OSU QB recruit ends career with 506 yards and another state title
Published: 11/26/2011 6:04 PM
Last Modified: 11/26/2011 6:04 PM
After two more games – next Saturday’s Bedlam contest and a bowl – the career of Oklahoma State’s Brandon Weeden will have ended.
On Friday, the high school career of Wes Lunt concluded in the best possible way – with an Illinois playoff record 506 passing yards and a second consecutive Class 4A championship. Lunt’s Rochester Rockets prevailed 42-39 over Richmond-Burton.
In June, the 6-foot-5, 210-pound Lunt announced his commitment to Oklahoma State. In July, he sustained a fractured foot. After missing the first month of the regular season, he wound up with nine-game totals of more than 3,000 passing yards and 28 TD passes.
Apparently, Lunt has not decided whether he will graduate at the semester break and enroll at OSU in January. Rochester basketball is a strong consideration as Lunt is an outstanding shooting guard.
If Lunt does move to Stillwater in January, he would be involved in the Cowboys’ spring drills and could challenge returning scholarship QBs Clint Chelf and J.W. Walsh for the starting job.
Chelf will be a fourth-year junior. Walsh, a run-pass guy cut from the Zac Robinson mold, will be a redshirt freshman.
OSU coach Mike Gundy frequently describes Weeden as having an ability to “spin it” – launch tight spirals with velocity. Apparently, Lunt also can “spin” the football. On Friday, Rochester’s spread passing attack was countered by Richmond-Burton’s prolific run game. Rochester possessed the football for only 13 of the 48 game minutes, and Lunt still passed for 500 yards.
Lunt, Rochester coach Derek Leonard told the Chicago Tribune, is “a once-in-a-lifetime kid. He might be the best QB in the country.”
And in comments published by the State Journal-Register of Springfield, Ill., Leonard said, “I’ve had a few people who I really respect, college-wise, who have said (that Lunt’s delivery) is the most effortless throw they have ever seen.”
Lunt was recruited by Cowboy offensive coordinator Todd Monken and also by Illinois, Boston College, Iowa, Michigan State, Wisconsin and Louisville. Lunt announced his Cowboy commitment after he and his parents made an unofficial visit to the OSU campus.
“Oklahoma State just kind of popped up from out of nowhere,” Lunt told the Tulsa World in June. “There was a wow-and-shock factor. . . . I’m from a small town (population 3,200), so I really like the small-town feel of Stillwater. It’s a very unique, cool campus. And the football facilities are unreal.”
-- Bill Haisten
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Bill Haisten
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