"It's like a dream come true"

Florida State adds to its thin quarterback room.

Wyatt Rector, a former three-star rookie and a transfer of western Michigan, is considering enrolling in the FSU as the preferred solution in May and could be placed on a scholarship while waiting for a hardship from the NCAA for immediate eligibility. For the moment, the rector will be considered a gray shirt and will have the chance to win a scholarship once he will be eligible to play, depending on the waiver.

At the very least, the rector (6-4, 231) will bring depth to the UFS. Ideally, he will receive the waiver and will be able to play immediately this season. This would be good news for a FSU team that currently has only one quarter eligible for scholarships – James Blackman – on the list.

"Honestly, it's like a dream come true," said the rector Noles247. "When I was growing up, I was a fan of Florida, but I fell in love with the FSU in high school and not in Florida: I was like" I was looking for a bad team all my life . "

"During the recruitment process [in high school], I went to the FSU games. People, football, the atmosphere is amazing. I like that. I can not wait to start.

The USF wanted to add athletics to the position, and the rector certainly agrees. A big and strong athlete from Leesburg, the rector had 3,242 passing yards, 918 yards and 44 touchdowns as a senior. He scored with a 40-yard run in 4.66 seconds in high school at an ESPN camp (hand-clocked at 4.59 also), a 36.8-inch vertical jump and a got one of the best SPARQ scores from every quarter of his recruitment. class.

He went to western Michigan as part of the 2018 signature class, but decided to transfer after one season. The coach of the quarter that he committed to leave to participate in another program just days after his signing with Western Michigan – this is one of the reasons why Rector will have a chance to get a waiver to play this season – and he felt he did not have the chance to do it. he was promised as a recruit. The rector worked wherever he could in the scouting team and occasionally traveled with the team, but sat at home and watch the matches when he was not in the team. trip was difficult.

After landing at Lenoir-Rhyne University for a week in January – Rector technically never registered – Rector left and decided to weigh his options while he was looking for a more stable landing point. It was a long drive from North Carolina to central Florida and it was perhaps the most important moment of self-doubt for Rector.

"I did not know if I would play football again," Rector said.

FSU did not sign calling the preparatory signal for the second consecutive promotion, suggesting that a younger and more promising candidate would need to be recruited. Rector and offensive coordinator Kendal Briles On several occasions since National Signing Day, he mentioned the possibility of the rector coming to Tallahassee. Once the rector and Briles started talking, he resumed his conditioning. The rector – who had landed a job at a Walgreens and Sherwin Williams last month – had previously been training and throwing the ball at former preparation teammates who were still around, but he then started throwing the ball up 1,000 times each day once he realized that FSU was at stake.

"A lot of coaches have said what I wanted to hear when I was rookie," said Rector, "but that never happened. # 39; coach [Briles]It seemed to me that it was the school of my dreams, that it was serious. "

The rector is familiar with the USF and the current training staff. It was offered by Willie Taggart when he was in high school (while Taggart was still at the USF), the rector went and camped several times in the USSR under the old regime. In fact, USF was the first FBS program to offer to Rector.

But the rector found himself talking with Briles during this process. He said that the coach had shouted "let's go" when he told him that he would come to the former USSR, and Briles pointed out to Rector that he had done a ton of research on the QB. S addressing former high school and college coaches, Briles learned that Rector was a mill.

"I'm going to push my teammates, I'll be there for them and try to be the big dog," Rector said. "Coach Briles also said that he wanted to open the game of double jeopardy, some".

The USF will probably go through the spring practice with two quarters of trading: the transfer of Blackman and Louisville Jordan Travis – as well as the ancient and only three-star hope Nolan McDonald.

Rector will be a freshman in 2019.