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The quarterback huddle with coach Aaron Roderick and others as BYU completes their first fall football practice in Provo on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Kalani Sitake is well aware that everyone wants to know who his starting quarterback will be, but frankly, he doesn’t feel too anxious to provide an answer just yet.
“I see some great competition,” BYU’s head football coach told reporters Monday afternoon in Provo. “Right now we’re not ready to make an announcement, but I think we have some really good quarterbacks. (Jake Retzlaff and Gerry Bohanon) have definitely improved from Practice 1 to now. All the (quarterbacks) have gotten better, but it’s hard to make a decision right now.
“It’s something that will happen naturally, it’s not something that we can force-feed or create a deadline on,” Sitake continued regarding the QB question. “We’ve been through quarterback competitions before, and when it’s right we’ll be able to announce it, but now isn’t the time.”
It may very well take at least another scrimmage for the Cougars’ starting quarterback to emerge. BYU had its first intrasquad exhibition of the fall last Saturday, where it ran 102 live plays in an affair Sitake called “evenly matched between offense and defense.”
“It’s hard to even say one side won,” Sitake said. “… We had some success on offense and some success on defense. I think a lot of our guys did exactly how we thought they would … I know we’re a really physical team, and we need to be mentally tough. It was good to get out there and make some mistakes now. We had some penalties, nothing out of the ordinary and very fixable issues we can handle, so we’ll get that done.”
According to Sitake, the team escaped Saturday’s action relatively unscathed in terms of…
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Publish date : 2024-08-13 02:41:29
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