Perhaps it’s reading too much into one comment, but when Missouri football head coach Eli Drinkwitz dropped a famous John Wooden-ism — be quick but don’t hurry — it told me the starting quarterback competition should extend into the season opener against Central Arkansas.
Following Mizzou’s practice Saturday at Lindenwood University’s Hunter Stadium in St. Charles, an affair Drinkwitz setup to serve as a “mock road game,” Drinkwitz sounded like a man no closer to naming a starting QB than he did at the start of fall camp in Columbia.
Taking Drinkwitz at his word and assuming his comments aren’t an exercise in subterfuge, the lack of separation between redshirt junior Sam Horn and Penn State graduate transfer Beau Pribula feels like it warrants seeing how both players lead the offense in a real game situation.