No worries, football fans – junior quarterback Jake Locker is sticking with his commitment to new coach Steve Sarkisian and his present team.

That did not dissuade some major-league baseball organizations from including him in their future plans, including the Los Angeles Angels, who selected Locker on the second day (10th round, No. 321 pick) of the Major League Baseball draft Wednesday.

By drafting him, the Angels hold his right for six years because he's at least a college junior. Locker said the two parties are in preliminary discussions about a contract, which will be negotiated by his father, Scott, from Ferndale.

If he signed with the Angels, he would forfeit his football scholarship at the UW. Locker said one of the stipulations in negotiations would be that the Angels would cover his college expenses the next two years.

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Guess this issue will come up over and over again, especially with a quarterback who isn't all that big, and has the billing as a precision passer.

One high school coach who faced Oaks Christian (Calif.) quarterback Nick Montana, who gave an oral commitment to the University of Washington on Tuesday, during the 2008 season said the teenager has legitimate arm strength.

Tony Henney, the coach at Nordhoff High who plays in the same Mid-Valley League as Oaks Christian, said the 6-foot-2, 190-pound Montana opened the game with a 71-yard touchdown pass.

"A good 55 of it was in the air," Henney said. "That opened our eyes, and our kids' eyes. Our free safety, who was playing center field, didn't think he could throw it that far."

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A solid spring football camp, and now this – quarterback Jake Locker was selected in the 2009 Major League Baseball draft.

Locker, heading into his junior season, was taken by the Los Angeles Angels in the 10th round as a center fielder. He was the 321st selection overall.

He was also drafted by the Angels during his senior season in 2007.

Other UW players drafted were right fielder Kyle Conley in the seventh round (St. Louis); pitcher Brian Pearl in the ninth round (Cincinnati) and White River High product Jason Erickson, a pitcher, in the 24th round (Pittsburgh).

Apparently, Nick Montana, a rising quarterback prospect from California, enjoyed the Steve Sarkisian experience over the weekend at the Huskies' "Junior Day."

Montana, who will be a senior next fall, and son of NFL All-Pro quarterback Joe Montana, gave the Huskies an oral commitment Tuesday as the key recruit so far in the 2010 class.

Several media outlets (including one that last week quoted his former quarterbacks coach saying Montana was leaning toward the Huskies if things went weel) said the 6-foot-2, 190-pounder was the Huskies' prospect to lose.

This addition eases some of the blow of Skyline High's Jake Heaps' decision to attend Brigham Young University, announced last week in Salt Lake City.

One of the things that the Huskies may have going for them in the defense of their Pac-10 men's regular season basketball title next season is the general state of the league ... which projects as low.

That decline continued Tuesday as Tim Floyd announced that he is leaving the USC program, which has become a circus of complains and departures. Floyd said he has lost his enthusiasm for the job, but the fact is the resignation comes soon less than a month after he was accused of delivering an envelope of cash to the handler of a star player.

Here's the news from the Trojan basketball site. And here is the far more detailed version from the Los Angeles Times.