No QB controversy, according to Bagnoli

There have been a lot of questions surrounding the quarterback situation between Billy Ragone and Andrew Holland for Penn football (see Mano-A-Mano). But according to coach Al Bagnoli, it's far from a controversy.

Here is what he had to say:

“They’ll both play. Hopefully people aren’t trying to make this a quarterbacking controversy. It’s really nothing like that. It’s [good] to have kids that can both help you win Ivy games and hopefully Ivy League championships.
"So when you add that, Billy’s style and what we’re asking Billy to do, we’re suceptible to potential injury because he is going to take hits playing quarterback. He’s going to be in the pocket, he’s going to release the ball, he’s ocasionally going to be sacked, if he’s going to scramble and run, he’s going to get hit.

"Then we’re going to call gun-run plays where he’s actually the ball carrier. You do that 10-12 times a game, because he does that great, if you’re not careful, you only have one kid, and he’s taking the same amount of hits your tailbacks are taking. Nobody ever says you should only play one tailback. We play three. So the cumulative effect of that happening, you’ve just got to protect yourself from saying we have to have a kid ready to go because if something happened to him, it’s not a quarterbacking controversy.

"They’re best friends, they do a great job of managing the game. It gives some versatility, it gives some depth, and they will both play again on Saturday.”