BRADY HUNCH; NORTHRIDGE, NOT NAVY, WAS BEST FOR QUARTERBACK.Byline: KEVIN MODESTI Marcus Brady Marcus Brady (Born September 24, 1979) is a quarterback for the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL. College career He attended Cal State Northridge as a business major, where he started 43 straight games. , the redshirt-freshman quarterback, came to Cal State Northridge by way of Navy. That's the part his new teammates find hard to believe. They understand why he left the U.S. Naval Academy before completing the ``Plebe plebe (plebeian) first or lowest class, especially at U.S. Military and Naval Academies. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Inexperience Summer'' boot camp Software from Apple that enables an Intel x86-based Macintosh to host the Windows XP operating system. Boot Camp is used to divide the hard disk into Windows and Mac partitions, to install the necessary drivers and to create a dual boot environment. . But why on earth or sea did he sign up for a military school in the first place? Marcus just isn't soldier material. He's so quiet, so placid, so courteous, you imagine that in the event of war, he'd be the etiquette officer, in charge of requisitioning the napkins. He admits he was naive. ``All I knew about (Navy) was the football, the national TV, the Army-Navy game “The Army-Navy Game” redirects here. For the episode of M*A*S*H, see The Army-Navy Game (M*A*S*H episode). The Army-Navy Game, an annual college football game generally played on the first Saturday in December, pits the football teams of the United , playing Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame ,'' he said. ``I never really thought of going into the military.'' Thus, in July 1997, when he reported to Annapolis, Md., and had squad leaders barking in his face - ``So you're the so-called superstar from San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. !'' - he had a perfectly Marcus-like reaction. He laughed. Right in Sgt. Carter's face. As a result, Marcus' squad led the camp in pushups. ``He's always been a pretty good kid, and when that was happening, I don't think he knew how to take it,'' said Marcus Brady Sr., a former San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. State defensive back. The quarterback's father was disappointed but hardly shocked to get a letter from Marcus, begging to come home. And to start looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a new college. He'd been recruited by Ivy League schools, Stanford and Montana, but they wanted him to play another position, the better to exploit his speed. Brady wanted to play quarterback, where he'd been all-league for Morse High in Southeast San Diego. His dad phoned Northridge. When the Matadors coaches heard he came from the high school that produced USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. safety Rashard Cook and tight end Lonnie Ford, they invited him for a recruiting visit. When Brady learned about the Matadors' emphasis on passing, he'd found a home. Now, you might ask, if a guy isn't cut out for the military, how does he handle football, where the field maneuvers are just as grueling and the drill sergeants are just as loud? The answer is quite nicely, thank you. Saturday night, when Northridge opens its 11-game season at Boise State, Brady will be the starting quarterback, chosen to replace the graduated Aaron Flowers, the school record-holder in almost every passing statistic. As gentle as he is, don't expect to see him chewing out teammates for bad blocks and errant pass routes. But in every other way, new Northridge head coach Ron Ponciano thinks he has picked the ideal quarterback to build around. He's smart, a mechanical engineering major and math minor who had no trouble absorbing offensive coordinator Ron Phenicie's playbook while red-shirting last season. He's an all-around athlete, a pitcher and basketball player as well as a quarterback in high school, with scrambling ability that will make up for a lot of freshman mistakes. ``He might be my best cornerback,'' Ponciano said, ``if he played that position.'' And the 6-foot-1, 185-pounder is the best-conditioned Matador matador In bullfighting, the principal performer, who works the capes and attempts to dispatch the bull with a sword thrust between the shoulder blades. Most of the techniques used by modern matadors were established in the 1910s by Juan Belmonte (b. 1894–d. . Which, the coaches say, goes to show what a straight arrow the 18-year-old is. This summer, although the coaches encouraged players to stay near campus and work out under team guidance, Brady went home and lived with his father, a juvenile probation officer, and mother, Emily, a commercial banker. He took summer school at Southwestern Junior College and worked as a food server at the San Diego Convention Center The San Diego Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. . And he ran, lifted and stretched so much, the neighbors thought Marcus Sr. was operating a boot camp of his own. The results of that physical homework impressed Ponciano. Then, with the coaches watching and charting every run and pass, Brady outperformed incumbent Josh Fiske and three other quarterbacks in summer scrimmages. He was named the starter last week. Ponciano said Brady separated himself from the pack with his poise against the pass rush. ``(Other quarterbacks) kind of flinched,'' the coach said. ``Marcus didn't.'' He laughed in the linemen's faces, as it were. After that, the image of young Marcus at the Naval Academy, laughing at some bully in brass, had even more meaning for the Northridge coaches. ``That's exactly what I'd expect him to do,'' said quarterbacks coach Jeff Kearin. ``If you tried to hit him with pressure, he'd giggle at you. You're not going to break him. You're not going to scare him.'' Anchors aweigh a·weigh adj. Nautical Hanging clear of the bottom. Used of an anchor. aweigh Adjective Naut (of an anchor) no longer hooked into the bottom Adj. 1. , Marcus. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Marcus Brady Hans Gutknecht/Daily News Photo Illustration/Daily News |
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