BC Gets Verbal Commitment From Poor Man’s Chris Weinke To Play QB
Rivals - Boston College Athletic Director Gene DeFillippo recently hinted at an alumni get together that BC was looking at a former baseball prospect to add to the depth chart at quarterback with Dominique Davis now gone. Looking back in the Rivals.com recruiting database to the class of 2003, the name Dave Shinskie was common knowledge to college recruiters in the Big East and Big Ten. The 6-foot-4, 215-pounder had offers from Indiana, Iowa and Temple as well as interest from Pitt and Michigan State before he signed with Delaware. Why Delaware? Shinskie was sure he was going to be drafted for baseball and would make his career playing on the diamond. Shinskie was correct as he was drafted by the Minnesota Twins out of Mt. Carmel High School in Pennsylvania in the 2003 amateur draft. He was selected in the 4th round, 118th overall as a pitcher. However, Shinskie never got past AA ball and his baseball dream is appparently over. Now the former quarterback has four years of college football eligibility left and a big arm. Now Shinskie is looking to return to the gridiron and visited Boston College this past week. He arrived at BC on Wednesday night and spent Thursday on campus. He would have five years to play four and would enroll at the school of his choice immediately as a 25-year-old freshman.
You got to give the Superfans credit. They reacted quickly to the loss of Dominque Davis by doing what any good program will do. They went and found some old dude to take over the helm. And not just any old dude. We’re talking Dave Shinskie. Yes that Dave Shinskie. The same one that was recruited by football powerhouses Indiana and Temple back in the day. So you know he’s got to be good. I guess it’s true what they say about Gene DeFillippo after all. He’s playing chess while everybody else plays checkers.
PS – You’re not going to find the news that this guy committed to BC anywhere yet, but our sources are telling us it’s official and it happened yesterday. Just the Stool being the Stool….
BC may be a bit confused about how the Minnesota-to-Boston = Championship thing works.
I played middle school football. Maybe I will give Gene a call.
Was his Dad Gus Sinske who caught Billy Chapel’s perfect game against the Yankees?
BC players need to have real SAT scores, have a c or better average … and regular student athlete shit like that.
So they will never win shit …
Nobody can run a 4.2 and get a C or better avg.
someone tell the pres of BC to stop caring about the futures of these athletes and start competing.
davis was horrible anyways – i agree, start letting in these creeps who cant read or write if this team ever wants to really win – everybody else does it
BC ‘student’ athletes. Nice one. You guys ever heard BC grad Fred Smerlas try to speak the English language? Bet he was a great student. Stop fooling yourselves, you suck.
this is stupid, bc has a kid names joe boisture coming in as a four star recruit in 2010 at the quarterback position. this kid coming in is a joke this guy is a poor mans greg paulus and most likely wont work out.
How fucking old are you that you bring up Fred Fucking Smerlas … Go read TIME fucking magazine you fucking loser.
» Pattyb said: { Jun 8, 2009 – 01:06:20 }
BC players need to have real SAT scores, have a c or better average … and regular student athlete shit like that.
So they will never win shit …
Nobody can run a 4.2 and get a C or better avg.
someone tell the pres of BC to stop caring about the futures of these athletes and start competing.
DUUUUDE, they suck cause they’re from boston. people in boston watch the patriots, they don’t care about BC and their crappy 40,000 seat band box. There is no big college football in the northeast because unlike in the south people can afford to go to a pro game.
as for the gpa stuff, they have kids who played there who couldn’t spell their own names, just like every d1 school
Pattyb has just been outed as a superfan! (see latest blog entry Patty re reader email against superfan t shirts…)
You want me to read TIME magazine!? I bet Fred Smerlas wouldn’t know what to do with that rag other than wipe his ass with it.
25 year old freshman? Well he can buy for the rest of the team.
Forget Smerlas, what about that bumbling fool DeOssie? He basically regurgitates what Ordway says word for word. It’s comical when he actually thinks he is smarter than the callers. BC representation on that station is not exactly stellar. Pete Sheppard, out of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, is a MENSA candidate compared to his BC colleagues.
bc has a football team?