BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Richard Lagow waited four long years to start a Football Bowl Subdivision game.Hes about to get his chance

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Richard Lagow waited four long years to start a Football Bowl Subdivision game.Hes about to get his chance.Indiana coach Kevin Wilson announced Friday that the 6-foot-6, 240-pound Texan beat out Zander Diamont and will line up behind center in Thursday nights season-opener at Florida International.Hes really playing the best, Wilson said. The other guys are playing better, and Zander gives you kind of a change-up out there. But the guy were going with is playing really, really good.For Lagow, the decision cemented the notion that he could excel at a power-five school -- even if it the journey there took longer than expected.The big quarterback with the big arm left his home state of Texas in 2013 to play for Connecticut. Before the season opener, Lagow transferred to Oklahoma State where he walked on and redshirted. The next season, Lagow landed at Cisco (Texas) Community College.There, he started for two years, throwing for 4,506 yards and 38 touchdowns, emerging as one of the nations top junior college players.Wilson convinced Lagow to give Indiana a shot, and now after attending four schools in four conferences, Lagow finally has his dream job.He has the arm strength, and he really has taken that leadership role on the field, offensive coordinator Kevin Johns said. Hes really done a lot of things well.Indiana didnt make any quarterbacks available for comment on Friday.Wilsons decision was hardly a surprise. After Lagow moved to Bloomington for the second semester, he participated in spring practice and appeared to take the early lead.When practice resumed Aug. 3, Wilson said the quarterback derby would be an open competition, not a coronation.After seven practices, Wilson already had made up his mind and divvied up the snaps accordingly.Diamont, who was a better runner than passer in his first two seasons with the Hoosiers, played well enough to keep the No. 2 job. Danny Cameron, the son of former Indiana coach Cam Cameron, will open the season No. 3 on the depth chart.Teammates were impressed with what they saw from all three quarterbacks, but understood why Wilson went with Lagow.Rich has grown in every aspect, receiver Ricky Jones said. I believe hes gotten on the same page as the receivers in a short period of time and thats pretty impressive.Diamonts advantage was his experience in the offense.As a true freshman, he started the final six games after Indianas top two quarterbacks went down with season-ending injuries. The former Los Angeles city player of the year was 64 of 132 with 515 yards one TD and four interceptions in 2014.Last year, Diamont filled in again last year when Nate Sudfeld, the starter, went down with another injury. After replacing Sudfeld against Ohio State, Diamont ran for a 79-yard TD -- the longest run by a quarterback in school history. He finished the game with seven carries for 98 yards, caught one pass for 16 yards and was 6 of 14 for 76 yards through the air.He struggled the next week against Penn State in his only start. The 6-1, 174-pound junior hasnt played in a game since Oct. 10.Wilson has used quarterback rotations in previous seasons and will look for ways to get Diamont on the field.We can put two quarterbacks on the field at the same time, Wilson said. Hes not a receiver, but he can play on the perimeter. Zander gives you some running skills the other guys dont have, so you may see them both lined up in the backfield at times.But, for now, Lagow is the starter.Im curious to see how he reacts in a game, because hes been great in practice, Wilson said. https://www.supersonicsjerseys.com/460s-fred-brown-jersey-supersonics.html" class="TyTxtSmlC">Fred Brown Jersey . 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Perth Glory have scored their first win of the A-League season with a 2-0 win over the Wellington Phoenix at nib Stadium.The Phoenix were coming off an opening-round loss to Melbourne City and started strongly but Glory took control and turned their dominance into goals in the second half.Perth got on the board through a Diego Castro penalty and they shouldve doubled their advantage, but Andy Keogh delivered a powerless penalty effort in the 61st minute.It mattered little with Nebojsa Marinkovic scoring with a powerful shot five minutes later having come on for the injured Adam Taggart.It was a sloppy start from the home team but Glory soon settled and over the last half-hour of the first half had plenty of chances they could and should have scored from.Castro, Chris Harold, Marinkovic, Keogh and Rostyn Griffiths all had good looks on goal but none gave Phoenix goalkeeper Glen Moss any serious headaches.While Wellington was hanging in there well in the first half, it didnt last.Perths opening goal came when Adam Parkhouse tripped Harold in the box when he was awaiting a cross from Keogh and Castro had no trouble with the 48th-minute penalty.Keogh also got a clear penalty call in his favour just over 10 minutes later when taken down by Moss when left one-on-one in the box. The Irishman offered a poor penalty that meekly went straight to the keeper.A stunning run byy Josh Risdon in the 66th minute set up Marinkovic to strike a cracking goal to put Perth 2-0.ddddddddddddThe win comes after Perths 3-3 draw at home to Central Coast despite leading 3-0 and now they go on the road to face unbeaten Melbourne City on Friday.Wellington host the also undefeated Sydney FC on Sunday.Glory coach Kenny Lowe was happy with his teams response to last weeks disappointing draw.The first 15 I thought they had come out of the blocks and looked lively and bright, but I thought that was more us being a little bit tepid. Once we got the grips of the game it was OK, Lowe said.We played some good stuff at times and opened them up with some really good football. Both penalties were great football and the goal was an excellent goal as well.Wellington coach Ernie Merrick couldnt find too much to fault in his teams performance apart from the lack of finishing in front of goal.I thought we started off really well with some good passing moves. For the rest of the half, Perth was the strongest team and then we conceded a goal within three minutes of the second half, Merrick said.But in that front third we werent deadly at all really and the Perth defence did well. If we had got one maybe we could have made more of a game of it. ' ' '