QB Murphy: Desired ‘new beginning,’ found it at Duke

Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterJul 24, 2024, 07:04 PM ET

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• ACC reporter.
• Joined ESPN.com in 2010.
• Graduate of the University of Florida.CHARLOTTE, N.C.– Duke quarterback Maalik

  Murphy stated Wednesday he could not have requested for a much better fresh start, following his decision to transfer from Texas.Murphy stated as soon as he learned Quinn Ewers would return as the starter, he decided to discover a school where he might contend for the starting task.”This is my third year in college, so if I’m going to complete,

  I wish to compete with a new location, “Murphy said throughout ACC Kickoff. “Quinn returning makes it quite tough on me just because it was his job to lose, and I didn’t truly want to deal with a situation like that again. I wanted a fresh start, and I feel like this is a great place to have a new beginning.”Murphy spent last season as the backup to Ewers and began two

  games after Ewers got injured. He won them both. All eyes have actually been on the Texas quarterback space given that Arch Manning got here last season as a real freshman. Murphy stated there was never ever any bitterness there.Editor’s Picks 2 Related “It was fantastic because all the pressure was on them,”Murphy stated.”I didn’t need to do anything

  besides play football

  . They both enjoy me to death. There was no stress in between us. It was all outdoors noise, which none of us appreciated. We’re simply a couple guys being men. “In truth, he took pleasure in the relative anonymity he had in Austin when the players would go out together. “That was the enjoyable part,”Murphy stated.”

  Due to the fact that I’m the type of guy to joke about things like that. We would go out to consume as quarterbacks and individuals would come up to me and ask me,’Bro, is that Arch Manning? And I resemble,’Yeah, that’s Arch, you need to go speak to him,’then not even know I are among the quarterbacks in the space. I’m excellent with not having the most attention in a space. That doesn’t that does not faze me at all. I’m great without it. So yeah, it was a treasure being with those dudes.”When Murphy went into the website last December, first-year coach Manny Diaz chose to make a play for the previous Elite 11 quarterback, with Duke starter Riley Leonard gone to Notre Dame.Diaz had an old picture of Murphy, when he was a middle schooler going to a football camp at Miami– where Diaz previously worked. Murphy stated when he got the text he was surprised Diaz still had it.”The perspective of me understanding I satisfied him, I spoke to him previously, made me comfortable adequate to take my talents to where he was coaching. “Diaz explained Murphy as a gifted passer, and knew that Murphy had actually begun big games in huge environments. However he likewise knew convincing Murphy to come to Duke– which had actually lost head coach Mike Elko to Texas A&M, Leonard and other essential players to the transfer portal– would be a big win for his locker space, too. “There was this despair, and I got employed, which assists a little, however I just felt like I needed to make a huge move,”Diaz stated.”When he walked in, our players resembling,’Oh, wow, OK, this

  is various.’It certainly aided with the story and persuading them we can do things.” Murphy is in a competition with Grayson Loftis for the beginning job, one that will continue into the fall. Loftis had planned to redshirt as a true freshman last season, but wound up

  playing in eight games– including five starts– after injuries to both Leonard and Henry Belin IV.”One of the important things I said when I first strolled into the space was, ‘Hey man, this is how I am,’ and I let them know I want the very best for you guys and I want the best for me, and I desire you to push me as difficult as I press you, which’s exactly what we have actually been doing, “Murphy stated.