Since we were talking about Mark Sanchez's status being questionable for USC's opener at Virginia on Aug. 30 (although a report on SportsCenter tonight said that Sanchez is feeling fine after dislocating his kneecap last week in practice), I thought we'd move across town and quickly take a look at the Bruins in Westwood.

Because in a return to his alma mater, Rick Neuheisel is learning what it's like to coach at UCLA.

The guy has yet to coach his first game, and he's already down two quarterbacks.

Well, we should have expected this anyway, but here's the news:

Ben Olson will now miss at least two months with a broken right foot, requiring him to have surgery and leaving his senior season in question - as was every other season due to injuries.

The guy, after all, is pretty much a walking injury.

Let's, just for fun, mind you, look at the injury report on Olson:

In his freshman season of 2005, Olson was sidelined for the first few weeks of the season due to a small fracture in his throwing left hand. He would eventually return and appeared in two games with Drew Olson running the show.

The following season, Olson played the first five games on the Bruins 2006 schedule before tearing the medial collateral ligament in his left knee on UCLA's second series, ending his sophomore season.

As a junior, Olson found himself missing more time, including four straight games against Cal, Washington State, Arizona and Arizona State because of another knee injury. Though he returned to play against Oregon State and USC, the 6-foot-5, 236-pound gimp was forced to sit out the Bruins' pitiful loss to BYU in the Las Vegas bowl last year. It's a good thing Olson is a Mormon because he certainly wasn't hitting the slots while the Bruins were being embarrassed.

Then this spring, Olson looked to compete once again with No. 1 option Patrick Cowan as the Bruins' starter, but the two managed to not only get hurt in the same practice, but on sequential plays (is God playing a trick on the Bruins?), on the second-to-last day of Spring Practice (icing on the cake).

While Cowan ended his season before it even began by tearing his ACL and leaving him out of the Bruins' quarterback rotation this season, Olson managed to fracture the fifth metatarsal in his right foot.

And even though he had a screw placed in the bone and was expected to be back up to speed during the summer, Olson went on to do even more damage in his foot last Saturday, faking a handoff, taking a misstep and then breaking the damn thing again and now needing surgery just for it to heal correctly.

"I knew something was wrong," he said. "I was hoping I only tweaked it a little bit. It's definitely been tough. You're not able to accomplish the goals you set. It's very frustrating because it seems every year that my progression as a quarterback has been halted by injury. But whining and complaining about things and asking, 'Why did this happen to me?' does no good. You have to push forward."

So, in recap, that's...

1 broken left hand

1 torn MCL

1 more knee injury

1 broken fifth metatarsal

...and 1 more broken fifth metatarsal

Hang it up, Ben.

Some of you know my background (born into a UCLA family), but seriously, hang it up.

The show's over.

No coach in his right mind would put any trust in you as their starting quarterback. I mean, if you spent more time on the field than in the operating room you might have a chance to be a solid collegiate quarterback.

But those days are over, man. Shut it down at this point.

Please, for the sake of all UCLA fans out there (and I know plenty of them), let the team start fresh.

Bring in Kevin Craft and see what he can do.

Who knows, the Mt. San Antonio College transfer might actually have the right experience to make the Bruins at least a competitor in the Pac-10.

Chris Forcier is the other option, and while we know very little right now about both of these guys, under the guidance of Neuheisel, a former quarterback/quarterbacks coach, and offensive coordinator Norm Chow, who coached Matt Leinart at USC and Vince Young with the Tennessee Titans, you know there's bound to be some potential for success - and maybe even a real shot at the crosstown rival Trojans year in and year out.

That is, of course, as long as the offensive line can block.

In the meantime, Neuheisel has said that the Bruins do hope to have a starter named at least a week before its season opener Sept. 1 against Tennessee at the Rose Bowl.

"It's a crushing blow to the young man," Neuheisel said about Olson. "He put so much time and effort into the program, it's just unfortunate. Sometimes you have a hard time understanding why things happen."

That doesn't exactly sound the most positive outlook for Olson if you're asking me, although the senior does expect to return and play for the Bruins this season (we'll see about that).

After all, you never know. Maybe there's another injury just waiting for Olson in a couple months.