re: Rumored/Hired Assistant Coaches (Rocker Out, Eason In)

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Bobo isn't awful, but I seem to recall him saying Cam Newton should be a tight end, and recruiting HS QB Nick Marshall to play corner. I realize that both of those guys were much better suited to Gus' offense than Bobo's as potential quarterbacks, but Jesus, talent is talent. One won a Natty and the other one went there.

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This critique doesn't make any sense. Nick Marshall was originally signed in 2011; the timing there is important because Aaron Murray came to Georgia in 2009 as an elite recruit and actually played like one in 2010 as a redshirt Freshman, which means that he had already locked up the starting QB position for the foreseeable future. He would go on to start for Georgia until 2013 as one of the most productive QB's in league history. It's also important to note that in Marshall's class, Georgia landed QB Christian LeMay who we ALSO wanted over Nick Marshall at QB. Your critique here is driven by "after-the-factism" and doesn't account for the fact that they already had a top performing QB on campus who had years of eligibility left, which drove the obvious move to recruit Marshall at CB.

Cam was a bigger "miss", but the same logic as above apples there as well: Cam's first season at Florida was in 2007, whereas Stafford's first season at Georgia was in 2006. Then, when Cam came back as a recruit out of JUCO in 2010, this was Murray's first season at UGA and he had already been impressing coaches as a redshirt which meant that they weren't going to recruit a JUCO transfer to start over him.