Tucker Israel named starting QB

A guy named Matt Schell won the QB laurels in the O&W game back in 2000, but then he never took a meaningful snap his entire career.

You simply can't read much of anything into a standout performance in the Spring Game.

http://old.chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2000/04/16/col_287510.shtml

CLEMSON, S.C. -- Lost in Clemson's depth-chart shuffling, Matt Schell catapulted himself into contention.
Schell was the forgotten one. All the quarterback talk at Clemson centered around upstart Willie Simmons dethroning incumbent Woody Dantzler.

Unwilling to be relegated to third-string, Schell made the biggest splash Saturday at Death Valley in the annual Orange and White game. In his own version of the Schell game, the 6-foot-2, 200-pound quarterback contender trimmed the margin between starter and reliever.

Displaying command of Clemson's rapid-fire, multi-receiver offense, Schell engineered seven scoring drives. His 187 yards and two touchdowns on 10 of 18 passing was just as impressive as Dantzler's 22 of 34 performance for 237 yards and one touchdown.

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Re: A guy named Matt Schell won the QB laurels in the O&W game

May 6, 2017, 6:22 PM

Trying to decypher what you're saying ... not sure if you agree of disagree with what I said.

Reggie was our undisputed starter for a whole season and did really well. He was the upper-classman leader of RBs when James Davis came in as a freshman and James simply eclipsed him on the field the next year. It was not until Reggie got something going on that last drive against SCAR that there could be much question as to who was the better player overall. TB should have stuck with the hot hand in that specific instance, but I still think overall Davis was the better RB.

Chad Kelly looked absolutely terrible in that spring game just before he flew off the handle and got his walking papers from Clemson. Never-the-less, he went on to show that he had a ton of talent that unfortunately had to be weighed against his awful attitude.

I won't be so bold as to say that Tucker Israel is another Matt Schell and that he won't ever play meaningful snaps for Clemson. But, I will say that if he does win the QB competition this season, it will mean that the coaches (and the national recruiting gurus) have made some pretty big mistakes in their assessments of the top QB talent coming out of HS the last couple of years. If he does and we win a lot of games, I'll be fine with it, but it will still concern me that the much more highly recruited players (as selected by our coaches) couldn't hold him off.

Honestly, Tucker can be a starter and a star at a lot of places across the country. I just don't believe Clemson is one of those places despite his performance in the O&W game.

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I remember a running back in the '60's named

Tucker's mom, he has no shot at starting

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