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So says the QB coach – “”We feel like DeAndre is a pretty solid No. 1,” Brad Glenn, the Mountaineers’ quarterbacks coach, said yesterday. “He’s doing really well. I feel like DeAndre will start against Chattanooga.” Barnes is challenging Jackson for No. 2. “That’s still up in the air.”"

ASUG8 wrote:
I'm not sure I'm loving this based on past performance

Fact wrote:So Jamal Jackson isn't the jesus of the football field like we were all convinced last season?

Fact wrote:So Jamal Jackson isn't the jesus of the football field like we were all convinced last season?

AppStateAlumQC wrote:I have faith in Presley to get it done. All he has to do is manage the game and let his weapons do the work. In time things will open up for him to run.

ASU Football Notebook: Presley to Start at UTC

Appalachian State University football head coach Jerry Moore and quarterbacks coach Brad Glenn said after Wednesday’s practice that junior DeAndre Presley is expected to start at quarterback when Appalachian opens the 2010 season at Chattanooga on Sept. 4.

The acknowledgment comes as little surprise since Presley has worked almost exclusively with the first team since the beginning of fall camp on Aug. 6. With a huge edge in experience, Presley beat out redshirt freshman Jamal Jackson and true freshman Kalik Barnes for the starting assignment. Presley is slated to make his third-career start in the season opener at Southern Conference-rival UTC.

“He’s prepared to lead this football team,” Moore said of Presley. “He has played in big ballgames at both quarterback and wide receiver and he has shown that he can handle everything that we’re doing offensively well.”

“I’m also very pleased with (Jackson and Barnes),” Moore went on to say. “The thing that I have to remember sometimes is that neither of them has ever played in a college football game. But, we would be confident playing either of them if the situation arises.”

Presley is 1-1 as a starter. As a true freshman, he started the regular-season finale at archrival Western Carolina, accounting for 314 yards of offense (158 passing, 156 rushing) and four touchdowns (one passing, three rushing) to lead the Mountaineers to a 35-10 win. After the performance in the win at WCU, he became the first player in 17 years to be simultaneously named the SoCon’s Offensive Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week. Presley also got the starting nod in last year’s opener at East Carolina at East Carolina and totaled 101 yards and a touchdown in a little over one half of action.

In his only appearance at Chattanooga’s Finley Stadium, Presley completed 3-of-3 passes for 51 yards and a touchdown and ran 12 times for 101 yards and another score in just one half of a 49-7 rout over the Mocs as a true freshman in 2008.

CrackerRiley wrote:I'm not a big fan of it but I hope he can manage the game and just git er done. I would like to see a bigger body like Jackson back there at QB. Presley is smaller than Armanti! Baffles me. If he fucks up too much at Chatty I will be one of the first calling for his head!

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