Cowan looks like he’s going to be the #1 guy although there hasn’t been an official announcement. Dohn had some other juicy tidbits in his article today:
One-third of the way through spring practice and UCLA already has its No. 1 quarterback.
Coach Rick Neuheisel on Saturday acknowledged the choice was Patrick Cowan.
Cowan was the only quarterback to work with the first-team offense during a lunchtime scrimmage. Former starter Ben Olson (Thousand Oaks High) worked with the second unit. One-third of the way through spring practice and UCLA already has its No. 1 quarterback.
Coach Rick Neuheisel on Saturday acknowledged the choice was Patrick Cowan.
Cowan was the only quarterback to work with the first-team offense during a lunchtime scrimmage. Former starter Ben Olson (Thousand Oaks High) worked with the second unit.
Olson isn’t happy:“You would hope you would be given a chance,” Olson said. “You would hope they wouldn’t make up their minds after four days of spring practice. Again, I can’t control that. I have to stay positive and keep plowing through. But it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what’s going on.”
And Olson might be the 3rd string QB.
Olson declined to discuss whether he would look into transferring down to the level formerly known as Division I-AA after spring practice, but during the scrimmage sources said junior college transfer Kevin Craft is being lined up to beat out Olson for the backup job.
Wow. I’m feeling superbad for Ben right now, but he never had a chance in this offense. I wrote this on the Bro board a couple of hours ago:
Chow’s offense likes to run, but he utilizes a lot of dink and dunk passes to get the same effect as runs a LOT. It’s one of the main elements of his offense.
Olson isn’t nearly as good as Cowan at throwing short balls.
Olson isn’t nearly as mobile enough for a practically brand new offensive line.
It’s the same problem as before.
I guess thats the way its goign to be. When i get out of this research marathon I’ll have a bunch of writeups on spring practice. Stay tuned.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Sorry dude. I think we have a bit of a double post going on here. You can do what you want with my latest post.
Good luck with all your work!
April 14th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
No way dude, your post was like 9 times better than mine.