Blue Hens recruits who had FBS offers but committed to Delaware delighted by CUSA climb

Braden Streeter was recruited by Football Bowl Subdivision programs but opted for Football Championship Subdivision member Delaware.

Now the senior quarterback at Christ Presbyterian Academy in Nashville will actually play for an FBS program.

Delaware recently announced a 2025 move to FBS as a conference USA member.

That’s fine by Streeter and another class of 2024 high school recruit who accepted UD football scholarship offers and will sign a National Letter of Intent on Dec. 20.

Streeter actually chose Delaware over another former FCS school, Appalachian State, which beat Delaware in the 2007 NCAA title game but is now in the FBS Sun Belt Conference.

CPA’s Braden Streeter (15) passes the ball during the BlueCross Bowl Division II-AA Championship game against Lipscomb Academy at Finley Stadium, in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.

“I just felt like Delaware was the place for me,” said Streeter, who committed during the summer. “I thought about the [possible] FBS jump a little bit, but it didn’t play a huge part.

“Now I’m really excited and really happy that they made the jump because I feel it’ll be a great opportunity to be in Conference USA, and I think we’ll be able to compete really well.”

Braden Streeter has family ties

Streeter is also descended from UD football royalty.

He is the grandson of Barry Streeter, who was head coach at Gettysburg from 1978 through 2017 after starting his career as a graduate assistant on Tubby Raymond’s Delaware staff. Barry Streeter’s late wife, Barb, was the younger sister of UD fullback Chuck Hall, who finished in 1970 with a school record 3,157 yards but died in 1973 from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Great uncle Tom Hall, Chuck’s brother, operates Newark’s CardioKinetics health care facility.

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Author : Delaware Online | The News Journal

Publish date : 2023-12-10 09:58:32

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