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'06 IL QB Isiah "Juice" Williams (Illinois signee)

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Reportedly, he can throw it 85 yards, with accuracy.
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I can throw the ball that far - just find me an elevator and an open window (deadly accurate too if there is no wind).


I would have figured that Hakes, Tebow, Schlitcher, or Hartline would have received an offer before Williams.
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I understood that Schlichter and Hartline would get any offer after camp, but I agree it is interesting to see anyone get an offer ahead of them (unless they are all world). It is interesting to see dual threat QBs getting offers along with pocket QBs. That is one characteristic teams tend to commit to rather than float between. If you are a pocket team bring in half a dozen and go with the best of the lot. Troy Smith may have had a bigger influence on the thinking of JT than I gave him credit for.

From what I know of Tebow I have to believe any offer is simply waiting on an indication he would accept it. You throw letters in front of everyone in the elite 11 and you quickly lose credibility with anyone else you might otherwise have had a shot at.
 
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I understood that Schlichter and Hartline would get any offer after camp...
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Hartline might get an offer, Schlichter probably not. Glenville's Arvell Nelson might also be in line for an offer, as might Adam Weber from Minnesota (had a great Nike camp, our film study team likes his game, and Adam has OSU in his top tier and will camp in Columbus).
 
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Ohio State has offered the following QB's: Isiah Williams (very possible), Demetrius Jones, also from Illinois (highly unlikely), and (apparently) Harry Betsey, from Florida (also unlikely); the Bucks have also shown serious interest in Tim Tebow, who is one of the top QB's in the nation, but they haven't offered him yet (of course, he would also be a long shot). The Bucks might offer another QB, if one really shines at camp; the most likely candidates are Weber, Nelson, and Hartline.
 
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Oh, I didn't know about Betsey.

Anyways, I really like what I've seen of this Williams kid. He's cut, fast, strong, and has a cannon attached to his shoulder. Also, from what I understand of Jones, Tebow, and Hartline, all of these kids are extremely athletic QB's who can run. I love that in a college QB.
 
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Not to get off subject, but if you look at some of the numbers in that meet on the link, (results), those are like freshman numbers in ohio.


EDIT- these are only frosh and sophmores, but still i have a friends whos a frosh who runs a 12 flat and runs a 4.7. The numbers dont compute.
 
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5/13/05

Williams has received offers from Wisconsin and North Carolina this past week. He says he is pretty open but admits that Iowa, Purdue, Ohio State and Northern Illinois are looking good to him right now. Isiah now has offers from North Carolina, Wisconsin, Oregon, Ohio State, Boston College, Akron, Ball State, Northern Illinois, Illinois, Purdue, Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Iowa, Kansas and Indiana.
 
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Isiah now has offers from North Carolina, Wisconsin, Oregon, Ohio State, Boston College, Akron, Ball State, Northern Illinois, Illinois, Purdue, Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Iowa, Kansas and Indiana.
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Offer lists like this provide more questions than answers.
 
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What I don't get is:

If you have offers from teams like Northern Illinois and Eastern Michigan, would you even take a second look after seeing Wisconsin, OSU, tOSU, Iowa, and even Kansas maybe?

I mean, if you're looking to play football in the NFL, why would you go to a super low-profile school when you know you have a huge chance to get to the NFL at a bigtime school like the ones mentioned above? I guess this goes for any recruit, but his mention of Northern Illinois as a favorite next to tOSU just confounded me.
 
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What I don't get is:

If you have offers from teams like Northern Illinois and Eastern Michigan, would you even take a second look after seeing Wisconsin, OSU, tOSU, Iowa, and even Kansas maybe?

I mean, if you're looking to play football in the NFL, why would you go to a super low-profile school when you know you have a huge chance to get to the NFL at a bigtime school like the ones mentioned above? I guess this goes for any recruit, but his mention of Northern Illinois as a favorite next to tOSU just confounded me.
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Well, one can argue that the MAC has produced better NFL QB's than the Big Ten lately. Less competition means they could have the chance to start for 2-3 years at a MAC school, play some games on ESPN, and make the jump to the NFL. Leftwich, Pennington, Roethlisberger, Frye, etc.
 
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