Oddly enough, Douglas Doughty who covers UVa for the Roanoke Times is reporting the news.
Sounds like Texas Tech QB Michael Brewer is transferring to #VT.— Douglas Doughty (@DoughtySports) March 2, 2014
What do y'all think?
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Dude!! That was fast! If we can trust this news then this weekend was huge to Brewer. This is the third leg in Lefty's QB plans per his Andy Bitter interview. Check that one off! Sweet!!
Andy, can you check on this and give us a heads up? Thanks
I hope it's true!
All your QBs are belong to us
Andy Bitter confirms
Andy says it?
Welcome to Hokie Nation, Michael!
Leal really has to be sweating now. Ford, Motley, Leal and Brewer to be competing for the starting role. I think now the others are looking at redshirting as a given.
This interesting QB competition got even more interesting. I'm glad that we won't start a true freshman next year, as this transfer all but guarantees.
That must have been after his 2012 season as a redshirt freshman. I don't think he played any that year. No game film. The one pass they show has a pretty quick release. His stats from last year (limited action) give me hope. This is a great development.
Question for French (or anyone really) assuming this is true:
1) Given that Chad Morris is very shortly removed from coaching Brewer in High School and his offensive scheme has remained relatively the same structure, do you think this gives VT an edge against understanding Clemson should we happen to play them again before Morris bolts for a HC gig? or how happy does this make Bud?
2) Follow up, given Morris and TexasTech are known for high octane passing attacks do you see Lefty adjusting his offense to suit to play to Brewer's passing heavy offensive experience? The presumption being that he changed the offense to suit Logan and will do so for any QBs strengths.
1) I'd say even Morris has evolved to the point where a high school QB's experience won't tell Bud a whole heck of a lot. Besides, odds are we won't even see Clemson while Brewer is with us and Morris is with them.
2) I doubt Lefty will change things up too dramatically. Obviously, things will be much different post-Logan, but I'm sure Lefty assumes Brewer knows how to turn and hand the ball off to a running back. The running game is still going to be priority #1, but it's nice that we have a QB coming in with a bit of experience in a college passing scheme.
Clemson is ACCCG only and they still need to get past FSU. I have no real belief that Bud needs a player to tell him anything about defense but having it straight from the horses mouth can help. Hell, Auburn was reading FSU's play signals in the first half of the National Championship.
Regarding offense, I am not totally sure running will be priority #1. I think Lefty want's it to be but I am not sure VT's rushing attack will be on point until 2015. The line struggled to get any kind of push last year and despite having a more veteran line and 2 incoming star RBs, I think 2014 will be a passing attack.
I challenge you to go find an interview with Loeffler or Beamer where they say anything other than some variation of "Getting the running game going is our #1 priority." I think last year's pass:run ration is about as high as it'll be under Loeffler. We might see it again, but if I was a betting man, I 'd put money on this year being slightly more rush-oriented.
settle down Barney Stinson. I never said any coach said any differently. That's just my opinion.
I think that it will take more than last year to get back to a position where our line is going to be opening huge holes. The damage from Newsome cannot be undone in a single year, no matter how great Grimes and now Searles is. That's just my opinion. I do believe it will be better, but I think next year, no matter who the QB is will be about precision short yardage passing foremost.
I thought Loeffler has said many times that he wants 300 yds passing, 150-200 yds running a game.
Dude!! VT with a 475 - 500 yd/game average offense,...with the defense we have. OMG!!!
Yeah, lots of reasons to be excited.
I guess this is assuming he wins the starting job.
6'1 185......needs to be Gentryfied in my OP. Good to see some competition though, kid might have game.
Turkey leg for "Gentryfied." Love that.
Yeah, not going to want to run him very often at 185 and a previous history of a back issue. I dont necessarily hate that though. I am interested to see how Lefty runs an offense using a balanced traditional run game and passing attack
Say goodbye to Tech, and welcome to Tech!
I see what you did there. +1.
Say goodbye to Tech and welcome to a PolyTech
Say goodbye to a Tech and say hello to the Tech.
Say goodbye to the Red Raider Shotgun, and say hello to Skipper.
Size Does Matter
+1.
I really cant wait to see how Lefty would run an offense with him. I think assuming he wins the job we are going to get a much quicker than expected view of Lefty's ideal vision of an offense. He is a good candidate to set up a very balanced offense around as one would assume he has less weaknesses that have to be schemed around at this point in his career.
The rivals list of 2011 dual threat QBs is interesting...
I know these rankings don't mean anything, but it is fun to see where these guys are now...
1. Braxton Miller
2. Brett Hundley
6. Teddy Bridewater
9. Marquise Williams
12. Marcus Mariota
13. Michael Brewer
14. Johnny Manziel
16. Everett Golston
Number 13 is about to beat number 1.
#2 is the best on that list.
We worked Williams and Golston hard that year in recruiting.
I have a feeling that he is going to be special.
I'm just going to leave this conversation here.
Hey! Thats my old roommate!
Reserving judgement until I get a french-to-english translation on the situation
wow
Edit: This was against 5A Texas High School competition
Nothin like that video of a video quality haha, but seriously he has one hell of an arm for his size. He does have a bit of a baseball wind up though.
As HDubya pointed out, definitely has a bit of a baseball windup. However, apart from that, his mechanics seem petty good at this point. His footwork isn't bad (although I have yet to see him under center) and I'm a HUGE fan of 3 aspects of his game in particular:
1. He keeps the ball nice and high when dropping and scrambling. That makes his release much quicker (very important with his little windup) and his throws more accurate and consistent (you don't get to 70% completions by accident).
2. He scrambles to throw. A good number of those highlights show him getting pressure up the middle, right off the snap. He evades the rush and, instead of tucking it and running (which he has room to do) like so many young, mobile QBs do, he keeps his eyes downfield and finds a receiver. There's a reason Morris is now a highly-respected college football coach: he's a very good coach; this is just one more example of that.
3. He's very good at running the read option (at least in highlights, hard to tell if he misses a bunch of reads on film they don't show us) AND, IMO more importantly, executing a good or even decent fake, coming up and delivering a ball on time.
Lots of stuff to get excited about, with some room for improvement as well. No doubt he'll be a great addition to the QB competition in Blacksburg this fall.
I just watched some of the Texas Tech spring game and, not claiming any particular insight, a few things jump out at me:
He makes quick decisions and gets the ball off quickly when he decides where it's going. I know this is partly from the system at TT, but the kid makes his reads then-BOOM-here comes the ball.
He seems comfortable leaving the pocket and going lateral to get away from pressure and get the ball off. I didn't sense that 'Ohh Sh..., better run' from him-very controlled.
He threw a lot of short, quick patterns but the ball would be well-placed with a nice touch. None of these too-high, too-low, too-fast, too-slow passes to open receivers I had become used to seeing recently at VT.
Nice touch when he goes deep to lead the receivers.
I'm officially stoked.
Now, if he can develop some rapport with Morehead's crew, it could be something fun to watch.
First thing out of my mouth when I saw this pop up on the twittertube:
"This never would have happened two years ago"
Love to see us getting these kind of guys. Regardless of whether or not he plays, I love the message that it sends. Can't wait for next season.
... And ESPN finally sends out the text alert
If I had lived any amount of time in Lubbock and went to Blacksburg, I would probably immediately agree to move as well. Texas Tech is a pretty good school, and there are some things to like about Lubbock (read: girls), but my gosh, the scenery is bleak. Welcome to Hokie Nation, Micheal!
I thought TT (along with WVU) was considered the worst academic school in the BCS.
I heard they have some good majors and studies about Tumbleweed there
I keep track of these things through the USNews.
If we're going by what was the BCS (counting the AAC), the worst academic school is Memphis (no ranking), followed by Houston (190).
I'm sure it varies depending on the college/major, but the engineering school is pretty decent. And it may be completely unrelated to TTU, but I'm a big fan of Lubbock's oncology specialists.
I thought it was AzSt?
Can we field an entire team of QBs?!
We're more likely to do it with tight ends.
Can we compromise on all QB's and TE's?
We field an entire team of players recruited to be QBs, convert them all to TEs, then convert one back to a QB to play TE, and put a TE at QB.
Right?
Right