FWST: TCU’s Josh Hoover explains why he spurned the SEC & Tennessee

[TopFrog]

TCU’s Josh Hoover explains why he spurned the SEC & Tennessee​

Big Steaming Pile

FORT WORTH – TCU quarterback Josh Hoover was confronted this spring with the scenario that makes a lot of people around TCU nervous, the same as every other program in the Big 12 and the ACC.

If a school in the Big 12, or ACC, has a top player who is being “recruited” by a good team in the SEC or Big 10, would the appeal of playing in one of those two conferences be too great to reject?

Hoover, who is one of the best returning passers in the Big 12, passed on the chance to enter the transfer portal to join Tennessee earlier this spring. This qualifies as TCU coach Sonny Dykes’ biggest recruiting win since he became the head coach.

On Tuesday, Hoover explained his decision for the first time publicly.

Read the rest at https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article308846630.html

Alternate link: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/tcu-josh-hoover-explains-why-214308553.html

 

[ShadowFrog]

Dang.
I actually paused mid-Like before hitting that button.

 

[QuilterFrawg]

“I love Fort Worth. I love TCU. This is the place I want to be,” he said to a small group of reporters inside TCU’s athletic facility. “I see TCU as a top program, and that’s why I came here. I came here to win a Big 12 championship, and I told my teammates I was going to be the quarterback here this year; the way I grew up your word means something. That’s all there is to it.”

How refreshing.

 

[froglash88]

Not reading muck muck

 

[FrogAbroad]

"...the way I grew up your word means something. That’s all there is to it.”

The truest measure of a man is not what he has, but what he honors.

 

[LisaLT]

I still get a chuckle when I read that by-line "Big Steaming Pile". Who came up with that one?

 

[Hemingway]

I still get a chuckle when I read that by-line "Big Steaming Pile". Who came up with that one?

I keep hoping that Muck will copy and paste that into his articles like he plagiarizes most of kfc. He doesn’t have an editor so you know it’d be published.

 

[tmcats]

avery johnson reportedly turned down tennessee as well. this suggests there are some high level b12 quarterbacks, perhaps the best conference in football. tcu, asu, isu, ku, baylor, k-state - the list is long.

 

[PurplFrawg]

I still get a chuckle when I read that by-line "Big Steaming Pile". Who came up with that one?

Pretty sure it was Wes.

 

[froginaustin]

Pretty sure it was Wes.

Unless my memory is tricking me (possible), it was Wes.