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OSU Three-horse race at QB still on Ohio State only Big Ten team with starter in doubt
By Doug Harris Dayton Daily News
CHICAGO | Ohio State is one of six Big Ten teams that will be unboxing and taking the bubble wrap off a new quarterback this season.
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Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan State also will have a fresh face under center and are bracing for the assorted missteps that normally accompany transitions at college football's most complicated position.
But while much can change between now and September — even at schools with established QBs — no team appears in less of a hurry to put an end to its signal-caller suspense than Ohio State.
Everyone else in the conference has at least declared a clear-cut No. 1 going into fall camp. But for the Buckeyes, who begin practice Tuesday, Justin Zwick and Troy Smith are 1A and 1B.
"Based on the knowledge and information we have, that's the way it is," OSU coach Jim Tressel said at the Big Ten meetings here Thursday. "Our staff believes it would be less than accurate to say we feel so-and-so is the quarterback. The players will decide that by their performance."
Tressel said the battle between the third-year sophomores is so keen that a definitive winner probably won't be declared before the Sept. 4 opener against Cincinnati.
"I think both guys feel they have earned the right to say, 'I ought to have the 29 (preseason) practices and a couple ball games to prove I can be the guy.' I concur with that," Tressel said.
While careful not to disparage another's approach, Tressel said those who have picked a new starter this summer could have a change of heart.
"We all look at seasons where we think so-and-so will step in and be the quarterback, and someone else emerged and ends up being the leader of the team," Tressel said.
But at least one Big Ten contender has no such uncertainty. Purdue coach Joe Tiller said preseason offensive player of the year Kyle Orton has "a big-league arm." And Tiller plans to use it.
"We're going to ride this horse to the finish line," he said. "We're going to put it up."
Penn State — with four-year starter Zack Mills at quarterback — won't be shy about going to the air, either. Mills had a subpar season in 2003, but coach Joe Paterno said the left-hander's struggles were not all his own.
"As a team last year, we didn't play well," Paterno said. "We didn't catch some balls. Our running game wasn't good at times. And unfortunately Zack took the brunt of the criticism.
"If we get things in better shape around him, I think Zack will show just how fine a quarterback he is."
Wisconsin coach Barry Alavarez is putting untested sophomore John Stocco at the controls of an otherwise veteran team. And the standards for Stocco won't be high.
"You just want someone who's not going to lose games for you," Alvarez said.
Tressel's checklist for his new QB probably won't be much different. While seldom spectacular the last two seasons, departed starter Craig Krenzel excelled at avoiding the costly mistake. And the Buckeyes racked up a 25-2 record in their most prosperous two-year period in history.
<>Tressel hopes Zwick and Smith were paying attention. "There's a lot of difficulty in replacing Craig Krenzel in so many areas," Tressel said. "One is leadership, two is work ethic, three is his performance and ... when it was really a tough time in tough games, he was the guy a lot of people looked to, and he delivered."
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