Will Secord and Raymond Cotton

[Hogtropolis™]

With Cotton setting up a visit and our coaches going after him hard is there a chance that Secord decommits.

I'm not saying that our coaches will pull his scholarship, but could they possibly be telling him that if he comes here there will be a slim chance that he ever gets to play?

Look at his stats compared to Cotton's

Cotton - PA    PC   Pct    Yds   TD  Int
            300  154  50.3  2,243  24   12

Secord - PA   PC    Pct   Yds   TD   Int
            327 167  51.1  2,382  20   15

The only reason I saw this is because I really don't see us giving scholarships to two QB's during this class.

[Erockster20]

We better get one though.  I would hate to lose Secord because we are looking around, then not get Cotton.

[Wes Craven]

We could do without either. Neither one is a can't miss guy. We have 3 very capable quarterbacks on campus next year in Junior Nathan Dick, Redshirt Sophomore Ryan Mallet and more than likely Redshirt Freshman Tyler Wilson due to his illness.

The Class of 2011 in the state of Arkansas will probably produce a minimum of 3 Division I quarterbacks in Kiehl Frazier (Shiloh Christian), Brandon Allen (Fayetteville) and Darion Griswold (Dumas). Frazier and Allen have both proven to be very capable this year and Griswold is a great looking athlete at 6'5" 220 lbs. though his future may lie on the hardwood.

[Hogtropolis™]

We could do without either. Neither one is a can't miss guy. We have 3 very capable quarterbacks on campus next year in Junior Nathan Dick, Redshirt Sophomore Ryan Mallet and more than likely Redshirt Freshman Tyler Wilson due to his illness.

Dick is going to be a redshirt soph next year not a junior.

[SpineHog]

i agree with your original point, though.  we could really do without a QB year.  i'd rather have another D lineman than QB.

[jmingram911]

i agree with your original point, though.  we could really do without a QB year.  i'd rather have another D lineman than QB.

I agree, we need linemen(Off. and DEF.) more than we need QBs.

[wholehog92]

one currently on campus may be talking about transfer?

[Tusks]

Is it for sure that Cotton is going to visit.

I know the coaches have been in his house but is it 100% he will take a visit to Fay?  I thought that was still up in the air.

[cardinalandwhite]

I agree, we need linemen(Off. and DEF.) more than we need QBs.

The whole idea is to get a QB now so that when Wilson and Mallet are gone, we have another older QB ready to come in and play.

[Hawgvillain]

Is it for sure that Cotton is going to visit.

I know the coaches have been in his house but is it 100% he will take a visit to Fay?  I thought that was still up in the air.

His father said he was visiting the UofA.  Unless you have reason to believe otherwise I'd say it's pretty certain he's visiting.

[PorkerOinker]

Cotton would be the perfect reciever size from Petrino's days at Louisville.

[songofthesword]

you get a QB now so you don't break the flow in 2011, not worrying about 2009.

QB is the single most important position you can recruit. i'd rather take 2 QB's if we have to. you ca never have too many good ones.

[heaveit]

This is on the ESPN web site today!


Cotton back with Tigers
Quarterback Raymond Cotton re-committed to Auburn shortly after de-committing from the Tigers. Apparently, Cotton and his father were reassured that Auburn would attract a quality head coach and staff.

[songofthesword]

that has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard in recruting.

who is going ot tell a recruit "man.. we are looking for a reall peice of 2@@@ coach, a real headscratcher!"

oh well, it is what it is

[Tomhog™]

I don't know how it will finish, but I am fairly certain we only sign one QB.

[The_Bionic_Pig]

This is on the ESPN web site today!


Cotton back with Tigers
Quarterback Raymond Cotton re-committed to Auburn shortly after de-committing from the Tigers. Apparently, Cotton and his father were reassured that Auburn would attract a quality head coach and staff.

I sure hope that its just ESPN rumor because the Auburn fans are not even aware of it.

[want2be]

Secord has only been playing football for 2 yrs and he is a lefty....Petrino must see alot of potential in him..........but out of the two, Cotton would have to be first choice.

[Wes Craven]

you get a QB now so you don't break the flow in 2011, not worrying about 2009.

QB is the single most important position you can recruit. i'd rather take 2 QB's if we have to. you ca never have too many good ones.

If we bring in a QB in next year's recruiting class he would be either a junior or a redshirt sophomore when Wilson graduated. We don't need to take a QB just to tkae one. That is a loser mentality. I was at senior camp and Secord was very unimpressive. He threw numerous balls directly into the ground during pass skeleton. He may prove me wrong and I hope he does but he is not a top flight QB.

[songofthesword]

but that is assuming he pans out. what if he doesn't?

QB is the one position where you utterlry cannot afford to have a bust at the position. that same thinking is how we ended up with freaking robert johnson as QB.. becuase "man we he is a a redshirt sophmore, we are set".. NOT.

[12247]

I wonder why we took Secord early on.  We shouldn't need a QB for the next 3 years but you never know.  Remember that about 4 years ago, OK had 4 top QBs in their stable.  The Ga transfer never really panned out, another transferred out and one became a WR.  Soon after that, Bomar got caught cheating and was dismissed and OU immediately had a QB problem.  The WR came back to QB and did OK and OU hustled up another QB prospect from Michigan and found Bradford.  Bradford won the starting job as a freshman redshirt I think and the Michigan QB transferred back home.  Point is, not many top notch QBs set for years on end not playing.  I still believe Nathan will transfer before next season and wouldn't be surprised if Wilson follows him a year later.  We may need help much sooner than we think.