Jenni Carlson
11/29/2013, 03:11 AM
Coming out of high school in San Antonio, Texas, Drew Allen had all the tools to succeed as a college quarterback: he was 6-foot-5 and 210 pounds, could throw a ball 70 yards while standing flat-footed, ran a 4.7-second 40-yard dash, bench-pressed 265 pounds, squatted 345, had a vertical leap of 29 inches, and excelled in the classroom. Even though he had offers from several schools -Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, Wake Forest, Colorado, Vanderbilt, even Harvard and Yale of the Ivy League - when Oklahoma called and he hit it off with quarterbacks coach Josh Heupel, the soft-spoken Texan became a Sooner. The reasoning was sound: Allen would learn from Sam Bradford, a Heisman Trophy winner, and there was only one other quarterback on the roster, Landry Jones. ''So, the opportunity there to go in and compete and have a fair shot as a redshirt freshman and learning from a Heisman Trophy winner - that opportunity was there and I really wanted that.'' As expected, Bradford left college a year early and was the top pick in the NFL draft, but the chance Allen expected never materialized and demonstrates what a crap shoot the business of college football can be.
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