A Sea Of Red

we had all talked about this previously, but the roanoke fishwrap said this today:

Another ex-Cav to Liberty

Robbie Catterton, a member of Virginia's 2003 football recruiting class, intends to join three other former UVa players at Liberty University.

Catterton played as a true freshman for the Cavaliers before transferring to James Madison, where he was a member of the Dukes' 2004 Division I-AA championship team but played in only three games before suffering a knee injury.

James Madison announced at the start of the 2005 season that Catterton had dropped off the team but remain at JMU as a student. Bob Catterton said his son would enroll at JMU this summer.

Catterton's future Liberty teammates include 2003 UVa signees Eddie Pinigis, Vince Redd and Marshal Ausberry. The Flames' head coach, Danny Rocco, was a Cavaliers' assistant when all four were at Virginia.

One I could have lived with out.

My main question, why has he transferred so many times?

That would be my main question too. And is he eligible for next year. He is transfering from 1AA to another 1AA so I think he has to sit out.

"Coach Groh told him that he could probably play early on in his career and that he could walk-on to the baseball team as well

Another nugget. It's possible he could be an addition to the baseball team.

http://virginiatech.scout.com/2/51099.html

Some information on why he transferred from UVa to JMU.

Cavaliers' Catterton Transfers to James Madison

By Jim Reedy
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, August 24, 2004; Page D06

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Aug. 23 -- Robbie Catterton, a sophomore safety expected to play an important reserve role this season, quit the Virginia football team Saturday night, unhappy with the amount of playing time he was told to expect this season.

Catterton transferred to James Madison, where he will be able to play this fall for the Division I-AA team, his father, Bob, said Monday night from the family's home in Virginia Beach.

Catterton, who played in 10 games as a freshman last season, had been making what Coach Al Groh called "substantial forward progress," but was playing behind senior starters Jermaine Hardy and Marquis Weeks.

The Virginia coaches "told him he's been playing better than he's ever been playing and that he'd have every opportunity to play," Bob Catterton said. "I guess on Wednesday they called him in and told him it's a long process and wanted him to be a special teams performer. . . . He didn't want to wait. . . . There's no hard feelings on his part at all."

Groh said he wasn't shocked when Robbie Catterton asked to be released from his scholarship.

"He's kind of moved in that direction a couple of other times before, and we've had conversations with him and he's come back," Groh said.

Catterton was at JMU football practice Monday night and could not be reached, but his father disputed Groh's contention that Robbie had considered leaving before: "I would say that's wrong. . . . It all happened so suddenly, even I was thrown by it."

Groh said two of Virginia's three freshman safeties -- likely Nate Lyles and Jamaal Jackson -- could join redshirt sophomore Lance Evans on the second-team defense.

"I told one of them at the end of last week, 'Get ready,' " said Groh, whose Cavaliers, ranked 16th in the preseason, open the season Sept. 4 at Temple.

anyone here browse JMU's board that can dig anything up?

bottom line is rocco recruited him at UVA, so im sure he knows his character and situation.let's put our trust in rocco on this one.

Does anyone out there know what his stats were in the 3 games he played at JMU in 04?