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[QUOTE="Orangepace, post: 1440197, member: 322"]
I don't think it's a reach to say that Ashton wasn't necessarily carrying a 4.0 in his course work.  But the kid played QB successfully in high school and prep school by all accounts.  I don't care if they ran only 10 plays at each, he had to learn the concepts of where his receivers would be and where he had to hand the ball off.  So in actuality, he probably had a leg up on a non-QB switching to RB or WR because he understood the concepts.  Terminology changes, but the core concepts don't vary that much for those two specific positions.  And I assure you, being a D1 football player, he had as many advantages as humanly possible to obtain all the help needed to master a playbook.  iPad/Flashcards with a Tutor/Practice time/offseason workouts, but more importantly, if the playbook was all that complicated any coach making $250K/yr would go to as many lengths possible to help a player learn a playbook.

D1 athletics are quite a bit different than D3.  I knew some very unintelligent people that played on our D3 team.  At the D3 level, everyone still found ways to learn, while managing their full courseload, balancing workout regimens, etc, all while paying your own way to college.  We weren't allowed to hold jobs during the season.  In fact, I actually had to defer an internship because it paid an hourly wage and that was against our athletic code during the season.

A little dedication and effort goes a long way.  This kid just didn't have it.  This isn't a case of the school letting him down.  It's not a case of him not being intelligent enough.  It's not a case of a lack of resources available to help him.  It's a case of Ashton doing Ashton.
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