by Paul Clark
Iowa State will bolster its quarterback ranks for 2016 with the addition of a former Georgia quarterback who was out of college and out of football this past fall.
Goose Creek (S.C.) native Jacob Park told CycloneReport.com of his plans on Tuesday morning. He was a four-star prospect out of high school in 2014, ranked as the nation’s No. 12 pro-style quarterback by Rivals.com two years ago. He was a member of the elite Rivals250 as the No. 229 overall prospect in the nation and was also considered the fourth-best prospect out of South Carolina in his senior year at Stratford High School.
Park took an official visit to Iowa State this past weekend and is now verbally committed to sign a letter-of-intent with the Cyclones on Wednesday. Because he did not play collegiately in the fall of 2015, he is considered a transfer and not a recruiting prospect by Rivals.com. Therefore he is not in the Rivals database as a 2016 prospect. He does have a 2014 Rivals database profile.
Park said ISU assistant coach Alex Golesh made first contact with him in December as he prepared to enroll at Northeastern Oklahoma (NEO) A&M College in Miami, Oklahoma. Park had taken fall term classes at a community college near his home after choosing to leave Georgia earlier in 2015. The contact with Golesh led to contact with Cyclone head coach Matt Campbell and the official visit to Ames over the weekend.
According to Park, he’ll be immediately eligible to play for Iowa State in the fall and compete for the Cyclones’ starting quarterback job. Park plans to get his associate’s degree from NEO in May and enroll at ISU in the summer, taking part in the program’s summer conditioning regimen.
“[Coach] Campbell and I have a close relationship already,” Park said. “I could start this fall and they were really excited to have me. I wanted to work on my footwork so I could give it a shot (to get back to Division I) so that year off was great for me.”
Park enrolled at Georgia in January of 2014 and redshirted that fall before leaving Athens. He’ll have three seasons of eligibility remaining. As a high school senior in 2013, he was named South Carolina’s “Mr. Football” for throwing for 3,665 yards and 33 touchdowns in leading Stratford to a state championship.
Iowa State will bolster its quarterback ranks for 2016 with the addition of a former Georgia quarterback who was out of college and out of football this past fall.
Goose Creek (S.C.) native Jacob Park told CycloneReport.com of his plans on Tuesday morning. He was a four-star prospect out of high school in 2014, ranked as the nation’s No. 12 pro-style quarterback by Rivals.com two years ago. He was a member of the elite Rivals250 as the No. 229 overall prospect in the nation and was also considered the fourth-best prospect out of South Carolina in his senior year at Stratford High School.
Park took an official visit to Iowa State this past weekend and is now verbally committed to sign a letter-of-intent with the Cyclones on Wednesday. Because he did not play collegiately in the fall of 2015, he is considered a transfer and not a recruiting prospect by Rivals.com. Therefore he is not in the Rivals database as a 2016 prospect. He does have a 2014 Rivals database profile.
Park said ISU assistant coach Alex Golesh made first contact with him in December as he prepared to enroll at Northeastern Oklahoma (NEO) A&M College in Miami, Oklahoma. Park had taken fall term classes at a community college near his home after choosing to leave Georgia earlier in 2015. The contact with Golesh led to contact with Cyclone head coach Matt Campbell and the official visit to Ames over the weekend.
According to Park, he’ll be immediately eligible to play for Iowa State in the fall and compete for the Cyclones’ starting quarterback job. Park plans to get his associate’s degree from NEO in May and enroll at ISU in the summer, taking part in the program’s summer conditioning regimen.
“[Coach] Campbell and I have a close relationship already,” Park said. “I could start this fall and they were really excited to have me. I wanted to work on my footwork so I could give it a shot (to get back to Division I) so that year off was great for me.”
Park enrolled at Georgia in January of 2014 and redshirted that fall before leaving Athens. He’ll have three seasons of eligibility remaining. As a high school senior in 2013, he was named South Carolina’s “Mr. Football” for throwing for 3,665 yards and 33 touchdowns in leading Stratford to a state championship.
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