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Scout $ - Trubisky talks Alabama offer
3/12
By Bone....Offered by Alabama, which puts them in his top schools with Ohio State & Cincinnati. Will visit both Alabama & Ohio State in April.
3/12
By Bone....Offered by Alabama, which puts them in his top schools with Ohio State & Cincinnati. Will visit both Alabama & Ohio State in April.
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MD Buckeye;2124198; said:
What a huge offer from bama for Mitch! Says a lot if saban wants to leave the south and come up to Ohio to look for his qb of the future.
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I have seen Mitch play football since he was in the Mentor Youth League. In the youth league, he was primarily a running back, so he has had above average running skills since 3rd grade. It is also why he is pretty comfortable toting the rock when asked to.
I have watched Mitch progress over the years and I can say that I have seen Mitch play more than anyone else here as I go to all the Mentor games.
With that out of the way, here goes a long post on several fronts.
First, is the Mentor offense. I probably will ramble some here because so many people misuse the word "spread" or think it is all about "the system". The Mentor offense is predicated on principles of the spread attack. Every snap is shot gun. This past season, the base offense was 5WR and 0RB. An abundance of talent at the WR position caused that. But the offense 2 years ago was a 3WR and 2RB offense. The team had 2 good RB so the coach will go with the strength and the skills available. Still, it was all shot gun all the time. With the current head coach, I have seen 5WR 0RB, 4WR 1RB, 3WR 2RB. I expect this season the base offense will be 4WR and 1RB. But no matter the alignment, the QB position requires pocket passing as well as the ability to roll right or left and deliver the ball. There will be a new offensive coordinator this year and a new offensive line coach, but the offensive principles will remain the same. I believe that there will be 3 new offensive linemen this year as well, center being one of those spots.
Around October of this past season, I let some folks know about Mitch. The growth, development, improvement on mechanics, and improvement in arm strength were very noticeable from his sophomore year. At that time I compared him to Bart Tanski, the Mentor QB who was Mr. Ohio in football about 6 years ago. But my comparison was that he was a bigger, faster, stronger-armed version of Bart Tanski.
Many plays in the Mentor offense has motion. Sometimes, the motion comes across the formation and Mitch gives the ball as a jet sweep type play. Designed running plays for the Mentor QB off of this play, is the fake jet sweep power play with a pulling guard for Mitch. If there is a pass play called where the QB is to stay in the pocket, rarely does Mitch take off on his own. Even on the times when there is pressure and he escapes, his default tendency when scrambling is to look downfield. It is a rare trait for one that young to have IMO. In fact, I saw several times this past season where he scrambled and kept looking downfield and almost begrudgingly decided to take off running...for about 40 yards.
I know Mitch has been coached up for a couple years now by someone with a very good pedigree for coaching QB's. I saw the impact from Mitch's sophomore to junior year. Shortly after the basketball season ends (Mitch is a decent basketball player on the Mentor squad that has advanced to the regionals again), I am sure he will be back at working on improving even more. I can assure everyone, that no one will work harder at improving than Mitch will. He is the type of kid that it is very easy to cheer for...works hard, takes nothing for granted, and will do his best to attain a dream.
I couldn't have been happier for Mitch when he was shown the serious interest from OSU. I kinda like it when one works so hard to have a chance at a dream then sees some reward for the hard work.
For the record, there were two games that really impressed me last year. First was the first game against Solon. Solon had a very stingy defense and Mitch absolutely ripped them apart, actually shredded them with a surgical precision that was amazing. The second was the regional finals loss to St. Iggy. Iggy constantly brought 6 men at Mitch, one more than the oline could block, and Mitch really took a beating in that game. Despite the beating, down 23-10 middle of the 4th quarter, Mitch led a quick 4-play 77 yard TD drive to make it a 23-17 game with about 6 minutes left in the game. Iggy was able to run out the clock to win the game. His toughness, competitiveness, and refuse to lose was strongly on display.
I will stop in periodically to give updates, but that's about it for now. I can't wait for the summer camps. Maybe I'll give a report from Mentor's first summer camp in June.
I have watched Mitch progress over the years and I can say that I have seen Mitch play more than anyone else here as I go to all the Mentor games.
With that out of the way, here goes a long post on several fronts.
First, is the Mentor offense. I probably will ramble some here because so many people misuse the word "spread" or think it is all about "the system". The Mentor offense is predicated on principles of the spread attack. Every snap is shot gun. This past season, the base offense was 5WR and 0RB. An abundance of talent at the WR position caused that. But the offense 2 years ago was a 3WR and 2RB offense. The team had 2 good RB so the coach will go with the strength and the skills available. Still, it was all shot gun all the time. With the current head coach, I have seen 5WR 0RB, 4WR 1RB, 3WR 2RB. I expect this season the base offense will be 4WR and 1RB. But no matter the alignment, the QB position requires pocket passing as well as the ability to roll right or left and deliver the ball. There will be a new offensive coordinator this year and a new offensive line coach, but the offensive principles will remain the same. I believe that there will be 3 new offensive linemen this year as well, center being one of those spots.
Around October of this past season, I let some folks know about Mitch. The growth, development, improvement on mechanics, and improvement in arm strength were very noticeable from his sophomore year. At that time I compared him to Bart Tanski, the Mentor QB who was Mr. Ohio in football about 6 years ago. But my comparison was that he was a bigger, faster, stronger-armed version of Bart Tanski.
Many plays in the Mentor offense has motion. Sometimes, the motion comes across the formation and Mitch gives the ball as a jet sweep type play. Designed running plays for the Mentor QB off of this play, is the fake jet sweep power play with a pulling guard for Mitch. If there is a pass play called where the QB is to stay in the pocket, rarely does Mitch take off on his own. Even on the times when there is pressure and he escapes, his default tendency when scrambling is to look downfield. It is a rare trait for one that young to have IMO. In fact, I saw several times this past season where he scrambled and kept looking downfield and almost begrudgingly decided to take off running...for about 40 yards.
I know Mitch has been coached up for a couple years now by someone with a very good pedigree for coaching QB's. I saw the impact from Mitch's sophomore to junior year. Shortly after the basketball season ends (Mitch is a decent basketball player on the Mentor squad that has advanced to the regionals again), I am sure he will be back at working on improving even more. I can assure everyone, that no one will work harder at improving than Mitch will. He is the type of kid that it is very easy to cheer for...works hard, takes nothing for granted, and will do his best to attain a dream.
I couldn't have been happier for Mitch when he was shown the serious interest from OSU. I kinda like it when one works so hard to have a chance at a dream then sees some reward for the hard work.
For the record, there were two games that really impressed me last year. First was the first game against Solon. Solon had a very stingy defense and Mitch absolutely ripped them apart, actually shredded them with a surgical precision that was amazing. The second was the regional finals loss to St. Iggy. Iggy constantly brought 6 men at Mitch, one more than the oline could block, and Mitch really took a beating in that game. Despite the beating, down 23-10 middle of the 4th quarter, Mitch led a quick 4-play 77 yard TD drive to make it a 23-17 game with about 6 minutes left in the game. Iggy was able to run out the clock to win the game. His toughness, competitiveness, and refuse to lose was strongly on display.
I will stop in periodically to give updates, but that's about it for now. I can't wait for the summer camps. Maybe I'll give a report from Mentor's first summer camp in June.
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24/7 $ - QB visitor has UA in top three
4/16
From the Alabama site...recaps his visit to UA for their spring game...top three in no order are Alabama, Ohio State, and Michigan State...also likes Tennessee.
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From the Alabama site...recaps his visit to UA for their spring game...top three in no order are Alabama, Ohio State, and Michigan State...also likes Tennessee.
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I am sad to see this great QB not visiting for spring game
I believe this guy should still be very high priority. He is very accurate, very fast release, solid movement in pocket, athletic, can make people miss, can do plenty of damage running, put 20 pounds on him and you have a first round pick. I will be rooting for him to be a buckeye until signing day.
I believe this guy should still be very high priority. He is very accurate, very fast release, solid movement in pocket, athletic, can make people miss, can do plenty of damage running, put 20 pounds on him and you have a first round pick. I will be rooting for him to be a buckeye until signing day.
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Wham;2144754; said:
Based off of what can he be a first round draft pick? Let's not go that far. He's a project that the staff would need some work with for a year or two. But I would like him for depth.
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