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Sun, 16 Jul 2006 05:37:00 GMT

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[Gotham Dark Knight]

There's no such thing as summer vacation these days for college quarterbacks — especially for freshman college quarterbacks, and especially for University of Texas freshman quarterbacks seeking to follow in the footsteps of Vince Young.

So even before the 2006 season gets off to an unofficial start in the next week or so with conference preview junkets, three young Men Who Would Be Vince — redshirt freshman Colt McCoy, second-semester freshman Jevan Snead and incoming freshman Sherrod Harris — are taking critical steps toward the goal of filling the most daunting vacancy of this season.

McCoy, Snead and Harris are among about 50 Texas players who gather most afternoons in Austin for the voluntary, unsupervised seven-on-seven sessions that Young used last year to mold the 2005 Longhorns into national champions-to-be.

It's a time for the freshmen to learn the system and for veterans to learn about the freshmen, and, perhaps most important, to forge confidence and chemistry.

Veteran wide receiver Limas Sweed and defensive back Michael Griffin are impressed with what they've seen from the two leading candidates in McCoy, who ran the scout team last season, and Snead, who enrolled in January and went through spring practice.

"Both of them are looking real good right now," said Sweed. "They're learning how to read defenses, making and calling plays with confidence, and they're making the appropriate throws to the appropriate guys."
Griffin said summer is a time for the young quarterbacks to embrace nuances: what moves, for example, does Sweed like to make on an out route, or what should they expect when Billy Pittman runs a post route?
"But the main objective is for us to let them know that we trust them and that we're a family and that we'll embrace them," Griffin said. "We want them to know that we trust them, no matter what happens."

Starting a freshman at quarterback is hardly a foreign concept at Texas or at other Division I-A schools in Texas, and many have used their first season as a springboard to record-breaking performances.

So who will step in to replace Young out of this bunch?...And how successful will this tema be without their star quarterback?

[Lefty Noob]

Odds are it'll be Colt McCoy, but he's no Vince Young. They'll have a good season, but they won't win the Big 12 let alone repeat as National Champs. Vince was just too much of a difference maker, and they don't have anyone who can do what he could do.