Globe & Mail article on Darryl Leason
Ravi Ramkissoonsingh
University of Calgary QB and possible future CFLer Darryl Leason. I
found the part on the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for running up the
score especially interesting as I didn't think that an official could
call a penalty on a situation like that. Anyway, enjoy!
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Ravi Ramkissoonsingh
M.A. student, Department of Psychology
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Check out my home page at http://www.carleton.ca/~rramkiss/
Glenn Chin
My apologies if this issue has been covered. Why isn't Leason playing
university football with the Saskatchewan Huskies? Did he simply prefer
the University of Calgary?
Glenn
Jon LeBlanc
Hi Glenn,
Leason said he felt that he wanted to be on a team which has a reasonable
chance of being at the top of the standings every year. He could have gone
to the Huskies but it is difficult to believe that he would unseat
Schneider as starter. With Calgary, he felt that he could wrestle the
reins from Blaskovitch and make the Dinos his own.
*My opinion*:
Calgary vs. Saskatoon is what it boiled down to. Leason had to think:
Calgary is a CFL city, has several more TV and radio stations (and
Newsworld studios), has the best athletic training facilities in North
America, if not the world; is the cheapest place to live in Canada, and is
an airline hub. Leason thus gets plenty of media and scouting looks, and a
chance to lead one of the best CIAU football programmes.
Jon LeBlanc University of Calgary Alberta, Canada
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sai...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Interesting that the author of this article fails to mention that Leason
played in an exhibition game for the Eskimos this year. Many fans in
Edmonton speculated that Leason would play for the Golden Bears at the
University of Alberta to be close to his future professional team. In
fact, some reports suggested the Dinos were paying Leason under the
table, but nothing has emerged to substantiate that rumour.
Christopher Spencer
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Prediction: In the year 2000, three starting CFL quarterbacks will be
Canadian, including CWUAA rivals Leason and Schneider (University of
Saskatchewan).
Jon LeBlanc
On 13 Oct 1996 sai...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
> In fact, some reports suggested the Dinos were paying Leason
> under the table, but nothing has emerged to substantiate that
> rumour.
Oh come on, Christopher, has Earl Macrae suddenly moved to
Edmonton? Who is saying this and what evidence is there? The
student body here at the U of C just voted on whether to add
a greater amount of funding for athletics from tuitions since
the program is very tight for funds these days. No results of
the vote yet.
Hawker
In article <Pine.A41.3.94.961013...@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca>,
jcjl...@acs.ucalgary.ca said...
>*My opinion*:
>
>Calgary vs. Saskatoon is what it boiled down to. Leason had to think:
>
>Calgary is a CFL city, has several more TV and radio stations (and
>Newsworld studios), has the best athletic training facilities in North
>America, if not the world; is the cheapest place to live in Canada, and is
>an airline hub. Leason thus gets plenty of media and scouting looks, and a
>chance to lead one of the best CIAU football programmes.
>
Calgary is the cheapest place to live in Canada? Even with a high tuition,
Saskatoon is a much cheaper place to live. I think that the greater
scholorship opportunities, as well as the opportunity to start this year
(remember, at 22 Leason probably won't stay at the U of C for 5 years) were
the main points.
Hawker
Keith Willoughby
From Christopher Spencer,
>Prediction: In the year 2000, three starting CFL quarterbacks will be
>Canadian, including CWUAA rivals Leason and Schneider (University of
>Saskatchewan).
Christopher,
As much as I'd like to see it, I doubt that Huskie QB Brent
Schneider will start in the CFL. He's 27 years of age, and I
doubt that CFL teams would be willing to let him be the starting
QB. (Saskatchewan, however, did draft him in the 1994 CFL
draft).
Regards,
Keith
Theodore Kamena
In article <53rtmq$j...@news.sas.ab.ca>,
<sai...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>Interesting that the author of this article fails to mention that Leason
>played in an exhibition game for the Eskimos this year. Many fans in
>Edmonton speculated that Leason would play for the Golden Bears at the
>table, but nothing has emerged to substantiate that rumour.
>
the athletic department is. I know, because I was in and around
the department quite a bit the last three years. We have enough
trouble getting people to buy season tickets, much less get them
to pay for Darryl Leason.
Really, despite Alberta's success this year, Calgary has, on a
fairly consistent basis, been the top program in the West. And
unlike Alberta, it hasn't gone through a "will we have a football
team" crisis lately. That alone might have scared him off of U of
A.
>Prediction: In the year 2000, three starting CFL quarterbacks will be
>Canadian, including CWUAA rivals Leason and Schneider (University of
>Saskatchewan).
Not Schnider, he's 27 years old and his arm strength is
marginal. I love to watch him, but he isn't CFL material. Hasn't
he been under 50 percent completions the last two years? Adrian
Rainbow was a better prospect than Schnider. He had a gun.
Leason is a possibility.
Butch Kamena
In Bellingham, where the CIAU is a faint echo.
Keith Willoughby
From Butch Kamena:
> Not Schnider, he's 27 years old and his arm strength is
>marginal. I love to watch him, but he isn't CFL material. Hasn't
>he been under 50 percent completions the last two years? Adrian
>Rainbow was a better prospect than Schnider. He had a gun.
Butch,
Good to hear from you again.
I looked at the CIAU stats before the recent Calgary @
Saskatchewan game. Schneider was completing roughly 48% of his
passes, and had more INT's (8) than TD's (4).
After the Calgary game, Schneider was _barely_ completing 50% of
his passes, and his INT to TD ratio was 9 to 6.
How, then, are the Huskies (5-1) ranked #1 in the nation? It
goes to show you what a great ground attach (Doug Rozon) and a
stifling defense will do for you.
With regard to Schneider's abilities, I think too many people are
looking at what he did during the final 7 minutes of regulation
time in the 1994 Vanier Cup. Yes, he set the world on fire then,
but we haven't seen a similar performance in Saskatchewan since
then.
Regards,
Keith