In today's Tennessean, there is an article about a player who will sign his letter of intent this Wednesday to play for Austin Peay. The article entitled, "Path to college football sometimes leads to FCS," is about a three-year starter and two-time state champion quarterback from Brentwood Academy who grew up believing "he was not only bound to play college football, but to play quarterback for a prominent program on the game’s grandest stage." But as the author writes, "He won’t be running through the Power-T in front of 100,000-plus fans at Tennessee for the next four years, though, or rubbing Howard’s Rock before descending upon Death Valley at Clemson. The highly decorated, dual-threat signal caller will instead be signing with Austin Peay, which competes in the FCS. It's Division I football, but far less glamorous than the variety played in its FBS counterpart."
“If you would have told me as a kid growing up that I would choose Austin Peay, I would have never believed it,” Oatsvall said. “I didn’t think that was my path.”
“It had been a goal of mine for a long time to play big-time Division I college football,” said Oatsvall, a Tennessean All-Midstate first-teamer who committed to Austin Peay in late July. “But there was some kind of peace about it when I made the decision — this is somewhere I’m supposed to be.”
Since I have seen him play quarterback for Brentwood Academy, I know Austin Peay is getting a steal of a recruit in Oatsvall.
Another player who just might be a steal of a recruit for Kent State is quarterback Will Phillis, Ohio's AP Division I Offensive Player of the Year, from Hilliard Bradley High School. Despite his size (6-4, 210 pounds), Kent State was the only Division I school to offer Phillis a scholarship. As a zero-star recruit, signing Phillis on Wednesday will not help Kent State's recruiting ranking with Rivals since the ranking system is predicated on the total number of points accumulated based on the number of recruits and the average number of stars of the recruits.
I really don't understand how a 6-4, 210 pound quarterback with impressive stats and awards cannot be rated by Rivals, but if they are wrong, as well as all the Division I schools who were unimpressed with Phillis and he develops into a productive college quarterback, then it's fair to say that Kent State got away with a steal just like Austin Peay did with Oatsvall.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/spo...ollege-football-sometimes-leads-fcs/96923240/
“If you would have told me as a kid growing up that I would choose Austin Peay, I would have never believed it,” Oatsvall said. “I didn’t think that was my path.”
“It had been a goal of mine for a long time to play big-time Division I college football,” said Oatsvall, a Tennessean All-Midstate first-teamer who committed to Austin Peay in late July. “But there was some kind of peace about it when I made the decision — this is somewhere I’m supposed to be.”
Since I have seen him play quarterback for Brentwood Academy, I know Austin Peay is getting a steal of a recruit in Oatsvall.
Another player who just might be a steal of a recruit for Kent State is quarterback Will Phillis, Ohio's AP Division I Offensive Player of the Year, from Hilliard Bradley High School. Despite his size (6-4, 210 pounds), Kent State was the only Division I school to offer Phillis a scholarship. As a zero-star recruit, signing Phillis on Wednesday will not help Kent State's recruiting ranking with Rivals since the ranking system is predicated on the total number of points accumulated based on the number of recruits and the average number of stars of the recruits.
I really don't understand how a 6-4, 210 pound quarterback with impressive stats and awards cannot be rated by Rivals, but if they are wrong, as well as all the Division I schools who were unimpressed with Phillis and he develops into a productive college quarterback, then it's fair to say that Kent State got away with a steal just like Austin Peay did with Oatsvall.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/spo...ollege-football-sometimes-leads-fcs/96923240/
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