The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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2015 RECRUITING ISSUE earn a starting job as soon as I can. It would be a dream come true to get in right away and start. "If I earn that then I'll be ready for it. Hopefully I can just do my thing and prove it to the coaches and my teammates. It'll be a whole lot of fun, and I just want to get in there and compete." Gentry's coach at Eldorado High School, Charlie Dotson, thinks that his quarterback's best football is ahead of him. Dotson cites Gentry's poise in big moments and his work ethic as reasons why he's confident that his star will make a splash in Ann Arbor. "He'll go as far as his work ethic takes him," Dotson said. "It's going to be his work ethic that defines him. He's going to have to compete for the job and he knows that. The hardest worker in that quarterback group is probably going to get the job. and I'm interested to see how he handles that. "He'll go in and work hard to try to get those linemen on his side and win everyone over. I think he has a huge ceiling. I'm sure that's what brought Coach Harbaugh to him. I think Zach can go as far as he wants to go. "When Zach played against the best teams, he had his best games. As the competition went up, his play went up." Wanting to compete and actually being able to are two very different things, however. Some feel that Gentry didn't face the kind of competition in New Mex- ico to adequately prepare him for what he'll see in the Big Ten. Regard- less of whom he played against, the numbers don't lie. As Rivals' No. 105 player in the country and No. 4 pro-