Class of 2023 QB Austin Novosad (TX) Portal from Oregon to Bowling Green

[Biaxtar]

Dan Lanning’s Oregon to Lose Former 4-Star QB to ACC Program – Report

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Oh my.

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

Some Oregon fans on the CFB reddit are saying Novosad was beaten out by a walk on for a backup role last season.

Did some research and Walk On Brock Thomas beat out Novosad for the number two role last season according to their QB coach and it was confirmed several times during the year.

He does look talented but was never going to play at Oregon. Looks like Kentucky would be our main competition.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

With Odom in the fold staff might be willing to take a flyer on a guy that doesn't have snaps and game film.

 

[JarHeadJim]

 

[OrangeinNH]

Why QB Austin Novosad has remained with Oregon amid impending transfer

Eight Oregon players have declared their intention to enter the transfer portal once it opens on Friday. Only Austin Novosad remains with the Ducks.

www.oregonlive.com

Sounds like he’s gonna good head on his shoulders. Strangely familiar stat lines and story to Luke Carney (beat out by a walk-on if that is true). But may be a good system for if his strengths are reading a defense and making quick decisions in the short to intermediate passing game.

 

[orangemass]

Makes me novohappy

 

[mustacheovich]

Looks like it was reported in this subscriber-only article by Pete Nakos, then stolen by "Essentially Sports" who had their article reposted by yahoo! sports. Online sports journalism hurts my brain.

 

[Ttk.gman2]

Wonder if this is legit

It is

 

[PhatOrange]

Every kid on our team beaten out by a walkon was apparently given the talk or wasn't that good so now we're interested in a kid beaten out by a walkon?

 

[Archbold44]

When you get a chance to get a 4-star QB, you take it.

Plus, we have an opening now that our 4-star QB (Williams) has left the team.

Seems to me we are playing with fire again.

 

[Cuseloyal]

These are the type of guys you are going to have to take a flier on when you are offering QB3 most likely

 

[HyattsCuse]

I don’t understand the logic in this article. Kid doesn’t see a path to playing time at Oregon, but sees one at Syracuse despite Angeli and Odom being here?

This seems like a kid who should go down a level if he actually wants to play.

 

[djorange1989]

When you get a chance to get a 4-star QB, you take it.

Plus, we have an opening now that our 4-star QB (Williams) has left the team.

Seems to me we are playing with fire again.

we have Odom, who is an experienced starter to backup Steve so that is a leg up on last year. That being said, if we could get Dickens, and I believe we can, I think it’s a mistake to not get him instead of this kid.

 

[RF2044]

This would be amazing. Not to imply that this kid will live up to the 4-star billing -- who knows -- but it would certainly improve the quality of the QB room behind Angeli, with Novosad and Odom replacing Collins / Carney.

 

[Orangezoo]

These are the type of guys you are going to have to take a flier on when you are offering QB3 most likely

Yeah if Steve is fully healthy , you have a QB1 whole led the country in passing 1/4 through the season then add a highly coveted lower level fbs qb with p4 starter chops. You also have a frosh in Lott coming in. Landing a top 3 FCS QB, also likely with starting aspirations to the QB room seems a tough task to me but of course if you can make it happen that’s a damn winning lottery ticket of a QB room. So reality setting in to maybe add a kid like this, gives you a talented but unproven 4 star in that QB3 mix which seems more likely from the kids perspective.

 

[orangepassion]

we have Odom, who is an experienced starter to backup Steve so that is a leg up on last year. That being said, if we could get Dickens, and I believe we can, I think it’s a mistake to not get him instead of this kid.

Agree. If there's one thing I've learned over the last year, it 's production over potential.

 

[javadoc]

These are the type of guys you are going to have to take a flier on when you are offering QB3 most likely

Maybe we’re not getting Dickens, and it’s slim pickins now.

 

[Archbold44]

Agree. If there's one thing I've learned over the last year, it 's production over potential.

What good is a 4-star with 2 career passes? Why not just keep Carney and his 3-passes (or whatever)? Why not keep Williams and his 0 passes? Colgate had three guys pass 6+ times against us. There has to be a backup with game experience that would be content to be QB#3.

 

[PhatOrange]

These are the type of guys you are going to have to take a flier on when you are offering QB3 most likely

We already had those types of kids on the team

 

[orange79]

 

[721Comstock]

Agree. If there's one thing I've learned over the last year, it 's production over potential.

Guys like AET and Meeks might beg to differ.

As far as QB’s go, you’re likely correct.

While we have sporadically had a random backup like “Officer” Mahoney play reasonably well -
at least enough so that we could potentially still win games -
the vast majority of unproven QB’s have not.

 

[Archbold44]

I am not thrilled... unless we are getting info from Ross Douglas and/or that his former OC at Kentucky is trying to get him too. If Oregon and Kentucky are "meh," there is no reason for us to think we have a diamond in the rough here.

 

[Cuseloyal]

I am not thrilled... unless we are getting info from Ross Douglas and/or that his former OC at Kentucky is trying to get him too. If Oregon and Kentucky are "meh," there is no reason for us to think we have a diamond in the rough here.

I just don’t know who else we are getting is my point. The coaching staff obviously did not like any of the QBs we had on the roster last year so I don’t get why we would want to keep them. I’m not saying this kid will amount to anything but like I said who can we get as a QB3/QB4 depth piece at this point

 

[Franz69]