Welcome to the Fold: Bilal Marshall
by HawkeyeBoiler on Dec 11, 2011 12:37 PM EST
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PrintEnough of this IU talk, let's get back to talking about Purdue football. Another quarterback is coming aboard for 2012 in the form of Bilal Marshall. The 3 star QB from Dade Christian in Florida decommitted from Kansas and switched to Purdue this morning. He apparently doesn't believe in "decided schematic advantages."
Marshall has had a lot of offers and a decent amount of interest. I don't see him playing next year unless he switches to wide receiver, but with Aloyis Gray doing the same thing, I can see a redshirt in Marshall's future. Then again, we could easily go to the 4 quarterback system with Henry, (maybe) Marve, TerBush, and Robinson with Marshall, Gray and Austin Appleby waiting in the wings.
He's a dual threat kind of a guy, which fits into our scheme (I think). Considering it changes on a whim, I'm not sure exactly what we are looking for in qb's these days.
His highlights look good, as he can actually throw on the move. Marshall adds to an already good recruiting class by Purdue standards, so the Danny Hope plan may be starting to bear fruits.
Bilal Marshall QB 2012 (via dcsbb)
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Looks like a solid pickup...
Rivals still has him as a “solid verbal” to Kansas… when did he switch?
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by JuJuan some Moore? on Dec 11, 2011 12:49 PM EST reply actions
like two hour ago tops
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by HawkeyeBoiler on Dec 11, 2011 1:21 PM EST up reply actions
Here’s what NBCSports.com said earlier this week in an article about Weis:
. . . two high school commitments, Seth Russell and Bilal Marshall committed to the Jayhawks. Russell is a lanky 6-foot-4 Texas product with an offer to Wake Forest his only other BCS option, while Marshall looks a little bit more impressive, with the dual-threat Florida prospect sporting a handful of impressive offers including Georgia Tech, Virginia, Northwestern, Baylor and Boston College among others.
welcome
in the ancient battle between fatass or mustache, the mustache will win every time
which is why I keep my mustache
Otherwise, I’d just be a fatass.
"There's no hope until Hope is gone!"
This is good news.
Hope he turns out to be our version of Dennard Robinson. I’m not surprised since he obviously knows we need a QB in the worst way.Will be nice to see him push to start.
BTFU !!
Unpredictable
Love his comment that Purdue wants to be unpredictable – that’s an understatement- even the players don’t know what the coaches are going to do
Another understatement
i dont think the coaches know what the coaches are going to do
by jack'sIUdisdain on Dec 13, 2011 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
more dual QB in the future?
“I know it’s somewhere I will definitely be successful and possibly, if everything goes well, be a three- or four-year starter.”
I like the confidence but not if Austin Appleby has something to say about it.
Perhaps you could work for a dual-QB system this way.
If both guys have experience and develop…it might work. Ask LSU about it.
by Jackson Brunner on Dec 12, 2011 11:13 AM EST up reply actions
LSU defense
If we had LSU’s defense we could play 6 quarterbacks – it wouldn’t matter
I think Hope is telling him it is an open competition...
Which is healthy… the best man will start. If Appleby wins, then he will probably be a wildcat option, or switch to WR like Siller. I hope to GOD Hope doesn’t run the two-qb system next year!
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by JuJuan some Moore? on Dec 12, 2011 5:57 PM EST up reply actions
After the great "success" of the 2-QB system
…and with so many “good” QBs whom none is great, I expect the 2-QB system to continue as long as Hope remains coach.
Not that I like it, but I also don’t like the fact that we still aren’t covering the middle on 3rd-and-long and yet I fully expect it to be the same case next year.
God I hope you are wrong...
I don’t mind a wildcat play every now and then… but to continually change qbs sporadically is just plain stupid!!!!
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by JuJuan some Moore? on Dec 13, 2011 6:42 PM EST up reply actions
LOL, I am the prophet who predicted Danny Hope's 4-QB system
One quarter back for each quarter :-)
With “genius” Hope, I am not surprised at all. Now let’s try to get Gunner Kiel! Not only it is a slap at IU’s face, but more importantly we can have 4 QB in the same class!!!
After all, when you have five (or six) QBs on the team who are all good but none absolutely great, the only logical conclusion (per Hope’s logic) is to play them all! Unless Hope is preparing for another ACL tear of one of our QBs (actually can’t blame him for that) or ensuring Marve won’t come back for a sixth year, the next reason to stockpiling QBs is that maybe we can line up Gray at WR, Appleby at center, and Henry/Marshall at RBs and just keep throwing the backward passes among themselves :-)
I can’t help but think how many of those QBs will end up transferring due to lack of PT.
Bubble screen
The top quarterback will be the one that masters the bubble screen. No other pass matters. That and the infamous zone read – whatever the hell that means
At least he got the unpredictable and explosive part right
Bilal Marshall, “They (Purdue) want to be in the spread to keep the defense on its heels. They want to be unpredictable and just go out there and be as explosive as they can. I think I’ll fit in well with what they want to do.”
Unpredictable – check, one week we can beat O$U and a ranked Illinois, the other we can get blown out by Wisky or Michigan while struggling against the 1-10 IU.
Explosive – check, with all those stupid mistakes and poor coaching decisions, many times fans feel like they are about to explode.
Spread – check, spreading playing time between our QBs. Not only does it keep the defense on their heels, it also keeps our QBs from being in a rhythm and our fans confused.
Kid, I dunno if you will fit well, but you get some of Danny Hope’s concept just right, ROFL.
I'm less than impressed
I don’t think we need another quarterback that can’t throw well, we have several of those already. I’m betting he will be at safety before the end of spring
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