Ryan Mossakowski Leaving Kentucky Wildcat Football: Wrong or Right Call?

By now, everyone knows that Ryan Mossakowski is gong from the UK Football program. And we all heard the standard answers from both sides as to why he departed. But are these the real reasons for his leaving? The truth is that Ryan’s departure is as clouded as Cam Newton’s father’s church finances. And not because there is something shady going on either. It is because no one is talking, and that, in and of itself usually means something.

Can Ryan see the handwriting on the wall, that he was going to sit behind Morgan Newton no matter what? No one who knows for sure is saying, but why else would Mossakowski leave? Newton, to date, has shown nothing to anyone. And he has had his chances. Mike Hartline’s meteoric rise to efficiency this season kept him in the driver’s seat until his unfortunate college party gone bad incident caught up with him, so Newton only saw limited action until the Capital One Bowl, but Newton had his chance to impress in that game and was less than spectacular.

Which would lead one to believe that Mossy had at least an even shot at the starting QB slot come spring. But yet he walks away now? Is the injury which hampered him his first summer on the field worse than what we were led to believe? Or is there another problem with Ryan? Or is it the UK coaching staff that has the problem? After a disappointing year at the position for 2010, you would think that Joker Phillips is looking for all of the help he could get at QB right now. the statement was made by someone in the press that Mossakowski didn’t come to UK to play backup, and that seems like a fair statement to me, but until the kid actually got on the field and had a chance to play, no one would ever know what he truly had in his duffel bag.

My honest opinion is that we are going to be a ship without a rudder next year. Unless Morgan Newton does some serious maturing and developing in the next three months, the spring sessions are going to look at lot like the Capital One Bowl, and that is not the direction we want this team headed, and neither does Joker Phillips. For Ryan’s sake, I hope he lands on his feet somewhere, because it appeared as though he never got a true opportunity here. If Ryan left because he was never going to see anything but the bench at UK then it was the right call, especially for him. But if he left because he never got the opportunity to try, that falls squarely on the shoulders of the coaching staff.

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