Boston College Makes A Call To The Bullpen
by Brian Favat on Sep 26, 2010 4:19 PM EDT
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But it won't be to former minor league RHP Dave Shinskie, who will be benched in favor of Mike Marscovetra or Chase Rettig for Saturday's game against the Irish.
"We are going to make a change at quarterback,'' said Spaziani, indicating that back-up Mike Marscovetra and freshman Chase Rettig wil move up in the depth chart for the starting job this week for the job which had belonged to sophomore Dave Shinskie. "Mike and Chase will compete for the job this week.''
Conroy adds that Spaziani said the decision could be made right up until gametime.
On the year, Marscovetra is 8-13 passing for 92 yards and one touchdown to go with an interception. We last saw Rettig in BC's fourth and final fall camp scrimmage, completing 6-7 passes for 50 yards. He finished fall camp completing 18-of-26 passes for 142 yards.
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Rejoice
The Shinskie reign of terror is over.
As we discussed on Twitter, if they give Marsco a real shot at it, fine. Still pulling for Rettig though. I’m eager to see what he can do on the field.
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Agreed.
I want to see Marsco have a real shot at a full game. If he looks awful, throw in Chase.
by Richard Hill on Sep 26, 2010 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Thought out my stance on this more carefully
And posted on Twitter, but it looks better in paragraph form.
Whomever BC goes with against ND, they have to stick with him. It’s Week 5, not a new season anymore, and for me, this is the absolute cutoff on RS-burning. If they give the keys to Rettig, BC is saying that this is his offense and that he has the rest of the season to learn, and given how he’s missed 3 games, he will need to maximize every snap. If they go with Marscovetra, it’s his team for the rest of the year. Bringing Chase in at a later point (and by that I mean in a future game) if Marsco doesn’t pan out would waste even more eligibility and give him less time to learn this year; in that case, they’d be better off riding it out with Mike and letting Chase keep that redshirt and a full year of eligibility with it. He’d have his full time starting next year and would conceivably get a fresh new season to learn with in 2011.
BC doesn’t have the luxury of time, seeing as a quarter of the regular season is already gone. Now that they’ve benched Shinskie, they have to commit. Either you start Chase and give him every snap he can get this year or you save his RS by playing Marsco, no going back on it, flip-flopping by playing both, etc. It’s one or the other.
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by SoaringtoGlory on Sep 26, 2010 10:31 PM EDT reply actions
I agree with StG, and I posit the decision needs to be done with by tomorrow, at the latest. The starting QB needs to mesh with the 1st team offense and, for better or worse short of an injury, needs to be the ONLY QB to start from here on out.
If Spaz isn’t sure who the better QB is by now, he has failed as a coach. Saying “there will be a competition for the starting job” is an admittance of this failure. Even if he’s not 100% sure that Marscovetra is better than Rettig, he needs to make Marsco either: a) think that he has his coach’s undying support or b) know that Rettig is the future and is starting now with Marsco the #1 backup.
by LineBackersForHeisman on Sep 26, 2010 11:14 PM EDT reply actions
What scares me a little about Spaz/Tranquill is that they’ve botched it so far. They’ve played Marscovetra some of the last three games, admitting that Shinskie was no lock, but they barely gave Marsco any PT in so doing. Now we have a bad QB on the bench, a QB who got thrown into the middle of games at random and hasn’t been so inspiring, and a guy with a redshirt who probably should have been starting from Day 1 (but hindsight is 20-20). Who knows what they’re going to do or how they’ll reach their conclusion. About the only thing they got right was benching Shinskie, albeit a few weeks late.
The uncertainty has to end here. Pick a QB and go to war with him.
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by SoaringtoGlory on Sep 26, 2010 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions
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