Ever since the legendary Jim Sochor took over Aggie football fortunes in the fall of 1970, UC Davis has been known as Quarterback U.
I suppose that's not surprising, given that Sochor himself was a standout quarterback at San Francisco State before bringing his offensive genius to Davis.
Actually, there are some folks, me among them, who think the Quarterback U tradition may have started a bit earlier than 1970, with folks like Dick Carriere, Paul Hackett, Ron Van De Pol, George Bonacich, Chris Graves, Bill Diaz, Frank Brett and a handful others.
Be that as it may, I've been fortunate to see dozens of Aggie quarterbacks, including Carriere, first as a young child sitting with my dad in the Toomey Field bleachers and later as a sportswriter with a comfortable seat in the sparkling all-weather press box at UC Davis Health Stadium.