Sep 24, 2022; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; Miami Hurricanes quarterback Jake Garcia (13) attempts a pass against the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders during the second half at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports
Jake Garcia has formally announced his commitment to play for the Missouri Tigers.
It was reported Thursday evening that the former Miami quarterback would continue his career at Mizzou playing for Eli Drinkwitz’s squad.
In a Friday tweet, Garcia thanked UM and said he will continue to support the Hurricanes from afar.
Garcia was in Coral Gables for 2 seasons. He played in only 1 game as a true freshman, having his 2021 season cut short due to injury.
In 2022, he made 8 appearances 68-of-115 passing (59.1% complete) for 803 yards, 5 touchdowns and 4 interceptions. Garcia made 1 start in 2022, going 15-of-31 for 125 in Miami’s win over Virginia. In UM’s regular-season finale against Pitt, Garcia was 17-of-27 for 192 yards and 2 touchdowns with no interceptions.
Garcia and Sam Horn will be the quarterbacks leading Mizzou in spring practice while starter Brady Cook recovers from shoulder surgery.
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With the incoming freshman MU will have 3 Four Star QB's in the house, something tells me we won't be suffering from mediocre QB play much longer.
Cook's play would have to substantially improve to reach the level of 'mediocre.'
mike5675, your trolling will have to substantially improve to reach the level of ‘mediocre.’
Exactly, Cook is not holding Mizzou back. The OC, playbook, the blocking, the receivers getting open, need improvement as much as QB play. Maybe the running backs could take a little more of success load but they were looking pretty maxed out to exploiting holes in my view
Drink is going to screw up and lose horn to the portal if he isn’t careful.
Maybe, but so what? Horn may actually win the job, but there's zero reason just to give it to Horn or make him feel "safe" by not continuing to building depth and competition in the QB room. The guy hasn't hardly seen the field probably for a reason, if he transfers so what, he can play baseball somewhere else.
The Juco super star might beat out all of the blue chippers, we don't know.
That’s a really odd statement to make. It’s not like Mizzou is having a lot of success recruiting 4 stars at other positions by saying, “come to Mizzou, we don’t have any 4 stars at your position”. I’d prefer him not turn away really good players who want to try to play at Mizzou.
Agreed - all SEC schools have many blue chippers at each position, mizzou shouldn't recruit the same?
And 17-18 year olds are still growing and maturing at different rates in different ways. Some of them have never been in a good training program
What are the real stats? In theory you get 1.5 running and 1.5 passing plays per series, not counting the short yardage rushing calls and 4th down field goal attempts. Because Cook can runs he has a foot in the door for 4th down snaps