CatFan22
April 2nd, 2008, 01:03 PM
http://www.bakersfield.com/136/story/404889.html
Football's national signing day was nearly two months ago, but former Liberty coach Chad Provensal thinks Byron Campbell will be worth the wait for Montana State.
The Bobcats, a Division I-AA team from the Big Sky Conference, signed Campbell to a national letter of intent Tuesday, grabbing a quarterback Provensal thinks could have been a Division I-A player.
"To me, there wasn't much separation in quarterback camps (between Campbell and highly touted quarterbacks)," Provensal said. "He had just as strong an arm, and his lateral movement was comparable.
"He was a little disappointed at first when he didn't get more Division I-A offers, but it's like I tell these kids: There's good ball everywhere."
Montana State, which went 6-5 last year, has a second-year head coach in Ron Ash and runs a pro-style offense similar to what Provensal ran at Liberty. Provensal resigned after last season and has been replaced by Liberty baseball coach Tony Mills.
Campbell threw for 1,747 yards and 18 touchdowns for the Patriots in his senior season.
"I think personally it's a steal for Montana State, though I'm a little biased," Provensal said. "Some Division I-A schools offered him a grayshirt situation (paying your way through the first semester so any scholarship offer counts against the next year's limit), but that's not something he wanted to do. He wanted to go somewhere that really wanted him."
2-star QB on scout.com:
http://stanford.scout.com/a.z?s=18&p=8&c=1&nid=2993404
Football's national signing day was nearly two months ago, but former Liberty coach Chad Provensal thinks Byron Campbell will be worth the wait for Montana State.
The Bobcats, a Division I-AA team from the Big Sky Conference, signed Campbell to a national letter of intent Tuesday, grabbing a quarterback Provensal thinks could have been a Division I-A player.
"To me, there wasn't much separation in quarterback camps (between Campbell and highly touted quarterbacks)," Provensal said. "He had just as strong an arm, and his lateral movement was comparable.
"He was a little disappointed at first when he didn't get more Division I-A offers, but it's like I tell these kids: There's good ball everywhere."
Montana State, which went 6-5 last year, has a second-year head coach in Ron Ash and runs a pro-style offense similar to what Provensal ran at Liberty. Provensal resigned after last season and has been replaced by Liberty baseball coach Tony Mills.
Campbell threw for 1,747 yards and 18 touchdowns for the Patriots in his senior season.
"I think personally it's a steal for Montana State, though I'm a little biased," Provensal said. "Some Division I-A schools offered him a grayshirt situation (paying your way through the first semester so any scholarship offer counts against the next year's limit), but that's not something he wanted to do. He wanted to go somewhere that really wanted him."
2-star QB on scout.com:
http://stanford.scout.com/a.z?s=18&p=8&c=1&nid=2993404