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re: What is Nick Marshall going to do in the NFL?
Posted on 2/23/15 at 11:29 am to metafour
Posted on 2/23/15 at 11:29 am to metafour
quote:And he's obviously intelligent enough to be making life changing decisions if he's stealing from teammates. If he likes money that much, you'd think he would stick to the position that would make him NFL paychecks instead of what brings him more short term attention at QB.
Cute story. He went to JUCO on his own accord to play QB, not DB. The teams that ultimately were finalists to sign him out of JUCO were all schools that were going to let him play QB. It was his choice.
Georgia had his best interests at heart and he blew that opportunity
This post was edited on 2/23/15 at 11:33 am
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Posted on 2/23/15 at 11:32 am to tween the hedges
quote:Is that why they were recruiting Nick Marshall as a quarterback before they took Christian LeMay as their 2011 classes quarterback? After that position was taken, Georgia saw him as such a great athlete they decided to offer as an athlete. Nick Marshall accepted the offer because he really wanted to play for Georgia and the rest is history.
Georgia had his best interests at heart and he blew that opportunity
Posted on 2/23/15 at 11:35 am to tween the hedges
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Marshall, now a junior at Auburn, was a two-sport star at Wilcox County. In fact, for awhile he wanted to concentrate on basketball at the college level. It was a big reason he ended up at Georgia.
Twice, Marshall was the boys basketball AP Class A player of the year. During the spring of his junior year, he had all but decided he wanted to pursue a basketball career first. Georgia head coach Mark Fox was interested, but he was hoping Marshall would be at Georgia on a football scholarship. Football has an 85 scholarship limit, basketball has 13.
At that point, Georgia’s offer to Marshall was as a quarterback. But it only wanted to take one quarterback in its class, and LeMay committed first, that spring. So Georgia’s offer wasn’t there anymore.
But a conversation during spring practice revealed to Ledford that his star was having a change of heart.
“He said he didn’t want to play football. (But) I asked him if he was being recruited as a defensive back would he have more interest in playing football, and he said yes,” Ledford said. “So when Georgia found that out, they reoffered him as a DB. And that kind of gave him the opening to get back into Georgia and possibly do both sports.”
quote:https://www.macon.com/2013/11/11/2768771/nick-marshalls-long-and-winding.html
“Our initial conversations with him in recruiting was quarterback. That’s what we recruited him as the whole time,” Bobo said. “Then toward the end (Marshall) had a change of heart and wanted to play defense or another position. We felt he’s such a great athlete that we’d let him play whatever he wanted to play.”
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