Kaleo

COLLEGE PARK -- It was an old friend, Maryland ticket manager Jack Zane, who phoned Jerry Eisaman with the news that Joe Krivak was looking for a quarterbacks coach.Steve Axman had left for Northern Arizona University and Krivak, the head coach with one year left on his contract, was in no position to make promises. He needed a man willing to take a chance.Did Eisaman want a job that might evaporate in a year? During their interview, Krivak offered him the position and then drove him to the airport.

-- COLLEGE PARK -- Even though three quarterbacks played in Maryland's 37-7 loss to West Virginia at Byrd Stadium yesterday, there will be no quarterback controversy for the Terps.Senior Jim Sandwisch still is No. 1."Everyone felt that after this week, his shoulder and arm are going to be OK," said Maryland coach Joe Krivak. "I felt that if he recovers, he is going to be a guy that is going to play a lot. Jimmy is still the starter."Sandwisch, a senior who started the first two games, didn't start yesterday's because of a sore right elbow and shoulder.

COLLEGE PARK -- University of Maryland football coach Joe Krivak said he would know more about his team once it had to face adversity for the first time this season.The time has come. Riddled with injuries, Maryland (1-1) will face West Virginia (2-1) without its starting quarterback today at 4 p.m. at Byrd Stadium.The Terps will start junior John Kaleo, an All-American at Montgomery College-Rockville last season, at quarterback in place of senior Jim Sandwisch, who re-injured his right elbow and shoulder in a 31-17 loss to Syracuse on Saturday night.

Injured Maryland quarterback Jim Sandwisch will not start tomorrow's game against West Virginia at Byrd Stadium, two sources on the football team said yesterday.Neither Maryland coach Joe Krivak nor Sandwisch would comment yesterday, as Sandwisch practiced only lightly, and the Terps concluded their heavy workouts for the week.Sandwisch, a 6-foot-3, 190-pound senior who has completed 29 of 49 passes for 212 yards but has thrown two interceptions, threw a couple of passes yesterday.Junior John Kaleo, a 5-11, 190-pound All-American from Montgomery College-Rockville, will start in Sandwisch's place.

COLLEGE PARK -- Barring a major recovery, injured University of Maryland senior quarterback Jim Sandwisch will not play in Saturday's game against West Virginia at Byrd Stadium.Also, senior starting halfback Troy Jackson is questionable after slightly pulling a left hamstring in practice yesterday.Sandwisch, the Terps starter, practiced only lightly yesterday and did not throw for the third time this week. Head coach Joe Krivak said Tuesday that if Sandwisch did not practice yesterday, he probably would not play.

COLLEGE PARK -- University of Maryland senior quarterback Jim Sandwisch said yesterday that he doubts if he'll be able to start or play in Saturday's game against West Virginia at Byrd Stadium.Sandwisch, a first-year senior starter, made the statement after a two-hour practice yesterday in which he threw just four passes before stopping. Afterward, he only handed off.If he can't play, Sandwisch will probably be replaced by Montgomery College Rockville junior college All-American John Kaleo, who started the second half for the Terps Saturday night when Sandwisch was forced to leave after re-injuring the elbow and shoulder of his throwing arm in a 31-17 loss to Syracuse.

COLLEGE PARK -- This isn't a budding quarterback controversy developing at Maryland. It's simply a matter of Jim Sandwisch's health.There is nothing Sandwisch and coach Joe Krivak would like better than for the senior quarter-back to start against West Virginia here Saturday. Whether he will be able to depends not on anything John Kaleo, the No. 2, does or doesn't do in practice but solely on Sandwisch himself.The fifth-year senior from Great Mills in southern Maryland didn't practice yesterday because of a 100-degree fever and a throat infection.

COLLEGE PARK -- Any chance the University of Maryland had of gaining national recognition in football will have to wait. The offense has to get better. The Terps have to find a No. 1 quarterback. And somehow, find a way to stop an option team for four quarters.No. 22 Syracuse (2-0) brought its freeze option offense and harassing pass defense to Byrd Stadium last night, and, sparked by 10 fourth-quarter points, defeated Maryland, 31-17, last night before a crowd of 41,310.Maryland (1-1) had received a number of votes in several national polls after beating Virginia last week, but the Terps shouldn't expect any more after last night.

COLLEGE PARK -- It is unclear at this early stage whether there truly is a battle for Maryland's starting quarterback job.Some signs point to fifth-year senior but untested Jim Sandwisch as No. 1. Junior college transfer John Kaleo says he hopes the coaches will keep their minds open these next three weeks before the Sept. 7 opener against Virginia. Redshirt freshman Tony Scarpino feels he will one day take the helm, although he acknowledges he still has some growing up to do.Coach Joe Krivak is guarded on the subject.

COLLEGE PARK -- John Kaleo always has been too short to play quarterback. At least that's what his critics suggest.Major-college scouts ignored him despite an outstanding senior season at Bowie High nearly three years ago. And a lot of Division I-A scouts didn't come around the Montgomery College-Rockville campus last season, when Kaleo was named Junior College Player of the Year.So as Kaleo finished his first spring practice with the University of Maryland, guess what he still is hearing?