QB R.J. Day commits to Northwestern
Northwestern lands a quarterback commit after he took an official visit with the Wildcats. More on the newest addition to the class here.
BREAKING: QB RJ DAY COMMITS TO NU
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Yikes. Ryan Day didn’t even his offer own son and the highlights that are out there… aren’t good.QB R.J. Day commits to Northwestern
Northwestern lands a quarterback commit after he took an official visit with the Wildcats. More on the newest addition to the class here.www.on3.com
Decent mobility, absolutely no arm. His best other offers are Purdue, Cincinnati, and Boston College.
Looks like we’ll continue to rely on the TRANSfer portal for years to come
⚧️Yikes. Ryan Day didn’t even his offer own son and the highlights that are out there… aren’t good.
Decent mobility, absolutely no arm. His best other offers are Purdue, Cincinnati, and Boston College.
Looks like we’ll continue to rely on the TRANSfer portal for years to come
And only listed at 6 ft likely meaning shorter,
Yikes. Ryan Day didn’t even his offer own son and the highlights that are out there… aren’t good.
Decent mobility, absolutely no arm. His best other offers are Purdue, Cincinnati, and Boston College.
Looks like we’ll continue to rely on the TRANSfer portal for years to come
He is a substantially more in-demand QB prospect than our last several: he actually has competing P4 offers, including a P2 offer.
He’s listed as 5’11 on the other site. And he looks smaller.
Unfortunately his highlights look nothing like Persa’s.
Not only should @EvanstonCat chime in about us offering OSU’s head coach’s son…
Purdue is not what is once was, and he does not look like a legitimate P4 QB based on the YouTube highlights.
His “world’s tallest midget” analogy seems apt.
Our HS recruiting has been lackluster under Braun.
Stauss. There has been no comparable Cats connection since those magical Stauss to 'spoon bombs.
Disappointing to see you engage in such a ridiculous debate. Disparaging an NU recruit on the day of his commitment is about as low as one can go.
Your take based on tape is your take, and that’s fine. I definitely don’t disagree our recruiting isn’t wheee it needs to be. However our last several QB recruits had ZERO power conference offers, not even the ACC much less Purdue, so Day is in no way a step back or out of line.
for me, these sort of not too expensive three stars is where I think we should live, and while I’d like to see us get more high three star types in the future it’s not where we are. Day fits the mold and we have 2-3 years to wait and hear about his development before it even becomes an issue. Until then, he’s the latest lottery ticket.
I played with Tony and he is a good man.
Your memory is failing you my friend.
Tony had a cannon of an arm but was not nearly as mobile as Day.
He was also a laid back dude… highly doubt he was a depressed, neurotic coach’s son.
You may not believe this, but I have watched a LOT of tape of a LOT of quarterbacks. Defenses too!
As one pertinent example: I took one look at Persa’s highlights and saw an underrated, undersized Big Ten quarterback. Until his Achilles injury, he exceeded all expectations.
This kid does not cut the mustard for me. Much like Green’s son or the transfer from Clemson.
Day looks like a very poor man’s Johnny Manziel. He is also not playing against the highest caliber of Ohio football. AT ALL.
Shall we check back in 4 years and see who was right?
The one thing I can say is we should not hold it against him that his dad did not want him to be at OSU. I understand that. On a scale of zero to 100 my relationship with my dad was (RIP) 100, but I still would not want him to be my coach and he would not want to do it. I know it happens sometimes and works out (Colorado) but many times it can get really complicated.
I am calmed that Day was offered by Purdue and a few smaller schools, schollies are not thrown about like cheeto's.
That said....and I am just guessing here....either our David or their Ryan touched base and probably numerous times. The fact that the OSU coach said - and of course I am paraphrasing now "Kidd, love ya, but let's not do the coach-son thing here, but I am a Big Ten coach, I know all the things the fans do not and let me tell you I can say you will not go wrong if you go to play for my friend David, he's got Chip and Neuheisel there too now at Northwestern AND you will get a fantastic "for life" degree, why don't we call coach Braun up right now and let me make an introduction?"
I have liked coach Day from when he was hired/promoted. I think is a good man and coach.
Good luck our new recruit!
GO CATS!
I am calmed that Day was offered by Purdue and a few smaller schools, schollies are not thrown about like cheeto's.
That said....and I am just guessing here....either our David or their Ryan touched base and probably numerous times. The fact that the OSU coach said - and of course I am paraphrasing now "Kidd, love ya, but let's not do the coach-son thing here, but I am a Big Ten coach, I know all the things the fans do not and let me tell you I can say you will not go wrong if you go to play for my friend David, he's got Chip and Neuheisel there too now at Northwestern AND you will get a fantastic "for life" degree, why don't we call coach Braun up right now and let me make an introduction?"
I have liked coach Day from when he was hired/promoted. I think is a good man and coach.
Good luck our new recruit!
GO CATS!
Yikes. Ryan Day didn’t even his offer own son and the highlights that are out there… aren’t good.
Decent mobility, absolutely no arm. His best other offers are Purdue, Cincinnati, and Boston College.
Looks like we’ll continue to rely on the TRANSfer portal for years to come
You dance with the one who brought you! In this case, the one who picked you. The kid is 5'11" and holds the passing records at his school. Do you really think we are going to get top recruits at the QB position at this point of a rebuild? Braun is still in the building process. The team will get the QB it needs eventually, and it might be this kid. Northwestern isn't OSU or UM level yet. Who knows, this kid might make some waves.
Let's not write a guy off before he even touches the turf.
St. Francis De Sales is a Division II school in Ohio, so not the top tier. But still, De Sales is an historically strong Div II program and this kid is setting all the passing records there with one more year to go. So, there is a seed there. If nothing else, it gained us a day of national media attention and now we see what he can become.
We don’t need days of national media attention.
We need quarterbacks who can throw the football in the B1G.
I’m losing a bit of confidence in Kelly.
This kid plays for De Sales. Not too shabby for someone at a school that’s “not the top tier”.
While I am not saying every signee with only one or two offers is a diamond in the rough, Fernando Mendoza had a grand total of one FBS offer coming out of high school.
C’mon Jeff, this is dumb. If any of us bet AGAINST every low 3 star recruit making an impact, we would be right at least 75% of the time. I don’t need to watch any tape for that bet.
as a walk on, you of all people shouldn’t be burying the kid before he even steps foot on campus. Let the kid enjoy his commitment week. It’s not easy to get a D1 football scholarship.
Day is only a three star recruit because of who his dad is.
Watch his tape if you can.
He looks like an Ivy League or Patriot League QB.
By not top tier, I simply meant it isn't Division I. I probably should have referred to the school size as I believe that is what the divisions are about in Ohio. DeSales is a Division II school now.
Some of the best NFL QBs have come out of the Ivy, Ryan Fitzpatrick leaps to mind (17 years) for me because I am a Jets fan and there is Jay Fieldler and I know there were others but I am too busy to look it up. I wish him the best. I doubt his offers from schools like Purdue and UCF were just a courtesy to a coaching "bro". And the you get the players who attend schools not regarded as "big" programs but who do very well like Navy and Roger Staubach. I know there are more militarists, again, too busy to look it up I am already late for a plane.
Anyway, time will tell. Welcome and GO CATS!
Anyway, time will tell. Welcome and GO CATS!
"Some of the best NFL quarterbacks" followed by Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jay Fiedler as supporting examples is doing a lot of work there.
This is entirely false.
Last season, De Sales got blown out by the only two good programs they faced: Bishop Watterson (42-7) (who went undefeated and won the D3 state title) and “the birthplace of football” Massillon Washington (48-14) who then lost to Big Walnut in the playoffs .
They were also beat soundly by Badin whom even I have never heard
@CoralSpringsCat : here’s the schedule.
This looks like a DUD of an Offer.
Agree. But also, someone with the name recognition of Ryan Day is less likely to be hidden in the rough in the first place. If he was good enough to play at Ohio State, the coach there would have pretty good odds of knowing about it...
Shoot I grew 5 inches in one summer back in 1982. I actually got stretch marks on my back from it.
NU’s HS recruiting has hit such a new low that this post is even being liked by Coral
I’d feel sorry for our fans… but I am one.
Maybe he's a Manchurian candidate sent in secret by the OSU coach terrified of powerhouse NU coming for his donuts.
I talked with a buddy who’s a O$U booster and he called this a “coaching prospect recruit”.
This reminds me Green, who went from PWO to become a program stabilizer. Except we’re giving a similar recruit the only QB scholarship in this class.
If Chiles is a stud this season then we’ll be going back to the transfer portal soon enough.