As a high school senior in Tampa, Fla., in 2007, Robert Marve passed for 48 touchdowns and over 4,000 yards. The final pass of his prep career was a touchdown with 17 seconds remaining in the state title game. With big numbers and clutch performances, Marve was one of the top quarterback recruits in the country, fielding scholarship offers from Alabama, Purdue, Miami and Michigan State and a host of others. Initially Marve committed to the Crimson Tide, but after Mike Shula's firing, he reopened his recruitment and ended up signing with Miami.
Less than six months later, Marve was a passenger in a car driven by one of his Miami teammates. The car slammed into a guardrail on I-95 after the driver fell asleep, and Marve's left hand was badly injured, leading him to redshirt his freshman season. This past season, Marve returned to start 11 games for the Hurricanes, throwing for nine touchdowns and 13 interceptions. But in December he decided to transfer. Which leads to an interesting question, how often have college football quarterbacks transferred and actually been successful at their new destination?
In the above video, taken from the official YouTube channel of EA Sports, a quarterback for Oklahoma who wears No. 14 is referred to as a "Heisman winner." EA Sports and the NCAA would try to tell you -- with a straight face -- that they're not cashing in on the name and likeness of Sam Bradford, the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback who wears No. 14 for Oklahoma. Sam Keller is calling their bluff.
Every Monday during college football's endless offseason, The FanHouse Walk will put last week's stories to bed and deliver the essentials to bridge that agonizing space between now and September. Mr. BCS Goes To Washington -- Except I have a feeling Jimmy Stewart would find some way to rail against the BCS, however wrongheadedly. You see, the big word in the halls of Congress on Friday was "fair" but don't let that confuse you. While the Mountain West and certain members of Congress are using the fairness term to stoke public support, their real concern is about money.
In a game that spans many eras, any task like this is exceedingly difficult and fraught with contradiction. With all the nostalgia built into the Heisman Trophy and the game of college football, we're buying into it with a less clinical, more emotional effort at ranking players. There's a bias towards the modern, towards a player being associated with the trophy and towards those that most captured peoples' imaginations.
It is never easy for Division II sports programs to make news without a major criminal investigation or a tragedy. Bringing on a "name" hire is the one exception, meaning the University of Nebraska-Omaha stands a chance of making SportsCenter with the hiring of Trev Alberts as its new athletic director.
The former Nebraska Cornhusker star and college football analyst was the obvious front-runner. Alberts was the only candidate for the position brought to Omaha to meet with the public and media the week before the hiring.
The Big 12 stood up and challenged the SEC for the title of One Conference to Rule Them All in 2008. They didn't exactly succeed, but the conference gave us a lot of great football last season.
However, that was then and this is now. The postseason was not entirely successful for the conference, with a 4-3 overall record in bowl games. How will that carry over into this fall? Who's on the rise? Who's hitting the skids? We'll talk about the big stories after the jump.
Alberts is the only candidate invited to come to the school and meet with the public and media to this point. The former Nebraska star would be a name hire. The Mavericks play Division II sports and is primarily known as a commuter school. The UN-O chancellor, John Christensen, is eager to hire someone who would be able to make a splash in the Omaha community and be able to raise funds.
He's still looking. The disgruntled and apparently very slow Robert Marve is still looking for the right fit as far as where to transfer. Marve decided to transfer before the start of 2009, and got his release shortly after wards. He got most of those transfer restrictions that had him and his family so righteously fought eliminated.
Marve chafed against being told that he could not transfer to ACC, most SEC schools or any Florida-based D-1A program. Yet the only program that he is considering that was on the restricted list appears to be South Florida.
On Sunday the Nebraska Cornhuskers found out that one of the quarterbacks who they were expecting to compete for a starting job this spring, Patrick Witt, was transferring from the school. The news came as a bit of a shock considering that Witt could have been considered the favorite to win the job this spring based on being the most game-tested field general the Huskers had.
Well, it appears that Witt and his father wanted a little more assurance that Patrick would be the man under center this fall. Word out of Lincoln is that Witt was asking Bo Pelini to promise him he'd be named starter after spring practice or he was going to seek a transfer.
With Joe Ganz graduating this year, the Nebraska Cornhuskers were going to have a quarterback competition in the spring with junior Zac Lee and sophomore Patrick Witt. There are a couple of other freshman candidates who will be competing for the spot in Kody Spano and Cody Green, but realistically they're longshots at best.
Or at least that's what the Cornhuskers thought. Turns out the path for Zac Lee to claim Nebraska's starting quarterback job just got a lot easier as Patrick Witt announced on Sunday that he is transferring.
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