'14 OH QB DeShone Kizer (Notre Dame Signee)

[GoldenIsThyFame]

Where did you get the visit dates from? In the Scout article he says he's visiting LSU this Friday, hopes to visit ND Monday and isn't sure if he'll get to any of his other top schools (OSU, Bama, UT).

247 has those dates and Wiltfong made a couple references to still planning to visit LSU and Bama AFTER ND

 

[Big23Head]

Scout: Irish "fulfill all requirements" for Kizer

 

[Irish_irish]

247 has those dates and Wiltfong made a couple references to still planning to visit LSU and Bama AFTER ND

Cheers, just read all the Wiltfong posts there now. Seems like one of them has been misinformed, generally I'd side with Wiltfong but the Scout article has direct quotes so it's hard to know.

I suppose we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

 

[ab2cmiller]

Part of a freebie from 247 is below. JC Shurburtt was on Bill King's show this morning and talked about DeShone. He reiterated that DeShone is an incredible athlete and that he has lacked some of the consistency that some other QB's have had. However he stressed again that he is a 3 sport athlete who doesn't spend all of his time on practicing football and that he would expect big things from him when he focuses on one sport. Bill and JC went on to talk about how they both really like when kids play multiple sports in high school and the things that they learn in the process especially what it means to be a leader on multiple teams.
Columbus Elite 11 features a deep, talented group

Toledo (Ohio) Central Catholic four-star signal caller DeShone Kizer was the lone prospect that earned an invite immediately following the event while the staff huddled to announce the remaining selections.

The 6-foot-5 Kizer, who has become prominent on the recruiting boards of a number of programs- including LSU and others- showed good poise and concentration throughout the event, was accurate for the most part and displayed the intangibles that you want out of a college quarterback. What gets lost on Kizer at times is that he’s a three-sport athlete who doesn’t concentrate on football-much less playing the quarterback position- year-round, so he has simply scratched the surface of his ability on the gridiron.

 In addition to the Tigers, Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Tennessee and a host of other programs are in the mix for his services. Depending on how the quarterback recruiting dominoes fall for the 2014 recruiting cycle, he could end up at a number of spots.

 

[ChiRish]

Part of a freebie from 247 is below. JC Shurburtt was on Bill King's show this morning and talked about DeShone. He reiterated that DeShone is an incredible athlete and that he has lacked some of the consistency that some other QB's have had. However he stressed again that he is a 3 sport athlete who doesn't spend all of his time on practicing football and that he would expect big things from him when he focuses on one sport. Bill and JC went on to talk about how they both really like when kids play multiple sports in high school and the things that they learn in the process especially what it means to be a leader on multiple teams.
Columbus Elite 11 features a deep, talented group

Think that's a great point and one that's hard to quantify in terms of just how valuable that is moving forward. It teaches the kid to balance a workload, cross trains him in different athletic areas, keeps him focused and motivated, and like the article said, shows how he can be a leader on multiple teams. I was excited about the Kizer offer before, but this definitely adds some intrigue to debates over which QB ND should go after.

 

[NDFAN22]

Kizer is the QB I think would be most benefical for ND with the spread style.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

This is a solid kid with his head screwed straight on his shoulders.

 

[Ben E.]

Win win, raw athlete. I saw him play last year, most of his completions went to giant TE.

 

[FLDomer]

Win win, raw athlete. I saw him play last year, most of his completions went to giant TE.

DeShone meet Troy....

 

[rtrn2glory]

Kid plays for a very good team. Very athletic receiving core and they play in a competitive league.

Struggled against elite competition at times (Toledo Whitmer and State Title Game)

Actually really excites me to see that he's a 3 sport athlete, a very lost fad over the past decade, shows that he's a competitor and not all about himself.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Kid plays for a very good team. Very athletic receiving core and they play in a competitive league.

Struggled against elite competition at times (Toledo Whitmer and State Title Game)

Actually really excites me to see that he's a 3 sport athlete, a very lost fad over the past decade, shows that he's a competitor and not all about himself.

Trotwood-Madison and Cincinnati Moeller, the teams that Central beat for the DII championship, and the team that beat Whitmer for the DI championship, would in my opinion do very well against other nationally ranked teams. Whitmer beat Leurs, 20-3 and it would have been 48-0 if it hadn't been for Jaylon Smiths heroic play.

 

[PANDFAN]

The Crimson Tide will get the four-star dual-threat quarterback first as he plans to make it to Tuscaloosa on June 13. Kizer does not have a committable offer, but quarterbacks coach Doug Nussmeier visited Toledo to watch Kizer throw in April.

izer said he will not throw for the Alabama coaches in Tuscaloosa and does not know if that could negatively affect his standing with the staff. He admits there is even a chance the Tide could land a quarterback before his visit, and the odds of that increased -- even if just slightly -- with Kyle Allen committing to Texas A&M on Monday.

Kizer, however, is more focused on seeing if LSU matches his expectations than who else the Tigers are recruiting.

Unless Notre Dame or Ohio State offers Kizer -- which is still a possibility with Allen heading to College Station -- it looks as if he is headed to the SEC. If he leaves Alabama or LSU uncommitted, he is looking to visit Knoxville in the coming weeks.

insider

 

[WestCoast]

DeShone meet Troy....

Nice marketing ploy, but I believe Troy runs out of eligibility in 2014. So Kizer would have to commit and win the job as a true freshman for that to mean anything.

 

[FLDomer]

Nice marketing ploy, but I believe Troy runs out of eligibility in 2014. So Kizer would have to commit and win the job as a true freshman for that to mean anything.

True but we got other TEs in waiting, and we will continue to land em.

 

[yankeeND]

Would be so cool to have a QB from my hometown on the Irish. Hope we get him.

 

[Buster Bluth]

This is a solid kid with his head screwed straight on his shoulders.

But it's still Central Public. Yuck. If he'd have gone to St. Francis I'd be jumping for joy haha

 

[clashmore_mike]

But it's still Central Public. Yuck. If he'd have gone to St. Francis I'd be jumping for joy haha

Frannies weren't very good at football last year. I doubt we'd even know who Kizer was if he played for them.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

But it's still Central Public. Yuck. If he'd have gone to St. Francis I'd be jumping for joy haha

Frannie a$$wipe! LOL!

 

[beryirish]

Frannies weren't very good at football last year. I doubt we'd even know who Kizer was if he played for them.

My same thought as I read buster's post.

My buddy is an old CCHS QB and former QB coach there -- plays his alumni flag football game this saturday...says he's going to show Deshone a thing or two lol

 

[Bogtrotter07]

My same thought as I read buster's post.

My buddy is an old CCHS QB and former QB coach there -- plays his alumni flag football game this saturday...says he's going to show Deshone a thing or two lol

Yeah baby? I bet. Old guys against young. Good luck with that! Are you playing? Let me know I want to come. Will be at the Wall this Sat, so it is only a minor diversion in route.

 

[stlnd01]

This kid looks like a ballplayer, and I'd love to get him on board. A big tall dual threat QB is not something we've had, and the elite SEC interest suggests he's at least got big-time potential.

But does anyone else worry an Ohio State offer could change the picture for him dramatically? Hate to see us land our QB, and then promptly lose him to a splashy pitch by Urban Meyer, they way he did that OT a couple of years ago. Would feel more comfortable if he'd already been there/seen that.

 

[ab2cmiller]

This kid looks like a ballplayer, and I'd love to get him on board. A big tall dual threat QB is not something we've had, and the elite SEC interest suggests he's at least got big-time potential.

But does anyone else worry an Ohio State offer could change the picture for him dramatically? Hate to see us land our QB, and then promptly lose him to a splashy pitch by Urban Meyer, they way he did that OT a couple of years ago. Would feel more comfortable if he'd already been there/seen that.

Definitely could, but he grew up a Michigan fan so I don't think pOSU is his dream offer.

 

[ab2cmiller]

Article is from before the ND offer but after his performance at the Elite 11 camp.
Central Catholic quarterback caps off junior year with top honors at Elite 11 camp - Toledo Blade

The area’s top high school football recruit is liked by all, coveted by many, and told to hang on by Ohio State and others.

What should Central Catholic quarterback DeShone Kizer do?

That’s the question the four-star prospect hopes to clarify as he enters the teeth of his recruitment this summer.

Interest in the 6-foot-5, 210-pound Kizer keeps “trending up,” said Allen Trieu, a recruiting analyst for Scout.com.

Last weekend, he won the Elite 11 quarterback camp regional in Columbus, finishing off a junior year that began with the Fighting Irish celebrating a Division II state championship. He beat out more than 100 prospects from more than 30 states — including top Buckeye target Brandon Harris of Bossier City, La.

Kizer, who captured the event’s “Golden Ticket” based on his game film and performance in a series of passing drills on a blustery Saturday at Ohio State, will compete in the Elite 11 Finals this month in Eugene, Ore.

“I was very shocked,” Kizer told reporters after the tryout. “It wasn’t the best day. I’ve spent a lot of time in preparation for this. I’ve had quite a few good workouts for some colleges, and I didn’t have those same type of workouts here. Coach [Trent] Dilfer said when he was passing out the award, it was the way I picked back up and accepted those bad passes.”

Kizer holds offers from more than half the Big Ten schools — including Michigan State, Nebraska, and Penn State — and LSU and Tennessee among others, a noncommittable offer from Alabama, and a place on the de-facto waiting lists at Ohio State and Notre Dame. He plans to visit Alabama on Thursday, LSU on Friday, and Tennessee in the coming weeks, then possibly add trips to OSU and Notre Dame if the recruiting shuffle falls in his favor.

Ohio State remains interested in Kizer, who possesses prototype size and mobility but also a potent arm that allows him to throw a baseball almost 90 mph and, last fall, pass for more than 1,100 yards and 10 touchdowns. Kizer narrowly missed the cut when Buckeye coaches recently extended their first round of offers to three quarterbacks from the 2014 class — Harris, Zach Darlington of Apopka, Fla., and Kyle Allen of Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Already, though, the dominoes are tipping. Allen, rated by Rivals.com and Scout as the country’s top pro-style quarterback, committed Monday to Texas A&M. Harris and Darlington, both highly sought 6-foot-2 dual-threat prospects, are expected to announce their decisions later this summer.

If both choose to go elsewhere, prolong their announcements, or Ohio State coaches receive intelligence they are leaning toward other schools, an offer to Kizer could soon follow. Bucknuts.com and 247sports.com recruiting analyst Bill Kurelic said OSU continues to target Kizer and Missouri’s Rafe Peavey, an Arkansas commit, as quarterback options in the 2014 class.

“[Kizer] is definitely on their board,” Kurelic said. “Depending on what happens with Brandon Harris and Zach Darlington, I think Rafe Peavey and DeShone Kizer would probably be the next two most likely that Ohio State would offer.”

Kizer told reporters at the Elite 11 an offer from OSU would be an honor, noting that his performance at the camp “maybe would spark [coach Urban Meyer’s] eye and help me out a little bit.”

“Being my hometown school, that would be very nice, to have an offer from the big dogs on campus,” Kizer said. “But I don’t necessarily think they would just jump to the top. I’m also considering some very nice schools.”

Kizer said Buckeye quarterbacks coach Tom Herman watched one of his workouts two weeks ago and expressed plans to “re-evaluate” him with Meyer. The Irish star believes this can only be positive. He feels he is improving by the day, a sentiment validated by several observers at the Elite 11 camp.

“We got a chance to see him when he came last year to the event,” Trieu said. “You could see some of the potential, but you could also see where he had improvements to make mechanically, and immediately we noticed he was miles better as far as his technique. You could tell he had put the work in. ... Shortening his release, making it a little bit more compact, and setting his feet, those two things were very noticeably better.”

As for which type of offense he hopes to run in college — say, the pro-style leanings of Alabama or LSU or the spread of Tennessee or OSU — Kizer is confident he can succeed in any system.

“In a spread, I can be very successful,” he said. “That’s what I run back at [Central]. I do a lot of zone-read and moving with my feet. But I also believe in this day and age, being in a pro-style and being able to make some plays and extend the play with your feet, that just adds on to your success. I believe maybe in a pro-style offense I’d be a little more successful, but I don’t really have a preference on where I’d play.”

One thing is clear: Kizer has plenty of options.

 

[clashmore_mike]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I will not be visiting Alabama on Thursday the 13th, but will be at LSU the 14th. Also, I will be visiting Notre Dame this Sunday the 9th.</p>— DeShone Kizer (@Dkizer_14) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dkizer_14/status/343066092614344704">June 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I am not ruling out Alabama, I just will not be making it down for Thursdays trip.</p>— DeShone Kizer (@Dkizer_14) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dkizer_14/status/343068110590455809">June 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[Bogtrotter07]

Kid appears to be smart, as advertised.

 

[Rack Em]

WILTFONG CHANGED HIS PREDOCTION TO NOTRE DAME

And Loy and OSU insider Gleitman followed.

Crystal ball now 60/40 Notre Dame over LSU

It's now 87/13 Notre Dame over LSU.

Everyone who's made a prediction AFTER Wiltfong picked ND. Everyone who didn't pick/change after Wiltfong's prediction has LSU.

That sounds promising.

 

[irishknight35]

It's now 87/13 Notre Dame over LSU.

Everyone who's made a prediction AFTER Wiltfong picked ND. Everyone who didn't pick/change after Wiltfong's prediction has LSU.

That sounds promising.

Which means he is an aTm lock.

 

[T Town Tommy]

I think Kizer realizes he is probably the third choice at Bama behind Cornwell and Parker. The Irish are in good shape for him but don't count out LSU. Most players love Les for whatever reason.

 

[Ultimate Penn St. Hater]

I would love to see a tall, athletic QB play in Kelly's offense.

 

[ThePiombino]

I think Kizer realizes he is probably the third choice at Bama behind Cornwell and Parker. The Irish are in good shape for him but don't count out LSU. Most players love Les for whatever reason.

The dude eats grass. What more do you need to know??