About the Inidana QB transfer;

[fromolwyoming]

Ah, McElwain, liking this guy less and less.

 

[COS Cowboy]

He was 2nd in the Big 10 in passing as a sophomore. Obviously he played on a team with a crappy defense and was in a lot of situations where they were trying to throw, but he still performed quite well against a very high level of competition.

Not really a running threat, but he is more mobile than Kirkegaard and should be a great fit with what we are trying to do.

It's interesting that he ended up at Wyoming with Bohl. I remember when he was a HS recruit and we offered and it was thought we were in the running as DC had coached his brother Chase (big time TE at Missouri) and his sister Camille was on the Volleyball team here at UW. However, he ended up with a number of high level offers including Iowa State, Arizona State, and Kansas State (his other brother Carson was the starting QB at KSU at that time). Then his recruitment got really quiet.

I was never sure what happened with his recruitment, but he eventually ended up at a JC in Arizona for a year where he had a big year and signed with Indiana. He performed well as a sophomore but was beaten out in the QB competition the following year.

I think he will be a great for us personally. Has been successful everywhere from HS to JC to the Big 10 (to a point) and comes from a very successful athletic family (his siblings noted above, his father played in the NFL). I look forward to watching him next year.

"then his recruitment got real quiet…"
I believe the story is that he was led to believe he would get a scholarship at Alabama. The Alabama OC at the time was Jim McElwain, now CSU Head Coach, who thought one of his QB's was going to transfer. He led Cam to believe that the QB transfer was definitely going to happen and Cam would get the scholly once it opened up. Cam waited for the offer while other QB's committed at the places he was offered. At the last minute McElwain told Cam the QB he thought was going to transfer actually was staying and there was no offer. All of Cam's other offers including Wyoming were off the table by that time and he ended up at JC.
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If Cam plays next year, this will make a great Mike Vorel story when we play CSU.

Very interesting!