The Wednesday tutoring session began like so many others. Lee&rsquo;s Summit High School quarterback Corbin Berkstresser threw pass after pass.</p><p>Then he popped the question.</p><p>&ldquo;If I know I don&rsquo;t want to play anywhere else,&rdquo; Berkstresser said, &ldquo;should I just go ahead and commit to Missouri?&rdquo;</p><p>Berkstresser&rsquo;s QB coach, Skip Stitzell &mdash; who works on camps with many high schools and colleges, including Missouri &mdash; countered with a question of his own.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re telling me that if Florida, USC, Notre Dame, Texas &mdash; any of those programs &mdash; came after you, you have no interest in them?&rdquo; Stitzell said.</p><p>Berkstresser did not hesitate.</p><p>&ldquo;I just want to play for Missouri,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>Well, then, Stitzell said, if Berkstresser&rsquo;s mind was made up, his heart set &hellip;</p><p>The next day, June 18, Berkstresser accepted Missouri&rsquo;s offer of a football scholarship &mdash; for the 2011 college season.</p><p>Berkstresser, Stitzell confirmed, may not be the only rising junior quarterback to pledge to a college with two prep seasons to play before his college debut.</p><p>&ldquo;For the nation,&rdquo; said Stitzell, who runs the nationally known Quarterback&rsquo;s Edge training service out of Fayette, Mo., &ldquo;I think 2011 is going to be a very strong year for quarterbacks.&rdquo;</p><p>For Missouri and the Kansas City area especially, according to early listings by Rivals.com, the national recruiting network.</p><p>Rivals has yet to publish 2011 position rankings, but Berkstresser is just one of four quarterbacks from the state of Missouri or the Kansas City area already listed as Division I prospects for that recruiting class.</p><p>Also listed is Max Shortell of Bishop Miege, who has drawn recruiting interest from Iowa, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska and Tulsa.</p><p>Raymore-Peculiar&rsquo;s Cameron Coffman already has an offer from Kansas State, where brother Carson is a quarterback, and is on the recruiting list for Missouri, where brother Chase was an All-America tight end.</p><p>Across the state, St. Louis Chaminade&rsquo;s Christian Suntrup has offers from Nebraska and Stanford, along with interest from Missouri, Colorado, Iowa, Northwestern and Wisconsin.</p><p>In part because of Stitzell &mdash; and plugged-in fathers like Paul Coffman &mdash; this area has earned a reputation as fertile ground for promising college football talent. Particularly quarterbacks.</p><p>Two area quarterbacks set to begin their college careers this fall ranked among the top 15 quarterbacks in the nation by Rivals.com.</p><p>Nathan Scheelhaase, who signed with Illinois out of Rockhurst High, was No. 7 in the dual-threat QB rankings.</p><p>Blaine Dalton, who signed with Missouri out of Blue Springs South, was No. 12 on that same list.</p><p>&ldquo;The last three years, there have been at least two &mdash; if not three &mdash; Missouri and Kansas City kids go Division I as quarterbacks,&rdquo; Stitzell said. &ldquo;The level of quality of quarterbacks is getting better. And more and more schools are recognizing it.&rdquo;</p><p>Early commitments are not binding, on the player or the school. Blaine Gabbert, slated to be Missouri&rsquo;s starting quarterback, angered Missouri fans by slipping out of St. Louis to commit to Nebraska. Then he changed his mind and opted for Mizzou.</p><p>Former Grandview High quarterback Josh Freeman pulled a similar switch, jilting the Cornhuskers for Kansas State.</p><p>Such occurrences are why Paul Coffman encouraged his first two sons to wait and fully consider committing rather than jumping early.