He may not have gone to big time camps or someone just probably dropped the ball. To me if kids like him gets over looked thats on his coaches not doing their job. He can definitely play!

Whoa, whoa, whoa... say what? AJ Mayer starts this past season for Moeller, Elder and LaSalle all day, every day. X had Chase Wolf whose going to Wisconsin and I’m not sure AJ doesn’t win that job too. Kam starts at all four GCL schools...easily and for multiple years.

 

Dang, I guess every Ohio QB goes 18/25 for 350 a game all the time...

 

I am from Ohio and follow their high school football a little bit and have relatives still playing there. You don't see an AJ or a few other Ky QB's any given night. I have seen AJ play twice and saw the kid from Cincy St X at a few camps. I believe AJ is better and would beat him out to start. Also believe a few other kids in Ky could also win that job. But congrats to that kid for getting the full ride to Wisconsin.

As far as not getting looks I met AJ and his dad at a Big Ten Schools Junior Day. He was getting "looks". Not sure how many other big schools were in touch with him. Why they didn't offer is a question for those coaches or maybe AJ's coach. Very hard to say. The difference between some of these kids is very small and in some cases maybe just "intangibles" based on what the coach is looking for. Who knows. But I believe he will do just fine at Miami and get a top notch education.

One of the nicest kids I ever met I will be cheering for him at Miami Ohio.

AJ Mayer has announced his graduate transfer to play at Arkansas State.
 

 

Congrats AJ!

On power rankings, is Arkansas State an upgrade from Miami of Ohio?

22 hours ago, theguru said:

Congrats AJ!

On power rankings, is Arkansas State an upgrade from Miami of Ohio?

Arkansas State honestly had a pretty dismal season in 2021. 1-7 in the Sunbelt Conference and 2-10 overall. Not a whole lot better the year before. My assumption is that this is a move for more playing time.

AJ saw action in 7 of 13 games last season for Miami, with 4 starts (Cincinnati, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Akron), but he was second fiddle to Brett Gabbart, who will undoubtedly be Miami's go-ahead starter for 2022.

Arkansas State has an incoming freshman QB and a QB who redshirted last year - in the three games he saw action in, he never attempted a single pass. Then they have their starter from last season, James Blackman, returning for 2022. He won the starting spot last year in a QB competition against a sophomore QB. Blackman was benched halfway through the first game, then started the next 5 games (all losses) before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury. Arkansas State's #2 QB transferred out to Texas State after the season ended, so my assumption is that AJ plans to beat out Blackman for the starting position, playing for former Cincinnati head coach Butch Jones.

I don't know exactly what the status of Blackman's shoulder is now, but the Arkansas Democrat Gazette ran a story on him last week talking about him returning for the Red Wolves' spring practices. The article referred to Blackman as the "likely starting quarterback." I'm guessing AJ's intent is to create another QB competition and win it.

 

16 minutes ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Arkansas State honestly had a pretty dismal season in 2021. 1-7 in the Sunbelt Conference and 2-10 overall. Not a whole lot better the year before. My assumption is that this is a move for more playing time.

AJ saw action in 7 of 13 games last season for Miami, with 4 starts (Cincinnati, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Akron), but he was second fiddle to Brett Gabbart, who will undoubtedly be Miami's go-ahead starter for 2022.

Arkansas State has an incoming freshman QB, a QB who redshirted last year - in the three games he played, he never attempted a single pass. Then they have their starter from last season, James Blackman, returning for 2022. He won the starting spot last year in a QB competition against a sophomore QB. Blackman was benched halfway through the first game, then started the next 5 games (all losses) before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury. Arkansas State's #2 QB transferred out to Texas State after the season ended, so my assumption is that AJ plans to beat out Blackman for the starting position, playing for former Cincinnati head coach Butch Jones.

I don't know exactly what the status of Blackman's shoulder is now, but the Arkansas Democrat Gazette ran a story on him last week talking about him returning for the Red Wolves' spring practices. The article referred to Blackman as the "likely starting quarterback." I'm guessing AJ's intent is to create another QB competition and win it.

 

I appreciate all that CWB.  

Hopefully the education he receives at Arkansas State is exactly what he is looking for. 

4 hours ago, theguru said:

I appreciate all that CWB.  

Hopefully the education he receives at Arkansas State is exactly what he is looking for. 

Sun Belt Football is very good. Before Blake Anderson left Arkansas State for Utah State the Red Wolves were very good. With Marshall, Old Dominion, James Madison, and Southern Miss joining this year the league just gets better. Appy State, Coastal Carolina, Louisiana are really good programs. I think it's a quicker brand of football than the MAC but I saw Buffalo and. Northern Illinois against Coastal... really good games. One thing for sure.....they were all better than Kansas lol.

To go back to why this thread was created and obviously how lot of people were asking why he wasn’t offered by bigger schools than a Miami. I guess now we see those bigger schools were probably right in whatever they saw or I guess didn’t see in him by not offering. This just goes to show no matter how great someone was in high school. It still doesn’t necessarily mean they are truly top college high level type good. 
 

Which for the record I am surprised to see that he hasn’t had more success in college. I also thought he was going to do great at Miami, because he looked so good in high school. It just shows again how hard it is to be successful in college no matter what school you end up at. 
 

I hope he goes out and does great at Arkansas State. However, no matter what happens he now would have received a free four year college education, which is always a great thing!