UCLA FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: COWAN MIGHT BE SEEN BUT NOT HEARD.Byline: BRIAN DOHN Staff Writer UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX quarterback Patrick Cowan Patrick Edmund Cowan (born March 23, 1986 in Surrey, British Columbia) was the starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins football team after starter Ben Olson was injured in the middle of the 2006 season. Cowan is a redshirt sophomore. may have to master calling plays via hand signals this week, and it has nothing to do with the noise level anticipated when the Bruins play at No. 10 Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame on Saturday. UCLA coach Karl Dorrell Karl Dorrell (born December 18, 1963 in Alameda, California) is the first black head coach in the history of the UCLA Bruins college football team, a position he took on December 18, 2002. said Cowan lost his voice late in the loss to Oregon because of a hit to the throat. The hit caused inflammation around his vocal cords vocal cords: see larynx. Vocal cords The pair of elastic, fibered bands inside the human larynx. The cords are covered with a mucous membrane and pass horizontally backward from the thyroid cartilage (Adam's apple) to insert on and landed Cowan in the emergency room when the team returned from Eugene, Ore., last Saturday. ``He had some problems on the way home from Oregon where it started to swell,'' Dorrell said. ``He was coughing up some blood a little bit, so we went and took him to the emergency room when he landed.'' Cowan was examined before the Bruins left Eugene and was deemed fit to fly, a school spokesman said. Dorrell added a CT scan CT scan: see CAT scan. See CAT scan. of Cowan's throat checked out fine, but he was diagnosed with an inflamed throat. The voice issues also impacted the play-calling as well. Dorrell said Cowan's voice loss made it difficult for the tackles to hear protection calls and factored into Dorrell's decision not to implement a no-huddle offense in the waning minutes. ``His voice was gone by the last two or three series of the game,'' Dorrell said. ``That was difficult to really go through in that type of environment. Your quarterback, you can't really hear him in the huddle when he's trying to announce a play. ``We weren't doing two-minute (drill) stuff at the end, even though most of it is (hand) signals. But it's hard to do changes of protection and audibles if you can't communicate those things in a given time.'' While Dorrell believes Cowan will be fine against the Irish, the threat of a speechless speech·less adj. 1. Lacking the faculty of speech. 2. Temporarily unable to speak, as through astonishment. 3. Refraining from speech; silent. 4. Cowan could force backup Osaar Rasshan into action. ``(Cowan's) doctor said he is on a no-talk clause right now. He can't even speak,'' Dorrell said. ``We're going to have to rest his voice box and not say anything. We're going to have to have Plan B anyway. The problem is you need communication.'' Punt Punt (p  nt), ancient land S of Egypt accessible by way of the Red Sea. Its exact location has not been identified, but it probably included the Somali coast. talk: There was a public outcry about UCLA punting with four minutes remaining and facing a 17-point deficit, but what transpired wasn't exactly what was planned, Dorrell said. ``I was trying to do something indirectly,'' Dorrell said, ``and unfortunately it did not line up that way with our special teams.'' In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , the Bruins had a punt fake called, but the signal-caller opted out of it because of the formation of Oregon's punt coverage team. Also: Dorrell said Bruins starting strong-side tackle Aleksey Lanis (ankle) should be available against the Irish. ... Defensive tackle Chase Moline (back) will practice and is expected to play. brian.dohn@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: PATRICK COWAN Bruins QB has throat injury and is not allowed to speak this week during practice. |
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