Highschools create QBS, Colleges recruit them

[Deleted member 308]

So as a high school coach, Sanchez got to mold athletes into quarterbacks. It is effectively what every highschool coach does. Maybe you get some kids who played QB in Pop Warner, but some kids grow and some don't. A high school coach has to look at his stable of athletes and pick a couple to mold into quarterbacks. Hopefully one is ready to lead when they become a JR and leave JV team behind.

Is that why all of our QBs struggle here? Does Sanchez think it is his job to mold non-QBs into QBs, or turn a pocket-passer into a rusher or vice-versa. Should he instead be recruiting QBs who are complete, or at least fit into the offense he wants to run.

Is he mistaking what every high school coach has to do, as some sort of devine gift of being a QB whisperer? Does he not realize that his contemporaries are not trying to mold QBs, but developing on top of a foundation?

 

[Mojo702]

I watched the IMG Academy vs Mater Dei high school game a couple weeks ago. These are 2 of the top hs programs in the country. IMG is a factory with the best talent from all over the land attending. I couldn't believe the throws these QBs made. Often i found myself doubting whether Armani could make these throws.

 

[willlevi]

Most top high school passer at private schools work heavily with quarterback gurus like Steve Clarkson in the off-season and attend a lot of the top camps. They aren't raw talents like the old days when you just grab somebody. Solomon and Martell were both heavily desired youth players with Martell actually committing to Washington before entering high school.
At Gorman, Randall Cunningham Jr was the only raw player to come through their system during the Sanchez Era and performed very similar to Rogers as a starter.
http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/bishop-gorman-gaels-(las-vegas,nv)/football-fall-13/stats.htm

Gorman's became such a draw that you rarely had to develop players, they only had to refine them to the system. A lot of those kids were well funded by their parents at the youth levels and the elite kids entering high school. You don't get that type of player at UNLV, you have to build them from the bottom up.
I think they can do it if they finally recognize there is a problem in the passing game.

 

[Mojo702]

That brings me back to O'dell. Seems not helped ANY of the qbs we've had the last 4 years