OT: The identity theft of Mitch Mustain

Submitted by ldevon1 on

Has anyone seen it? I watched it on Amazon yesterday, and I found it quite fascinating. This is a documentary on Mitch Mustain, a QB who first went to Arkansas and later transferred to USC. He was in the same senior (HS) class (different school of course) as Tim Tebow. If you get the opportunity, check it out. High school All everything, Gatorade POY, and can't miss prospect.  

Ty Butterfield

June 28th, 2016 at 11:03 AM ^

Saw that this was on Amazon and I want to check it out. I thought it was kind of weird he transferred to USC. Seems like players usually leave USC because they are always so loaded with players.

MacaroniParty

June 28th, 2016 at 11:11 AM ^

Matt Stafford was the other 5* QB recruit in that years recruiting cycle, and i believe Gus Malzon was Mustain's HS coach.
He started for Arkansas as a freshman but transferred out because he was unhappy that the offense he was in was so run-centric even though Malzon came along with him to Arkansas as OC.
Their RBs at the time were McFadden and Felix Jones, so yeah.
Didn't watch the doc and dunno why I even remember this.

Brian Griese

June 28th, 2016 at 11:40 AM ^

stayed 4 (06 to 09 seasons) and was drafted in 2010.  Stafford left a year earlier, but they were in the same (and ironically mine as well) high school class of 2006.  IMO, 2006 was a great class for high school QB's: Stafford, Tebow, Juice Williams, Josh Freeman, Sam Bradford, Christian Ponder, Colin Kaepernick, Andy Dalton and Jake Locker.  

NRK

June 28th, 2016 at 12:49 PM ^

Nope. Stafford, Mustain, and Tebow were all 2006 recruiting class. Ryan Mallett was 2007 (Link). 

2006 Pro QB Rankings on Rivals (Link) : #1 Stafford, #2 Mustain

Also the year of... Sam Bradford (#12), Andy Dalton (#23), Kam Chancellor (YTKC) #27, David Cone (#33), Colin Kaepernick (#34).

And for Duals (Link) Tebow (#1), Jake Locker (#4), and Rick Stanzi (#11).

Wolfman

June 29th, 2016 at 8:38 AM ^

Obviously over-rated, unless the setback at AR was too much to overcome, I expcected him to be great at the college level. I wanted him at MI pretty badly, although given that Chad, along with  some of the better offensive players of the decade, would have said goody-bye, I don;t think, even though he was a perfect fit, would have wanted to say in AA any more than Mallett. 

Obviously, he wanted to work as a pocket passer, and even though Michael Vick did show the skill set that would later define the dual threat qb, even he worked as a pro passer, running when it was obvious he could gain chunk yardage without being exposed to too much danger, the dual threat was still roughly 5 to 6 years away from becoming a fixure of cfb.

His transfer to USC, loaded with prototypical pro qbs, speaks volumes to what he, along withthe gurus thought. I believe they had him among the top 3 or 4 coming out of h.s. that year and personally, I wanted him to come to AA even though I thought, given geographical disparity, chances of that were slim. Young man had a hell of a lot of talent though. 

MI Expat NY

June 28th, 2016 at 12:18 PM ^

They also had Peyton Hillis in that backfield.  I remember an Arkansas fan I knew was so upset at them running all the time with that backfield, because it caused the "great" mitch mustain to transfer.  So, Houston Nutt was a bad guy for wanting to run the football with two 1,000 yard NFL backs and a solid NFL change of pace back instead of relying on a true freshman QB.  They won the SEC west that year, yet everyone wanted to run him out of town.  It was then that I realized that Arkansas may have the most insane college football fan base.  

unWavering

June 28th, 2016 at 11:13 AM ^

Damn. At first I thought that this was about the lead singer/guitarist for Megadeth, Dave Mustaine. That would be getting into ultimate offseason posting.

PopeLando

June 28th, 2016 at 11:38 AM ^

Lol if they make a documentary on every all-everything can't miss high school prospect who didn't quite work out, there will be an imperial shit tonne of documentaries soon...

"The Theft of Kevin Grady's Hands"
"Does Anthony Morelli know where he is right now?"
"Why doesn't Derrick Williams (ntdw) even show up in a Google search?"

wolvorback

June 28th, 2016 at 11:40 AM ^

The way the whole Mustain thing went down at Arkansas was the end for Nutt.  Malzahn was Mustain's high school coach and Nutt needed Mustain to keep the masses at bay.  Mitch was a hometown kid that lived down the street, and he was a big time recruit.  Arkansas doesn't get alot of them and Nutt couldn't let him leave.  Promises were made and broken.  

On the Mallett thing, when Ryan camped at Arkansas early in his high school career, Nutt made him work out at tightend because he didn't think that he was a qb.

Danwillhor

June 29th, 2016 at 3:42 AM ^

I remember his recruiting class like it was yesterday. He was a big prospect and was joking with my brother a month ago and made a joke about him. We were talking about that era and mocking ourselves for how far off the deep end we were with recruiting. We were tossing crazy names, busts, etc back and forth and I asked if he remembered Mitch "Megadeath" Mustain. 2000-2007 were my "into recruiting to a truly scary degree" years. I could name every UM recruit/prospect along with their HS and size. Same for all of the B1G and the top 20 historical powers. It was disturbing as I was in my early late-teens and early 20s. I'm ashamed of those years (haha) but I'll definitely watch this doc.