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Marshall Faulks incentives???
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:21 am
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:21 am
The random holiday Addai thread got me wondering what the hell it must have taken to get Faulk to go San Diego State. Anyone remember any rumors or details as to what got him to choose San Diego State???
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Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:21 am to TigahTeeth
Getting to play running back
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:25 am to TigahTeeth
You ever spent any time in San Diego?
shite, if I grew up in the Desire projects and graduated from Carver in 1990, I'd have gone there too as soon as they offered me a scholly.
shite, if I grew up in the Desire projects and graduated from Carver in 1990, I'd have gone there too as soon as they offered me a scholly.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:25 am to TigahTeeth
Being a RB instead of a DB
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:26 am to T
Indeed...Best I can remember LSU recruited as a safety.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:29 am to TigahTeeth
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Anyone remember any rumors or details as to what got him to choose San Diego State???
Not going to jail and getting away from the folks that were a problem for him at home.
The easiest way to disentangle from negative people in you life is to move across the country from them.
At least those were the rumors way back when. They may not have been true but I always heard that the separation from a few shady friends gave him some perspective to make sure he stayed on track.
ETA: And getting to play running back.
This post was edited on 12/27/21 at 9:31 am
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:29 am to TigahTeeth
Curtis Johnson was the New Orleans connection. He and an unknown position coach by the name of Sean Payton were coaching at SDSU.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:30 am to TigahTeeth
If I recall San Diego State was one of the few schools that recruited him as a running back. Most if the blue bloods at the time recruited him as a DB.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:35 am to geauxtigers33
That’s nuts that he had to go there to play running back. How were there that many schools to undervalue his talent at running back? Yeesh
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:43 am to TigahTeeth
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That’s nuts that he had to go there to play running back. How were there that many schools to undervalue his talent at running back? Yeesh
Because he was that talented as a defensive back. Probably would have still been a hall of famer if he stuck with it.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:50 am to TigahTeeth
It wasn’t in the middle of Desire Housing Project
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:51 am to geauxtigers33
Steve McNair ended up at alcorn because they let him play qb. Kids get overlooked all the time.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:52 am to TigahTeeth
They let him play rb not CB
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:52 am to TigahTeeth
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That’s nuts that he had to go there to play running back. How were there that many schools to undervalue his talent at running back? Yeesh
Happens all the time both ways.
LSU signed Devin white partly because they promised him a chance to play RB. He played RB in the spring his freshman year then we had some injuries at LBer so he went full time on that side of the ball and never looked back.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 10:01 am to T
In LSU’s defense. Faulk would’ve been a helluva DB too.
11 ints his senior year.
6 returned for tds.
11 ints his senior year.
6 returned for tds.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 10:05 am to TigahTeeth
SDSU gave him the opportunity to play RB.
No one else would guarantee it.
No one else would guarantee it.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 10:06 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
Same for Dak Prescott. Teams wanted him to play a different position
Posted on 12/27/21 at 10:09 am to TigahTeeth
The real question is how Curtis Johnson signed Fred Harris out of Shreveport in the same class.
Harris was the Gatorade player of the year in Louisiana and one of the state’s top recruits that year.
Harris had trouble qualifying. I don’t know if he ever played. Marshall Faulk turned into a superstar. Everyone remembers Faulk, but Fred Harris was the big story on signing day.
Harris was the Gatorade player of the year in Louisiana and one of the state’s top recruits that year.
Harris had trouble qualifying. I don’t know if he ever played. Marshall Faulk turned into a superstar. Everyone remembers Faulk, but Fred Harris was the big story on signing day.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 10:11 am to MOT
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Being a RB instead of a DB
This. Same reason Russell Shepard ended up at LSU instead of Texas.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 10:13 am to TigahTeeth
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Anyone remember any rumors or details as to what got him to choose San Diego State???
Nowadays, a kid would say “ewwww, a G5”, but the stigma wasn’t nearly as much then
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