I have seen a lot said about this young man over the past few weeks and I wanted to offer up a bit of help understanding how difficult all of this is. Last Thursday and Friday I took my son, a rising sophomore, down to Coach Cutcliffe's QB College at Duke. We did a few camps last summer, have some scheduled for this summer, but obviously the opportunity to work with the guy who was instrumental in Peyton and Eli's development was too hard to pass up.
My son would tell you his dream is to play at PSU, playing in state at UVA would be a back up, but after spending two days at Duke, there is a lot to like about the place. So on the car ride home we are talking and you can genuinely see how a kid would get wrapped up into committing quickly. He had won the accuracy challenge at the end of the camp, winning an authentic Duke helmet, picture with Cutcliffe and so I asked him if he had been offered on the spot what would he have said. Now my kid isn't the talkative type anyway but he just smirked and said I don't know.
My point is we are red hot and when Franklin puts the full court press on you, and we are red hot and you have no bigger offer, it is hard to say no. Once you factor in depth chart, qb coaching, distance from home, and other teams starting to call you it gets substantially more difficult. And once you are as well noticed as he is it becomes a circus, with calls coming from all over the place in coaching staffs, sites, etc.
Here's hoping he makes the best decision for he and his family and if it is PSU then awesome and if not, wish him well.
My son would tell you his dream is to play at PSU, playing in state at UVA would be a back up, but after spending two days at Duke, there is a lot to like about the place. So on the car ride home we are talking and you can genuinely see how a kid would get wrapped up into committing quickly. He had won the accuracy challenge at the end of the camp, winning an authentic Duke helmet, picture with Cutcliffe and so I asked him if he had been offered on the spot what would he have said. Now my kid isn't the talkative type anyway but he just smirked and said I don't know.
My point is we are red hot and when Franklin puts the full court press on you, and we are red hot and you have no bigger offer, it is hard to say no. Once you factor in depth chart, qb coaching, distance from home, and other teams starting to call you it gets substantially more difficult. And once you are as well noticed as he is it becomes a circus, with calls coming from all over the place in coaching staffs, sites, etc.
Here's hoping he makes the best decision for he and his family and if it is PSU then awesome and if not, wish him well.