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Sage Surrat is unreal....

CONeill said:
I don't have any inside knowledge -- even if a decision has already been made, which is incredibly unlikely, it'd probably be announced on Twitter or something.

What I can say is that I'm not sure Sage will be influenced looking at others, i.e. Dortch and Bates. I do feel like Dortch was influenced by Bates in that Jessie left with a low grade and went to the combine, where he vaulted up draft boards. I think Greg thought he'd be able to do the same, but wasn't recovered from the hand/wrist injury and couldn't work out at the combine.

Sage, though, is a pretty independent thinker. Case in point, the hood-only look, which he told me after the game was influenced by seeing Marquise Brown wear one last year at Oklahoma (edit to say I guess he's not the most-independent of thinkers, but still a strange quirk). I didn't know this until reading the story from the Athletic last week, but he and Chazz were something of chess prodigies -- which isn't shocking. Sage is one of the best-spoken players on the team, he's cerebral (which, Harvard, so duh).

So, what I'm trying to say is: If he leaves early, it'll be of his own volition. If he stays, it'll be easy to point to him valuing his degree. You grads would know much better than I, but he's an economics major -- can't imagine that's the easiest of majors at Wake.
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This whole post makes me happy. Would be incredible to have 2 more years of Sage.
 
CreamyGoodness said:
This whole post makes me happy. Would be incredible to have 2 more years of Sage.
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it would - but I don't see him sticking around for TWO years

surely a WF economics grad will see the value in starting his NFL career
 
CONeill said:
I don't have any inside knowledge -- even if a decision has already been made, which is incredibly unlikely, it'd probably be announced on Twitter or something.

What I can say is that I'm not sure Sage will be influenced looking at others, i.e. Dortch and Bates. I do feel like Dortch was influenced by Bates in that Jessie left with a low grade and went to the combine, where he vaulted up draft boards. I think Greg thought he'd be able to do the same, but wasn't recovered from the hand/wrist injury and couldn't work out at the combine.

Sage, though, is a pretty independent thinker. Case in point, the hood-only look, which he told me after the game was influenced by seeing Marquise Brown wear one last year at Oklahoma (edit to say I guess he's not the most-independent of thinkers, but still a strange quirk). I didn't know this until reading the story from the Athletic last week, but he and Chazz were something of chess prodigies -- which isn't shocking. Sage is one of the best-spoken players on the team, he's cerebral (which, Harvard, so duh).

So, what I'm trying to say is: If he leaves early, it'll be of his own volition. If he stays, it'll be easy to point to him valuing his degree. You grads would know much better than I, but he's an economics major -- can't imagine that's the easiest of majors at Wake.
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As an economics major I expect he will weigh the opportunity costs of staying vs. declaring. Maybe even a decision tree analysis.
 
CreamyGoodness said:
This whole post makes me happy. Would be incredible to have 2 more years of Sage.
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He is graduating after 4 years. So, best case scenario, Chase stays through his RS junior year (next year). With that said, I'm just enjoying watching him dominate every DB he faces each weekend this fall. If Suratt leaves after this season, will have thoroughly enjoyed his two years on the field. Player.
 
Wonder if Chazz having one more year left (surely he won't go pro) will have any effect on Sage staying in school? Seems like it could.
 
Barring some catastrophic injury, I will be very pleasantly surprised if we get one more season out of Sage. I don't see any way he wouldn't jump pro if he keeps up this pace.
 
Desmond Clark had great hands and was physical but he wasn’t a deep threat. He was even a part time TE as a senior which of course he played in the NFL.

Clark and Surratt have very different games. Jason Anderson is the only Wake player who is a decent comp.
 
PhDeac said:
Desmond Clark had great hands and was physical but he wasn’t a deep threat. He was even a part time TE as a senior which of course he played in the NFL.

Clark and Surratt have very different games. Jason Anderson is the only Wake player who is a decent comp.
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I suspect that was more a result of the times than anything. In the mid-late 90s when Clark played WR, you couldn't just chuck the ball up 10 feet in the air to your big WR and hope he caught it with no repercussions - that would be fun until he missed the ball and the FS ruptured his spleen with his helmet or knocked him unconscious. Then Randy Moss started catching those balls against inferior DBs at Marshall and the NCAA said hey this is pretty cool to watch on Sportscenter, let's put in defenseless receiver and targeting rules that encourage those types of catches. I think you are right that the net result was that their games are different, but I think that they are pretty similar in terms of their individual skill sets if they were playing in the same environment.
 
yeah, some serious revisionist history on Anderson by his contemporaries at Wake around here
 
tigerswood said:
Wonder if Chazz having one more year left (surely he won't go pro) will have any effect on Sage staying in school? Seems like it could.
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Chazz graduates from Carolina and transfers here for his final year. Sage stays one more year to have a chance to play with his brother again.
 
tigerswood said:
Wonder if Chazz having one more year left (surely he won't go pro) will have any effect on Sage staying in school? Seems like it could.
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Why, we aren't playing UNC next year, so he won't have another chance to take older bro to school again?
 
I looked up the yards per catch for some of Wake's top receivers.

1. Ricky Proehl - 15.7
2. Sage Surratt - 15.6
3. Chris Givens - 15.2

That stat isn't everything, but for a guy that isn't supposed to be real fast, that's pretty impressive.

As far as being dominant, he seems to put DBs on a poster more than the rest.
 
liveanddiedeac said:
Why, we aren't playing UNC next year, so he won't have another chance to take older bro to school again?
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I'd assume they enjoy being college kids together, albeit at different schools. If Chazz were a senior this year, wouldn't that make it at lest slightly more likely for Sage to leave as well?
 
Rocket said:
Chazz graduates from Carolina and transfers here for his final year. Sage stays one more year to have a chance to play with his brother again.
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I wonder where he might go? Are there any schools closer to home that will be losing their best linebacker and could use some depth and experience?
 
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