Pribula getting $1.5 million from Missouri for 2025

It will either be Pyne the ND transfer that looked good against Oklahoma for us.

It could be incoming former 5 star Matt Zollers but he looks to have been slightly downgraded after he almost lost his ankle in an injury at the beginning of the season.

Pribula and Payne will duel it out with Zollers likely red shirting

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From the clips I've seen he looks like a better version of the QB we have now in Cook.

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Cook was faster IMO, new guy looks like a stronger runner.

He's for sure starting.

Over $40k per career pass completion.

Welcome to CFB in 2024.

Who did they outbid?

Iowa wanted him

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Lotsa Sallies in here worried about how Mizzou spends money.

We appreciate your care and concern$.

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Saying that we don't think it's very smart doesn't mean that we care that you did it.

My personal opinion is that spending lots of money on guys who haven't done much in college yet isn't a model that's going to lead to ongoing success. Yes, you might hit a home run every now and then... but teams will also get a Brock Vandagriff (who UK paid quite a bit to as a transfer) or Nico Iamaleva (who Tennessee paid quite a bit to out of high school).

Teams will do it. Sometimes they'll get a hit (I'd call Ewers a hit for Texas for example). But they'll also be a lot of misses. And just like in the NFL where a starter or early round draft pick who's getting paid a ton is hard to bench... benching your million dollar QB for a backup is also hard for coaches to do... particularly because if they do it too often boosters will stop paying millions for those players.

I think focusing on HS recruiting as best you can without going overboard on paying HS recruits, followed up by paying a lot to KEEP the guys who you hit on while using the portal mostly to fill holes with proven guys at a reasonable cost rather than unproven "prospects" at a high cost is what is going to work long term.

It lowers team animosity toward guys who're unproven getting paid more than proven guys. It lets the coaches make playing time decisions without being too beholden to "salaries". And by doing so guys believe that they CAN "wait their turn" or "earn a spot" and aren't going to portal as often due to there being reasonable hope.

So far UGA has been able to convince quite a few guys to wait their turn to play in the portal era. Obviously not everyone, but quite a number of NFL talent level players.

About the only position that hasn't happened at is WR, which is also the position we've relied on the most in the portal. I think there might be a connection there.

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we should have just paid 1.5 trillion for a dc like lsu

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I think you would be better off playing a couple of mid-tier QB recruits a hundred thousand each and hoping one of them hits then paying 1.5 million for another "prospect" type player who hasn't played.

This isn't about Mizzou. I'm simply saying I think the general practice of big money for unproven players is not going to work for teams.

As I said, Tennessee did it with Nico. Kentucky did it with Vandagriff. One as a recruit, one for a transfer. Both were expensive failures. It's not that I think Pribula will fail. I just think these TYPES of decisions will be failures more often than successes in the long run and won't work out for the teams taking that approach.

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we should have just paid 1.5 trillion for a dc like lsu

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Apparently Mizzou was prepared to make a competitive offer but Baker didn't give them the opportunity, per the STL Post Dispatch.