Chase Litton, QB, Tampa Wharton HS

[Apis Bull]

 

 

 

 

Chase is posting that he is a QB for Marshall(Remedial U).

You posted this 2 months ago...lost in all the Star Wars v Star Trek silliness.

It's only silly if you think Star Trek is in the same galaxy as Star Wars.

 

 

Not only are they not in the same galaxy (milky way vs. a galaxy far, far away), they're not even set in the same time (the year 2265 vs a long time ago).

 

My Nerd Alert is exploding.

 

 

[Skingraft]

Bwahahaha^^^^^

[ckparrothead]

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.

Edited May 18, 2015 by ckparrothead

[JTrue]

We should dedicate an entire folder to "USF QB Stuff" just for things like discussing AW and Litton years after they're gone from the recruiting thread. Add to that you could pull out 40% of any recruiting thread and drop it into QB musings. Throw in the usual fun regarding our offense. Bingo, solid stuff.

[charsibb]

We should dedicate an entire folder to "USF QB Stuff" just for things like discussing AW and Litton years after they're gone from the recruiting thread. Add to that you could pull out 40% of any recruiting thread and drop it into QB musings. Throw in the usual fun regarding our offense. Bingo, solid stuff.

 

Only if we can convince smazza to moderate it

[Dogma]

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, considering they played with one of the easiest/weakest schedule in all of FBS, 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.

FIFY... Can't bold in my phone.

Edited May 18, 2015 by Triple B

[Apis Bull]

We seem to talk about the recruits we don't get more than the ones we do.

[ckparrothead]

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.

[JTrue]

We seem to talk about the recruits we don't get more than the ones we do.

It's more exciting thinking about what could have been than what is.

[whiskeyboarder]

Since he was referenced, I should tell you that no one out here (LA) expects AW to get any play next year.  UCLA's incoming freshman QB is supposed to be really special.