The Citadel coach talks (in glowing terms) about Arizona
by Anthony Gimino on Sep. 08, 2010, under Sports
QB Nick Foles is getting notice as a potential elite NFL prospect/Rick Osentoski, US PRESSWIRE
Kevin Higgins, the coach at The Citadel, held his weekly news conference Tuesday, the transcript of which you can find here.
Parsing the key part of it — well, at least the part most relevant to Arizona fans — Higgins had this to say on this Saturday’s game against the Wildcats (emphasis mine):
“We will be playing the Pac-10 opponent Arizona Wildcats. We are very excited about that opportunity. Our players had a good meeting and a great workout yesterday on the field in preparation for that game. Of course we have the Toledo game. We have most of their games from last year that we studied and they are an outstanding football team.
“Offensively, they are very good. Their quarterback I’m sure will be a first-round draft choice; the wide receiver is as good as there is in the country and the running back is extremely quick. The one thing that they do is they spread you out on the field and they try to get matchups with their quick, fast guys on your guys that maybe don’t move as well. Their scheme allows them to do a lot of wide receiver screens, double screens and triangle reads down the field.”
Is junior quarterback Nick Foles a potential first-round draft choice … or was that coach-speak? I hadn’t set the bar that high with regard to his potential, but Foles does have two seasons to prove it, and he had a great opening game against Toledo, in complete command.
NFLDraftScout.com rates him as the third-best quarterback in the 2012 class, behind Arkansas’ Ryan Mallett and Missouri’s Blaine Gabbert.
As for junior Juron Criner being as good as any receiver in the country, I’m buying that, as is anyone who saw last week’s game against the Rockets. He has the size, speed, hands, body control and the work ethic to be great.
