</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by MsNole:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Osceola1:
UVAs defense is down this yr...Rix will put up more than 32</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Gotta agree with you there, Osceola1. With it being a home game, this team will show it's true colors.
Garnet & Gold!!! Go Noles!!! <img border="0" alt="[Cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/cheers.gif" />
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">THE ORANGE AND BLUE IS COMMING FOR YOU FSU
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Posted on Thu, Aug. 29, 2002
Virginia QB could keep FSU on the run
By Steve Ellis
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
Seneca Wallace gave Florida State's defense enough bad memories to last a season. After the damage the fleet-footed Wallace did Saturday the Seminoles could use a break. Mickey Andrew's group isn't likely to get it - not if Virginia chooses to either start or rely heavily upon quarterback Marques Hagans.
FSU could face in the redshirt freshman a quarterback who may be faster than Wallace. Cavaliers coach Al Groh isn't saying whether he'll start drop-back quarterback Matt Schaub or the elusive Hagans, who stung Colorado State with the option. Hagans, just 5-foot-9, followed two-sport All-American Ronald Curry at Hampton (Va.) High and was touted by Hampton coach Mike Smith as the best athlete he's coached.
Colorado State coach Sonny Lubick, who escaped with a 35-29 victory last week, can appreciate Smith's high praise after Hagans rushed for 45 yards and completed 10 of 13 passes for 120 yards and no interceptions off the bench. Even though Hagans fumbled on the game's final play near the goal line, he impressed Lubick.
"That Hagans really caught us off-balance," Lubick said. "He's quick. Getting to the outside on the option was something we did not expect."
Hagans sat out last season after attending Fork Union Academy for the 2000 season. He attended Hampton High before that where he passed for 1,934 yards and rushed for 671 yards as a senior in 1999.
"I saw film on him and I saw all I wanted to see," FSU coach Bobby Bowden said.
Asked if Hagans is similar to Wallace, who threw for 313 yards and accounted for three touchdowns, Bowden answered: "Yeah, on the mobility part. You have to realize Wallace is a senior. He's way ahead in that part of the game."
Although Groh is expected to give the 6-foot-5 Schaub the nod, the junior didn't help his cause by going 8 of 14 for just 73 yards and throwing a critical interception that led to a Colorado State touchdown late in the game. No matter who starts for Virginia, Bowden is concerned about a Cavaliers offense that is deep in young running backs.
"They scare me to death," Bowden said. "Groh has a very multiple offense. We gave up a cheap touchdown (to Iowa State) because we didn't line up in the right place. A big part of (offense) is using schemes to confuse the defense.
"We hate to play against two quarterbacks if they are different. Our defensive calls will be based on which quarterback is in the ball game. They could be coming in here 1-0 and just as easily we could be 0-1. We won it on the 1-yard line. They lost it on the one yard line."
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