Frost attempted to set up a phone call with him after the championship game and Cole declined to listen to him. I cannot say if Frost was gonna offer and if he was if it would be to play QB. But I don’t think it would’ve been as easy as just offering him to get him to flip
He redshirted during the 2009 season behind Mertens, I think.
As it relates to his 2010 competition with Jose, by the middle of the season, coaches seemed to want to move on from Jose and start Brock but everyone forgets that he had a hard time staying healthy. He seemed brittle that year, which seems absurd now that hindsight shows us the toughness of his next three years.
What has always bugged me is that Mertens was never allowed to run, which was central to his game. The story was that there was no good backup option if he got hurt. That makes sense to me for the 2008 season but for 2009, Brock was there. My guess is that he just didn't show IT during practice his true freshman year.
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