Golden playing his QB card close to the vest

By Mike Gibson
During a 17-minute, 5-second appearance on WPEN's 700-level sports talk program, Temple University head football coach Al Golden said a lot of encouraging things.
None more than this, though:
"I can tell you right now we have a Division IA quarterback in the program," Golden said haltingly, carefully choosing his words. "I know this from experience. The hardest thing in college football is getting a Division IA quarterback into your program.
"At this time, I can tell you that we have a Division 1A quarterback in the program."
A two-second pause followed.
"We might even have two," Golden said.
Judging from the way Golden used those words, it seems like he's chosen his guy.
Two days later, a story on the quarterbacks appeared in the Inquirer, written by Kevin Tatum.
This is what Golden had to say about each quarterback in that story:

Vaughn Charlton (6-4, 220) - "He has the physical tools and a strong arm. He has a tremendous makeup in his character, leadership and work ethic. He's catching up in terms of the offense."

Colin Clancy (6-0, 195) - "He's very bright and has a good grasp of the offense. He's done a good job of protecting the football and made very good decisions in this camp."

Adam DiMichele (6-1, 185) - "He's come a long way in a short time. I keep calling him Roy Hobbs - he's a natural. He's played no football in three years, and the first day, he looked like he'd been playing his whole life."

Shane Kelly (6-4, 215) - "He understands the offense, and he's spent a great deal of time in the spring and summer learning it. He has a comfort level with it."

There are plusses with every guy.
DiMichele (pronounced DEE-MY-KUL) was a Fabulous 5 basketball player of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper in 2003. He was made that newspapers' all-star Super 22 first team in football. He also set the career record for passing yardage in the highly competitive WPIAL. In addition to that, he was a good enough athlete to be named state Class AA basketball player of the year by the Associated Press during his senior season. One scouting expert called him a "poor man's Joe Montana." Now Golden calls him Roy Hobbs.
Hmm.
Clancy is a savvy quarterback and was coached in high school by former Temple and Philadelphia Stars' (USFL) quarterback Tim Riordan, who was Wayne Hardin's last Temple quarterback and Bruce Arians' first Temple quarterback. Riordan audibled from scrimmage and called the long touchdown bomb that gave the Owls a 23-18 win over Syracuse at the Carrier Dome. If Clancy is a clone of Riordan, the Owls have something very special.
Kelly, like Clancy, went to prep school (Hill School in Pottstown) and, like DiMichele, was a superb basketball player.
Charlton is a highly sought-after recruit who wowed the big-timers with his arm, quick release and footwork at every camp he attended.
He furthered wowed the Temple coaches with his work ethic from the day he signed with the Owls, attending spring workouts (when he didn't have to), coming to the Cherry and White game and memorizing the playbooks.
Golden has been playing his QB hand close to the vest so far, saying that the upcoming scrimmages will determine the guy.
Something tells me, though, a position that was a big question mark coming into the season will turn into an exclamation point by its end.