Top WR to Rice

BleedGreen64 · January 3, 2006

This mornings DMN show the leading reciever in the DFW area, Andrew Novak of Ennis orally committing to Rice. I have watched him for 3 years and he is a Johnny Quinn type.

OldTimer · January 3, 2006

The Tulsa OC is already recruiting for Rice...Since the Ennis QB committed to Tulsa, expect a change on him to Rice also. just my opinion.

Edited January 3, 2006 by OldTimer

NT80 · January 3, 2006

The Tulsa OC is already recruiting for Rice...Since the Ennis QB committed to Tulsa, expect a change on him to Rice also. just my opinion.
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I believe he was the Tulsa DC, and the kid would have to qualify for Rice academics, not an easy place to recruit to.

LongJim · January 3, 2006

I believe he was the Tulsa DC, and the kid would have to qualify for Rice academics, not an easy place to recruit to.
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Rice (IIRC) has different scholastic requirements for student athletes than the rest of the student body.

TicketJohn · January 3, 2006

One difference between Novak and Quinn in my estimation is that Quinn has game-breaking speed...I don't think that Novak will ever have that.

They both run great routes, have great hands and jump pretty well.

To me, because of the speed and athleticism difference, Novak won't have the kind of career that Johnny Quinn has had.

NTEagle08 · January 3, 2006

I'm guessing that Rice's new head coach is finally going to implement a passing offense there at Rice. If Hatfield was still at the helm, no way this recruit would have gone there to get a few measily catches a game in his run heavy offense.

stevegreen · January 4, 2006

591 yards receiving last year...that may have been the best JQ performance of his career, based on who was throwing the ball.

TicketJohn · January 4, 2006

"Kind of career" doesn't neccisarily mean numbers. With the lowest number of recieving yards in his career last season he was still named All-Sun Belt. That tells me that the coaches in this conference recognize the production he puts up with a lack of a passing attack. We, as fans, recognize the kind of career that Quinn has had and when all is said and done Johnny Quinn will be thought of as more of a reciever than Andrew Novak.

BleedGreen64 · January 4, 2006

Look at what JQ has done after being overlooked by most schoolos including some at UNT.

I was just stating I see some similarities between the two. N ovak had a much better high school career and I believe with his JQ like determination and toughness he can be a JQ type (the speed is certainly another issue).

I do wish him equal success as JQ unless they play UNT.

TicketJohn · January 4, 2006

I value your opinion and I was expanding on the conversation. I hope you didn't take it as a challenge. I'll always root for kids I saw play in high school. Go Mean Green.

January 4, 2006

Look at what JQ has done after being overlooked by most schoolos including some at UNT.
I was just stating I see some similarities between the two. N ovak had a much better high school career and I believe with his JQ like determination and toughness he can be a JQ type (the speed is certainly another issue).
I do wish him equal success as JQ unless they play UNT.
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Boy, am I ever confused. If senility hasn't set in too deeply, Johnny Quinn led the state in receptions (and I believe yardage) his junior and senior years. He was a known commodity; he just didn't have quite the speed that Texas Tech wanted.

You are right in that if it weren't for Kelvin Martin we likely wouldn't have JQ.

To Quinn's credit he worked on his speed with the track coaches and is considerably faster than he was in high school. Because of that, he usually draws double coverage, it seems to me.

All I know about Novak is what I read in the papers and he seems to have had a fine high school career but so did Johnny. And, maybe if Johnny Quinn had any of Ennis' last three quarterbacks throwing to him, he might have written some new state records.