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After practice, they'd practice. Just the quarterbacks and receivers. Throwing sessions. Informal but important.
But one Pennsylvania day, the team practice was particularly punishing. So a receiver headed home.
“So Beau jumped in his car,” said Central York High coach Gerry Yonchiuk of his quarterback then, Beau Pribula. “And he went and got him — got his butt back there.”
Wait. Pribula didn’t just call the guy and ask him to come back? He literally went and got him?
“And Beau was a junior, and (the receiver) was a senior,” Yonchiuk said. “We’d had a good workout. Everybody was exhausted. But Beau is like: ‘No, we’re all in this together, man. We want to stay championship.’ He told everybody: ‘Don’t you leave.’ Drove to the kid’s house, 15 minutes from school, picked him up, came back and they got the throwing session in.
“And I thought: Oh, man. That’s leadership, you know?”
Look, Kelly Bryant was supposed to be great, too. Missouri has lured talented quarterbacks before — and not all have turned out like Chase Daniel. But it sure sounds like Pribula, who is transferring from Penn State with two years of eligibility left, has the character of another Mizzou signal-caller — current QB Brady Cook.
At quarterback, character matters. It helped Cook become a local legend. Brad Smith had it. Drew Lock had it. And Pribula checks all the boxes.
Mizzou coach Eli Drinkwitz out-hustled, out-wooed and, likely, outbid other coaches from big schools. Drink got his guy (OK, sure, Drink probably wanted Miller Moss more, but after Moss chose Louisville, Drink then got his next guy).
“Your fan base is going to fall in love with him because he’s just unique,” Yonchiuk said of Pribula, who was the first three-year team captain in Central York High history. “This was my 41st year at coaching — he was, by far, the most dynamic (player) from every angle. ... I think that’s a blessing for Missouri and for Beau, the way it worked out. Because yeah, he is the most ultimate leader I’ve ever, ever come across.”
Incidentally, Pribula did indeed lead his high school to the state championship game (but lost). And Pribula could be part of a national championship team this season — with an asterisk, of course.
This is one of the crazier situations I’ve ever heard of in college football. The Pennsylvania kid was the backup QB for Penn State this season. He played in 12 games — often as a change-of-pace quarterback during the course of the game (and not just garbage time). And against Wisconsin, Penn State actually trailed at halftime, 10-7. Furthermore, star starter Drew Allar got hurt, so Pribula took over in the second half — and Penn State won on the road, 28-13.
Sure enough, the Nittany Lions made the College Football Playoff — which overlapped with a transfer period. If Pribula wanted to be a starting college quarterback in 2025, he’d need to transfer.
And so he didn’t play in Penn State’s first CFP game (which was a win). And now he’s a Missouri Tiger, while the Nittany Lions next play on New Year’s Eve vs. Boise State in the CFP quarterfinals.
College football needs to — must! — figure out a better plan so the Pribulas of future seasons aren’t forced to make this type of decision.
Yonchiuk said Pribula called him the night before to tell his high school coach the news — he was headed to Missouri. And on the phone Monday with the Post-Dispatch, the proud coach shared numerous stories about Pribula’s character and ability.
There was the time during a film session that the QB got up and snatched the phone from a unfocused teammate’s hand. There was the impressive 335-pound power clean in the weight room. And there was this one, which reminded me of the character of another Mizzou legend — running back Cody Schrader, who once missed a practice, so he practiced by himself that night, alone in the cold, to go over all of the plays and running routes.
“Even the first year when he wasn’t playing at Penn State,” Yonchiuk said, “he would be in after spring ball for an hour in the facility. He’d go through every pass play, play action, drop. He would go back through it so he was up to speed — and that was with no one watching. Like, those are things that you just can’t teach. You can’t force him to do it. He totally has that ‘it’ factor.”
Really, I learned everything I needed to know about Pribula in two social media posts.
After he announced he was transferring from Penn State, two NFL players shared their thoughts on Pribula.
The Cowboys’ Micah Parsons, an NFL All-Pro linebacker, posted on X, formerly Twitter, to his 550,000 followers: “Wish you the very best lil bro! You did it right! Got your degree and was true class act! Good luck!”
And as posted by the Packers’ Sean Clifford, a former Penn State quarterback: “Cannot emphasize how much love I got for this dude. A winner, competitor, leader, and great teammate. Whatever program picks him up is lucky. Go be great!”
I mean, how many backup college quarterbacks get public praise from NFL alumni of the school they’re leaving?
On the phone Monday, Yonchiuk said he didn’t know much about Cook, who will make his final college start next week in the Music City Bowl against Iowa. I told him about Cook’s character. How his teammates adore him. How he returned from the hospital in the middle of a game to come back and beat Auburn.
“What you’re describing,” Yonchiuk said, “you’re getting that type of guy because that’s the character Beau oozes. Just like Cook.”
But one Pennsylvania day, the team practice was particularly punishing. So a receiver headed home.
“So Beau jumped in his car,” said Central York High coach Gerry Yonchiuk of his quarterback then, Beau Pribula. “And he went and got him — got his butt back there.”
Wait. Pribula didn’t just call the guy and ask him to come back? He literally went and got him?
“And Beau was a junior, and (the receiver) was a senior,” Yonchiuk said. “We’d had a good workout. Everybody was exhausted. But Beau is like: ‘No, we’re all in this together, man. We want to stay championship.’ He told everybody: ‘Don’t you leave.’ Drove to the kid’s house, 15 minutes from school, picked him up, came back and they got the throwing session in.
“And I thought: Oh, man. That’s leadership, you know?”
Look, Kelly Bryant was supposed to be great, too. Missouri has lured talented quarterbacks before — and not all have turned out like Chase Daniel. But it sure sounds like Pribula, who is transferring from Penn State with two years of eligibility left, has the character of another Mizzou signal-caller — current QB Brady Cook.
At quarterback, character matters. It helped Cook become a local legend. Brad Smith had it. Drew Lock had it. And Pribula checks all the boxes.
Mizzou coach Eli Drinkwitz out-hustled, out-wooed and, likely, outbid other coaches from big schools. Drink got his guy (OK, sure, Drink probably wanted Miller Moss more, but after Moss chose Louisville, Drink then got his next guy).
“Your fan base is going to fall in love with him because he’s just unique,” Yonchiuk said of Pribula, who was the first three-year team captain in Central York High history. “This was my 41st year at coaching — he was, by far, the most dynamic (player) from every angle. ... I think that’s a blessing for Missouri and for Beau, the way it worked out. Because yeah, he is the most ultimate leader I’ve ever, ever come across.”
Incidentally, Pribula did indeed lead his high school to the state championship game (but lost). And Pribula could be part of a national championship team this season — with an asterisk, of course.
This is one of the crazier situations I’ve ever heard of in college football. The Pennsylvania kid was the backup QB for Penn State this season. He played in 12 games — often as a change-of-pace quarterback during the course of the game (and not just garbage time). And against Wisconsin, Penn State actually trailed at halftime, 10-7. Furthermore, star starter Drew Allar got hurt, so Pribula took over in the second half — and Penn State won on the road, 28-13.
Sure enough, the Nittany Lions made the College Football Playoff — which overlapped with a transfer period. If Pribula wanted to be a starting college quarterback in 2025, he’d need to transfer.
And so he didn’t play in Penn State’s first CFP game (which was a win). And now he’s a Missouri Tiger, while the Nittany Lions next play on New Year’s Eve vs. Boise State in the CFP quarterfinals.
College football needs to — must! — figure out a better plan so the Pribulas of future seasons aren’t forced to make this type of decision.
Yonchiuk said Pribula called him the night before to tell his high school coach the news — he was headed to Missouri. And on the phone Monday with the Post-Dispatch, the proud coach shared numerous stories about Pribula’s character and ability.
There was the time during a film session that the QB got up and snatched the phone from a unfocused teammate’s hand. There was the impressive 335-pound power clean in the weight room. And there was this one, which reminded me of the character of another Mizzou legend — running back Cody Schrader, who once missed a practice, so he practiced by himself that night, alone in the cold, to go over all of the plays and running routes.
“Even the first year when he wasn’t playing at Penn State,” Yonchiuk said, “he would be in after spring ball for an hour in the facility. He’d go through every pass play, play action, drop. He would go back through it so he was up to speed — and that was with no one watching. Like, those are things that you just can’t teach. You can’t force him to do it. He totally has that ‘it’ factor.”
Really, I learned everything I needed to know about Pribula in two social media posts.
After he announced he was transferring from Penn State, two NFL players shared their thoughts on Pribula.
The Cowboys’ Micah Parsons, an NFL All-Pro linebacker, posted on X, formerly Twitter, to his 550,000 followers: “Wish you the very best lil bro! You did it right! Got your degree and was true class act! Good luck!”
And as posted by the Packers’ Sean Clifford, a former Penn State quarterback: “Cannot emphasize how much love I got for this dude. A winner, competitor, leader, and great teammate. Whatever program picks him up is lucky. Go be great!”
I mean, how many backup college quarterbacks get public praise from NFL alumni of the school they’re leaving?
On the phone Monday, Yonchiuk said he didn’t know much about Cook, who will make his final college start next week in the Music City Bowl against Iowa. I told him about Cook’s character. How his teammates adore him. How he returned from the hospital in the middle of a game to come back and beat Auburn.
“What you’re describing,” Yonchiuk said, “you’re getting that type of guy because that’s the character Beau oozes. Just like Cook.”
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