Cole Copeland heard University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football coach Rusty Wright’s comments after the Mocs ended last season with a 24-21 home loss to The Citadel, including the postgame remark to media that going into 2022, the team needed “to find a quarterback.”
There were plenty who questioned Wright’s words; Copeland admitted recently he was “upset” by them.
After all, Copeland was going to be a senior in 2022, and last season he had quarterbacked the Mocs to a 6-3 record as a starter and within striking distance of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, somewhere the program hasn’t been since 2016. The Mocs lost both games without Copeland behind center, the finale and the opener against Austin Peay.
But he had some struggles along the way, too.