Brian Joseph writes about the success of Kapernick in the 2012 football season. After leading the franchise to its sixth Super Bowl appearance, Kapernick is now a bonafide NFL star. He recalls his experience of watching Kapernick throughout the 2010 season and was thoroughly impressed with the tall rangy quarterback's arm strength and foot speed. He was then equally impressed to know that the quarterback was also an accomplished baseball prospect and was clocked throwing a sizzling 93 mph fastball while in high school.

Brian Joseph of Etiwanda High School says that many high school players have the dream of earning a college scholarship to a major program and they believe that this scholarship validates their athletic prowess. High school recruiting publications create mythical champions for the annual recruiting process but a four or five star blue chip athlete out of high school does not necessarily translate into a future pro-bowler, a collegiate All American or even a collegiate starter. In 2006, then high school senior Colin Kapernick was a two star athlete and the 67th ranked quarterback in his class by a prominent recruiting publication. Kapernick was ranked way behind such notables as future NFL starters Jake Locker and Josh Freeman. He did not have the polished mechanics of the more celebrated quarterback in his recruiting class. His talent on baseball diamond was clearly his path to super stardom but he still wanted to play football and would ultimately land a scholarship with the University of Nevada.

NFL has shown since its inception that playing collegiately at a school that has a storied tradition does not always result into NFL success. Players like Jacoby Jones, Colin Kaepernick, Matt Birk and Mike Iupati show that its not who you have played for in college that really matters, it is what you do with the talent that you were given. Brian is an experienced writer and blogger who loves to share his experiences with football lovers. He is appreciated for his excellent knowledge about the industry.

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