SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The 2015 Missouri football season forever will be remembered for the protests, the boycott, the retirement. Swept away from the headlines that fall was the quarterback who unraveled and then disappeared.
He burst onto the scene like a spark to kindling, caught fire and won like no Mizzou quarterback in a generation. As quickly as Mauk arrived, he burned out with the same ferocity. Here . . . then gone. In a span of 121 days, the Mizzou quarterback with the best winning percentage this century was suspended three times and ultimately dismissed after a three-year-old video mysteriously went viral and sabotaged his career.