Five stuff you may not find out about first-time Miami beginning quarterback Jake Garcia

University of Miami quarterback Jake Garcia is about to get his first faculty begin on the street at Virginia rather than injured common starter Tyler Van Dyke.

Garcia, 6-3 and 194 kilos, lately turned 21. Entering Saturday, he had performed in 4 video games this season, finishing 32-of-49 (65.3 %) passes for 470 yards and two touchdowns, with three interceptions. Last yr he performed in a single sport towards FCS workforce Central Connecticut State, going 11-of-14 (78.6 %) for 147 yards and two touchdowns.

Here are 5 issues to know concerning the Hurricanes redshirt freshman:

1. He attended 5 excessive colleges in 4 years.

Garcia, who got here to UM rated the nation’s No. 2 pocket passer by ESPN and No. 5 pro-style quarterback prospect within the 2021 signing class by 247Sports and Rivals, is from Whittier, California. But he quickly moved from California to Georgia in August 2020 as a result of the California Interscholastic Federation canceled soccer in gentle of the coronavirus pandemic. Garcia, thus by no means even bought to play at La Habra High, close to his dwelling. He performed in a single sport in 2020 at Valdosta High in Georgia, going 21-of-34 for 332 yards and two touchdowns, with one interception. When he was dominated ineligible due to switch guidelines, he left for Grayson High, the place he graduated. He performed for lengthy Beach Poly as a freshman, then transferred to LA’s Narbonne High when his coach left. In Garcia’s junior season, Narbonne was prohibited from the playoffs for guidelines violations that concerned one other participant’s residency, and that’s when Garcia transferred to La Habra.

2. He slept with a soccer each night time from about age 13 to at the least till he arrived at UM. “My football and I are going to be together all the time,’’ he told the Miami Herald before arriving on campus. “I promise you I sleep with my football in bed every night.’’

3. He is an only child. His father Randy was a quarterback for Nebraska’s legendary coach Tom Osborne in the mid 1970s. Randy is a retired Los Angeles Police Department lieutenant in charge of a unit that oversaw vice, narcotics, gang-related officers and detectives and moved to Miami-Dade with Jake’s mom, Yvonne — a career executive assistant — so they could be close to Jake. Randy’s father, whose parents were born in Mexico, died at age 93 from COVID-19. Yvonne, who is fluent in Spanish, was born in Los Angeles, with her mom a Mexican-American and dad, from Louisiana, of Creole heritage.

4. Randy Garcia pulled Jake out of youth tackle football when he was 9. “They just did a lot of hitting for no reason,’’ Randy said. The elder Garcia allowed him to start playing tackle again at age 13. “There was just too much unnecessary hitting to my body,’’ Garcia said. “He felt I didn’t need that until later on.’’

5. He came to UM a Rams fan, but said he mostly likes watching quarterbacks. “Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady” and Drew Brees earlier than he retired. “They all have different types of games. I get to pick up on different things.” He stated Brees wouldn’t beat you together with his arm as a lot as “his thought course of,’’ and would do it “inside the first 10 or 25 seconds as soon as the ball’’ was snapped. “Tom Brady goes to do the identical factor. Then you have got Mahomes and Rodgers who could make each single throw on the sphere. You simply study from watching individuals.’’

This story was initially printed October 29, 2022 11:01 AM.