It’s been a while since a guy from Hamilton started at quarterback in a playoff game for McMaster. So long, in fact, that nailing down who the last one was is turning out to be a tough question.

Head coach Stef Ptaszek gives it some serious thought but eventually admits he’s stumped. It’s before his time, for sure. Former QB Jon Behie — a Burlington native — offers a list of guys who played the position for the maroon but runs out of names before coming up with an answer. Ken Welch hosted Mac football games on CHCH for years and covered the team longer than that. He can’t come up with anyone recent.

Does the guy who’s likely getting that chance against Queen’s on Saturday have any idea?

“I’d like to be educated,” says Sir John Henry Newman grad Lucas Barresi.

That’s one way of saying,

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