Tressel Doesn’t Name Starter, TP Gets More Reps
So, Coach Tressel has continued to fan the flames with his weekly press conference comments today.
Asked who the starting QB would be against Troy, and if the rotating the QBs last week worked, he gave the following reply:
I liked how it worked when we did things well. On the plays when we didn’t, I wish we would have done something else, but I don’t think it was a bad thing. You know, I don’t know how many plays like in the long drive we had, I don’t know how many of the plays Todd was in or how many Terrelle was in or that kind of thing:as we got done with the Tuesday game plan, what we’re going to work on on Tuesday, you divide it up into various situational things and so forth, at the end of the evening, getting it done, I asked the question, how should we go about practicing our quarterbacks and how do you envision how much of the time each is going to play throwing it out to the offensive staff. And everyone likes to have an opinion, and you craft your own opinion by the logic of others, and so with the things that we’re doing today, we came to the consensus that Terrelle was going to do about 65% of them and Todd was going to do about 35% of them in part because so many of them Todd has done so many times already and we know what he can do. That’s certainly affected by what Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday looks like and that’s certainly affected by what Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday looks like. I don’t know if that’s more than what you’re asking. That’s the first time I’ve heard that. That was good.
As you can see, there was no started named in that run-on thought, but he did go on to say that if the game were last night, Todd and Terrelle would split the snaps 50/50. Further, who the starter will be depends on the remaining days of practice this week.
We officially have a quarterback controversy!
Oh, and my favorite part of Tressel’s comments was this:
What we did last week was more within a series so we had a chance to talk a little bit in between plays. Now, it became a little bit hard to talk to Terrelle in between plays when he wasn’t in there because he was down on the line of scrimmage screaming and yelling at the guys who were playing, and we kept having to say, come back here, we need to talk to you about what play you’re running next or what play you just ran and all that, but he’s just such an into it guy that, I think we got better at that, but that I think we to was the best thing for that at that moment, but we’ll have to see as we go into this one.
Now that’s what you expect to see out of your QB. Someone passionately into the game and trying to rally the troops both on and off the field. No doubt about it, folks. He’s got “it”.
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