After tweeting something about UCONN/Temple admissions last week, I had a DM chat with Marchi's old coach at St Paul's. He told me that WM promised Marchi his scholarship offer from PP would be honored no matter what. When Diaco was hired, he didn't want to carry 6 QBs on the depth chart and never pushed Marchi's application along. He said Marchi was not denied...his application was never sent because Diaco didn't want to have too many QBs on the depth chart. He said that Marchi loved UCONN and the fans but had no other choice but to re-open his recruitment and decided to go to Temple. Seems like a good kid and I have no reason to not believe what his old coach said.
From now on, I will stop making negative comments about this. I think Marchi was an unfortunate "casualty" of a mid-year coaching change. I wish him nothing but the best at Temple (except when they play against UCONN!). I can't blame Diaco either...no coach wants to be forced into making any kind of "grandfathered" decision, whether it is coaching staff or roster related. His decision also appears much clearer today after Davis' verbal. I don't know what WM said to Marchi or his old coach and what kind of promises were made so I can't comment on that. It just appears to be a very unfortunate situation that has, hopefully, ended well for all parties: Marchi a scholarship QB at Temple and UCONN with Davis (and a bit more class separation between Cochran/Boyle and Davis).