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Cinci Gets the Forgotten Wake Forest QB

Mar 28, 2007 – 7:47 AM
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Chas Rich

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One of the huge feel-good stories last season was Wake Forest. One of the tiniest Division 1-A schools won the ACC and got to the Orange Bowl. Not only that, but they did it despite the loss of their starting QB and RB at the very beginning of the season. Freshman QB Riley Skinner managed the offense very well and minimized mistakes to lead the Demon Deacons. There was no way he was losing his starting job.

So what of the injured QB, Ben Mauk? Well, Mauk, despite being a senior, had a year of eligibility left (possibly a second if the NCAA grants him a medical waiver for the 2006 season -- he was injured in the very first game of the season) and will graduate. The NCAA revoked the rule allowing players with a year of eligibility remaining, but who had graduated, essentially free agent status to go anywhere to grad school. Mauk, however, was grandfathered into the rule and will be battling for the starting job at Cincinnati this fall.

Ben Mauk is from Kenton, Ohio. That's about 140 miles north of Cinci. He starts grad school at Cinci in May. A couple weeks after he graduates from Wake Forest.
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