2020 Macadoodle's Mailbag: 42nd Edition

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GD: I can't. Of course, I also can't remember a time Missouri went into a season without knowing who its starting quarterback was going to be. I also have to believe that wouldn't have been the case this year had Eli Drinkwitz had a full spring football and fall camp to make the decision. You had the perfect storm of a first-year coach taking over a team that didn't have a returning quarterback and then all of the practices between him taking the job and his first game were completely changed. The only time I really remember Missouri playing two quarterbacks was the year Larry Smith would play Kent Skornia and Corby Jones (it was either 1995 or 1996) and even as a college student watching the games I knew if Skornia was in the game it was a passing play and if Corby was in it was a running play. I'm sure there were some times before I started following closely that Mizzou used two quarterbacks a fair amount, but in the last 25 years it really hasn't happened except for that one instance. Gary Pinkel already had the successor lined up at least a year in advance, it seemed. The one time he didn't, Tyler Gabbert transferred before fall camp and so the quarterback competition ceased to be a competition. Barry Odom had Drew Lock for his first three years and Kelly Bryant was named the starting quarterback after the first spring practice last year, so there was never a question there. I think this year had more to do with very unique circumstances than anything else.

GD: I've heard nothing but positive things from the St. Louis area since Drinkwitz took over. I doubt that's going to change because CJay Boone transferred and Maurice Massey opted out. Maybe I'm wrong, but I really don't think so. Missouri will get a lot of guys out of St. Louis. It will not get them all. Some of the highly ranked kids will go other places as they always have. If Drinkwitz wins enough, he'll get enough of the St. Louis players to keep running his program.