Falcons Land QB

As I had mentioned yesterday, BG had to be on the lookout for QB help for this season, and they have found it.

His name is Drew Pyne, and he will be enrolling at his 4th institution of higher learning.

He started at Notre Dame, where he played 3 years (including the COVID year).  In 2022, he lost the starter's job, but then the starter went down with a season-ending injury.  Pyne had a nice year, making 10 starts and going 8-2.  He completed 65% of his passes, 22 TD over 6 INT, and a QB rating of 155.  

He went into the portal and transferred to Arizona State, where he played only 2 games due to injury. He finished his degree at ND and then transferred to Missouri.  He made 1 start there last year.  He had a big game in Missouri's upset win over Oklahoma.

In the 2022 year, Pyne graded out at 69.1% on PFF.  His passing was 72 and running was 48. His strongest type of pass at Notre Dame was the deep ball and his weakest was 0-10 yards...he says that he is coming to BG to play in Travis Partridge's spread offense.  FWIW, it was short passes to the right that killed him.

For comparison, Bazelak graded at 78 offense, 75 passing and 66 running last season.

He has two years left.

Welcome to the Falcons, Drew.

Portal Updates

 A quick update on the portal news....

For men's basketball, I had previously reported on Johnson, Campbell and Felt.  Since then, Braelon Green entered, as did Derrick Butler, benefitting from the JUCO decision granting him another year. 

To date, only Green has found a new home--and that is EMU.

Even more importantly, there are no reports of players finding their way to BG.  The commits are starting to pick up....I suspect some of the guys we might want and waiting to see if they get a better offer.  This is a vital time, obviously.  As per usual, we are down to very few players and Akron is going to return everybody plus an OSU player they picked up and Kent will return almost everyone.

Since our last update for football, three more players are in the portal...Dillon Robinson, Chace Davis and Justin Lampson.

Robinson was a 2-star recruit and part of the Anthony Wayne crew that came to BG.  Davis played in 24 games over two seasons at BG, without generating any huge numbers.  I think he got a JUCO year back.

QB Justin Lampson, late of Syracuse and Stanford, had committed to BG but he has now gone to Montana State.

Kal-El Pascal, a promising D-back, portaled and then unportaled.

The football crew is also working like mad.  Remember, BG is not out of the woods.  After spring practice, there are often additional portal departures.  To date, our post-Loeffler losses have been less than many others have seen when a coach leaves.

Remember, we were expecting a rebuilding year before the change.  We need to fill some holes to be remotely competitive next year and no one is under any illusions about it.