[NU Sports] Draft stuff

Thu Apr 29 10:00:11 CDT 2010

Remember when Randy Walker recruited Kafka, Brewer and Peterman as "Quarterbacks?"

We all thought he was a little nutty, but he maintained that he got 3 good athletes (if my memory serves) and that they'd all be given a chance to show what they could do in camp.

Peterman read the tea leaves first, and moved to WR where he eventually flourished.

Brewer did the same but redshirted as a QB (and stayed that for another year) so he really didn't start to shine until last Fall - he was always one of the fastest guys in the WR pool once he moved over. I seem to remember that he played a few games as Kafka's backup.

Then there was Kafka, who just could out pass C.J. Bacher, even though you can make the case that Fitz liked Kafka more than Bacher. The problem was that up until last year, Kafka just couldn't move the Cats up the field. Once he finally earned the job he became "the guy" and did a really nice job.

Final analysis of RW's experiment? 

3 QBs in one class - all have NFL contracts for now.

Not bad

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Beamsley, Jeff
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:17 AM
To: Scott Zeller; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Draft stuff

Had a bad senior year.  

College teams are supposed to perform their best with a senior QB.
Illinois tanked.  Juice got benched.  Football career pretty much over.
Hope he went to class.

You are right that the contrast between Kafka and Williams is dramatic.

Shows how risky the path is from college to the NFL.

Jeff

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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Scott Zeller
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:55 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Draft stuff

Juice was not drafted. He has been invited to try out only by the Bears.

You are totally right. He was certainly the media darling their Rose
Bowl year, talked about in the same breath as the best college QBs in
the land.
Quite the fall.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:49 AM, <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:

>
> >From the CU News-Gazette - 6-6 BCS Conference teams taken care of 
> >(all 6-6
> Big Ten teams will get a bowl ?)
>
> http://www.illinihq.com/news/football/2010/04/16/asmussen_6-6_good_eno
> ugh
>
> Hopefully we never stay home with a 6-6 record
>
> Was looking for anything on Juice Williams and the draft - didn't see 
> a thing (Benn and Asamoah were taken, I think)...What kind of odds 
> could we have gotten 2 years ago that Mike Kafka would be the 5th 
> quarterback picked, and that Juice would be forgotten ?  I have not 
> heard of any team picking him up late, either.
>
> Oh how the mighty have fallen (at least, mighty Ron Zook recruits...)
>
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
>
>
>
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