It could be a relationship based on mutual interest and need. Former Boston College offensive coordinator Dave Brock, who became the OC at Rutgers last season, was hired as the new football coach at Delaware last week.
One of the players that Brock recruited when he was at BC was quarterback Dave Shinskie. Shinskie came out of high school in Pennsylvania, but chose a career in baseball, before switching back to football four years ago as a 25-year old freshman.
Shinskie started for most of a season at BC before giving way to freshman Chase Rettig, who has had the starting job for the last three seasons. Shinskie didn’t play a down last season and has one more year of eligibility remaining. He is not in new BC coach Steve Addazio’s plans for next season. He also would like to play another year of college football.
Under friendly NCAA regulations, if player receives a degree at one school and has a year of eligibility remaining, he can play immediately at another school. Shinskie would meet the criteria.
Although Delaware also has an incumbent quarterback in Trent Hurley, who finished his sophomore season last year with the Blue Hens with 10 TD passes and 14 interceptions, Brock could very well take a look back into the future and contact Shinskie, who has experience and leadership qualities that Brock might want.
At least Shinskie hopes that is the case. “That would be great,” said Shinskie on Monday night. I was looking around at schools to see where I could transfer and Delaware would definitely be a place that I would look at. I was going there out of high school. I’m going to try and get in touch with him (Brock).”
© Copyright 2013 Mark, All rights Reserved. Written For: A Jersey Guy
This sounds like you put the thought of Uncle Dave transferring to UD in his head. Brock just got the UD job, he recruited Shinskie so you connected the dots and presto changeo…Shinskie is a Hen. Why would Brock want him at this point? Dave is 29 years old for Chrissakes…and he is a very poor QB. He won’t be playing on Sundays unless he is playing in a semi-pro league somewhere. It’s about time he took his degree and got on with his life. If Dave wanted to get into coaching, I might see him going there as a Grad Asst, but as a player??? I don’t think that is happening. I think you were pushing this because you like Shinskie and are trying to manufacture a story during the real slow time of the year for college football generally and BC football specifically. I enjoy your work very much but these types of articles are really bad….they are just made up to get a charge out of your readers. As Coach Ditka would say…Stop it!
Would be a smart move for Shinskie.
The BC ship won’t be afloat long this season, it seems.
Ah Mark, the late Gary Tranquil was the one who remembered Uncle Dave, Brock wasn’t on the staff the 2nd year of the ‘Spaz Error”
what do you mean Tranquil isn’t dead? he wasn’t the OC version of Weekend at Bernie’s?
wrong…Brock was on Spaz’s staff from the beginning. Hired as TEs coach right after Spaz was promoted. Shinskie was recruited to BC the summer before the 2009 season by Brock.
NOT SO FAST, DENNIS!
This is a very interesting development — Shinskie originally verballed to Delaware while in HS before deciding to give baseball a shot. He may even have signed an NLI, but I can’t remember for sure.