Wulff: "Marshall is our starting quarterback."

if Wulff starter Lobbestael. I’ve been waiting for this guy to play all summer and now that we’ve seen him in action… I dont want to go back to that sorry offense!

But I don’t think he could, with a straight face, come back and say Loebestaal played well enough to keep his starters job after watching game tape. Look, both guys had men in their face all day, I understand that. The difference is Tuel made plays and, for the most part, made throws when he needed to. Loebestaal did neither for the majority of his time in there.

Now that you’ve burned the redshirt, it’s time to use this kid. He showed he deserves at least another look

The pro Wulff comment side

Protect Marshal’s feelings, keep him mentally ready to play. We need 2 guys ready to play.
Protect Tuel, he has no pressure right now, be ready to play and let it fly.
Don’t make public decisions minutes after you saw a frosh QB play in his first game
Look how long it took to make the first QB decision?

The con side
Did Wulff watch the game? (emoticon)
Tuel made one big mistake; I don’t know yet if it was a bad read or young gun thinking he could ‘make’ the play. Either way it will be a learning experience
Tuel bailed on the pocket very early one time. The other QB’s had reservations to bail at the snap
Tuel has a strong and accurate arm. When was the last time we had that?
A fumbled snap turned into an 8 yard game. Even our record breaking QB would have turned that into an 8 yard loss.
The team is behind him, after the Pick players were supporting him on the sidelines. After the TD they were ecstatic.

Enough attempting to be logical about this.
The shirt was burned, he proved he was a better QB on the field. Start him the rest of the way.

I ddint watch the game, I was sorking swing shift and cam out twice during the breaks to get some of the 2nd and 4th quarters. I greatly admired the kids poise in front of thousands of ppl, a racous crowd and against on the best defenses in college football. He admitted later in an interview he felt comfortable, and used the words ot was a lotta fun..I luv that about him. He didnt freak out and got the job done. SOmething a know alotta true freshman minus Barkely of course could nto accomplish. Lets not forget Barkely has a lot better protection up front as well..However I really dont think we should throw Marshall under the bus. I like the kid and he has shown flashes of being a highly successful QB. Unlike Lopina who jsut does not have the arm strength and quick thinking ability to be a pac-10 QB. Marshal had guys coming at him seemingly every play, not saying tuel didnt and still made things happen. Yet if Marshal can get somfrotable inteh pocket he makes good read and can move the ball well. Its just when he gets rattled he tries to force things. I do think we should give him another chance. Although he looked bad, he did not throw a pick. There were stretches of watching Brink and Gesser in games where they were throwing 3-4 interceptions in a half. And i was beside myself calling for his head and the backup. Lets give him a few more chances. he’s got it in him. It doesnt matter that Tuel’s redshirt is burned, he’ll still be there I knew it was gonna be burned at some point. I Think starting Ocho Rojo, is nto that bad of a decicion, lets see how he does, another horrible performance and I will eat my words and be praising Tuel.

There might be a few scenarios that are playing into Wulff not writing off Marshall yet. This is complete speculation, but if Marshall doesn’t feel he’s been given a legitimate opportunity to keep/earn the spot – there is the potential we lose him in the off-season to a transfer. Whereas if he gets his shot, doesn’t do anything to wrap up the job, then maybe he’s content with sticking around and staying in a “backup” role.

As much as we loved what we saw from Tuel, he is very slight of frame and our offensive line seems to still get pretty depleted rather quickly each season. If Lobbestael takes off this off-season and Tuel is down for a few snaps or a few games, then we are looking at having to burn the red-shirt of Halladay(sic) unless we go with a walk-on type QB. That scares the heck out of me, and I’d feel a lot better about having Lobbestael as our backup than a walk-on punter. Plus the entire purpose of having 2 years separation between Tuel and Halladay would go out the door if that did happen.

Its very possible Wulff is just playing politics and trying to prevent any unnecessary churn in the off-season.

So why should they start now?

But if I were to guess, I would say it has more to do with keeping pressure off Tuel. That seems to be their M.O. in bringing him along.

For pretty much the first time this season I was jumping up and down in my living room during Cougar football. When Tuel was in, we were making things happen like we haven’t done in a while. Anyways, my two cents, is CPW has to ride the Tuel Train, if nothing else, to keep the fans excited about the program. That’s purely selfish though.

Did anyone else see, early on when Tuel was in, we had a 4th and 1, and he was looking to the sideline for the play – looked like he was trying to convince Wulff to go for it, yelling & pointing “let’s go for it!” The kid wants to get it done – and that’s bad ass.

Also, I found there were Stimson men in the house – was anyone there between ‘99-’02? I was a faithful Sponsor on 4th floor & 2C (maybe it was 2A, I don’t remember).

I take back what I sadi about giving marshal another chance..as he should get some reps. Tuels play far outshinced, Lopina and the lobster, and this was aginast a very solid defense. I do think we should start and finish with Tuel. He is the next great cougar QB. I was wondring when it would happen last year there was no solid figure to respect at the Helm. The QB controls the games momentum by what is beign done on the field. The D feed off this andit gives them hope. I was always a big fan of Lobbestal but CPW needs to do what is best for the team and put them in teh best position to win. Regardless of destroying another players confidence like Lobbestaal. from now on and for the next few years. Our motto shall be "In Tuel We Trust..