OT: The identity theft of Mitch Mustain
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.
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Why, does Mustain show Houston his Nutts?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't his commitment to Arkansas was the reason Ryan Mallet came to Michigan?
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Mallet was never really going to Arkansas, because Houston Nutt didn't throw the ball enough, but Arkansas hired Gus Malzahn (who was Mitch Mustain's HS coach) to be the offensive coordinator, and change Arkansas' system.
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that played a major role in Mallet's transfer to Arkansas, along with the fact that Mallet didn't want to play in RR's offense.
And that he was pretty much out the door regardless of who coached Michigan in 2008.
MITCH P. MUSTANG
never heard of it, but I did watch 2 crazy docs last night. There's something wrong with aunt Diane, and Madness in the fast lane. crazy, crazy stuff.
If you like crazy docs, you should check out Finders Keepers on Netflix. One of the best and craziest documentaries I've seen in a long time.
thanks, I'll check it out
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.
I vaguely remember Mitch, but I sure remember that Arkansas backfield. Darren McFadden, Felix Jones, Peyton Hillis. It was nasty.
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.
I know Stafford entered the draft after three years, but did Tebow stay for five years? It just doesn't compute in my head that they were the same year.
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.
This list is incomplete because it does not list David Cone.
Some dude named Ryan Mallett was the other five star. Stafford was a year later.
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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).
Also it should be noted that Gus Malzahn left after one year at Arkansas because Houston Nutt wouldn't let Malzahn run his own offense. Nutt wanted run run run. Malzahn left for Tulsa the next year.
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There was tension between him and Nutt, but also some crazy involvement from the parents of the players Malzahn brought along. I think Nutt just decided it wasn't worth it.
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.
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.
They were one deminsional and couldn't get teams to take 8 out if the box. Nutt made the mistake of letting boosters talk him into hiring Malzahn and those two had two different philosophies.
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.
"Hello me, meet the real me"
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?"
Derrick Williams' biggest mistake was going to Penn State. He never got developed there properly and they wasted his skillset.
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.
I thought this was about my old college roommate, Mitch Cumstein.
Hell of a golfer.
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Could have gone pro
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Except for that whole night putting thing with the chancellor's daughter.
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I thought this was about Metallica and Megadeth.
Man, I completely forgot this guy even existed.
He needs LifeLock!
I want to see the documentary, Justin Verlander got Body Snatched.
His stats started diving when Upton came into the picture.
SHe must be stealing his soul because he isn't the first athlete to have an attractive woman.
Nope... and I present Exhibit B to ladies and gentlemen of the jury... Aaron Rodgers.
You almost can't blame the guy for using 73.2% of caloric intake on sex. His knees wobbled when he pitched those first few months lol
I try not to get excited about 5 star QB's out of high school, feels like 50% of them never turn out the way people expect.
If you don't get excited about 5-star QBs, then you probably just don't get excited about recruiting in general. Lots of 5-stars at all positions end up flaming out.
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the success of their teams.
Does he play that live in the video?
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After 8 years on this board, I'm a little weirded out by the red and green arrows that are now showing up.
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.