Quinn Ewers "anonymous" Big 12 coaches responses

[BigMac]

After hearing about these anonymous responses, I'm inclined to wonder just who might have said this and what their motivations might be.  Here are my guesses:

1.  Oklahoma - they stand the most to gain by spreading the seed of doubt amidst our recent success.

2.  TCU - they are one of the few teams who made it interesting down the stretch.  Plus, any dent they could make in recruiting might help them.

3.  Kansas St. - they also made things interesting down to the wire.  Regardless of what they may or may not have said, any impact on recruiting is not gonna happen.

Everybody else got their tails kicked by us by a large margin.  Makes sense to me but what say you?

 

 

 

[ArizonaLonghorn]

48 minutes ago, BigMac said:

After hearing about these anonymous responses, I'm inclined to wonder just who might have said this and what their motivations might be.  Here are my guesses:

1.  Oklahoma - they stand the most to gain by spreading the seed of doubt amidst our recent success.

2.  TCU - they are one of the few teams who made it interesting down the stretch.  Plus, any dent they could make in recruiting might help them.

3.  Kansas St. - they also made things interesting down to the wire.  Regardless of what they may or may not have said, any impact on recruiting is not gonna happen.

Everybody else got their tails kicked by us by a large margin.  Makes sense to me but what say you?

I was thinking it sounds like Tech since we left them with a Texas-sized butt whipping.  Their coaches like to talk big and have delusions of grandeur adequacy

[NothinButDaHorns34]

All i know is if quinn is average then what does that say about the other QB rooms in the big 12? Since that “average” QB took home a big 12 title, big 12 title MVP AND has THE most passing yards in a big 12 championship game. 

[GDI]

8 hours ago, BigMac said:

After hearing about these anonymous responses, I'm inclined to wonder just who might have said this and what their motivations might be.  Here are my guesses:

1.  Oklahoma - they stand the most to gain by spreading the seed of doubt amidst our recent success.

2.  TCU - they are one of the few teams who made it interesting down the stretch.  Plus, any dent they could make in recruiting might help them.

3.  Kansas St. - they also made things interesting down to the wire.  Regardless of what they may or may not have said, any impact on recruiting is not gonna happen.

Everybody else got their tails kicked by us by a large margin.  Makes sense to me but what say you?

 

 

 

Are these anonymous responses on this website or do you have a link to them?

[BigMac]

47 minutes ago, GDI said:

Are these anonymous responses on this website or do you have a link to them?

I went back and tried to find it but couldn't find it.  Blake Munroe posted it a few days ago.  They also talked about on a couple of the Live Streams.

[Shane]

4 hours ago, NothinButDaHorns34 said:

All i know is if quinn is average then what does that say about the other QB rooms in the big 12? Since that “average” QB took home a big 12 title, big 12 title MVP AND has THE most passing yards in a big 12 championship game. 

This !! I think it’s the perfect rating out of high school that got people to think he should be super man. 

[ArizonaLonghorn]

Are these anonymous responses on this website or do you have a link to them?

If you have a sub to The Athletic (NY Times) the link is https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5493847/2024/05/16/college-football-coaches-qb-draft-class-deion-sanders/

There's a summary on Sports Illustrated at https://www.si.com/college/texas/news/overhyped-anonymous-coaches-have-mixed-opinions-on-texas-qb-quinn-ewers-01hy1bqgyk1y

Here is the relevant section from The Athletic - the article is talking about which QBs will go high in the 2025 draft, so Beck and Sanders are also mentioned (if Bobby & Gerry don't want us to quote directly from behind paywalls let me know and I'll delete it - even though YOUR paywall posts are usually rebroadcast within minutes :))

Quinn Ewers, Texas

Four years ago, he was the highest-rated quarterback prospect the online recruiting services had ever evaluated. His college career started at Ohio State, but he wasn’t a factor on a team that featured C.J. Stroud, among others. Ewers returned home to Texas in 2022, where he had an impressive moment early, lighting up the Alabama defense for a quarter before leaving the game with a shoulder injury.

Ewers was plagued by inconsistency for the remainder of that year but matured last offseason, got into much better shape and made nice strides in 2023 — improving from 58 percent as a passer to 69 percent during Texas’ College Football Playoff run. He did have a very talented group of receivers to throw to last season with speedsters Xavier Worthy and AD Mitchell and gifted tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders. The Longhorns brought in more burners through the portal to go with a promising bunch of young receivers.

Still, some of the coaches who have faced him aren’t as enthusiastic as some of the recruiting analysts were.

“I’m not that high on him,” said a DB coach who played Texas last year. “Overhyped. He has a good arm, and he did have a lot of talent around him, but you just see a bunch of stuff where you wonder what he’s doing out there.”

“I think he’s just still trying to figure things out,” said a veteran Big 12 assistant. “Sark (Steve Sarkisian) does such a good job of setting things up for him, and so you’ll see times where he’ll rip it, but then there are other times, he just seems to be a little timid.”

“I’m very curious to watch him this year,” said a Big 12 defensive assistant. “The last two years he had superstars around him. There’s some ‘Oh My God!’ throws on film that he made against Alabama, but he was just so inconsistent. I think he’s about average athletically.”

“I do think he’s come a long way from 2022,” said a Big 12 DC. “There was too much of the (Patrick) Mahomes comparisons around him coming into college. He does have a good arm, but he’s not anywhere near as athletic nor the playmaker Mahomes is, or has that kind of presence. It’s kind of a strange deal because people want to talk about that, about what he was supposed to be, or they want to talk about Arch Manning behind him. But that isn’t the kid’s fault.”

 

[40acres]

40 minutes ago, Shane said:

This !! I think it’s the perfect rating out of high school that got people to think he should be super man. 

These kids get so overhyped it's rare they meet expectations.  

[40acres]

39 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

Are these anonymous responses on this website or do you have a link to them?

If you have a sub to The Athletic (NY Times) the link is https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5493847/2024/05/16/college-football-coaches-qb-draft-class-deion-sanders/

There's a summary on Sports Illustrated at https://www.si.com/college/texas/news/overhyped-anonymous-coaches-have-mixed-opinions-on-texas-qb-quinn-ewers-01hy1bqgyk1y

Here is the relevant section from The Athletic - the article is talking about which QBs will go high in the 2025 draft, so Beck and Sanders are also mentioned (if Bobby & Gerry don't want us to quote directly from behind paywalls let me know and I'll delete it - even though YOUR paywall posts are usually rebroadcast within minutes :))

Quinn Ewers, Texas

Four years ago, he was the highest-rated quarterback prospect the online recruiting services had ever evaluated. His college career started at Ohio State, but he wasn’t a factor on a team that featured C.J. Stroud, among others. Ewers returned home to Texas in 2022, where he had an impressive moment early, lighting up the Alabama defense for a quarter before leaving the game with a shoulder injury.

Ewers was plagued by inconsistency for the remainder of that year but matured last offseason, got into much better shape and made nice strides in 2023 — improving from 58 percent as a passer to 69 percent during Texas’ College Football Playoff run. He did have a very talented group of receivers to throw to last season with speedsters Xavier Worthy and AD Mitchell and gifted tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders. The Longhorns brought in more burners through the portal to go with a promising bunch of young receivers.

Still, some of the coaches who have faced him aren’t as enthusiastic as some of the recruiting analysts were.

“I’m not that high on him,” said a DB coach who played Texas last year. “Overhyped. He has a good arm, and he did have a lot of talent around him, but you just see a bunch of stuff where you wonder what he’s doing out there.”

“I think he’s just still trying to figure things out,” said a veteran Big 12 assistant. “Sark (Steve Sarkisian) does such a good job of setting things up for him, and so you’ll see times where he’ll rip it, but then there are other times, he just seems to be a little timid.”

“I’m very curious to watch him this year,” said a Big 12 defensive assistant. “The last two years he had superstars around him. There’s some ‘Oh My God!’ throws on film that he made against Alabama, but he was just so inconsistent. I think he’s about average athletically.”

“I do think he’s come a long way from 2022,” said a Big 12 DC. “There was too much of the (Patrick) Mahomes comparisons around him coming into college. He does have a good arm, but he’s not anywhere near as athletic nor the playmaker Mahomes is, or has that kind of presence. It’s kind of a strange deal because people want to talk about that, about what he was supposed to be, or they want to talk about Arch Manning behind him. But that isn’t the kid’s fault.”

 

Comments are fair IMO.

[UTJB27]

I agree I thought the comments were actually very fair and true. The recruiting ranking and media hype was not Quinn Ewers fault but the truth is he has not played to the level of other elite college QBs over the past couple years. Regardless, I think he will get there this year, have a great year, and be drafted top 5 overall!

[Bobbers]

Ewers has not been an elite QB yet and his lack of mobility creates sacks.

If he gels with his receivers next year and all the players buy into to Sark's system, Ewers could have a Heisman contending year.  His ceiling as a pocket passer is that high.