Saturday, former UK Quarterback Patrick Towles, played in the Boston College spring game. Here’s a breakdown from Tim Healey of the Boston Globe.
The play wasn’t as pretty as the weather. Wind knocked the football off the tee before the opening kickoff, and there were no touchdowns. Wade’s Maroon team beat Towles’s White team, 6-2.
Towles completed two of his four official pass attempts, with several more called back, while showing some zip with his right arm. Wade threw for 181 yards on 13-for-19 passing, albeit on a day when statistics — with teams a mishmash of the depth chart after a player-run draft on Friday — weren’t necessarily all that meaningful.
“That’s as good as I’ve seen guys chuck it around. They were throwing it well,” Addazio said. “Couple of drops out there on [Towles], but he chucked it.”
He didn’t wait long to chuck it, either. On his first play from scrimmage, Towles tossed the ball nearly 50 yards downfield, well over the heads of his receiver and the opposing cornerback. On the first play of the second quarter, Towles hit junior Thadd Smith with a rocket along the left sideline near midfield.
Towles credits part of that arm strength to genetics. His maternal grandfather is Hall of Fame pitcher and former US Senator Jim Bunning.
If you think that’s cool, well, Towles gets that reaction a lot.
“I always say, I’ve got a good right arm in my blood,” Towles said. “He’s an ultracompetitor — he still is, at 84 years old.”
So now the spring season is over, and Towles’s continued acclimation will come more on a social level than an on-field one. He’s only known his new teammates and been at his new school for three months, after all, after being at Kentucky for four years and serving as starter for two.
“When you’re part of a new team, you’re practicing with new guys, it takes you a while to get used to them,” Towles said, noting that BC’s offense is a lot different than Kentucky’s. “It’s more complex, but I like it. It’s going to prepare me well — hopefully — for the next level. It’s a lot of different packages, a lot of shifts and motions. I’m excited.”
Below are the highlights for the BC spring game.
