Dwan Mathis (QB Temple Owls)

[sg86]

yea, for someone to come in early, someone who is currently on scholarship has to not enroll for the spring semester.

 

[billmac91]

BP Friends - why the difficulty in enrolling him early?
Just curious, I don't really know the rules around this.

Ohio State told him there were hold-ups in his acaedemic requirements needed to enroll early.

If I were Dwan, I'd be skeptical too. That stuff gets hashed out well in advance to make sure this exact issue doesn't happen come signing day. I believe Dwan recognized the inevitable, which is OSU is making a hard push at Fields and wanted to keep their options open.

I believe OSU wanted to put Dwan on ice and see where the Fields recruitment goes. Dwan wanted to sign today. Hence he's a Bulldawg.

 

[billmac91]

Have to have the spots available. Can’t have more than 85 on scholarship at any one time.

Not for the early signing period. You can be over. When the kids sign though, you can do the math on the number of players who are either going to "medically retire" or transfer from the current roster.

Every year we tend be a few spots over in terms of scholarships coming in and what is on the roster. It's just a matter of who will be leaving the team and where their next stop is.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

Ohio State told him there were hold-ups in his acaedemic requirements needed to enroll early.

If I were Dwan, I'd be skeptical too. That stuff gets hashed out well in advance to make sure this exact issue doesn't happen come signing day. I believe Dwan recognized the inevitable, which is OSU is making ahard push at Fields and wanted to keep their options open.

I believe OSU wanted to put Dwan on ice and see where the Fields recruitment goes. Dwan wanted to sign today. Hence he's a Bulldawg.

Re: Academic requirements.... USUALLY that’s hashed out in advance... he might have been waiting on a test score or something else... we dont know... It could be like you described but what’s being talked about publically at least is they weren’t putting him on ice (see QB room depth)

 

[Jagdaddy]

Ohio State told him there were hold-ups in his acaedemic requirements needed to enroll early.

If I were Dwan, I'd be skeptical too. That stuff gets hashed out well in advance to make sure this exact issue doesn't happen come signing day. I believe Dwan recognized the inevitable, which is OSU is making ahard push at Fields and wanted to keep their options open.

I believe OSU wanted to put Dwan on ice and see where the Fields recruitment goes. Dwan wanted to sign today. Hence he's a Bulldawg.

Risky if true, but there are worse things than rolling for two or three years with Tate Martell, or, if he's good enough beat him out, Baldwin, if the gamble fails.

 

[mendensa]

yeah, I think they just have to be at 85 come start of fall camp. Early signing period doesn't matter. That's why you see teams over-sign all the time and cut the dead weight during spring and summer.

 

[mendensa]

This could end up being a huge recruiting blunder unless they feel confident they already have Fields wrapped up, or already do behind the scenes and that's why they slow-played Mathis.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

This could end up being a huge recruiting blunder unless they feel confident they already have Fields wrapped up, or already do behind the scenes and that's why they slow-played Mathis.

Not sure how this is OSU fault IF... IF its true and OSU couldn’t guarantee him an early enrollee spot and he didn’t want to wait?

I know big IFs...

 

[mendensa]

He had been verbally committed for a long time, AuTX Buckeye. That is something that gets ironed out long ago if there aren't other factors involved (like Fields getting inserted into the equation 24 hrs ago).

 

[BuckTwenty]

Yeeeee.

Good luck at Georgia, Dwan.

 

[Jaxbuck]

We're talking about recruiting, specifically QB recruiting.

I am going to go ahead and trust Urban Meyer (he's still involved) and Ryan Day until either one shows me a reason I shouldn't.

 

[osuvictory1]

I think QB is one area where OSU is not in great need. DL, OL and DB's are areas of need.

This kid would have fit better in Meyers offense than Day's offense.

I don't see this is a huge loss.

 

[BuckWrestler141]

Glad for Dwan, that he managed to land a great backup plan. Given their depth chart (with Fields transferring) you couldn't ask for a better situation to trip into. Best of luck.

Now lets sign Fields!

 

[BigWoof31]

FYI - this source is UGA's beat writer for the Athletic. Mr. Mathis has yet to turn in his paperwork. Not a done deal at all.

 

[mendensa]

Maybe he holds off and waits to see how this Fields thing pans out. It hasn't been finalized that Fields is even leaving UGA yet.