GAINESVILLE, Fla. _ Florida coach Dan Mullen is not ready to decide on a starting quarterback, but he would like to following Sunday's scrimmage.
When anyone else finds out is another issue entirely.
"I'd like to have an answer after the next scrimmage. I don't know if I'll share it with everybody," Mullen told reporters Wednesday. "I'd like for me to have an answer."
Mullen was not closer to one following the team's first preseason scrimmage, staged Monday evening in the Swamp.
Mullen said redshirt sophomores Feleipe Franks and Kyle Trask, along with their teammates, must continue to learn the offense and develop confidence in their knowledge of the playbook.
"If one guy makes a mistake on offense, part of it is the guys understanding the scheme. 'Uh, oh, something went wrong on that play,' " Mullen said. "And everyone is like, 'Was that me?' No, the left guard went the wrong way. Have confidence in you know what you're doing.
"It had nothing to do with you, but make your reads. When it does come to you, you need to go make the plays and make decisions."
It becomes increasingly difficult for a quarterback to make plays and sound decisions when faced with game situations at game speed. One reason, Mullen said, is quarterbacks these days develop their passing skills during 7-on-7 camps.
"When we go to 7-on-7, now, they can light it up," he said. "Everybody goes to 7-on-7 camps all summer and 7-on-7 this and 7-on-7 that. Then all of a sudden you put pass rush, you put some more guys in some blitzes, you're hot, you have to do some other things. Different story."
