The quarterback play at Miami University isn’t quite where it needs to be yet.

Five QBs saw action in last Saturday’s intrasquad football scrimmage at Yager Stadium, and though they combined for four interceptions (a couple tips were involved), they also completed 32-of-47 throws for 230 yards and a touchdown.

“I felt better about it after I watched the tape, to be honest with you,” MU quarterbacks coach Mike Bath said Monday afternoon. “I feel like we’re on the right progression, but good enough is not good enough. We need to keep taking steps every day.”

Redshirt senior Zac Dysert is the man to beat and didn’t damage his status, converting 14-of-21 throws for 98 yards and a 15-yard touchdown (to Nick Harwell) in the situational scrimmage.

Redshirt junior Austin Boucher was solid as well after returning from December surgery on his left (throwing) shoulder. He was 10-of-13 for 70 yards.

Also seeing action were redshirt freshman Drew Kummer (4-of-7, 32 yards), true freshman Austin Gearing (4-of-5, 30 yards) and redshirt freshman Kyle Seyfried (0-for-1), who was the only QB that didn’t get intercepted.

“I thought Zac was crisp with his decisions,” Bath said. “He had a decision or two we discussed at length to make sure we’re on the same page. Austin, as soon as he got going, he was decisive. I’m excited about where he’s going.”

Boucher, a Kettering Alter High School graduate, said he’s not 100 percent yet, but he’s getting there.

“I would say I’m about 90 percent,” Boucher said. “I feel like there’s a little strength that needs to come back, but as far as healthiness and being able to take hits, it’s all there.”

The 6-foot-1, 214-pound Boucher didn’t participate in spring drills as he worked his way back from labrum surgery. Last Saturday, he was 1-for-4 for minus-1 yard with an interception before finding his rhythm.

“There was more excitement just being back out there with my teammates, throwing the pigskin around a little bit,” Boucher said. “Obviously I was a little rusty on some footwork and a little slow on my reads to start, but it’s kind of like riding a bike. Once you get on, you don’t forget.”

Boucher, the RedHawks’ late-season star in 2010 after Dysert got hurt, said he’s competing for the starting job.

“I’d like to think so,” Boucher said. “I’m trying to compete the best I can and help this team get back to Detroit. Four-and-8 was definitely a season that nobody on this team wants anymore. I think we all have a little more drive in us after what happened last year.”

Kummer, Gearing and Seyfried are all coming along nicely (Gearing, a Fenwick graduate, likely will be redshirted), according to Bath. Their focus hasn’t been diminished by the probability of little to no playing time this fall.

“If they don’t work hard, they’re not going to get reps and they’re going to hear it from us,” Bath said. “Just because we have two guys ahead of them, they can’t allow that to dictate their work ethic. If they come here with an attitude of, ‘Woe is me, I’m not going to play for a year or two,’ then they’re not going to be ready in a year or two because they’re wasting this opportunity every day.”

Robbie Plagens, slated to be a redshirt freshman quarterback this fall, is not on the current roster. Miami coach Don Treadwell said he might return at some point.

“I don’t know that you could say he got cut,” Treadwell said. “At certain points you get so many guys you can invite to camp, and he just wasn’t in that early wave. There may be some guys that aren’t on the roster that may have an opportunity to rejoin the team once we start school.”