At Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on Saturday, October 21, 2023, quarterback Jacurri Brown (11) throws the ball before the first quarter of an ACC college football game versus Clemson University. D.A. VARELA Email: dvarela@miamiherald.com There will be a scholarship quarterback for the University of Miami in its soon-to-be-announced bowl game.
Brown, who started two of the eight games he played in last season as a reserve after Van Dyke’s UM career ended, is the Hurricanes’ lone healthy scholarship player.
Only four walk-on quarterbacks would be listed for UM if Brown hadn’t promised coaches he would play in the bowl. They haven’t all participated in games.
Earlier in the season, Brown’s coaches announced that they would restrict his playing time to four games or less in order to allow him to redshirt and extend his eligibility for another season.
However, many questioned why Brown had not played in a game since Nov. 10, when Florida State, when rookie quarterback Emory Williams fractured his left arm in his first start. According to some, Brown asked not to play this season so that he might transfer or return to UM as a redshirt sophomore the following year.
Whether he decides to stay at UM or not, Brown will still be eligible to play next season and will be counted as a redshirt sophomore. Brown is from Valdosta, Georgia; he weighs 220 pounds and is 6-4.
He completed 27 of 45 passes (60 percent) for 230 yards, three touchdowns, and three interceptions in the previous campaign. His two starts featured an outstanding performance on Nov. 12, 2022, his first at GT, in a 35-14 victory over UM, going 14 of 19 for 136 yards and three touchdowns, with 87 yards rushing.
In UM’s penultimate game of the 2022 season, Brown also got off to a start at Clemson. He was hit hard, sacked three times, and only completed six of the thirteen attempts for 53 yards and one interception without a touchdown. In 2022, he had six job terminations. Last season, he totaled 223 yards of running.
“We decided at the start of the season to preserve his season and utilize him as a backup quarterback,” Shannon Dawson, the offensive coordinator at UM, stated to media on October 30. The moment of emergency has come. On Sunday, UM, which is 7–5, will find out where it will play in the bowl.
The Canes finished 5-7 the previous season and missed the postseason. Miami was scheduled to play Washington State in the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas in 2021; however, due to a COVID-19 epidemic at UM, Miami had to cancel the game. In their last 11 bowl games, the Hurricanes are 1-10. The last time UM won a bowl game came on December 28, 2016, in the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando, versus West Virginia.
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