BOGACZYK: Birdsong Ready to Take Herd Reins for Debut
The Word on the Herd-Aug. 31, 2015
Michael Birdsong
Aug. 31, 2015
By JACK BOGACZYK
HERDZONE.COM COLUMNIST
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- It’s been a decade since Marshall football has experienced something that will take place Sunday afternoon at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.
When Purdue becomes the first Big Ten Conference football visitor to Huntington – that’s a first – it also will be the first time since 2005 that the Thundering Herd has had a fourth-year junior making his first Marshall start at quarterback.
In the 2005 opener – a home win over William & Mary – it was redshirt junior Jimmy Skinner. So, with four-year starter Rakeem Cato a rookie with the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes, the successor is Michael Birdsong, who won the job in spring practice and has done absolutely nothing to lose his grip on it in the 2015 preseason...
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The Word on the Herd-Aug. 31, 2015
Michael Birdsong
Aug. 31, 2015
By JACK BOGACZYK
HERDZONE.COM COLUMNIST
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- It’s been a decade since Marshall football has experienced something that will take place Sunday afternoon at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.
When Purdue becomes the first Big Ten Conference football visitor to Huntington – that’s a first – it also will be the first time since 2005 that the Thundering Herd has had a fourth-year junior making his first Marshall start at quarterback.
In the 2005 opener – a home win over William & Mary – it was redshirt junior Jimmy Skinner. So, with four-year starter Rakeem Cato a rookie with the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes, the successor is Michael Birdsong, who won the job in spring practice and has done absolutely nothing to lose his grip on it in the 2015 preseason...
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