Actually Quinn was a highley recruited player out of High School. I believe his top schools were OSU, Mich, ND, USC, and Florida. He had a pick of any school he wanted. He was talked about as the next(perhaps only) greatest QB to come out of the state of Ohio. And there were talks of him playing on sundays way back in his high school days.
As a Notre Dame fan, I remember a buzz about Quinn coming out of Dublin, OH (I believe). He certainly flourished under Weiss.
It makes me think...what if Ron Powlus had Weiss as a coach for three years. Lou Holtz was a great coach, but he emphasized a strong ground game and Bob Davie was a defensive whiz, but not much else. While Powlus was a good QB and holds many of the school passing records, he is looked at as a failure because he couldn't live up to the enormous hype.
I don't think there was ever as much hype around a high school football player as there was around Powlus.
