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  1. Chase Litton probably just became Marshall's starting QB for the next three or four years. Started today in place of struggling JMU transfer Michael Birdsong, went 24 of 31 for 270 yards, 4 TD, 0 INT, 5 runs for 27 yards. Never should've let him go.
  2. In all seriousness this should be a tremendous get for the Bulls. I just find it funny how many people ruthlessly went after the KID's character out of butthurt and now those same people are going to have to find some sort of rationalization so they can feel alright rooting for him as a Bull.
  3. I just found this out and had to laugh. After all this time and so many people trashing Woulard, it's hilarious he's going to be a Bull again.
  4. LOL ok. Team goes 13-1 with the only loss coming in overtime after they scored a touchdown and the other team decides to go for two points instead of going to double overtime, and had the best offense in FBS football, but they suck. Sometimes I think the people around here deserve a ****** USF football team.
  5. I always wondered why the hell UVA kept on with Greyson Lambert instead of Matt Johns. Right away in that UCLA game it was clear that Matt Johns had the mentality to open up the offense and actually threaten the defense in all areas of the field. Then again it sounds to me like Mike London has really botched and mishandled the QB position up at UVA about as badly as Willie Taggart has in Tampa. I guess in a recent conference call with reporters the offensive coordinator said that Matt Johns sits atop the depth chart for now only because he just barely graded ahead of the rest of the quarterbacks, but that it's a fluid situation. Then the head coach Mike London jumped on and said the competition wasn't close, that they won't be heading into August with two guys fighting for the spot. That's what immediately preceded Lambert's transfer. South Florida is likely a year too late to try and recruit Lambert as a transfer. A year ago they were still running a pro style offense with an offensive coach that had coached in the pros, and Willie had a strong connection with Jim Harbaugh who at the time was a coach in the pros. Those things would have attracted a Greyson Lambert. Now, that's all gone. Harbaugh's at Michigan, Willie scapegoated and fired his offensive coaches, installed a decidedly not pro style system. and we're very likely stuck with Quinton Flowers. On the bright side, Willie is so indecisive that we'll probably see another quarterback take the field before the first game is even through.
  6. Except when Marshall played tougher teams, like the 11-2 Northern Illinois program, they diced them up as well. Embarrassed them even worse than Florida State had done a few years ago, really. A good offense is a good offense. Asiantii Woulard was committed to a different coaching staff and when that staff changed, there was no chance of keeping him especially as he had made a name for himself at the E11 competition. I don't really have any desire to bring him up because this coaching staff didn't really have a choice when it came to Asiantii Woulard. The reason I bring Chase Litton up is because unlike Asiantii Woulard, Litton was a kid the Bulls could have kept. He was committed to this staff. They botched their handling of him. It was a relationship that could have been salvaged, and because it wasn't salvaged the Bulls have some pretty bad options at the quarterback position this year. Personally I think the handling of the QB situation has doomed the current coaching staff, and the only reason I could see them being kept in 2016 would be if the powers that be decide they don't want to buy out Taggart's contract and then turn around and hand out yet another one. But I do feel like their fortunes might be different if they'd resolved their situation with Chase Litton instead of turning on and demonizing a mere kid just because he got his nose bent by their handling of him.
  7. Interesting QB situation up in Marshall. They pulled in a 6'5" & 245 lbs transfer from James Madison named Michael Birdsong, who sat out his required year in 2014. He seemed to be the coaching staff's intended ringer, the guy they figured would be the starter. But Rakeem Cato's primary backup last year Gunnar Holcombe actually had experience in the offense and so he had the advantage during spring practices. They also had a recruit they really liked in Cole Garvin. But true freshman Chase Litton appears to have blown the staff away to the point where it was really difficult for them to even temporarily name Michael Birdsong as the starting QB heading into camp. Because of Litton's progress, Garvin has now transferred, and most people around the program are looking at Birdsong as the placeholder until Litton takes over. Marshall's offense was the best in FBS football last year, and nearly as good the year before. They were probably the best non-P5 team in the FBS. That would be a hell of an offense for Litton to inherit.
  8. I don't know what to expect this season, other than pain. You lose the best wide receiver USF has ever had in Andre Davis. You lose quite possibly the best offensive lineman USF has ever had in Austin Reiter. You also lose the best quarterback USF had, albeit on a roster full of sh-tty quarterbacks. You lose a legitimate NFL draft pick in Reshard Cliett. You lose the best corner on the team in Chris Dunkley. On the other side, Willie Taggart has done a good job recruiting non-QB positions for two years and some of those players were already starting to flower in 2014, guys like Devin Abraham, Marlon Mack, Dee Johnson, Nigel Harris, some transfers like Jamie Byrd and Rodney Adams. You've got some holdover assets that you can feel good about. Guys like Brynjar Gudmundsson, Thor Jozwiack, Nigel Harris and Sean Price. But it's difficult to get over the QB situation. And I'd like to know what their plans are for run/pass ratio with this new supposed Air Raid offense, because their best assets are their running backs...so it's entirely possible they're shooting themselves in the foot just because.
  9. I don't believe Golson is coming to USF. I think he intends to go to a P5 team. I read a headline that mentioned that he gave Notre Dame a list of ten P5 teams under consideration and they approved all of them. That pretty much seals it. He's not coming to USF.
  10. He has to go somewhere he can play immediately. He can't sit the bench. If he sits the bench he doesn't get drafted. At Notre Dame he was never considered a serious NFL quarterback prospect until 2014 when, after a tremendous amount of training with George Whitfield, he came out gunning and looking a lot closer to a pro level quarterback than people had imagined back in 2012. But that didn't last too long. He started throwing a bunch of interceptions and then lost his job to a young second year Malik Zaire. Those that watched Asiantii Woulard's E11 probably remember Zaire. He wasn't exactly Christian Hackenberg as a recruiting prospect. So if you're Everett Golson and you have a year and a half of college football play under your belt playing in a manner that really turned the scouts off, and only half a year of playing so well that they're really intrigued, and you're only 6'0" & 211 lbs? You need to go somewhere you play immediately, and you need to play really well. If you don't, you don't get drafted. A team will take a flyer on you undrafted, but that doesn't get you anywhere beyond training camp.
  11. Bringing in Kinnan as a consultant concerns me. I'm sure he's qualified. But the fact of the matter is throwing away the coaches you got from your best friend Jim Harbaugh and bringing in your own personal high school coach on a volunteer consulting basis strikes me as kind of a desperate move.
  12. I think one thing you're seeing with new articles and new quotes from Joel Miller is again the point I have to bring up with respect to Jim Leavitt's attempts to "cover up" whatever happened. A lot of people, even the ones that believe Leavitt deserved firing, do not believe what he actually did to Miller was not worth firing him. What they're upset about is perceived callousness, arrogance, the fact that he never fessed up to it, the perception that he may have been intentionally trying to cover it up, etc. Even the USF people that fired him say that's what it was all about. And to that once again I have to point to the quality of the people he was dealing with, the quality of the Millers, the people above Leavitt that fired him. I cannot fault him for trying to take control of a situation that was boiling up around him because of viperous personalities trying to take advantage of an opportunity.
  13. Player development at the professional level is extremely important and it is for the most part what sets apart teams that consistently are at the top of the league from teams that are consistently in the middle or bottom. The salary cap and drafting system is set up to heavily handicap the teams at the top of the league. And from a pure X's and O's standpoint, until very recently the league has pretty much all looked exactly the same. Personnel acquisition (draft, free agency) is fraught with extreme ups and downs and very few teams have a real, consistent edge that way. The teams that are consistent are the ones that are teaching well, and teaching well all begins on the practice field in the very same drills you suggest as being unimportant to a professional. Gaining an edge to your technique and awareness is not like getting a college diploma. You don't earn it, and then it's yours and nobody can ever take it away from you. Your mind and body constantly ebb away at your technical edge and the only thing that helps you get it back is constant repetition, constant practice, constant correction. Why do you think guys like Tom Brady, after being in the NFL for over a decade, will take an off season to work with an old quarterback coach to help Tom re-learn fundamentals in his throwing technique that he seems to have lost? Why does Tiger Woods have a swing coach?
  14. Is there anyone NOT leaving the program? Rats fleeing a sinking ship.
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