Interesting stat on Florida QBs

[canepb]

Miami produces more pro baseball players than any other city. But you are exactly right, they specialize.

It’s tough to juggle travel baseball in Florida with other sports. They play year round We would go from a football game to a travel baseball tournament, regularly. My son ended up getting burnt out of baseball.

 

[Hoyacane1620]

It’s tough to juggle travel baseball in Florida with other sports. They play year round We would go from a football game to a travel baseball tournament, regularly. My son ended up getting burnt out of baseball.

This is the problem with the travel teams. When the kids are young, its somewhat manageable to play multiple sports and play on competitive travel teams. As they get into the middle school years , it's tough. Even here in the Northeast, every sport wants to have a "year round" season. Kids who play multiple sports are almost forced to choose. And if they don't choose themselves, coaches push them to concentrate on their sport. It can become very stressful for the kid who genuinely enjoys multiple sports. My son played baseball and lacrosse from the time he was 5 years old until he was in 8th grade. He genuinely liked them both and he was good at both of them. He would have travel baseball and / or lacrosse one weekend day and football on the other. We pretty much lost our minds in the spring and summer running from field to field. He had to pick going into High school and chose football and baseball. He had moments of regret, wishing he picked lacrosse.

Ironically, the only sport that isn't year round up here is football. Kids who play football in the fall generally play baseball or lacrosse in the spring. Some kids, like my son, also play basketball. There's always a big push to get the football kids into the wrestling program - some do, some just work out all winter. Our spring football starts the 2nd week of June and consists of 2-3 weeks of workouts and drills. In the summer, there is a 6 week 7v7 league between high schools and weight room lifting in the mornings.

It's hard for kids to really play at a high level in two sports, although it can be done.

 

[561Cane]

I'd say in terms of quarterbacks who have made an impact, Texas has a huge lead over everyone else. Half those Florida guys I didn't even know got drafted. Jake Ruddock? Really?

Several weren’t drafted but rather UDFA’s...some didn’t even make a practice squad. Basically a camp body...lol at the so called 17 from Florida

 

[CaneFanWNY]

Administrative blunders on head corch hires aside..really wish we would have shifted from pro style bro to spread concepts back in the mid 2000s.
Alot of names on that list that would have came here and killed it, we prolly would have never left the spotlight.

 

[Coach Macho]

Our QB's don't play baseball, but they throw all year around instead. The 7-on-7 stuff is bigger here in South Florida than anywhere else in the country.
I truthfully think that's the main reason we've seen a climb in elite QB's coming from South Florida (as well as other skill talent). They throw all year around.

 

[The Franchise]

We got on Brissett and Geno Smith pretty late.

I don't remember the exact details, but thats how I remember those stories. Early offer...then lightly recruit...only to pick up at the end when we've struck out and missed on others.

I don't remember Brissett that way. Pretty sure Brissett's HS coach was a gator shill. I remember us pitching him as hard as anyone, and we worked his mom like crazy. I know we recruited Smith too, but I don't remember that one as vividly.

 

[Ethnicsands]

Some busters on that list, but many are still better than the guys we did sign. I guess the next logical question is: Would they have succeeded here in the garbage systems we've run over the last 10 years?

I guess evaluations matter.

Scheme, too.

 

[Ethnicsands]

I don't remember Brissett that way. Pretty sure Brissett's HS coach was a gator shill. I remember us pitching him as hard as anyone, and we worked his mom like crazy. I know we recruited Smith too, but I don't remember that one as vividly.

IIRC, Smith came out a year after we took Jacory (and 2 yesrs after Marve). He didn’t like our QB room and the probably correct perception was Jacory was a Shannon kid and no one would be able to unseat him.

Smith is related to Mel Bratton and would have come to UM if we’d tried harder or been more convincing.

 

[DTP]

Several weren’t drafted but rather UDFA’s...some didn’t even make a practice squad. Basically a camp body...lol at the so called 17 from Florida

Nope all those guys were drafted. D-money’s list shows what pick they were. Most were drafted late tbh.

 

[RattlerCane305]

I don't remember Brissett that way. Pretty sure Brissett's HS coach was a gator shill. I remember us pitching him as hard as anyone, and we worked his mom like crazy. I know we recruited Smith too, but I don't remember that one as vividly.

I remember that too, Chise. That dude definitely disappointed his mom when he became a ****. She was a lifelong fan already and we did a great job with her as well...

 

[Artist Formerly Known As]

Mahomes, Colt McCoy & Andy Dalton all played baseball growing up & in HS.

I think Andrew Luck did too & I believe Nick Foles as well, but he also was a really good Basketball player in HS.

Baseball I’m sure has something to do with it. For as many good QBs that were good baseball players, you can find an equal number of pro baseball players that were really good HS QBs that could’ve played in college.

Matt Holliday and Joe Mauer are good examples.

 

[The Franchise]

I remember that too, Chise. That dude definitely disappointed his mom when he became a ****. She was a lifelong fan already and we did a great job with her as well...

Yep. She was on board. Folden was very aggressively recruiting her.

 

[hoover437]

What program does your son play for?

we up in Orlando played at Ocoee last year moving to Edgewater putting in a system like the Cali teams.

 

[hoover437]

Miami produces more pro baseball players than any other city. But you are exactly right, they specialize.

But none of them are black athletes. They are mainly white and Spanish!!! Black kids in Florida only play basketball and football for top line talents

 

[gogeta4]

But none of them are black athletes. They are mainly white and Spanish!!! Black kids in Florida only play basketball and football for top line talents

Im trying to figure out what does black have to do with it?.

I dont think we were tracking black athletes. If so black athletes in the entire u.s. arent playing the sport as much.

 

[hoover437]

Im trying to figure out what does black have to do with it?.

I dont think we were tracking black athletes. If so black athletes in the entire u.s. arent playing the sport as much.

Man not a racial statement, it’s something that’s many have been saying for the past decade. It’s just that more have gone to the sport I mentioned.

 

[TheMatador]

Mexicans don't play college football.

They don't?

Look a little harder.....

Mexican football players just don't end up playing pro football...and they don't play in the U.S.

Look for one of the old threads between DaytonaCane and me....

You might learn something.

 

[TheSwagger1]

They don't?

Look a little harder.....

Mexican football players just don't end up playing pro football...and they don't play in the U.S.

Look for one of the old threads between DaytonaCane and me....

You might learn something.

I think every rational adult reading this board is aware of what I’m saying and the accuracy of it. Let’s not be silly.

 

[canepb]

we up in Orlando played at Ocoee last year moving to Edgewater putting in a system like the Cali teams.

We won nationals at Disney in 2017 & 2018....it was a great experience and we threw a lot!

 

[TheMatador]

I think every rational adult reading this board is aware of what I’m saying and the accuracy of it. Let’s not be silly.

I guess I'm not rational. You're being irrational and perhaps silly. Don't accuse me of it.

You said simply, "Mexicans don't play football."

Mexicans DO play football.

In the '50's and '60's, freshmen were not eligible for varsity play in American colleges. Hence, colleges fielded freshman teams.

Our freshman team played the Mexican college team, Mexico Poly, quite regularly. And often lost to them.

DaytonaCane's late husband, Doug Davis, who started for us at fullback in the late '50's (along with the All American QB Fran Curci, and future legend Jim Otto), played Mexico Poly (or maybe it was Mexico City Poly). She posted here several months what her late husband said about playing that team, especially their quickness.

Another great story was how George Mira was roughed up on a tackle and how he startled Mexico Poly players by giving them crap in Spanish, which they didn't expect.

You said simply that Mexicans don't play football. If you meant only Mexican Americans in Texas, I don't know if you're right or wrong.

I suspect Ephraim Banda's ancestry might be Mexican American. I know that there are many Americans of Mexican ancestry whose families have lived in the US decor centuries.

I'll have to add mind-reading to the skills I'll have to develop to understand much of this board in addition to having to decipher a whole new form of English that was not known in my earlier years.