2008 Woodie Awards
Petersen mentors quarterbacks
Jake Garcin
Issue date: 4/5/07 Section: Sports
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After molding two of the most prolific quarterbacks in BSU history (Ryan Dinwiddie and Jared Zabransky) Petersen is now working on selecting the next signal caller for the Broncos.
The race is still wide open with four seemingly different players in the program for Petersen to choose from.
“The good news is we’ve got good players,” Petersen said about having four QBs in contention for the starting job. “The bad news is we do have to narrow it down sooner than later.”
Although there is no definite deadline for picking a starting quarterback, Petersen and Offensive Coordinator Bryan Harsin will likely narrow the competition to two or three players by the end of spring football.
Although kickoff for the 2007 season is more than five months away, the next three weeks of drills and practice might be the most crucial in solidifying the top contenders for the job.
“There’s no one phase of the season that’s more important than another,” Petersen said. “It’s kind of a building block process. Spring ball leads us into summer workouts. These last two weeks are important because we get to be with them for two weeks and after that we can’t be with them.”
All four competing quarterbacks (Taylor Tharp, Bush Hamdan, Nick Lomax and Michael Coughlin) will play in the annual Blue and Orange Game April 13. After the Blue and Orange Game the BSU coaching staff will not be permitted to workout any of the players over the summer months until the team meets for fall camp in July.
“There’s not a lot of words of wisdom being passed on here,” Petersen said. “Those guys know what’s expected. So we’re just trying to let them play and compete.”
The one sentiment of advice Petersen said he is offering to his young quarterbacks is to enjoy the competition and not get caught up in the stress of the situation.
“I think the one thing is, we don’t want them to put too much pressure on themselves,” Petersen said. “Every practice is like life and death. ‘Is he ahead of me?’ We don’t want them to look at that. We just want them to make continuous improvement and we’ve got time.”
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