of the year in 2012. We offered only as an athlete and Rhule at Temple gave him the chance to play QB, oh well, what might have been.
Ah, did not know that, that makes sense.
John McClane? He is at Nakatomi Plaza. Yippie ki yay motherf****r!
I’m just telling you what the linked article says. Cubit predates any recruits I see on here. But maybe he wasn’t on scholarship and maybe he transferred in like McLane and a few others. We obviously are both too lazy to look it up.
Yeah one story I remember was Fiore from Bergen County who played Hoops and was athletic but only weighed around 230 in HS. Rutgers took a kid from a nearby HS because he was 300 lbs already. That kid never really panned out. Fiore went to Hofstra and bulked up little by little then Had a nice career for the 49ers.
The more recent advent of social media has helped a lot. My stepson played at a tiny school up here and played BB and FB. Would be up between 280-300 playing FZb and drop down to as low as 190 playing the BB season.
He didn’t do too many camps as a few schools like USF and UCF had told him he had a ship waiting but if he camped and did poorly, he may lose them.
As parents back then, we had no idea of them game. And he had other kids that were football only at Ramsey and DBP getting offers from everybody but they were a true 300 and went to the camps.
If I knew the game back then, he most likely would have doubled offers and what I would say a 5.6 or so ranking.
So naive, that when GaTech and a couple of other fairly “named” schools tried to tell us to have him comment right then or lose it, we told them, he will wait and take his other visits. And this was as a NR kid…haha
Every school was still calling on NSD. But if you saw some of his recruiting pics, you would have thought he was a power forward and not OL.
Good thing a lot of them saw more than was on paper.
Cruising Richie. Like your podcasts
TheKnightReport - A look at Rutgers scholarship quarterbacks during the Rivals era
TKR takes a look at how recently signed QB Ajani Sheppard stacks up with other Rutgers quarterbacks of the Rivals era.
Probably in a skyscraper or airport foiling a faux-terrorist plot.
(yes, it is a Christmas movie)
Interesting that Ryan Hart is on the bottom of the list, yet ranks in the Top 10 in a number of stat categories for RU:
Rutgers Football Passing Leaders
Rutgers Football Passing Leaders
He wouldn't have been a great QB at RU. The coaches would have screwed it up, then they would have turned him into a bad WR.
Did he ever get to start at whatever school he went to?🧑🎄LOL
We have had a couple of good LT since then but agree with RT. Funny thing is- if we didn’t have AD who was an all time great, Kevin was much better at LT than RT. Just, not as good as AD..,
Umm you can pile up stats over 4 years. I would venture to guess most of the guys in the top 10 played 3 or 4 years . Not like we had some great quarterbacks that played 2 years and went to the NFL
Good grief, what a depressing list. Not many legit D1 QBs.TheKnightReport - A look at Rutgers scholarship quarterbacks during the Rivals era
TKR takes a look at how recently signed QB Ajani Sheppard stacks up with other Rutgers quarterbacks of the Rivals era.
You really post this stuff without doing any research, don't you?
Yes, Ryan Hart was here 2002-2005. What you fail to account for is that in 2002 he was the 3rd string QB behind Ryan Cubit and Ted Trump, and only saw time in 5 games. Then you also fail to account for his last year, where he was injured and shared time with Mike Teel.
Ryan Hart (2002-2005)
2005: 155-255, 60.8%, 2135 yards, 18 TD's, 8 INT's
Mike Teel (2005-2008)
2005: 51-101, 50.4%, 683 yards, 2 TD's, 10 INT's *** Parts of 9 games, Ryan Hart was full time starter when healthy
big fan of Hart, kid was a trooper. Not the strongest arm by any stretch but was smart, accurate, and understood his role in Greg's offense
Yes , I knew that . Of course , a board legend would.
Didn’t know you were looking for a year by year breakdown of hart’s career .
I never said he started every game for 4 years , did I ?
