Thursday, August 30, 2012

ASU names FAU transfer Kooi starting QB for Saturday's season opener

ALBANY, Georgia - — Albany State football coach Mike White ended weeks of speculation Tuesday, naming David Kooi the starting quarterback for Saturday’s season opener against North Greenville.

Kooi, a transfer from Division I Florida Atlantic, had been battling for the starting job for the past month with Gardner-Webb transfer Keenan Grissett.



The duo had been neck-and-neck for the job and traded an equal amount of snaps in the team’s only scrimmage Aug. 18, but Grissett was sidelined late last week with back spasms, making the decision of naming Kooi the starter an easy one.

Once Grissett went down with his back spasms, it became a lot clearer that David was going to run our offense,” White said.

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