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Huskies' options at QB are a handful
|Connecticut quarterback Chandler Whitmer throws a pass during the second quarter of their spring NCAA college football game, Saturday, April 21, 2012, in East Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/The Day, Tim Cook) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT
There is no possible way to make five equal zero, at least not in any concrete mathematical sense.
In UConn football math, however, five equaling zero is entirely possible. And it's an equation that must be corrected as soon as possible.
The Huskies begin preseason camp in just more than two weeks. They will enter camp with five quarterbacks on the roster, but no quarterbacks who have proved to be consistently reliable.
Question marks at quarterback have long been an issue for the Huskies, going all the way back to Dan Orlovsky's departure after the 2004 season, but the questions are greater this year simply because of the sheer number of people competing for one vitally important spot.
"We have choices, we know that," UConn coach Paul Pasqualoni said in the spring. "The good thing is, we don't have to make a decision now. We don't have to make a decision until the last week of August. Heck, it might be the day of the first game (Aug. 30 against UMass) before we make a decision.
"There's no need to rush things in that regard."
The good thing for Pasqualoni is that he has plenty of choices. The bad thing is that he has plenty of choices.
Given his druthers, Pasqualoni said he would much rather have a solid, reliable, proven quarterback going into camp. Reality had different ideas. Johnny McEntee spent the most time under center in 2011, but completed just more than 51 percent of his passes. Michael Nebrich and Scott McCummings rotated in for certain situations and threw a grand total of 24 passes between them.
UConn's passing game was anemic, again, which put an awful lot of pressure on smallish running back Lyle McCombs, who managed to rush for 1,151 yards and seven touchdowns. Those touchdowns came on 275 rushing attempts. The three quarterbacks threw 14 touchdown passes, 12 from McEntee, in 359 passing attempts.
"We have to be better in the passing game," offensive coordinator George DeLeone said. "That's not a big secret. You'll see some different things in the pass offense this year, but we have to work within the skills of our quarterbacks. We have to evaluate each of them separately and determine what they can and can't do.
"It was an interesting spring but a good spring. It should be an interesting preseason camp. Hopefully, one of them steps forward and takes hold of things. If not, we have no choice but to work with what we're given."
UConn welcomes junior college transfer Chandler Whitmer and lauded recruit Casey Cochran to the quarterback rotation this preseason. Cochran is likely to be a later arrival on the field. He broke his left wrist, the nonthrowing wrist, in a bicycle accident last week. He will have surgery Friday.
Each is considered more of a passer than a running playmaker. That job belongs to McCummings and Nebrich.
If nothing else, the five quarterbacks fall into two distinct categories: pure passers (McEntee, Whitmer and Cochran) and hybrid guys (McCummings and Nebrich). It's likely that the latter two will find their way into a rotation again, leaving the former three to fight for the starting job.
Complicating matters, however, are the situations at wide receiver and offensive line. The Huskies will have a new center and the man expected to be the top receiver, Michael Smith, has not caught a pass in a game from any of the quarterback competitors because he sat out last season with academic issues. Clemson transfer Bryce McNeal, who will play as a graduate student, also will likely be relied on for explosive plays at receiver.
Nick Williams, Geremy Davis and Tebucky Jones have caught passes from McEntee, but had a total of 22 receptions last year. They have a small sample size on which to base things while Smith and McNeal have to familiarize themselves with things in a short period of time (though Smith had the benefit of spring drills).
"It won't be a big deal," Smith said. "They all throw pretty good balls, and we're getting used to each other. We'll have time to work things out during the spring, summer and camp. I think we'll be fine."
With whom and how many of them is the question. In just more than two weeks, the answers will start to come.
Or they won't. All five quarterbacks are on the same plane right now, which is much the way three of them went through last season. It has to change this year.
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