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As the team prepares to open up its season against Jacksonville with sophomore Alek Torgersen — a quarterback who has only played one quarter throughout his young college career — under center, Bagnoli and the entire offense are taking comfort in the return of several talented receivers from last year’s squad.
It’s a time of change for Penn football. A fresh quarterback in sophomore Alek Torgersen, senior Spencer Kulcsar moving to receiver, and a coaching change right around the corner.But in all that excitement, no attention seems to be given to a relatively inexperienced offensive line filled with new faces.
The 2012 All-Ivy performer and current fifth-year senior captain lets us in on some of his preferences when it comes to superheroes, vacations and more.
Penn football’s season is set to lift off this weekend in Jacksonville, and while all the attention will be on whether new starting quarterback Alek Torgerson can lead a bounce-back campaign for the Quakers, the tireless efforts of the program’s operational staff to make the trip a possibility will go more or less unrecognized.
After a subpar defensive performance in 2013, the Quakers will look to their remarkably experienced and accomplished defensive back seven to spark a run towards an Ivy title in coach Al Bagnoli’s final season.
The countdown is coming to an end: Penn football is nearing
a field near you? or your Florida relative.
There is just a week and a half until the Red and Blue head
to the Sunshine State to take on Jacksonville, a Pioneer League squad.
Most long-standing sports institutions are resistant to
change. Whether it is Major League Baseball refusing to address time of game
issues or the NCAA resisting even the most painfully logical changes to its
outdated system, change is continually feared by the sports establishment.
Special teams remains wide open, a group that is often the least heralded part of thechanged from “a” program yet still holds significance for the Red and Blue.
Outside of an inexperienced O-line, the strength returning all around new QB Alek Torgersen, from the coaching staff on down, puts Penn football in a solid place to succeed.
Whenever someone asks him a question about himself at a press conference or after a practice, Bagnoli immediately deflects the question, preferring to speak about his student-athletes and his fellow coaches