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August 21, 2007
Second sighting
With backup QB Patrick Cowan down with a hamstring pull, red-shirt freshman walk-on McLeod Bethel-Thompson took the reps with the second team. UCLA coach Karl Dorrell said no added reps were given to the second team to get Bethel-Thompson up to speed.
"He'll be ready to play,'' Dorrell said. "Like I mentioned (Monday), he's a pretty smart kid, bright, picked up a lot of our offense without taking many reps. And it seemed like he had pretty decent command out there, given the situations we were putting him in. I was encouraged with his performance today.''
Posted by Brian Dohn at August 21, 2007 02:55 PM
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Brian, due to Cowan's injury, is there any indication that Chris Forcier may not redshirt? It seems like it would be a bad move to move Osaar back to QB, since he has so much potential at WR, but it's even riskier not to have a third QB on the depth chart.
Posted by: JBruin at August 21, 2007 03:36 PM
I think it's been noted that Osaar will mainly be playing as a WR, with a few schemes for him as QB in case of an emergency. Hopefully that'll be enough.
Posted by: bob at August 22, 2007 04:07 PM
Yeah definitely need that 3rd QB. John Sciarra anyone? Man, that was the craziest game I've ever seen. 2 blocked punts inside the 20, and couldn't even a muster a TD. We had Matt Ware running the option. We had ebell running a sweep counter. Nothing. I remember Sciarra saying something like he thought he called a pass play but called a running play and then fumbled when he was staring at the entire Cal d-line right in his grill.
Posted by: Dean at August 23, 2007 09:34 AM