With recent QBs Wimsatt and Simon transferring out, I wondered if any RU QB excelled after transferring out. Tom Savage and Artur Sitkowski had a few good moments. Are there others?
Past QB transfers from RU
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Artur had 6 TDs/2 INTs in 2021. But 3 TDs were from the UTSA game that they lost.
I thought Cole Snyder did well up at Buffalo but maybe I am remembering wrong.
I looked at this quickly and thought another current RU qb transferred out! Whew.
He had a good year in 2022, but RU fans denigrated it because it was the MAC. He did not have a good year last year. He transferred to EMU.
Tom Flacco at Towson. He had played two years at Western Michigan (I think), and then transferred to RU as a walk-on. This was in 2017, back when transfers still had to sit a year. Jerry Kill, the OC at the time, reportedly felt he was the best QB on the roster. But the next year Kill left, Flacco asked for a ship, Ash said no, and Flacco said adios.
At least that is how I recall it.
At least that is how I recall it.
He had a decent year in 2022 and the MAC was the appropriate level for him.
FWIW, Chad Schwenk played well for Lehigh.
Then there was Philip Nelson, who did well at ECU. He did not transfer out though. He was booted out, thanks to one minute of drunken madness that nearly ruined two lives.
Yeah right. LMAO
Chad Schwenk was a heck of a lot better QB than Cubit. Cubit’s Dad and Schiano made a real bonehead move.
Cubit had a good career at western Michigan.
Chad should have started the 2001 season .
What are you disagreeing with exactly ??
He was cleared of any wrong doing, it was the guy who got his *** kicked and sent to the hospital that attacked and punched him 1st. He would have helped tremendously compared to what we had.
No, because better qb prospects understandably gravitate towards more successful and better capitalized football programs, like Texas, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan.
NJ hasn't produced great QB prospects as well, and the few that NJ did produce mostly headed elsewhere. It also has hurt Rutgers that we haven't had a strong group of WRs since 2014. That thankfully has changed, beginning this year. We will also have better chances of landing a top notch quarterback once the new Fieldhouse is built. But we will also need people to step up NIL. So our QB history has been much less than illustrious but hopefully that will change going forward.
No, Nelson wasn't cleared at all. The original attacker had been subdued and lying unconscious, and Nelson kicked him in the head. The incident resulted in very serious injuries. However, the case against Nelson was downgraded to a misdemeanor, as the prosecution could not prove that it was Nelson's kick that caused those injuries.
EDIT: The argument that the other guy (Isaac Kolstad) started it, is highly debatable. What happened was Nelson thought some guy was making a pass at his girlfriend. He mistakenly thought it was Kolstad, and confronted him. They had words. Nelson initiated the physical contact by pushing Kolstad. Kolstad then slugged him, and it looked like that would be that. But Nelson's buddy then sucker punched Kolstad, knocking him to the ground, and Nelson then literally kicked him while he was down.
Flood acted correctly in booting him immediately.
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Tom Savage played well at Pitt.
2013: In his lone season of eligibility at Pitt, threw for 2,958 yards and 21 touchdowns on 61% passing (238 of 389)...threw only nine interceptions on the year...also rushed for three TDs.
Did you look at what was on our roster at that time? If you did, you wouldn't have made that statement.
Lehigh 2002 Season
PASSING GP Effic Att-Cmp-Int Pct Yds TD Lng Avg/G--------------------------------------------------------------------
Schwenk, Chad 10 116.28 247-135-10 54.7 1618 11 73 161.8
2003 season ( fractured hand 5th game, end of college career
PASSING GP Effic Att-Cmp-Int Pct Yds TD Lng Avg/G
Schwenk, Chad 5 117.40 178-98-7 55.1 1095 10 46 219.0
In hindsight, Lav took a lot of unwarranted heat from fans. Few QBs could’ve done better with what surrounded him in his last season at RU. OL was really bad.
To be honest we were pretty much playing at the same level at the time.
I always thought the first mistake GS made was starting Cubit, but did he really have a choice? I always give Cubit huge props for the Tennessee game. We were there and he played great until the SEC officials woke up.
Art Sitkowski had a few good moments.
Tom Savage had a successful final year at Pitt, leading them to a 7-6 record with a bowl victory. He was 238/389 (61.2%), 21 TD'S and 9 INT's. He also rushed for 3 TD's. That led him to being a 4th round pick and a couple of paycheck seasons in the NFL from 2014-2019.
Nowadays yes, Rutgers is a totally different level of football than Lehigh.
At the turn of the century, late 1990’s to at least 2001, Lehigh football was comparable or better than Rutgers.
Lehigh’s coach was Kevin Higgins, and he had multiple talented players including QB Phil Stambaugh and RB Rabih Abdullah.
Schwenk was much better than Cubit. He got screwed by Greg/Cubit Sr.
Boom!!! Cole Snyder is the starting QB at EMU!!! Head Coach has glowing things to say about him.
"He is very mature, very serious about football. . . .real smart football player. He's someone who can keep a defense honest. . . .His arm. . . .is his strength."
Fun fact. EMU's second game is against Washington. Go Cole!!!!!!
"He is very mature, very serious about football. . . .real smart football player. He's someone who can keep a defense honest. . . .His arm. . . .is his strength."
Fun fact. EMU's second game is against Washington. Go Cole!!!!!!
Good for Cole, hope he plays for EMU in 2024 like he did as the Buffalo starter in 2022.
Snyder didn't do as well as the Bulls starter in 2023, but had decent statistics.
Might have been better if Snyder remained the #1, but late in the 2023 season Cole was sharing the QB spot with CJ Ogbonna .
I think he started Cubit because his father was the offensive coordinator. It looked to me, by the ridiculous, long-developing plays he called, that he was trying to get his son killed.
Fans called for blood that a guy with Flacco’s pedigree was allowed to go elsewhere. After Towson (where he struggled whenever they played FBS competition) he tore it up in the NFL and became a Pro-Bowler.
And yes, I put it on the internet so it must be true.
Joe went from Pitt to Delaware , proving he had what it takes there ,then went on to the NFL having a good career with some ups and downs along the way.
Tom did great as a FCS QB and had a short stay in the CFL
you're right
a quick google turned up this:
No jail time for Nelson in assault on ex-football player | MPR News
No, I was referencing Tom, not Joe. Tom played well against FCS competition at Towson. He was on a NFL practice squad but did not make the cut. He was on 1 or 2 CFL teams but did not play. Could he have been serviceable at RU? Maybe, but he didn’t have the talent to make us into a winner.
This was what I found: "...following assault charges leading to a guilty plea for a fifth degree misdemeanor." One moment of stupidity nearly ruined 2 lives.
Would have loved to have had him to sub in for Nova against State Penn: we might have won that game with one or two less interceptions.