Oregon State's Anderson has rebounded after a rough start to the season

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November, 2003

Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard

CORVALLIS - Sometimes it must seem to him that whether the glass is half-full or half-empty, it's still got a leak in it.

"If you do well," Oregon State's Derek Anderson said, "it's what you're expected to do. If you don't, you're really in a tough spot."

The realties of being a major college quarterback have slammed into the young man with a force equal to being blind-sided.

"I knew it would be tough," said Anderson, who blew into OSU's football camp in the fall of 2001 with staggering high school credentials. "I knew on the first day of the first week. I knew the expectations would be high.

"But I've learned not to worry about the last play, the last series and the last game, just the next...