Marriners's best time of 6.43 seconds in the 55 meter dash is faster than Leray Smith's best time of 6.49 seconds. Smith has great 200 meter times, but last time I checked most football fields are less than 200 meters. 100 meters are also close with Smith having a best of 10.73 and Marriner running a 10.79. Good size and great speed. Nice pick up.
interesting stuff. thanks rock. i wasn't high on this kid a while back becuase we were after bigger fish it seemed but we struck out. i also wasn't in love with his size and hl tape. but several here saw good things and talked me into liking him as a prospect. hearing about his speed, his great senior year and that hes a great track ath now makes me feel good about him also with his other offers. are they great offers? no, but they are legit ones that matter.
could we say on paper considering we have no rb coach that this is actual progress at recruiting the position?!?! we really have gotten nothing but under radar kids at this position in our short hirstory. todman was the only real get with other big boy offers. hyp back then umass was fcs and navy wasn't heading to the big east and army was army...
13-marriner(temple//navy)
12-williams
11-delo, foxx
10-mccombs
09-hyp(army/maine/umass/navy)
08-todman(bc/ne/purdue)
07-frey(akron), wylie(ballst)
06-mcclain, davis(akron/temple/kan was he a fb not rb?)
05-brown(wisc), dixon(ill/uk/unc/temple)
04-
03-dorvil, law(usce/cuse)
now i ask, wtf happened in 2009 that we all of a sudden dove of a cliff rb wise? we were a run team back then under RE. so how did we manage to not do so well on the trail? dont get me wrong, im not ripping any of the players but not 1 other offer from 2010-12? RE's 2 last years at the position recruit wise are not exactly stellar and P didn't start off hot with williams. hopefully marriner is a comeback trend for us at the position. its hard to imagine how RE could land kids like lawrence and dixon years ago but as a school right now we are struggling at the position.
