Two Weeks....on the QB battle

We are two weeks away...the season opens in just 14 short days.  It is hard to believe how fast it has gone.  The team is working in camp and getting ready for a season in which BG does not have a lot of time to gear up.  We start with Tulsa..USA Today has them #26 in the nation...and then go straight to Kent.  Two tough assignments to start the year.  Kent is a division game and you really need that win or the pressure is on.

The biggest news that I haven't written about is the QB competition.  Dave Hackenberg wrote in The Blade about this yesterday and you should check the column out.

The gist is that while many people felt that the QB "competition" was just a tool to motivate Matt Schilz to return to his 2011 performance levels, Coach Clawson insists that the competition is real and 50/50.

Now (bear with me) if it were a motivational technique, you wouldn't help it much by admitting it, so maybe he said the only thing he could say.  I have said before and I still contend that Coach Clawson is not going to take his senior-dominated team and put the offense in the hands of an untested player.  Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see him pulling the trigger on that.

BG must play better on offense to become a great team this year.  The defense will be very good (or should be), but the offense is going to have to be more productive.  As the column mentions, Schilz had sub-par numbers last year...but it wasn't all on him.  His WRs were inconsistent and they need to be better.  The team really limited sacks (2.6% of conference passing attempts, less than half of the MAC average of 5.6%) but is breaking in two new tackles, and the team's top 2 RBs are gone.

And, the QB has to play better.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see what happens.  Best case is that all the supporting elements come together and Schilz makes consistent plays and the offense takes some pressure off the defense.  It is going to be a very interesting season.