Chase Daniel takes time to speak with Bill Pollock of the Missourinet on the Pressbox Podcast

Former Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel spoke before the MU-KU basketball game and announced that he will make a donation to Missouri to begin a football scholarship in his name.

It will be called the Chase Daniel Lone-Star State Scholarship and it will be awarded annually to a player from Texas. Daniel said he laid out some guidelines with the university and his first choice is to award it to quarterbacks from the state of Texas, as well as players with at least a 3.0 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale.

Pressbox Podcast with Chase Daniel (5:35)

Daniel wanted to be the first in the Gary Pinkel era to set up such a scholarship, but is hoping former teammates like Jeremy Maclin and Danario Alexander will step forward.

Watch Chase Daniel’s announcement.

“I’ve talked to J-Mac and Danario and said, ‘Listen to my announcement. It’s something you should do, but I’m going to beat you to the punch because I want to be the first,’ ” joked Daniel.