New QBs, Pre-Mediation

Dave Reardon talks to incoming JC QBs Brent Rausch and Greg Alexander, who participated in unsupervised workouts yesterday.

"It was good work, good to finally get started," Alexander said. "The (dropbacks) are a little different than what I'm used to. Getting some timing down. It was a good first day."

"It was real good," said the 6-4, 190-pound Rausch, who completed 60 percent of his passes at College of the Desert last year. "This was definitely a workout for me. It was an eye-opener for the drops I have to learn. Inoke was teaching me a lot, so that helped. It was coming along pretty good, and I'll be working on it in the coming weeks."

The article includes photos of them throwing.

UPDATE: Dave has more quotes, notes and observations about Rausch and Alexander, as well as receivers Mike Tinoco and Craig Bell. He also writes that Ryan Keomaka may be joining the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

UPDATE 2: Stephen Tsai talks to Rausch and Alexander. Here's a fun excerpt:

Rausch said he received a late recruiting push from Southern Methodist, where June Jones and four assistants relocated.
“They gave me a call the day before I signed here,” Rausch said. “I didn’t even call them back.”

Tsai also writes that Shane Austin worked out with Joe Avery and Royce Pollard yesterday.

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And there was a pre-mediation meeting yesterday leading to the actual mediation meeting(s) beginning on June 9th to resolve the dispute over the $400k between June Jones and UH. Hopefully there will no post-mediation meeting... FINAL BINDING ARBITRATION!