I'm all for opinions, but those questioning his ability to play at this level don't know what they're looking at.
Those saying they saw something in Olsen but not this young man again don't know what they're looking at.
I'd also say I'll be completely shocked if Allison ever plays an entire season here. Out of all the QB's we have on scholarship or intend to play here, he's the one with the most question marks.
Only reason you saying this is because the stats he has had but fail to mention his injuries, the run first offense they have at his school as well as not throwing to a lot of d1 talent. Allison is a stud and his film shows it, has arguably the best film of any qb Miami has on the roster.... Kid is still growing 6'6 and will put on good weight. Also has a very live arm
I went on record prior to knowing his stats, even asking what they were for weeks before anyone could actually produce them, not understanding how he had such limited highlights.
Comparing the two, highlights alone, I'd take Perry long before Allison for a multitude of reasons. When he decommited, a bunch of posters said how he didn't fit this system and we need a pure drop back passer. That he could see the writing on the wall and other such nonsense. At that time, I said people didn't know what they were looking at and during this staff's first days of recruiting they wouldn't waste their time visiting with him if he wasn't a huge priority as they were scrambling to fill this last class. Lots of egg on faces around here.
Jack even in his all-star game looked incredibly shaky. He had two INT's at this level and one was saved by the spectacular catch made by another of our recruits. I can only go by what my eyes and head tell me. He made little difference at the high school level and that's not something I expect from a high school QB. There are exceptions to the rule, but they're few and far between. I hope it works out for him as then it'd work out for me, but I won't hold my breath and we've got a guy who will be waiting in the wings to snatch the job out from under him.
Edit: Best film of anyone on the roster? No offense, but you're one of the people I was talking about when I said they don't know what they're looking at.
First off I said arguably has the best film of any QB on the roster. Secondly I'm very high on Kosi perry and believe he can be great as well but I'm also high on jack Allison too. Now IMO You don't know sh*t about this, out of all the qbs in the all star game which included Allison, Henry, Haskins, Eason, Patterson, Frank's and many others the only qbs that had better games than him were Patterson and Henry... Using stats as your only measure to determine if a kid is good or not is ludicrous and it lets me know you don't actually watch film. Again watch ALLISON's film and see his arm strength and accuracy jump off the screen . He can make all of the throws. Allison is a talented qb who has a lot of tools to be sucessful in college
Show me a highlight tape of a QB who doesn't display accuracy and I'll buy you a week in the Caribbean.
Arm strength is vastly overrated, but feel free to run with it. Not too many kids have the rifle Wright did, where did that get him? Morris, same thing and he did only marginally better in some regards.
Actually his film doesn't show anywhere near what you'd claim it does. I'll give you some examples. Here's some of his senior year play by play from the beginning.
2015 Mid-Season Senior - Jack Allison highlights - Hudl
1st play: He throws into double coverage, not a good idea at this level. He does make a long throw, but it's underthrown, the WR bails him out by cutting the route short. Better play by the WR than QB.
2nd Play: Routine throw that any high school QB could put on their tape.
3rd Play: Same as second.
4th Play: He throws behind the wide receiver again. The wide receiver adjusted well making the play more so than the QB.
5th play: Run
6th play: Very nice play, perfect placement, and his best highlight so far.
7th play: Run
8th play: Routine throw, same as 2nd and 3rd Play.
9th play: Wide receiver is as open as it gets, very poorly thrown ball, and he can thank his wide receiver who saved his butt for the touchdown.
I could go on and on. The one thing his film shows is that his wideouts are nowhere as bad as people would have you believe when people question Jack's lack of production. The better play in many of his highlights was made by his wide receiver in a lot of his plays. That tells me he had something to work with, even if they weren't consistent at it. He's not consistent with his throws, that much is obvious, nor is his accuracy a selling point. Not when you have guys getting open and still accuracy is a question mark. Part of that could be routes aren't consistent, but only game film would answer some of this conclusively.
So when I see erratic play, I'll consider stats and factor that in. Stats aren't everything, but they do provide some insight. Add all of those things up, I've got major question marks.
As for All-Star or camp performances, I always take them with a grain of salt....in particular at QB. There's one exception, when you see some of the same things you already saw (see above) prior to the performance once again rear it's ugly head. Then you've got even more question marks.
He's got tools, as in a good arm. Besides that he's got a long way to go before I'd comfortably say he's going to be a stud. I don't know him personally, understand his work ethic or knowledge of the game, the coaches do. They wanted Eason, that much was obvious, but they came in late and most QB's are all but on campus at that point. Would they have had other targets, we'll never know, but Jack is who we got and we'll see what happens.
