Baylor QB Situation Remains Unsettled

With a new head coach installing a new system, the Baylor quarterbacks entered the spring on even footing.

"To me, it's a situation where everybody's the same," said [co-offensive coordinator Phillip] Montgomery, who tutored Kevin Kolb at the University of Houston before he was drafted in the second round by the Philadelphia Eagles. "Everybody starts fresh, and everybody starts with a clean slate."

Now with spring practices coming to a close and the spring game behind them, fans who hoped one quarterback would jump ahead of the pack are left disappointed. While the battle appears to be between Miami transfer Kirby Freeman and Blake Szymanski, who started for the Bears in 2007, neither has separated himself. Szymanski was 9/13 with 102 yards passing and one touchdown in the spring game. While Freeman connected on 7-of-13 passes for 75 yards and an interception. First year head coach Art Briles seems unconcerned at the moment.

"We've got some guys that can do some things," he said. "To me, I'm more worried about the left guard position and our cornerback position than I am the quarterback, because we've got some guys that can play and make plays.

"I thought we played with pretty good pace and tempo. That's something that we're going to be known as is a tempo-tough football team."

Baylor isn't the only school that will break spring practices with an unsettled quarterback situation. But at least one writer for the school's newspaper is questioning whether the Bears find themselves facing yet another "rebuilding" year. Oh, I don't know, with an overall mark of 35-101 since the inception of the Big 12, I'm pretty sure Baylor just reloads.