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[kibblesnbits]

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).

Unless the coach is also an athletic or admissions administrator at UConn, he's just speculating the way we are. I highly doubt anyone told him, "We just didn't think enough of your kid to push for him."

Ask yourself this - why did even Temple wait until the end of the high school year to offer a scholarship? It sure sounds like they wanted to see something on his transcript before committing.

 

[UConnRock]

Unless the coach is also an athletic or admissions administrator at UConn, he's just speculating the way we are. I highly doubt anyone told him, "We just didn't think enough of your kid to push for him."

Ask yourself this - why did even Temple wait until the end of the high school year to offer a scholarship? It sure sounds like they wanted to see something on his transcript before committing.

Excellent point Kibbles. We will never know the real story. Marchi is quoted as saying the Diaco staff was recruiting QBs over him. The only recollection I had was the staff going after Linta when they realized Marchi would not get accepted. The fact that they were going after Linta shoots down the 6 qb statement. Marchi's camp and some in the press will spin this as Uconn and Diaco being the villain.

It seems quite apparent that admissions was waiting on a grade, be it a class or an SAT score, and it just didn't work out. As pointed out, the fact that no other schools jumped in and offered is a telling fact. Guessing that Marchi took other classes or got the required SAT score to get into Temple. Good for him. I hope he is successful and by the time he is a starting QB UConn will not be in the AAC.