Houston High QB Fromm wows coach

Georgia commit impresses at Army All-American Bowl.

Georgia fans probably never thought the coach of a high school team in Kentucky could get them excited about the potential of Jake Fromm.

Kevin Wallace has seen Georgia’s new mid-year quarterback enrollee play one game. Ever. But that was enough. Wallace leads a Bowling Green High School team that finished 15-0 in 2016, averaged a gaudy 48.5 points per game and won another state title. His teams have won five state titles and posted an 84-3 record over the past six years.

He served as the offensive coordinator for the East team at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl this month.

“The first night I got here I gave my quarterbacks a booklet of all of our route stuff,” Wallace said while in San Antonio. “I knew it was going to be difficult to teach. We only had four real practices.”

Something came up the first day on the practice field.

“We are running a route,” Wallace said. “That’s not normally something we use back home. I got ready to run it and I was teaching progression off it, and I got to the backside and I got the two routes mixed up.”

Fromm saw that immediately.

“Jake goes, ‘Coach, I’m sorry, but that’s not right here’ and then said, ‘You had it the other way,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, my goodness you know what, you are right,’ and he was right to say that,” Wallace said.

Fromm already was that sharp in doing his homework.

“Think about this now,” Wallace said. “I hand it to him on Sunday night when he’s just getting here and he’s meeting everybody. I wouldn’t have expected him to go in and really study it. But this was just a nondescript route that was back in the back of the playbook. For him to know that, I thought that was a special thing.”

Fromm acted as another coach on the field when the East team began installing its offense. He did not need extra help from the coaches.

“He had an idea of what everybody was supposed to do on Day 1,” Wallace said. “I don’t know that we had anybody else that did that. He’s got an ‘it’ factor to him. You see it on the first day you meet him and then you see it over and over again every day after that. It is not just that he has the charisma and all of the leadership. This young man’s knowledge of the game and understanding of the game is really special.”

That’s why Fromm was a lock to start the game by the second practice. He had a coach’s understanding of the game plan and then made sure very few balls hit the ground when he had to rep the plays that were already ingrained in his head.

What’s going on with Beal? There seems to be a lot of misinformation spreading about four-star defensive end Robert Beal Jr. and his January visit plans.

Gwendolyn Beal, his mother, told DawgNation that her son, who committed to Georgia, planned to be in Athens this weekend for another unofficial visit. That’s contrary to the running narrative out there regarding Beal, his family and Florida State.

“I don’t know where all of this is coming from,” she said. “There seems to be a lot of misinformation out there.”

Beal’s mother provided a few items of note regarding her son’s decision. Offensive coordinator in U.S. Army All-American Bowl about QB Jake Fromm

Her son has one official visit left to take. That will be to South Carolina. That date has yet to be determined.

The rumors of Beal and his family taking another unofficial visit to Florida State are not accurate, she said. There is no plan for them to return to Tallahassee for another visit to hang out with Beal’s former IMG Academy roommate and FSU five-star early enrollee Joshua Kaindoh.

They do not plan to take any other unofficial visits, except to UGA.Gwendolyn Beal described her son’s commitment to UGA as strong, but said she’d defer the questions about that to her son. That is — and it has always been — his decision.

Beal reiterated the strength of his commitment to Georgia with a post to his Twitter account Saturday afternoon. He stated that he was not going anywhere except to Georgia.

Beal now rates as the nation’s No. 5 weakside defensive end prospect for 2017, by the 247Sports composite rankings, and the No. 81 overall prospect.

Large group in town: This weekend largely was a time for UGA to showcase its program to seven committed players.

Four-star defensive end Markaviest “Big Cat” Bryant of Crisp County was the lone undecided target with a UGA scholarship offer among the recruits in Athens this weekend, and DawgNation has for some time projected him to choose UGA.

The strength of commitments definitely stands out for this year’s class. There was only one official visit taken by this year’s early enrollees after making their public commitment to UGA.

That trend continues among the remainder of the class that will enroll in June. Only three of those 17 pledges have opted to visit other schools after they committed to UGA.

Game to get on your radar: There will be another all-star game held this afternoon, at Grady Stadium.

That’s the Tru19 game, which will feature Georgia’s best 2019 prospects taking on their peers from Texas.

The Class of 2019 in Georgia is loaded. There are almost as many highly ranked players in Georgia this year in the early Top 100 rankings for those prospects as there are in Florida and Texas combined.

The Rome High coaching staff had the reins of Team Georgia this week. Former Falcons QB Michael Vick is the head coach of the Texas squad.

The game kicks off at 2 p.m. at Grady Stadium.

There already are 20-plus players on the Georgia squad who have at least one scholarship offer from a program within the SEC.

Both teams took in an unofficial visit to UGA on Saturday afternoon.

Houston County High School QB Jake Fromm.