I talked to Edgy Tim and got his scouting report on Aidan Gray.
New NU QB commit Aidan Gray has 'that QB aura'
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Edgy knows a hell of a lot more about evaluating local high school talent than most of the experts on this board do.
Yeah he's pretty sharp, and knows how to whet our appetites for more info...
Ok enough Dad jokes.
I'm a typical NU fan, scarred by past problems. What if he develops well and gets other offers? We had good luck with the two-way firm commit in the past, but a lot of leakage in recent years. It's like we're in an 80's teen movie, where the nerdy girl has a date to the prom with her best friend, but the guy jilts her as soon as the cheerleader shows interest.
I just want a functional, recruited QB. We've had like 2 in the last 10-12 years
What was that Rebel II post about an eagle getting a bugle stuck up his arse?
The list of HS QBs who can walk in and start right away is very, very short. Even a lot of top rated guys flame out. I am more than happy to stake multiple (annual) bets on 3 star development kids, especially ones from the area, as I think they are most likely to stick around.
After all the drama over Deuce (barely played), Cale Millen (probably working at In-N-Out), Atkinson, Meredith ("18 and Life" by Skid Row comes to mind), etc, I am thrilled to put the annual drama to rest with Lausch and Gray.
This is a good commit early in the recruiting cycle.Edgy likes multiple aspects of Gray's play which is good enough for me.He has some things to work on which most qb's do coming out of HS.The intangibles of being a winner and leader are extremely important at the most important position on the field.I will take this early verbal in this class.And I hope he does blow up and gets multiple offers which means he had a really good year.We cannot be afraid when we land a good recruit the competition will come after him.Let them.Gray is a Cat and I can't wait till he gets to Evanston.
You're right, of course. I'm just sick of bad QB play. I actually don't mind if we continue to get transfers, but the hit-and-miss nature of transfers and the "all miss" of recruiting has been discouraging. I don't have confidence that Hilinski is the answer, and they other guys, Richardson and Sullivan, were, apparently, the 4th and 5th best QBs on a bad team. We cannot continue to be last in scoring offense, especially with the JON sh1tshow going on.
Well I don't know, Molly Ringwald prevailed over the cool girl in Sixteen Candles, and that happened even though Michael Anthony Hall tried to get in the way. I'm hoping NU's story will turn out like that.
CITC, in your example, WE are Anthony Michael Hall and the other schools are Jake.
But - in the end, he got the cool girl AND the Rolls Royce, so...
Along those lines, then suppose we're also Ally Sheedy in Breakfast Club and the guy who played "Duckie" in Pretty in Pink - the extent of my volume of knowledge of 80s teens flics - characters that didn't get what they wanted but who still came out ahead.
Nope, in Breakfast Club we are again Anthony Michael Hall, the poindexter that does everyone's work while the other two guys get the girls. The girls in this case are the recruits.
Sixteen candles outcome better. We get the girl and the NIL (Rolls Royce)
Wow! I am feeling very old. My idea of a teen movie is "Rebel Without a Cause". Of course, It is hard to top Natalie Wood in any decade. That said, I cannot see her serving as a HS football player in even the wildest analogy ever conceived.
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