2018 Hawaii High School Player of the Year. Played at UCF for Jeff Lebby. 2nd Team All-AAC quarterback in 2019 before Covid became an obstacle for all of college football.
Nice quick left-handed release. Nice pocket presence. Good runner, but not a great runner like Caleb. Goes through his progressions well. Seems to see the field and be able to check off of receivers.
Dillion kind of reminds me of the former Boise quarterback Kellen Moore who is now the offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys.
A football junkie with a tremendous work ethic. The UCF coaches literally had to tell him to go home at times. A great work ethic which is a good thing to have from your QB. Caleb to me was the same way unless I missed something. Not much difference other than one runs like Super Man and has an official minimum $4 million offer tender attached to him playing another down of college football… and the other one doesn’t.
I’m surprised Team Caleb didn’t ask for the money at halftime of the Texas game in retrospect. I wonder if Jerry West called him after the Alamo Bowl.
Dillion will be a fit with Jeff Lebby. At least OU has a quarterback.
OU is probably going to at the minimum lose Mario Williams and Caleb’s high school mate. So OU will be in look of at least two more wide receivers who would be a fit with Dillion’s game.
No sweat there… the state of Texas is full of guys who can catch a football. Not as much the case with NFL bound linemen on both sides of the ball.
He won’t have that home run threat with his legs like Caleb, but in reality what other QB in college ball does. I would think his quarterback draw game and flush runs from the pocket will be fine.
Would I take him over Bo Nix and Casey Thompson? Yes… because both Dillion and Jeff Lebby already have a sense of trust with one another and they should understand from Day 1 what they need to bring to the OU offense.
I think considering the cards which were just dealt…a solid move for OU with two years left in the Big 12 before moving to the SEC.
Would I take Dillion over Spencer Sanders? Not the Spencer Sanders I saw in the second half of the Fiesta Bowl. Would I take Dillion over both of Baylor’s quarterbacks? Yes. Texas will be the wild card with their free agent QB they just signed from Ohio State. Big 12 is going to be very interesting next season.
Dan Jenkins’ fictious Big Ed Bookman the oil man from TCU in Semi-Tough would be very much at home in these NIL days in the Big 12 and beyond.
Joe C better get the oil and gas guys in line. There’s going to be a need for a fund to sign free agents playing in the SEC. But I think he knew that already. West Texas crude closed at $78 today. It’s time to get the oil guys in line with some more liquidity until the SEC money starts flowing in.
I know this may repel Kayse Schrum and the purists at O State even though her stadium bears the name of one of the greatest oil and gas leveragers of all-time…but Boone would be a trip with NIL. I wish he was still with us. But all things considered…he’s happy right now up in hydrocarbon heaven. His team beat Texas, Baylor, OU, and Notre Dame all in the same season while Mike Gundy stopped wearing Trump shirts, got his hair cut, and grew up. Bless his heart.
Go figure. What a year of Big 12 football.