Touchdown Rrrrrooockets! Wrote:Kit-Cat Wrote:Marshall's recruiting is not and will not go up; but the competition level will.
From what I understand, Marshall has already received a committment from a stud quarterback from Kentucky. Possibly of the Ben Roethlisberger mold???
Marshall gets verbal from Kentucky QB
By Gary Fauber, Assistant Sports Editor
Marshall already has a promising young quarterback named Bernard. Now the Thundering Herd have a Barnard with a bright future of his own.
Zach Barnard, a senior at Owensboro (Ky.) Catholic High School, gave a verbal committment to Marshall last week. He is the Herd's first verbal toward the 2005 recruiting class.
No other school had made an offer to the 6-foot-5, 210-pound Barnard, but he said Nebraska and Mississippi State should be calling soon. Cincinnati and Ball State also showed interest.
It was Marshall's quarterback tradition that led Barnard to commit rather than waiting.
"With (Chad) Pennington and (Byron) Leftwich (in the NFL), and Stan Hill should do pretty well (this fall)," he said. "And at first they showed more interest in me than any other college.
"(Waiting) is something to think about, but Marshall was a really good fit for me. It just seemed like that's where I would have ended up going, anyway, at the very end. So I decided to try to take some pressure off."
"To us, Marshall is a high-profile school," said John Edge, Barnard's coach at Owensboro Catholic. "Year in and year out they get people in the NFL. Of course, that's not what we're thinking about right now. But they are on TV five or six ballgames a year, then they go to a bowl game. That's what you want."
As a junior, Barnard threw for 3,110 yards and 33 touchdowns while completing 64 percent of his passes for the Aces. He runs a 4.7 40, and carried a 3.6 grade point average in the classroom.
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