By Chadd Cripe
ccripe@idahostatesman.com
Freshman left tackle Nate Potter, the projected starter, will miss “a few weeks” of practice after having arthroscopic knee surgery Friday, Boise State coach Chris Petersen said Saturday.
Potter is doubtful for the Aug. 30 season opener against Idaho State, Petersen said. He should be ready for the second game, Sept. 13 against Bowling Green.
Sophomore Matt Slater has replaced Potter with the first team. Slater also is competing with sophomore Kevin Sapien at right tackle. Redshirt freshman Garrett Pendergast also is a tackle candidate.
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The Broncos still have not appointed captains for the 2008 season — and might not.
Petersen wants to give leaders a chance to emerge and spread the responsibility across the roster. He said he probably will name new captains each week.
In recent years, the Broncos have usually had three season captains and one rotating captain.
“We’ve got a lot of guys that are leaders on this team,” Petersen said. “I think sometimes narrowing it down excludes some of the guys who need to not be excluded.
“… For us to do what we want to do, we need more than three or four leaders. We need a bunch of them.”
Sophomore defensive end Ryan Winterswyk, one of the team’s young leaders, said Petersen’s idea should work.
“There’s not pressure on three guys,” Winterswyk said. “Everyone feels that they need to step up.”
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The morning practice Saturday, the first day of two-a-days, featured good hitting and another strong performance by the offense.
Freshman quarterback Kellen Moore tossed a touchdown pass over the middle to tight end Kyle Efaw during the no-huddle session, with mind-numbing crowd noise blaring on the stadium speakers. Senior quarterback Bush Hamdan finished one drive with a nice pass to tailback D.J. Harper, who plowed into the end zone.
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Earning the captain's spots is a GREAT idea!
Should ALWAYS be the case.
Mohawks, er "manes" are motivation too, but only if you hate them and resolve to win and get OUT of them. Some of those guys look like hockey players anyhow and it just adds to the intimidation factor I suppose?
I liked the one who said how he meant it when he said he was graduating in winter and might not even be playing football again so he might as well go for it...
Good Ruck
Good luck with the surgery, Nate. We'll be hoping for a quick recovery.
Hamdan
I am really dissapointed in all the love that Hamdan is getting from the Statesman. Its seems a little biased. We have one of the best QB's in BSU history on our team and he is at the same level as Hamdan and challenging him for the starting position, as a FRESHMAN. Thats impressive! Still all the hype is going towards Hamdan. What happened to fair and balanced. All you guys report on is when KM throws a pick and Hamdan throws a TD. But in the same practice KM threw a perfect throw for a TD and BH threw two picks but you dont report those statistic's. Idaho Press Tribune has better fair and balanced coverge on the practices and reports everything. That disapoints me being that the Idaho Statesman should be the one with more coverage on the practices as well as the other QB's KM, MC, NL with all that they do. Not just cover all of the Senoirs good plays and not the bad. It is apparent who the Statsman wants in as QB but alot of the fans disagree. The noise from fridays practice when KM threw a TD was as loud as in a real game on the blue. When BH threw a TD it wasn't even close to as loud. KM has developed in a way that it takes others three seasons too. How about covering KM more and drop the Man Crush on BH.
You've said this verbatim twice...don't spam.