TJ Finley Enters The Transfer Portal, Robby Ashford and Holden Geriner Battle For Starting Position

I mean let's start with TJ Finley that's no offense to anyone coming in but this is a story that has been percolating for quite a while and nobody is surprised that TJ Finley has punched out as a graduate transfer it was just uh it was never it never worked it just never worked for him at over yeah yeah I mean it it didn't I mean I think that he was brought in initially um you know just because they needed some competition and he was there and he's a guy that was you know in the SEC and he had a big body and a big frame and you thought there's potential there um and so and so you bring him in to compete and it never really uh it never really panned out obviously um you know he didn't he played a little bit back up against Beau and then last year you know won those first two games and then um they got blown out and against Penn State he got hurt never got back into actually he got back in the game at Ole Miss for one possession and he fumbled and that was it uh and then the last four games he he didn't even travel with the team he wasn't even a part of the team so um yeah no no real surprise we heard a little bit about him possibly transferring after the season in the winter I think that the coaching staff probably said hey you know you're so close to graduating stick around be a body in this compete in the spring whatever graduate and so barring just some unbelievable spring where he would have gone out and killed it and won the job which nobody expected um he was gonna he was going to graduate and he was going to move on um so we'll see where he goes maybe back maybe back to Louisiana back home he's engaged his fiancee is from Louisiana so it kind of makes sense maybe to go back and have one more year there but um yeah no surprise there with with TJ Finley leaving uh speculation has always been Robbie Ashford or grad transfer quarterback nobody's talking about Holden gerner though what are the chances that gerner could end up being the guy I mean you know he he probably he should be talked about um I mean he he came on the last two weeks of spring played well and and I think that you know if they were to start a game tomorrow I don't know which way they'd go um I think there's more of a debate there than than maybe people are are willing to to have I do think of a transfer portal I've always said if a portal quarterback comes in he's the now the odds on favorite to start he's got to be and then can those other guys beat him out if for some reason a portal quarterback isn't landed which I continue to just think that would be a very surprising thing um then yeah I think it's absolutely a battle and Holden Garner is absolutely in the discussion to start game one if a transfer quarterback isn't landed if a transfer portal quarterbacks landed then you just have to assume based on going and getting him um probably going to have more experience than the other two guys you have to make him the odds on favorite but gerner's in the mix 100 I mean I think Ashford brings something unique we all know his his ability to run and that's exciting and it takes you back to Nick Marshall days or you think about Malik Willis at Liberty and and I get it um but hold nothing came on those last two weeks and if he has a really good summer he'll he'll compete in the fall he'll be there competing in the fall there's no question