No. 2 USF lost more than its pride and No. 2 ranking in Thursday night's loss to Rutgers - the Bulls also lost starting right tackle Walter Walker. The 6-foot-5, 333-pound senior went down midway through the third quarter and did not return, but more frighteningly, he was seen using a cane to scale the steep steps from the field level to the locker room following the game.
Cincinnati quaterback Ben Mauk has made it very clear to anyone who wants to know that surgically repaired right shoulder or no, he has no intention of sitting out any more games. The senior did plenty of sitting last season, when an injury in the season's first game kept him out for the rest of the season as a junior at Wake Forest. In his new digs at Cincinnati, Mauk earned himself the starting job, only to lose it again for the past two weeks due to soreness in that right shoulder. But given the option, sitting out this weekend's game against San Diego State is not on Mauk's list of things to do.
