Lincoln Riley Knows His Qb’s

[BigBalls]

 

[Daystalker]

Looks like he just got off a plane from Thailand.  Heebie jeebies.

[Butkus51]

One thing I noticed since 2025, he has nicer suits.  He must have dumped dat awful light blue suit.  Someone got him to dress nicer…  Cheers

[Butkus51]

C. LR is not perfect, he still needs to answer going all in for Malachi Nelsen.  Dang what a FU.  No QB = 2027 which puts our QB room pretty on shaky grounds.  C. LR must land a top 3 QB for 2028.  So far it’s the typical/normal C. LR QB evaluation process = turtle slow…  Cheers

[Java]

It’s either Williams or a transfer.

and I’m leaving heavily toward the idea that usc will pursue a top level transfer.  It just adds up

[BigBalls]

Yep, that looks clear, USC will be looking for a portal guy to challenge and push Williams

[Butkus51]

Bruddah Java and Bruddah BigBalls, after seeing how C.LR and GM Bowden went & going thru the 2027 & now 2028 HS Class, I think you guys are onto something.  Yeah, maybe they want to focus on the TP for QB’s from now on.  Looks like they do not want to invest grooming a HS kid for 2 years and lose him to the TP (aka Longstreet).

But, the TP is risky Biz too and gonna cost a lot, more than a HS kid.  The pool for top QB’s in the TP is thin and small.  The competition is Mucho, fierce with strong bidding wars.  HS kid = $400 k to $1 M vs TP top QB’s $3.5 M to $4.5 M, huge financial variance.  I like C. Kiffin model, it’s 50/50, HS/TP = one year HS, next year TP and so on.

I remember C.LR went all in for Howard, but losing him to Ohio St.  C. LR had to go plan B hard.  He did get Maiava though, which worked out well.  Then, we see Indiana, Miami, C. Kiffin (Ole Miss & now LSU), Texas Tech, Oregon, UDub, and others do very well with TP QB’s.  But, man do they pay Big Bucks getting them.

I think the 2028 class has some top QB’s with 2029 Thad Beaux in the mix for choosing.  Both C.LR and GM Bowden have hard decisions to make…

Cheers

• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 2 days ago by Butkus51.

[BigBalls]

From everything I hear and read, USC has a huge war chest to sign players. That makes all the difference as we learned from watching Oregon recruit. The size of the bag matters and we have a huge bag.

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