You have to. Even if it's a project like ... Malik Rosier who just so happens to be our starting QB.
No one has given that dude more **** than me, but he just won 10 games and might win even more this year. You never know what kind of flower can blossom, but you can't just abandon the position.
Talking about taking two in 2020 after you just struck out in humiliating fashion on your ONE target this cycle. I'm not buying it.
Miami is the kind of team that has evaluated quarterbacks like Quinton Flowers, Mike White, Denard Robinson, Jake Rudock, and Lamar Jackson and passed or offered them at another position without the chance of trying out at QB.
Given, that wasn't the Richt regime, but the Richt regime, while in Georgia, in the latter years, didn't exactly land Deshaun Watson (got him very late) or Cam Newton (the tale goes he recruited him as a TE). The failure to evaluate in-state QBs for both team and coach, isn't so hot right now. Unrelated, but a guy like Mack Brown took a nose-dive at a powerhouse like Texas because he simply failed to recruit guys like Robert Griffin III and Johnny Manziel in-state.
I think it just needs to be said, that you really need to evaluate QBs...and if you're Miami and you're digging for QBs in Oregon and Connecticut and that's all you got for this cycle...I'm sorry, but you need to look harder. Somebody is out there for this cycle.
I remember, back in the late Golden era...and D$ might want to chime in if he remembers it, but there was a camp over the summer with some senior and underclass QBs that participated...I'm pretty sure the names that were there included Mike White, John Wolford, John O'Korn, a kid from American Heritage whose name escapes me, Sean White, Peyton Bender...I'm just talking, tons of dudes that started a lot of college football games...all were in-state kids...and we didn't even accept phone calls from a single one of them. Meanwhile, we had like Vinny Testaverde's kid on the depth chart and a freshman Malik Rosier in the two deep. Was pretty ridiculous in hindsight.
Teddy Bridgewater, Blake Bortles, Jacoby Brissett, Trevor Seimien, Paxton Lynch, Brandon Doughty, Tyler Huntley, Chase Litton, Stephen Morris, Jacoby Brissett, Ryan Williams, Rakeem Cato, Nate Peterman, Thomas Sirk, Buckshot Calvert...
I'm done...I've listed off over 20 quarterbacks from the state of Florida that have started games in college football...I'm not even counting a lot of the studs that were UF and FSU guys off rip that would expand that number...just a lot of guys Miami missed out on or didn't recruit hard or well or whatever or passed on or whatever in the past like 7 or 8 years...
Don't miss the forest for the trees...the point is...QUARTERBACKS ARE OUT THERE...AND THEY ARE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA...probably SOUTH FLORIDA...go find them. I would wager 90% of those guys would have taken a Miami offer and ran with it, if we evaluated, offered, and gave them a chance at the QB position. Maybe they aren't four and five star studs...but man, those guys ended up playing a lot of FBS college football, many of that at the P5 level, numerous have and still play pro football. Its an abnormal number...
And the sad part is, over the time period those QBs I rattled off...we had years where we didn't take a QB or years where we took QBs we took three-star OOS guys like Preston Dewey or Evan ******* Sherriffs, man.