Cal’s QB receives more media attention

Nate Longshore is gracing the front page of ESPN’s College Football site. It appears as if our QB is one of the big question marks in college football right now.

ESPN.com says: Cal should be one of the nation’s best teams in 2006. The Golden Bears have a stingy defense, two impressive tailbacks and downfield threats at wide receiver. But who starts at quarterback? Coach Jeff Tedford has four candidates to choose from this spring.

Nothing much is new in the corresponding article; it rehashes Longshore’s unfortunate history, this season’s QB battle, and the introduction of Mike Dunbar‘s spread to the offense.

However, it does note that “this could be a top-10 team… if things work out at quarterback.” Let’s cross our fingers and hope for the best.

Longshore named starter for Spring

This season’s QB competition has begun. Nate Longshore has gotten the starting nod again to begin Spring practice. He started last season only to be injured in the first game.

Looks like Tedford named him that by default, and the resulting winner could be any of the candidates (Longshore, last season’s disappointing Joe Ayoob, backup Nate Levy, and redshirt freshman Kyle Reed). See article in SF Chronicle for more info.
Our QB battle was recently named #4 in the Top 10 spring QB battles by ESPN columnist Bruce Feldman. He noted that while last season Ayoob “flopped”, Levy was fearless relieving him but didn’t “throw a pretty ball”. The wildcard will be Reed, who he describes as raw but showing good skills.

EDIT 3/29/2006: Longshore has also been picked as the winner of the QB battle in the #6 Top 30 Quarterback Battles on Fox Sports. Check it out.