Want to be a college QB? Get a bat
Posted: Thursday August 27, 1998 02:13 PM
The shortest route to winning a quarterback job this season is through minor league baseball.
We all know about Chris Weinke's rise to Florida State's first team. This week, two other pro baseball players could be starters.
At Colorado, junior Mike Moschetti, a former shortstop in the A's system, won out over junior Jeremy Weisinger, who promptly cleaned out his locker and announced he would transfer.
At Georgia, Cubs prospect Quincy Carter, who originally signed with Georgia Tech before deciding to play baseball, appears poised to win a four-man battle for the job. Playing baseball every day demands that players not get too high or too low. That's also a quality prized in quarterbacks.
Searching for a Huskie tailback
They're getting antsy at Washington over the tailback situation. The Huskies are no closer to finding a replacement for Rashaan Shehee than they were last January.
Senior Maurice Shaw, who wowed no one when he filled in for the injured Shehee last year, had back surgery in the spring and pulled a hamstring earlier this month. He's just now practicing.
Senior Jason Harris has never run away from anyone, especially the trainer. And just when true freshman Willie Hurst was beginning to turn coaches' heads, he broke his left thumb.
The Huskies better find the answer soon. The Pac-10 showdown at Arizona State is little more than a week away.
Okeafor should help Purdue
One of the most interesting players this season will be Purdue senior Chike Okeafor, a star linebacker for the Boilermakers two years ago.
Okeafor got on the wrong side of new coach Joe Tiller in 1997 spring practice, missing meetings and not putting out the effort that Tiller wanted. So Tiller suspended him and Okeafor didn't participate in Purdue's stunning turnaround.
A year smarter and, at 250, fifteen pounds bigger, Okeafor has moved to defensive end. If Purdue surprises again this season, Okeafor will be a big reason why.
Can't tell him much
As Hurricane Bonnie bore down on the North Carolina coast Wednesday, officials at East Carolina canceled classes.
When coach Steve Logan got word that the storm would pass over Greenville at dusk, he moved practice to 8:30 a.m. But then the storm stalled.
As the rest of Greenville battened down for the night, Logan and his staff sat in their offices and watched tape. You can tell a football coach, but you can't tell him much.
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