Good article that talks about the increasing trends of QB transfers. QB's no longer willing to play 2nd string longer than a year.
Mostly SEC related but does talk about Coker's decision to transfer:
With Winston entrenched as the starter (and a year younger than Coker), Coker said he knew he would have to transfer if he were to get meaningful playing time before his college career was over. Coker, of course, transferred to Alabama, and quarterbacked the Crimson Tide to the 2015 national championship in his lone year as the starter.
Still, Coker said he didn't make the move to transfer in a flippant fashion. Instead, he tried multiple times to win the starting job on his own merits, and was actually talked into staying another year by FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher.
"My redshirt freshman year, Jameis had just had that real good spring, and all that hype was going around," Coker said. "I went up to Jimbo and asked him 'if the decision's made, just let me know. Because I need to get somewhere where I can play and move on.' He said 'nah, we're going to wait til (fall) camp.'
"A lot of my teammates were on me about staying and seeing what happens, so I stayed and worked my butt off, but it just didn't work out. So I went through that third season as the back-up. I didn't want to be a distraction or let anybody know I was even thinking about leaving, because that was a national championship run, and the last thing I wanted to do was take anything away from the success we were having.
"So I did my thing, and as soon as the season was over, I made my decision to move to Alabama. And the rest is history, and it all worked out. I'm real happy about everything that came from that decision."
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/05/the_death_of_the_career_back-u.html
Mostly SEC related but does talk about Coker's decision to transfer:
With Winston entrenched as the starter (and a year younger than Coker), Coker said he knew he would have to transfer if he were to get meaningful playing time before his college career was over. Coker, of course, transferred to Alabama, and quarterbacked the Crimson Tide to the 2015 national championship in his lone year as the starter.
Still, Coker said he didn't make the move to transfer in a flippant fashion. Instead, he tried multiple times to win the starting job on his own merits, and was actually talked into staying another year by FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher.
"My redshirt freshman year, Jameis had just had that real good spring, and all that hype was going around," Coker said. "I went up to Jimbo and asked him 'if the decision's made, just let me know. Because I need to get somewhere where I can play and move on.' He said 'nah, we're going to wait til (fall) camp.'
"A lot of my teammates were on me about staying and seeing what happens, so I stayed and worked my butt off, but it just didn't work out. So I went through that third season as the back-up. I didn't want to be a distraction or let anybody know I was even thinking about leaving, because that was a national championship run, and the last thing I wanted to do was take anything away from the success we were having.
"So I did my thing, and as soon as the season was over, I made my decision to move to Alabama. And the rest is history, and it all worked out. I'm real happy about everything that came from that decision."
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/05/the_death_of_the_career_back-u.html
