Monday, July 2, 2007
Don: Huskies Get Their Arm
Well the Huskies got their man. As we reported last night, former Notre Dame back-up quarterback Zach Frazer has chosen UConn. This says a lot for the direction that the UConn football team is heading. This is a former high school All-American that was recruited by Charlie Weis at Notre Dame. This guy has to be an impact player and its just what the Huskies need.
Now I have never seen Frazer play, but in the limited practice video I have seen of him, he looks like a very solid and big quarterback with a strong stature. According to scout.com, he is supposed to have a cannon for an arm, but has "amazing touch on the deep ball." These are skills we haven't seen since Dan Orlovsky played his last game in the Motor City Bowl.
Kevin interviewed Frazer on WTIC Newstalk 1080 this afternoon, and he sounds like a really intelligent young man. He credited Randy Edsall's family oriented beliefs as one reason in choosing Storrs over Cincinnati and Rutgers. He also said it didn't hurt that Edsall is from central Pennsylvania (Frazer is from the town of Mechanicsburg, PA). This is great. Hopefully this becomes a trend that Edsall's ties to one of the top football states in the country can help in recruiting.
I have to think that if he was good enough to be recruited to play in South Bend, Indiana, then there is something special about him. We won't get to see him play at Rentschler Field until 2008 as he has to sit out a year for transferring, but we should expect him to be under center for 3 years for the Huskies.
Finally, we go from a QB who played in Indiana to an archaeologist named Indiana. I had the opportunity to go to New Haven this morning to watch some of the filming of the new Indiana Jones movie. It was like going through a time warp. There were all kinds of extras dressed in clothes from 1957. I got to see some old T-Birds, Studebakers, and Chevys. Indiana Jones himself, Harrison Ford was even there filming a car chase scene with director Steven Speilberg. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is one of my all-time favorite movies and I know I just would have kicked myself if I missed this opportunity. Someday I'll be able to tell my daughter that she was there to see the filming of the movie but she was too busy eating her Cheerios in her stroller. If you get a chance this week to head down there to see New Haven in 1957, I highly recommend it.
Now I have never seen Frazer play, but in the limited practice video I have seen of him, he looks like a very solid and big quarterback with a strong stature. According to scout.com, he is supposed to have a cannon for an arm, but has "amazing touch on the deep ball." These are skills we haven't seen since Dan Orlovsky played his last game in the Motor City Bowl.
Kevin interviewed Frazer on WTIC Newstalk 1080 this afternoon, and he sounds like a really intelligent young man. He credited Randy Edsall's family oriented beliefs as one reason in choosing Storrs over Cincinnati and Rutgers. He also said it didn't hurt that Edsall is from central Pennsylvania (Frazer is from the town of Mechanicsburg, PA). This is great. Hopefully this becomes a trend that Edsall's ties to one of the top football states in the country can help in recruiting.
I have to think that if he was good enough to be recruited to play in South Bend, Indiana, then there is something special about him. We won't get to see him play at Rentschler Field until 2008 as he has to sit out a year for transferring, but we should expect him to be under center for 3 years for the Huskies.
Finally, we go from a QB who played in Indiana to an archaeologist named Indiana. I had the opportunity to go to New Haven this morning to watch some of the filming of the new Indiana Jones movie. It was like going through a time warp. There were all kinds of extras dressed in clothes from 1957. I got to see some old T-Birds, Studebakers, and Chevys. Indiana Jones himself, Harrison Ford was even there filming a car chase scene with director Steven Speilberg. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is one of my all-time favorite movies and I know I just would have kicked myself if I missed this opportunity. Someday I'll be able to tell my daughter that she was there to see the filming of the movie but she was too busy eating her Cheerios in her stroller. If you get a chance this week to head down there to see New Haven in 1957, I highly recommend it.
Posted at 8:14 PM by Don
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