Daily Archives: Aug. 21, 2008

Quarterbacks: What might have been…

Let me get it out of the way right now – I think Josh Freeman is the best of the bunch to run the offense Ron Prince desired.

But with the news that Allan Evridge will be starting at Wisconsin, it got me wondering what everyone else who was either here and left, or committed and left, was up to.

It’s not a very lengthy list. There are the transfers, Evridge and Washington State’s Kevin Lopina, who is pushing fifth-year senior Gary Rogers for the starting spot. And then there is Oregon’s Chris Harper, which is the most interesting situation of all, especially given K-State’s situation at running back.

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Double-signing with Bubba

If it doesn’t work for Kwamaine “Bubba” Brown at Kansas State, he’ll have a soft landing at Butler County Community College. Turns out this was the plan all along.

“He signed with us, too,” Butler coach Troy Morrell said this morning. “We’re wating for him to get through the Clearinghouse, too.”

Apparently, and I don’t profess to be an authority on junior college matters, this is a fairly standard practice. I asked Morrell if it was fair to assume that Brown suspected he might not be eligible at K-State, and he replied in the affirmative.

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