Canadian Quarterbacks in the 2025 CFL Draft

[argolio]

Congrats to Taylor Elgersma signing with packers. I wonder if other U Sports quarterbacks with follow his path to becoming a pro QB by going
to the American quarterback camps in the off season?

https://3downnation.com/2025/05/12/land ... -contract/

Pretty much mandatory these days if you want to be a pro QB. Elgersma almost certainly would have ended up at a U.S. school if not for Covid cutting off his access to those camps.

Maybe the CFL's Little Lebowski QB intern program could help getting some of these Canadian U Sports QBs get US college ball opportunities; so they are not stuck having to play QB in scrub Canadian ball ?

Maybe U Sports could actually grow amateur ball in Canada instead of doing nothing like the last 50+ years.

[OV Argo]

Pretty much mandatory these days if you want to be a pro QB. Elgersma almost certainly would have ended up at a U.S. school if not for Covid cutting off his access to those camps.

Maybe the CFL's Little Lebowski QB intern program could help getting some of these Canadian U Sports QBs get US college ball opportunities; so they are not stuck having to play QB in scrub Canadian ball ?

Maybe U Sports could actually grow amateur ball in Canada instead of doing nothing like the last 50+ years.

No doubt you are very knowledgeable on all levels of Canadian football.

[argolio]

No doubt you are very knowledgeable on all levels of Canadian football.

I know U Sports is doing eff-all to to grow the game.

[OV Argo]

No doubt you are very knowledgeable on all levels of Canadian football.

I know U Sports is doing eff-all to to grow the game.

So, similar to the CFL then.

[argolio]

No doubt you are very knowledgeable on all levels of Canadian football.

I know U Sports is doing eff-all to to grow the game.

So, similar to the CFL then.

Not even close. I can watch any CFL game. The new Canadian women's pro soccer league will have more games on TV than U Sports football.

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I know U Sports is doing eff-all to to grow the game.

So, similar to the CFL then.

Not even close. I can watch any CFL game. The new Canadian women's pro soccer league will have more games on TV than U Sports football.

And that's the fault of U Sports football and nothing to do with the all-american wannabes who decide what gets on sports TV up here ? Please.

I can watch tons of US college ball up here and next to no U Sports football - cause the dorks who make those decisions just go with cheapest / easiest to broadcast; has zero to do with the quality of the product and everything to do with bottom-line and all-american hype sucking combined with an appalling lack of respect for the historic Canadian sport of gridiron football.

Maybe if the CFL starting pushing the big picture of Canadian football a lot more, that might help others get the picture and realize what a fine football product U Sports (or Junior ball), along with their own product, has to offer as an option for football and other sports fans ? But instead, the CFL prefers to be a league run by Americans / for Americans (see roster decisions/rules and coaching make-up). So instead we produce NFL fan-boys looking down their noses at Canadian football and they think the CFL is a dinky / 2nd rate product. No wonder other Canadian football lives in the shadows while all sorts of other entertainment (i.e. American pulp culture) gets lapped up by the sheep up here. The "Major League" media bottom-line weasels will gladly ignore Canadian football and the CFL brainiacs feel fortunate that at least TSN shows their games for paltry dollar returns. Is what it is. Some of us can still appreciate, support and find ways to watch real Canadian football though. And the Province of Quebec shows way more respect / support for Canadian football than most of the rest of the map up here - seen in U Sports attendance (Laval sometimes outdraws the feeble Argo "crowds") plus a game of the week is available on TV there.

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[OV Argo]

Thanks God for OUA TV. I can watch all the games online. Looking forward to the start of the season. It will be interesting how York does with Keegan Hall. It will be interesting to see how Laurier does without Elgersma. Will they become a primary running team? I suspect Western will be at the top of the heap again. Suspect a Western - Laval Vanier with the wily coached Laval winning it again.

IF Laval & Montreal have Desjardins & Senecal back at QB, then it will probably be another tight fight to see which of the 2 end up in the Vanier.

OUA could be open to surprises? Western might not have the horses they have had in the past (Yazbeck on Als suspended list? - does that suggest he will go back for another year at Western?). Love to see somebody rise up as a powerful new team to take the OUA.

Bishops could get better as the new AUS power ?

West is up for grabs, though if the Bisons get Tachinski back, i would bet on them.

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[argolio]

So, similar to the CFL then.

Not even close. I can watch any CFL game. The new Canadian women's pro soccer league will have more games on TV than U Sports football.

And that's the fault of U Sports football and nothing to do with the all-american wannabes who decide what gets on sports TV up here ? Please.

I can watch tons of US college ball up here and next to no U Sports football - cause the dorks who make those decisions just go with cheapest / easiest to broadcast; has zero to do with the quality of the product and everything to do with bottom-line and all-american hype sucking combined with an appalling lack of respect for the historic Canadian sport of gridiron football.

Maybe if the CFL starting pushing the big picture of Canadian football a lot more, that might help others get the picture and realize what a fine football product U Sports (or Junior ball), along with their own product, has to offer as an option for football and other sports fans ? But instead, the CFL prefers to be a league run by Americans / for Americans (see roster decisions/rules and coaching make-up). So instead we produce NFL fan-boys looking down their noses at Canadian football and they think the CFL is a dinky / 2nd rate product. No wonder other Canadian football lives in the shadows while all sorts of other entertainment (i.e. American pulp culture) gets lapped up by the sheep up here. The "Major League" media bottom-line weasels will gladly ignore Canadian football and the CFL brainiacs feel fortunate that at least TSN shows their games for paltry dollar returns. Is what it is. Some of us can still appreciate, support and find ways to watch real Canadian football though. And the Province of Quebec shows way more respect / support for Canadian football than most of the rest of the map up here - seen in U Sports attendance (Laval sometimes outdraws the feeble Argo "crowds") plus a game of the week is available on TV there.

I said a CANADIAN women's pro soccer league run by CANADIANS is getting exposure (20 games on TSN) in its very first year of operation. The CANADIAN people running the league went out in the CANADIAN marketplace and successfully pitched their CANADIAN product. What do American wannabees have to do with this, and why can't the people running U Sports get out of their plush chairs and do the same?

The CFL has no obligation to promote U Sports. The NFL doesn't promote college football down south. It promotes itself, very successfully.

Quebec football's rise was the result of a grassroots movement, not U Sports. Laval is also privately funded and is able to hire a full-time coaching staff. Most other U Sports schools have limited full-time positions (head coach, coordinators, maybe 1-2 more). The funding just isn't there mainly because U Sports is terrible at selling itself.

Isn't Laval guilty of being an American wannabe for running camps south of the border?