Big Ten or SEC To Intercept Marve in 2010
Former Miami quarterback will decide between Purdue and Tennessee this week
By JANIE CAMPBELL
Updated 7:28 AM EST, Wed, May 20, 2009
What a long, strange, whiny trip its been for former Hurricanes quarterback Robert Marve. The next chapter begins on Friday, says knoxnews.com, when the 2006 Florida Mr. Football is expected to announce he'll be accepting a scholarship at Purdue over paying his own way to Tennessee.
First came the commitment to Alabama, and the switch to Miami when the Tide fired Mike Shula. Then came the car accident, a medical redshirt, and a special glove for his non-throwing hand. Top it off with a starter who gets suspended for the first and last games of a season, becomes very unhappy with a backup getting quality time, and a very disgruntled father-high school coach combo, and you have the makings of a modern-day, interception-ridden Crime and Punishment.
And we haven't even gotten to the father's cancer that became public when Miami restricted Marve from certain Florida schools as a result of tampering.
Or the issues in the classroom. Or the flashes of on-field brilliance. Or the anger management arrest.
Did we mention the interceptions, of which there were more than touchdown passes? You get the picture.
Robert Marve was not boring.
But that pesky tampering, the NCAA's term for illicit contact (either direct or indirect) between a player signed to one school by another, is the reason Miami coach Randy Shannon enforced transfer restrictions to three specific teams in the SEC: LSU, Florida, and Tennessee.
So should Marve balk at Purdue (and let's be honest: it's a lovely school, but it's not exactly the dream destination of a college player who considers himself good enough to start in the SEC), he'll be required to pay his way to Tennessee for one year until the restrictions are lifted.
Either way, Marve will have to sit out the 2009 season.
Weep not, senior defenders in both conferences. You've still got a year with Ben Chappell and Johnathan Crompton.
Copyright NBC Local Media
First Published: May 19, 2009 1:51 PM EST
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