John Beck to Ravens, other musings

John Beck will be in Baltimore by Sunday, taking orders from the man instrumental in drafting him at Miami, Cam Cameron, the Raven’s offensive coordinator.

Beck will compete with Troy Smith (Ohio State) as the No. 2 QB behind Joe Flacco, who is in his second year out of Delaware. I don’t think Cameron would have brought Beck in to be No. 3 and there is a chance if something happened to Flacco, it wouldn’t take much for Beck to step in as the starter. I predict the other QB, 11-year veteran Todd Bouman, to be cut soon.

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Adam Hine, formerly Adam Timo, the RB from St. George who signed with BYU in February (7-2 high jumper), got his LDS mission call to serve in Panama City, Panama. He will leave the first of August.

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I noticed Jeff Call’s excellent story on BYU baseball recruiting. This week I had an interesting chat with a prospect from Florida who didn’t have a good experience with BYU’s recruiting.

This guy is friends with Florida QB Tim Tebow and played against him in high school in Florida. This guy said on his high school team, almost all the starters were drafted and signed out of high school. He had scholarship offers from Florida, Florida State, Hawaii and Valparaiso.

Sometime during high school (I believe this is the time frame he mentioned) he went on a cruise and met an LDS girl and followed her to BYU and later joined the faith. He decided to meet with BYU baseball coaches. On the day he was to meet withe the coaching staff, they never showed up and somebody came up and told him the coaches had been busy and couldn’t make it. He later did get a chance to show his stuff and went 4 for 4. Nobody invited him back and he’s still wondering what happened.

“I turned down Division I scholarship offers to walk on, but they didn’t want me, I guess they had their needs filled,” said the guy who I golfed with this past week at Sleepy Ridge.

He is currently attending BYU, is married to this girl he met and is studying politics and wants to be a sports agent.

I don’t know BYU’s side of the story, but there are always these kinds of experiences floating around in many programs. If BYU is finding it tough to recruit, stories like this one doesn’t exactly ring up good vibes in this one case.