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How could this not be good?

I mean kudos to Drink for creating this room of QBs. Many of you don’t like Drink…. but we have a guy that has started 14 games and then followed up by these three. It’s hard to believe that at least one of them won’t be really good next year? Now let’s get another OL. No way to argue his recruiting and ability to get people here….and even stay here. (Especially in comparison to past coaches) If he figures out the coaching part ?

Who will be the first to complain about another QB thread?

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FOOTBALL Florida releases QB Rashada from scholarship to end breakup

Who is Rashada?​

Rashada is a five-star QB prospect from Pittsburg, California, who is ranked 29th overall by 247Sports in the 2023 recruiting class.

What's next?​

Rashada is free to enroll elsewhere without having to enter the transfer portal. He already has been linked to Arizona State and Washington.


What remains to be seen is whether Rashada sues the Gator Collective, along with possibly the athletic department and the university, in hopes of getting at least part of the $13 million he was promised. He could conceivably ask for more if he believes his reputation was damaged.

NIL Question

Feel like I should know this since the NIL topic is discussed so much. But can company make a NIL deal be performance based? Like lets say for baseball. For every 10k game any pitcher does they will give a certain amount of money. For some reason I believe a company can do that but just wanted to make sure.

Bottom lining the QB situation for you

Reading between the lines isn’t always a strength here so assuming Jake Garcia is here for the spring semester here’s what it means:

*Missouri does not know who its starting quarterback is for next season. I’ve seen a lot of people (most of whom I’m assuming are acting out of wishful thinking and trying to will into existence positive thoughts) try to convince us that’s not true. But it’s true.

Garcia doesn’t come here if he doesn’t think there’s a reasonable chance he can win the job. He almost certainly hasn’t been promised the job but he isn’t coming here happy to back up a guy that’s a year younger than he is. He is looking for a chance to start at a Power Five school. He has that chance at Missouri.

It doesn’t mean he will start. Maybe Sam Horn does. Maybe Brady Cook does (if Cook does it means either he has made strides to distance himself from the competition which could mean Brady has improved a lot or could mean that Horn and Garcia aren’t as good as their rankings or as you guys hope they are. It would probably mean some combination of both).

The quarterback play and the offense as a whole absolutely have to improve. This is not up for debate. If Missouri’s offense isn’t better next year there’s a very good chance it will cost Drinkwitz his job. He knows that. He isn’t dumb and isn’t living in denial of it.

So where we land is where we’ve always landed: He has to identify the best quarterback and he has to be right in that identification and that guy has to lead an offense that shows improvement and helps improve the results on the field THIS YEAR. Period.

I don’t know which of the three will win the job. It doesn’t matter. Drinkwitz just has to be right. At least one of these three almost certainly won’t be on the roster 12 months from today. Quite possibly two of the three. None of us has any idea who will win the job, who will stay and who will go. The next seven months are, more than any other singular thing, about selecting that guy and about being right in that selection.

By December 1 every answer anybody needs is going to be obvious in one way or the other. The nonstop debates about the QB position and the head coach and the program will have their answers. Some will probably continue to make arguments why those answers aren’t necessarily obvious (in either direction) but 2023 is going to give us the answers. And at that point, the only thing in doubt will be whether Missouri has started down a successful path or whether it needs to go back and start over.

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Spent time as grad assistant at Georgia Southern.

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