09-11-2020, 09:42 AM
Acccording to 247sports, Zach Buckey has offers from, among others, Air Force, Army and Navy and Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale. Brown needs to step up.
As previously noted, his dad, Jeff, played OL at Stanford and was a seventh round pick in the 1996 NFL draft. Jeff played four seasons in the NFL, three with the Dolphins and one with the 49ers.
Zach throws the discus, as did his dad. As far as his college choice, back in April Zach said: "It's a big decision to make and I'm nowhere close to making it. It's gonna have to be somewhere where it has great academics. It's gotta have a great football team, great track team, possibly. And, I just want to feel at home there."
https://www.turnto23.com/sports/zach-buc...ortunities
Don't forget that Ben Gardner was a 2-star prospect with offers from Stanford, Eastern Illinois, North Dakota, Northern Iowa, South Dakota and South Dakota State. Ben went to high school in Thiensville, WI. Zach goes to high school in Bakersfield. I know that Bakersfield has had some star high school football players who were highly successful in college and the NFL--Frank Gifford may be the most famous?--but I don't think it gets the kind of attention from P5 programs that you see in LA, Orange County, San Diego and the Bay Area.
As previously noted, his dad, Jeff, played OL at Stanford and was a seventh round pick in the 1996 NFL draft. Jeff played four seasons in the NFL, three with the Dolphins and one with the 49ers.
Zach throws the discus, as did his dad. As far as his college choice, back in April Zach said: "It's a big decision to make and I'm nowhere close to making it. It's gonna have to be somewhere where it has great academics. It's gotta have a great football team, great track team, possibly. And, I just want to feel at home there."
https://www.turnto23.com/sports/zach-buc...ortunities
Don't forget that Ben Gardner was a 2-star prospect with offers from Stanford, Eastern Illinois, North Dakota, Northern Iowa, South Dakota and South Dakota State. Ben went to high school in Thiensville, WI. Zach goes to high school in Bakersfield. I know that Bakersfield has had some star high school football players who were highly successful in college and the NFL--Frank Gifford may be the most famous?--but I don't think it gets the kind of attention from P5 programs that you see in LA, Orange County, San Diego and the Bay Area.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
