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Discover more at allora modern wellness.com. All right, we're back on track with our spring football series. We're joined now by Callum McAndrew from the Columbia Tribune covers the Missouri Tigers. We've had one a few times before. Callum, always appreciate your time. A year ago, if you were listening to this podcast or if you were listening to Sports Mississippi. I was waxing pretty poetic about Austin Simmons and how he was going to be the next

great... if you were listening to this podcast or if you were listening to Sports Talk Mississippi,

I was waxing pretty poetic about Austin Simmons and how he was going to be the next great

Ole Miss quarterback and how all that was going to work out.

I still believe in that guy.

I think he's super, super talented.

What is he going to be at Missouri this year?

Yeah, I think it's pretty significant that Missouri's gone ahead and just named

them the starter.

That is not something that Eli Junkwitz has done necessarily in the past.

I mean, you look at the quarterbacks that they've gone through Bo Perbula last year.

They took him into the first week of the season with Sam Horn to get into that.

Brady Cook and two of his three years as the starter had to go into fall camp, also had to go into the first week of the season with Sam Horn to get into that. Brady Cook and two of his three years as the starter had to go into fall camp, also had to go into the first week of the season in one of the years that he won the job. This is not something Drinkwitz has done. He has liked to let these things develop into fall camp. He's liked to see a full off season of work from his quarterbacks. But I think it's pretty telling that they've got this guy

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