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A&M Qb is transferring.

Bruce Feldman ‏@BruceFeldmanCFB 2m

Possible landing spots for A&M transfer QB Matt Joeckel (eligible in 2014): #TCU & #SMU

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QB Matt Joeckel transferring from Texas A&M. Has good size. Really bright kid. Future law student.. Kenny Hill vs Kyle Allen for #1 spot.

Did we offer out of HS?

Looks good to me...wonder if there are more Joeckel brothers in the pipeline...

HIGH SCHOOL
Coached by Scott Peach at Arlington High School ... named the district’s Offensive Player of the Year as a senior (2009) after throwing for 3,145 yards and 40 touchdowns with just six interceptions ... also ran for 733 yards and 12 scores ... was an honorable mention all-state pick and the district’s co-MVP as a junior (2008), racking up 3,017 passing yards and 29 touchdowns, while running for 328 yards and nine scores ... threw for nearly 6,900 yards and 72 TDs over high-school career ... chose Texas A&M over offers from Arkansas and Texas Tech.

PERSONAL
Matt Joeckel is the son of Reecanne and Dave Joeckel of Arlington, Texas …born November 6, 1991 ... enrolled in January of 2010 and went through spring drills with A&M ... twin brother, Luke, was a lineman on the Aggie football team ... father, David, was a four-year football letterman at Texas Tech from 1979-82 ... marketing major.

If he is a future law student you'd think that he'd be smart enough to choose SMU over TCU. Plus, with Boykin coming back I doubt he will be a starter there.

StallionsModelT wrote:Did we offer out of HS?

According to Rivals, no we didn't.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/r ... ckel-88266

So the kid was local, had offers from several major programs, and wasn't offered by SMU. Why am I not the least bit surprised.

has it occurred that he may have been approached by our recruiters at the time....and had no interest? are you guys suggesting we offer people even when they won't talk to us? or tell us they have no interest? will some of the salesmen on here speak up about the idea of spending ones time on people who are actually prospects?

June is that you?

wouldn't hat be great - we are now a soft landing spot for former UT and TAMU QB's that couldn't get it done at the former but can resurrect their careers at lil' old SMU.

And I thought the ONE position JJ might actually be good at recruiting HS kids would be QB...! Nope, we have to get transfers in order to compete.

I am so ready for the JJ era to die.

Chad Morris, I have Rick Hart for you on line 1 about a job opening...

Definite take. SMU's QB position is disaster waiting to happen

Sounds cool, but we should develop Burcham, a QB that has 3 full years ahead of him. we need consistency on QB

if there is any program that is likely to need back up QB's it is SMU. the number 2 and 3 qb's this year are 100% likely to have playing time.

You people need to consider the source--Rivals. These recruiting services are seldom very accurate. Excluding Matt Joeckel, you need to look behind these services hard to get any accuracy. I doubt if half of our offers are even noted. And with June's wide sweep, Rivals just doesn't know who he extends offers to until signing day. Happened again this year. No one even covered our Junior Day this year, there weren't even lists of attendees by Rivals.

First, their only source is the kids themselves. No coaches are allowed to comment on their recruiting--including defending themselves, until signing day. And,they never comment on those they never sign.

Second, 17 year old kids tend to exaggerate, even lie. Every year some kid says he receives an offer and never has...whether from SMU or Notre Dame.

Third, SMU makes a number of offers and approaches that never make the lists--an SMU offer just doesn't matter to many kids. It just doesn't rank in an effort to pad their resume's.

Fourth, many kids just tell our coaches, not to bother, they want to sign with a major conference, regardless of the quality of the program and SMU is not in a major conference--so we move on. Like it or not, SMU playing in a secondary football conference is just not a draw to recruits.

SMU is one of a few schools that even allows the rating services to talk to their assistants and players. Nick Sabin doesn't even permit any of his assistants to talk to the professional press, much less 25 year old Rivals or Scout editors.

Not saying recruiting at SMU can't improve. But Larry Brown was allowed to sign five transfers and a five star that had major problems even qualifying academically. When football is allowed the freedom to sign transfers, say 8-10 a year and 4-5 marginal qualifiers and play in a major football league, the team will improve quickly. It was only three years ago, June couldn't get a transfer from Northwestern University to qualify. You might want to do a reality check.