BYU Football: Starting Quarterback Derby Remains Unsettled As Cougars SUMMARY Spring Camp With A Final ?spirited? Practice ?Adrian College Football PUMPED UP ABOUT Rematch With Trine ?Who Was The Best Texas High School Football Player Ever?

Hours after Zach Wilson awed a large number of NFL scouts, coaches and general managers at BYU?s pro day Friday morning, the 2021 Cougars took to the field at the Indoor Practice Facility on campus for one final practice of spring camp. Of course, all eyes remained on the quarterbacks, and all four candidates for the starting job to replace Wilson got his opportunity to shine one more time before the team reconvenes by the end of July and opens preseason training camp. Who won? ?My starting quarterback is,? said offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick, pausing for effect. ?... Just kidding.? ?I will meet with each of those guys in a few days and talk about how we are going to move forward, but there will still be some competition in the fall. We have been not ready to name a starter yet. We will go, I would say, at least a week to 10 days in the fall before we make any decisions like that.? ? BYU offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick Had the brand new OC named one, it could have been a more impressive story ? at least in these parts ? than what Wilson did earlier in the day. Alas, it didn?t happen. Roderick said the battle ?is starting to take shape a little bit in my mind,? but declined to share with you anything resembling a depth chart at the vital position. Baylor Romney, Jaren Hall, Jacob Conover and Sol-Jay Maiava-Peters are still in the derby. ?I am going to meet with each of those guys next week and talk about how exactly we are going to go forward, but there it's still some competition in the fall,? Roderick said. ?We have been not ready to name a starter yet. We shall go, I would say, at the very least weekly to 10 days in the fall before we make any decisions like that.? Roderick and head coach Kalani Sitake have talked about the need to whittle a few names off the candidates board as a way to supply the bonafide contenders more reps before the season begins Sept. 4 in NEVADA against Arizona, but Roderick said Friday night there is no rush, and Sitake referred to there being ?four guys? still in the hunt for the starting job. ?I'm not all set to two yet. But we've enough time. I feel confident,? Roderick said. ?Personally i think like normally spreading the reps around with four guys ought to be pretty thin, but when you consider the accumulation of the reps (Hall and Romney) have had in the time they are here, I think you can take this thing just a little further.? Sitake said there?s some value keeping in mind Arizona guessing, and seconded Roderick?s notion that the relatively good experience among the four enables coaches to delay their decision into fall camp. Then again, he said they won?t be playing cat-and-mouse games merely to play games. ?There is an advantage there,? he said. ?But as soon as we realize what guy has earned it, we shall make an effort to make that decision right away. Hopefully we can get that done as quickly as possible. That decision doesn?t have to be made right now, fortunately. The quarterbacks are playing so well at this time. ?Like I said, I will play the best one,? he continued. ?That?s the only way I know how to take action. And that?s at every position.? Sitake said every QB improved over the course of the last four weeks, ?making things really difficult? on coaches attempting to trim the competition. ?THEREFORE I saw them progress and obtain better in so many different areas and start to possess the offense, also it was impressive especially with the number of reps they had,? Sitake said. ?It wasn?t like they had a bunch. They were split between the four of these. But I can say each one of those quarterbacks got better. ? Looking forward to continued competition and seeing that play out even in the summertime.? Romney and Hall both spoke to reporters in a Zoom call Friday, and both said the competition has been friendly and helpful. Both said having a starter named soon is not that important. ?I like the proceedings. It makes all of us compete. It makes most of us stay on our toes in a way and really do our best on a daily basis and work as hard as we possibly can,? Romney said. ?So I like where we are at this time, and whatever the coaches decide in the fall is their decision to make.? In this day and age of the transfer portal, and with the NCAA likely to make transferring easier and less punitive, coaches need to consider how making the decision soon could cause one of the candidates to get greener pastures elsewhere. But neither Romney nor Hall gave any indication which could happen at BYU. ?I think collectively we got better,? Hall said. ?In 15 practices, there exists a lot that you can learn from, a lot you can grow from. I think all of us showed out and did what we do best. We'd fun and made each other better and so it was a good spring and I believe we will be in good hands come fall.?
ADRIAN ? Unlike most teams in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the final time Adrian and Trine's football faced off was not in 2019. The Bulldogs and the Thunder have previously done battle once this season, because the teams played back on October 3 at Docking Stadium, in what was the first college football game played in mich this school year with Trine winning 44-27 in a casino game that was officially a non-conference contest. Despite the game today being a rematch, neither side is the same squad that faced one another over the type of scrimmage five-and-a-half months ago. ?Obviously they hurt us running the football the final time we played them in the fall, so we surely got to guarantee that we force them to throw the ball,? said Adrian coach Jim Deere, ?but they did a pretty good job against Albion, they threw for 300-plus yards and didn't rush the ball very well. So it could be pick your poison.? The Bulldogs defense and special teams made their presences felt in last weekend's 21-6 victory at Alma, because the defense won the battle, only allowing the Scots to obtain 14 first downs and kicking a field goal in the second and fourth quarter each. ?It certainly gave us the momentum and that spark that people had a need to get our season going,? said junior defensive lineman Kevin Smitherman. ?Weekly is gonna get harder from here on out, but we must compete every week and obtain one step closer.? Among the key areas for Adrian that the team won was the battle to help keep drives going offensively or end Alma drives defensively. The Bulldog offense, which totaled 318 yards against the Scots, went 7-for-14 on third down attempts, while its defensive unit held Alma to 1 conversion in 15 attempts combined on third and fourth downs. ?Our coaches are embarking on the idea of mental fortitude, which really sticks if you ask me,? said junior defensive back and Malik Ray. ?Our defense as a whole, we would like to beat people up and make sure they are recognize that we're gonna be here every play whatever down it is. You're going to get the same thing out of us every play, and we would like to be mentally tough.? Ray, a graduate of Hudson, and Smitherman were key contributors for Adrian's defense the other day and were named to the week's D3football.Com Team of the Week, as Ray had seven total tackles, one of that was for loss, and a pass breakup, while Smitherman was in on nine stops, including 1.5 sacks contrary to the Scots last weekend. They will be needed again to greatly help slow Trine, which enters today's game 2-1 after dropping its MIAA opener 27-16 to Albion. The Thunder offense has averaged exactly 350 yards of offense per game this year, but has almost flip-flopped its style of offensive attack from the fall to the spring. Back October, the Thunder's offense went as its ground game did, rushing for 185 yards against Adrian and 282 against Manchester, while throwing for 137 against the Bulldogs and 121 contrary to the Spartans. In the Thunder's loss against Albion, the run game was nearly nonexistent, because the team ran for eight yards on 23 touches, while their quarterbacks Alex Price and Brett Kaylor combined to throw for 317 yards and two touchdowns on 21 completions. The x-factor this weekend for Adrian, according to Deere, will undoubtedly be how well the team executes and limits its mistakes. The Bulldogs lost a pair of fumbles against Alma, which not merely killed drives, but one of many lost balls also handed the Scots prime field position resulting in a field goal, within the previous game contrary to the Thunder, a go-ahead score for Adrian early in the overall game was wiped out by way of a special teams miscue. ?In the event that you look at our game one, we'd a bad snap plus they finished up blocking our field goal attempt, and it's really a 14-point swing because we had a touchdown on the play before, but the officials didn't think we did things properly, so we'd to stop the touchdown and kick the field goal,? Deere said, ?the field goal gets blocked and (Trine) returns it for a touchdown, that is clearly a 14-point swing however you consider it. That is one of the things you can't have eventually you, you can't have 10 and 14-point swings. If you don't get it, you don't obtain it but you can't give it to another team.? In the past, the special teams unit for Adrian have been a point where the team had had issues, but against Alma, the machine showed no signs of rust. ?It's going to be key as we move throughout the season, to continue to, if you're not gonna win special teams, to at the very least stay even,? Deere said. ?It is a good start for them, lots of confidence built, especially in that punt team. I think we were real near breaking one of many kickoff returns we had. It's a big, big thing to possess solid special teams, if not better than the other team and, if that happens, offensively and defensively we measure pretty good.?
Texas has a long set of outstanding football players that had epic high school careers. Over the past year, we?ve asked you to nominate who you think was the best high school football player in the history of Texas senior high school football. We asked that you merely consider their senior high school career and not how they college or NFL career turned out. These are your top nominees.
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