FSU Rivals: Florida is Insane Wanting Malik Zaire as Transfer Quarterback

Malik Zaire is becoming the next graduate transfer for a hated FSU rival, the Florida Gators – a move that is insane for the Crocs to want.

Ever since the NCAA changed the rules that allow for players to transfer schools after they have gotten their degree, each spring and summer is met with at least one player who has everyone’s attention wondering where he is going. The 2017 edition of this is former Notre Dame quarterback Malik Zaire, who seems to have decided where he is going to transfer to.

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One of the options has been those people from Gainesville that we as FSU football fans love to hate, the Florida Gators. Zaire has apparently decided to make the orange and blue his new home, telling 247 Sports he will be heading to Florida to challenge for the starting spot and that he “wanted to embrace the challenge” of playing for a big name program with other quarterbacks already in place.

Now, while most of the time I would love nothing more than to watch the Crocs crash and burn, I’m going to try and actually offer them some friendly advice in an effort to maybe be the better man:

If everything goes through and you accept Zaire into your program in hopes that he’s the answer to your God awful offensive production over the past half decade, you will prove to be the dumbest program in all of the FBS!

It wasn’t even a given that Malik Zaire would be able to become a Gator anyway. SEC rules prohibited a team from being able to accept more graduate transfers over a three year period when previous ones didn’t live up to their academic responsibility (i.e. go to class and get another degree).

Florida had two such players do that recently, so they would need a waiver or for the rule to change. The conference did just that, moving the rule to one year which would allow UF to take Zaire.

Various outlets reported that Zaire delayed his decision until after the SEC meetings this past week for that reason – to see if Florida had become an option. That delay has some predicting that the Crocs had moved into the lead position.

Nothing has been more fun for FSU football fans than watching Florida struggle on offense during the tenures of Will Muschamp and Jim McElwain. Over the last six seasons, this is how the Crocs have ranked offensively:

"2016 – 108th Total Offense (73rd Passing Offense)2015 – 83rd (61st)2014 – 104th (107th)2013 – 117th (110th)2012 – 97th (116th)2011 – 98th (83rd)"

Wow…looking at those numbers almost makes you feel bad for Florida. Well, not really, but the idea that Malik Zaire is going to magically make them great is ludicrous to say the least. Zaire, in three seasons with the Fighting Irish, played in a total of 15 games (missing most of 2015 with an injury) and threw for a grand total of 816 yards and six touchdowns over his career.

That’s your savior, Florida? I mean, I get that you really can’t get much worse than names like Treon Harris and John Brantley, but you are betting all your chips on a quarterback who has averaged 51 yards a game passing during his career?

Take it from us, as a school who experimented with a graduate transfer quarterback from South Bend – it’s not a good move. Your offense is so horrendous that I’m pretty sure even if Tim Tebow had some eligibility left, it probably wouldn’t help.

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You know what, scratch what I said. Do whatever the heck you want, Crocs. Bring in Malik Zaire with a parade and anoint him the man who is going to turn it all around. We’ll be busy laughing up in Tallahassee and preparing for the circus come November 25th when we bring a real quarterback, Deondre Francois, to town.