COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz has learned a lot about his new starting quarterback since the end of last season, but it was during a midsummer meeting that could have gone awkwardly when he fully appreciated the competitor that is Brady Cook.
Drinkwitz’s offseason hunt for a more experienced quarterback was not a secret — he called it “a public pursuit” — but he was especially impressed with Cook’s response to the carousel of Power Five targets coming through campus.
Drinkwitz recalled that conversation Wednesday: “He just said, ‘Coach, it means nothing more to me than to be the starting quarterback at the University of Missouri.