Well, time to scratch Chandler Rogers off the QB list. He is going, of all places, to North Texas. I guess he saw what we have and kind of reslishes squaring off against Cal in the first game of next season. Please, please give Chance Nolan a call. He spent most of 2022 on the injury list, so maybe he is not interested in playing behind Cal's O line.
Sam Huard just hit the portal. What I read said he isn’t concerned about level of program as much as an opportunity for playing time. We check that box, maybe we got a shot.
He hit the portal and a few hours later Cal staff seemed to indicate someone committed, then a few hours later the main focus of our QB search Chandler Rodgers commits to UNT. Coincidence?
A bit of an odd move considering he was at a Power5 school with an open QB job. Even if he does well at NAU, I think he would need to transfer again to a higher tier school in order to prove himself out for the NFL draft, assuming that is his goal. If his goal is not to make the NFL, then transferring out of Berkeley for a random directional school in Arizona is even more puzzling. I know he is from AZ, but yikes
Now that his destination is finalized, I am not that disappointed anymore. Had he gone to a Power 5 school it would be much different, but if he chose Northern Arizona over Cal, well then.... not much to be disappointed about
From the SI article/interview...it appeared that there wasn't a lot of interest in Cal keeping Kai. Also, it seems like Rogers is leaning towards Indiana or else he would have already committed?
I’m going to go out on a really skinny limb here and make a wild guess.
And that is that Spavital is going to implement some sort of variant of the wishbone / T a la a military academy wherein we don’t really have a qb (Yikes if true…I’m doomed to watching my bears and midshipmen run gimmick offenses…this truly is hell).
I say that based on the evidence…
1.) o lineman who excelled primarily in pp transferring out
2.) 2 traditional pocket qbs transferring out
3.) Smaller rbs sans a power element transferring out
4.) Sturdivant transferring out. Not really a yac guy. That trophy belongs to Anderson
5.) two block first tight ends. Two block last tight ends out
Mark my post. We will see some sort of chair Force academy offense next year.
I am not sure I’ve ever seen a coach mismanage the two most important position groups on offense and potentially on the entire team (QB and OL) like Wilcox has managed to do so. If this were Stanford or any of our rivals were would be laughing our asses off at them and their incompetence.
If Kai left then either we have a QB who has confidentially committed and we are waiting to announce the news, or, the CAL staff doesn't think he has what it takes to play at the P5 level. I tend to think it's the former. NAU is a yuge step down for Kai...surprised he didn't get any action from better programs.
P5 and G5 programs aren't gonna give the reins to a guy who has <5 minutes of real action. He clearly wanted a starting job somewhere. This is pretty solid for his body of work.
equally surprised that he didn't go to a better program. The fact that he's back in Arizona makes me wonder if there's some non-football reason behind it.
ASU not grabbing him is somewhat telling. Ragle is there now and he was part of the recruiting team for Kai. The lack of meaningful game film really hurt his portal chances, but maybe he’s just not a P5 QB…wouldn’t be Cal’s first recruiting whiff at the QB position…(ahem, Zach Kline, ahem Brock Mansion, ahem ahem)
Sam Huard from Washington, former 5-star QB, just entered the portal. 247 lists him as most similar to Goff
Hmm…
hand size?
We are going to a 3 back wildcat set...no passing.
Well, time to scratch Chandler Rogers off the QB list. He is going, of all places, to North Texas. I guess he saw what we have and kind of reslishes squaring off against Cal in the first game of next season. Please, please give Chance Nolan a call. He spent most of 2022 on the injury list, so maybe he is not interested in playing behind Cal's O line.
Oh we are playing North Texas again?
Sam Huard from UW just entered the transfer portal.......
Chandler Rodgers just committed to UNT
Sam Huard just hit the portal. What I read said he isn’t concerned about level of program as much as an opportunity for playing time. We check that box, maybe we got a shot.
Well we check both boxes. Level of program and opportunity for playing time.
Hard to get excited about a guy with 1 TD and 4 picks in his lone start...
He hit the portal and a few hours later Cal staff seemed to indicate someone committed, then a few hours later the main focus of our QB search Chandler Rodgers commits to UNT. Coincidence?
Nah the staff was hinting at the WR I’m sure.
A bit of an odd move considering he was at a Power5 school with an open QB job. Even if he does well at NAU, I think he would need to transfer again to a higher tier school in order to prove himself out for the NFL draft, assuming that is his goal. If his goal is not to make the NFL, then transferring out of Berkeley for a random directional school in Arizona is even more puzzling. I know he is from AZ, but yikes
Now that his destination is finalized, I am not that disappointed anymore. Had he gone to a Power 5 school it would be much different, but if he chose Northern Arizona over Cal, well then.... not much to be disappointed about
From the SI article/interview...it appeared that there wasn't a lot of interest in Cal keeping Kai. Also, it seems like Rogers is leaning towards Indiana or else he would have already committed?
I think the same. What’s holding the commit back?
He didn't commit yet did he?
Nope
Edit: whelp…
Freaking North Texas????
Since UCLA is six deep at QB, can the Regents send us 1?
Devon Modster?
Ironically he did beat UCLA and we need every W
I’m going to go out on a really skinny limb here and make a wild guess.
And that is that Spavital is going to implement some sort of variant of the wishbone / T a la a military academy wherein we don’t really have a qb (Yikes if true…I’m doomed to watching my bears and midshipmen run gimmick offenses…this truly is hell).
I say that based on the evidence…
1.) o lineman who excelled primarily in pp transferring out
2.) 2 traditional pocket qbs transferring out
3.) Smaller rbs sans a power element transferring out
4.) Sturdivant transferring out. Not really a yac guy. That trophy belongs to Anderson
5.) two block first tight ends. Two block last tight ends out
Mark my post. We will see some sort of chair Force academy offense next year.
Wow you need to touch some grass sir
You're right about one thing...Cal likely needs a gimmick offense to win.
Remember the goal here isn’t to fill stands it is to empty them. Which is why a wishbone crap offense with 3rbs makes perfect sense.
"Remember the goal here isn’t to fill stands it is to empty them."
When did Rachel Phelps buy Cal FB?
I am not sure I’ve ever seen a coach mismanage the two most important position groups on offense and potentially on the entire team (QB and OL) like Wilcox has managed to do so. If this were Stanford or any of our rivals were would be laughing our asses off at them and their incompetence.
Maybe if we scored some aces on Oline and QBs will be more interested.
Until Oline is a priority, things are dismal.
So we have an offense where top QB, WR and TE want to leave but top RBs want to play. Pretty much opposite of what I was expecting with Spavital.
We plan to reenact the Play with multiple laterals between RBs in every game
We have zero player on offense drafted during Wilcox's tenure.
Like I said, there's zero player on offense drafted during Wilcox tenure, so that means WR TE RB OL QB.
If Kai left then either we have a QB who has confidentially committed and we are waiting to announce the news, or, the CAL staff doesn't think he has what it takes to play at the P5 level. I tend to think it's the former. NAU is a yuge step down for Kai...surprised he didn't get any action from better programs.
P5 and G5 programs aren't gonna give the reins to a guy who has <5 minutes of real action. He clearly wanted a starting job somewhere. This is pretty solid for his body of work.
equally surprised that he didn't go to a better program. The fact that he's back in Arizona makes me wonder if there's some non-football reason behind it.
ASU not grabbing him is somewhat telling. Ragle is there now and he was part of the recruiting team for Kai. The lack of meaningful game film really hurt his portal chances, but maybe he’s just not a P5 QB…wouldn’t be Cal’s first recruiting whiff at the QB position…(ahem, Zach Kline, ahem Brock Mansion, ahem ahem)
I really hope it's the former....
lol