New Arizona Wildcats quarterbacks: Competitive, hungry, athletic
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Rich Rodriguez has plenty of quarterbacks to choose from — all of them inexperienced at the Pac-12 level. Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports
Soon after he was hired in November 2011, Arizona Wildcats coach Rich Rodriguez was all alone with one quarterback on his roster.
He went to work. He has brought in 10 quarterbacks, including a trio on Wednesday’s Signing Day, in the past 13 months. He even tried to re-convert wide receiver Richard Morrison to the position.
Playing the odds?
“People have accused me before of collecting quarterbacks. Guilty as charged,” Rodriguez said with a chuckle Wednesday. “I like having a lot of quarterbacks and I like to have competition at that position and having at least two, preferably three, we can with.”
First, Arizona has to determine if it has one who can capably replace Matt Scott.
Arizona’s big theme of Signing Day — and the one that will endure for at least the next nine months — is the competition at the quarterback position.
The Wildcats added junior college transfer Jesse Scroggins at the semester break, signed high school star Anu Solomon on Wednesday and pulled a surprise by adding athletic Khari McGee to the recruiting class Wednesday.
