Why has Alabama suddenly become a QB recruiting hotbed?
By Josh Bean, AL.com
“These kids are getting coached at a younger age, and high school coaches are better than they’ve ever been,” said former Ole Miss quarterback David Morris, founder of the QB Country program.
As 7-on-7 and practice time grew, coaches began putting more responsibility on quarterbacks for pre-snap reads and at-the-line decision-making. That, in turn, made Alabama quarterbacks more attractive to college coaches.
“There’s stuff I talk to our quarterbacks about now that would have been like French or Spanish to me back in the 1990s,” said Hoover coach Josh Niblett, a high school quarterback.
Added Propst, “There’s no doubt we put more on high school quarterbacks with run progressions and sight adjustments and things you never thought a high school quarterback could do, and he’s doing it in the 10th and 11th grade.”
As college coaches took notice, quarterbacks began seeking more specialized 1-on-1 training such as QB Country, which started in Mobile and now has expanded to Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, Georgia and Tennessee.