The renowned quarterback coach George Whitfield Jr. said fifth-year senior Connor Cook is the best college quarterback in the country on Friday while analyzing the Saturday night MSU-Oregon football game. Whitfield will be joining the ESPN GameDay broadcast Saturday morning.
Whitfield has worked with the likes of Donovan McNabb, Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, Johnny Manziel and more. For a visual comparison, Whitfield is to quarterback-coaching what Dr. Dre is to music.
Whitfield assured that his comment on Cook was not just because he was standing in Spartan Stadium, but because “when you actually watch him play, he is able to lead the team through the fist fights.