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tnbanker_govols writes:
Who cares as long as its not Crompton. I'd give Eric Berry a chance before I put Crompton back out in a game.
CT_VOL writes:
Both Phil and Crompton appear to have severe learning disablities.
Frank
PS Still sick from game.
Sempervols writes:
Fulmer said that he would practise both of them. Are you kidding me? Fulemr is losing the Tennessee faithful and its past time to do something a bit more drastic than trying both of them. Cropton is a joke, they tried him and he failed. I mean it wasnt even close. You need to make this little contest between Jones and who the heck ever else you can think of besides Cropton.
cdonsbach writes:
Whichever dude that can throw the ball at the receivers instead of into the ground.
rblakeh writes:
This is an idiotic poll. I hope our coaches don't make decisions as flippantly as the readers of this website. How are any of us supposed to know who should be the quarterback? I for one haven't been to any practices. Are we allowed to start attending now?
volinjapan writes:
The poll is for the fans! I haven't been to any practices either but I've seen the results on Saturdays!
dvols writes:
tee martin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Flyfisherman writes:
Peyton Manning would be a good one...he seems to have a good head for the game.
Or maybe Heath Shuler...doesn't he have one year of eligibilty left over...providing he can get away from his duties as a Senator in Raleigh....
murrayvol writes:
Uh, Heath a Congressman in Washington.
99gator writes:
at this point, there really doesn't seem to be a choice.
some guys are game day players. some are practice players.
only one way to find out.
you can find out against northern illinois or find out against georgia.
i would rather find out against northern illinois.
utwick writes:
99 is right on the money. Put in a new face against NIU and go on from there.
govols22231 writes:
a fumbled snap at ucla, an INT against ucla, a botched hanoff against florida on the 1 yard line, an INT at the 1 yard line against florida, two INT's against UAB the worst defense in the nation, a botched handoff against auburn that cost us the game. look were its gotten us, the bottom ten in the nation. Has he done anything right
THE_VOL writes:
My vote for other is actually intended for whoever the winning QB is in the UT Intramural Playoffs! They are obviously the most talented on campus, are used to throwing with limited protection, and have shown a particularly unique ability to win without any coaching!
Huntingdonvol writes:
99 gator------------you and your gators have much more worries than to worry abought who are practice players and game day players,i have come to the conclusion your either a drunk or a 12 year old kid,,,,,,,,,lol
longtimefan writes:
Clawsen. He seems to be the only one who understands the offense. Except for opposing defensive coordinators.
bluetickhound writes:
Lucas Taylor should be back there. I remember someone saying that last year he had the strongest arm on the team.
rusty_shackleford writes:
How about doing away with the QB altogether and go back to the Single Wing?
Single Wing = Old School Spread
Single Wing = 1950s version of the G-Gun.
Single Wing = What else have we got to lose?
mbible1utk#324980 writes:
I really think all Nick Stephens needs is a chance... he lost attention because he had to miss his senior year of high school with an injury, but before that he was a top junior prospect. Supposedly the issue is that he doesn't know the offense, but apparently neither does Crompton, and I've heard a few people say that Stephens has the better arm.
olozbal#646632 writes:
It's not a Crompton thing. It's a Clawson thing. The difference this year is we have a O-coordinator who is in over his head. He's got enough problems trying to create a game plan than coach a QB. Either wait out the season (it's pretty much over anyway now) or get someone dedicated to coaching the QB. The difference is the lack of Cutcliffe.
Not sure if Clawson is any good long term or not, but he's clearly not in the SEC league yet.
Anybody just get amazed watching Alabama play? Their coaching and strategy is just clearly impressive. It's not the players, it's the game plan and prep which is awesome to me. We've never had that, we just had better players for a few years and a little luck.
Beast writes:
Backup QBs NEVER get meaningful game experience under Fulmers watch.Cromptons only time came when Ainge was crippled. Why didn't our backup(whoever it is) play the 4th quarter against UAB? Same reason NO backups have ever gotten any real game time for the last 17 years! The Boy Scouts have a simple saying--BE PREPARED
Oenoboy writes:
The results of this poll are cracking me up.
B.J. Coleman 15% 476 votes
Jonathan Crompton 2% 76 votes
Gerald Jones 19% 591 votes
Nick Stephens 58% 1749 votes
Other 3% 98 votes
I love that "Other" has more votes than Crompton.
Maybe Stephens could be our version of Tom Brady.
Cinderella story here...kid out of Texas...Oh folks, what a shot, he really got all of that one folks and the crowd is going wild. IT’S IN THE WHOLE...OH YES IT’S IN THE WHOLE.
Sorry, I never got over Caddyshack.
west_tn_volfan writes:
You don't have to be at the practices to know who isn't getting it done in the games. Our record is for games not practices. Crompton has had his chance and he hasn't gotten the job done so at this point it doesn't matter what he does in practice. We need to see if another qb can get the job done when it counts.
west_tn_volfan writes:
I would disagree about Clawson. He has to play the qb Fulmer says will start so we don't know if he wants crompton in there or not. I saw receivers running wide open against auburn and crompton never looked their way. If they were wide open, the scheme was good. It may be that coach Cutt wouldn't have crompton in the game now but coach clawson can't impose his will on Fulmer like coach Cutt could. I would rather see how the offense works under a new qb before I say Clawson can't coach.
VOLKING writes:
Oh yeah, it's got to be the OC's fault. This ship has been steadily sinking for 10 years and the one common thing is Fulmer. It wouldn't matter who the OC is if the head coach asks him to 'play with our system.'
BigOrangeVol writes:
When Condredge wasn’t cutting it in ’74 going 7-3-2 people wanted Randy Wallace, Ed McDougal or Gary Valbuena.
We got Wallace,and he went 13-10 and we're wanting to see Gary Roach.
Jimmy comes in and goes 16-17-1 but folks want Pat Ryan, Jim Harrison, Joe Hough or David Rudder.
Steve Alatore is the next great arm but he went 14-9 so we want Jeff Olszewski or Alan Cockrel.
Cockrel is next in line and finishes 15-8-1 so we're asking about Sam Aiello and Tony Robinson.
T.R.'s record is 10-5-2 before he gets intentionally mamed with a high/low by Cornelius Bennett and Wayne Davis and in steps Daryl Dickey.
Dickey finishes 6-0-1 and Jeff Francis is waiting in the wings.
Francis is the next hot QB only to have a career 22-13-1 so we want to see Andy Kelly or Randy Sanders - good bass angler, decent QB coach, terrible QB.
Thankfully we finally get A.K on the field and his numbers are 29-6-2. Andy has the best three-year run of any Vol QB in twenty years but we want Sterling Henton or Heath Shuler.
Sterling has his career end on the first series of the first game and in comes Heath. Shuler becomes a legend with a 19-5 record. What about Lance Wheaton?
1994; Todd Helton, Branndon Stewart, Jason Price or Peyton? We end up split as fans with the Stewart camp and the Manning camp. Peyton wins and finishes 40-9 for the most wins ever by a Vol QB and sets tons of records winning more hardware than we've never seen before. But we want to see what Tee Martin can do.
Tee goes 22-3 for the best two-year run we've seen since the General was coaching.
Casey Clausen is 37-14 and all we can do is call for James Banks, C. J. Leak, Joey Mathews, A. J. Suggs and Josh Plemons.
Erik Ainge goes 29-11 but we aren't happy because we want Brent Schaeffer, Rick Clausen, Jon Crompton, Jim Bob Cooter or Bo Hardegree.
Why is it that fans always percieve the #2 QB as better than the #1 guy? I'm pretty sure that the coaches see them and understand their abilities better than we do!
Most everyone of you spent the last year complaining about Erik and singing the praises of JCromp. Cromp has the better arm, better accuracy, he can run, he's our next Tebow... I guess you would love to have Erik back huh?
We couldn't wait to get rid of Walt Harris (47-21-4 as OC) because the Offense had become stale and predictable so Phillip (32-6-2 as CO) was the answer. Cut was the next great QB coach and Offensive genius guiding us to a 63-10 record as OC and the National Championship. Every dang one of you had man-crushes on Phillip and David in '95-'98!!! After sitting at the feat of the Master, Randy was the new generation of Offensive guru's. He sucked and ya'll couldn't wait to get Cut back. Then all you did was whine and complain that the Offense was stale and predictable again. Well I bet Cut is looking a lot better to you now isn't he?
nbt44 writes:
Tell Mike Hamilton what you think about Fulmer...
mhamilton@tennessee.edu
GreerVol22 writes:
kingsport,
I'd take Bernie Mac over what we have now...or even a weekend at Bernie's...
maybe Fulmer should ask his girlfriend what makes him perform better...
fedupvol writes:
ANYBODY but clueless jon....how about walk on auditions...
tndrum#214683 writes:
I'm no football coach or expert. I don't know who should start at qb this week, though I have my opinion about who SHOULDN'T be starting. But from a marketing perspective, if the university wants to sell more than a handful of pay-per-view orders and wants as many butts in seats at the stadium as possible, then regardless of how practices go this week, someone besides Jon needs to be announced as the starter. I'll buy the broadcast just to see someone else try to run the offense. I won't buy it if I'm faced with watching the same product we've seen so far.
BigMix writes:
I bet Crompton is now at the top of ol'Naffys, "white boys that suck" list.
AirForceVol writes:
In response to olozbal#646632 on Crompton: How on earth do you know what kind of coordinator Clawson might be, he's trying to run a college offense with quarterback that couldn't start at my high school right now. Bottom Line: If anyone else is our quarterback this season we are 3-1 and tied with UGA and FLA in the standings. Why not go with Gerald Jones? Oh, he can't throw you say? News flash people....we are already playing a quarterback that can't throw! At least with the G-Gun our best player gets to touch the ball on every play and make something out of nothing. Crompton is an embarassment to the position!
rockytop4ever writes:
Where is Jim Bob Cooter when you need him?
BubbaVol44 writes:
In response to BigOrangeVol:
Thanks for the history lesson--the point is well taken:
By the way, Andy Kelly had the privilege of playing on some of the best teams talent-wise that UT has ever put on the field--the 1990 team was one of the best but wasn't coached worth a phooey for the Bama game that year!
Shuler was a great athlete playing QB and ran himself out of trouble several times. He also was blessed with great talent surrounding him.
Same for T Martin--the '99 team was arguably the best UT team ever to take the field. If we would have run a T Martin bootleg on 4th and 2 at Florida instead of a toss sweep into the short side of the field, T's record could have even been better! That talent was attracted to UT by Peyton Manning--who wouldn't have wanted to come and play with him!
Can't really say much about Casey Clausen except he never improved after the 2001 season. At least he played with some great toughness!
Ainge had to be bailed out of several games by B Schaefer and others while he stunk it up. Ainge benefited much from a superior defense most of his years at UT, and was the biggest sissy to ever play QB at UT. And I don't care what Fulmer said last year, Ainge did cost us the SEC championship game--period!
And no, I have never had a "man-crush" on either Fulmer or Cutcliff. They've always been out-coached in close games against well established programs when the talent level was nearly equal--Nebraska, Penn State, Alabama, Florida, Auburn. You seem to forget that we lost to Memphis with Fulmer and Cutcliff at the helm--Memphis!
Having said all of that, none of our quarterbacks for the last 30 years look as inept as Jon Crompton. I simply cannot understand how he could have gotten so bad after looking very good against LSU 2 years ago--but he looked awful the following week at Arkansas. He has to be benched!
UT football needs an enema, and it's been coming for a good while. Buy him out and go after Gruden at all costs! Someone has defined lunacy as the practice of continually doing the same things in the same way and expecting different results! We're there if we keep this current football staff!
volboy81 writes:
Good points BigOrangeVol!
whoever it is....I will be in Neyland Stadium Saturday to support TENNESSEE!! All real Vol fans will be there!! It will only hurt UT to stay away!!! We'll be winning again soon!! Dont Give Up...Dont Ever Give Up!
GO VOLS!!!
finn writes:
Hey Volboy81, waving an orange pom pom and towing the company line (ie..pro-fulmer) is not the only way to support the program. The past few years, the fans and, more importantly, the players are the ones who have suffered. Working like heck or not, Fulmer has still cashed his $44k per week salary. I have no pity for the man but I do sincerely regret how his shortcomings have robbed many of our players of reaching their full potential both on and off the field. As "real Vol fans," our loyalty should be to the University, the program, and the players, not the guy slowly but surely destroying it.
pdhuff#552644 writes:
Question - if one of Crompton's throws caroms off Gen Melon's head in the 10th row and sails back out onto the field, is it still catchable?
Or would that be considered phixable?
BigOrangeVol writes:
Jon was the #2 pro-style QB in the nation his senior year and a SIX star player according to Rivals; only Marc Sanchez was rated higher.
In his three years at QB in high school he threw for 6,228 yards, 57 TD's and only 12 interceptions.
He was offered by UT, USC, Georgia, Miami, Clemson, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. So evidently Pete Carroll, Mark Richt, Larry Coker, Tommy Bowden, Steve Spurrier, Al Groh and Butch Davis were all mislead as well!
If I'm not mistaken, he has the 5th all-time North Carolina passing record behind Heath. Chris Leak owns just about every NC QB record there is.
tmccurrie writes:
I really do not think that it is a issue witht he QB. I think that it is more of an issue with Fulmer not letting Clausen run the offense the way he sees fit.
BubbaVol44 writes:
I have never questioned his accolades coming out of high school. He was a good sign at the time that hasn't developed into even a good SEC player--just like thousands of other high school superstars.
High school is over. I'm sure he is a fine young man with great character--have never questioned that.
His career stats at UT:
102 comp/ 201 attempts 7TD 8INT 2472 yds & 1-5 record.
He needs to sit and let the other two fight it out.
pdhuff#552644 writes:
And to think we complained about the doldrums. Well, we're in it now and will have to do the best we can with what we have.
Give it a shot, Vols.
markr22vols writes:
GO BJ GO. I wish CPF would let BJ try out. He did a better job than Stephens in the spring game. We should open it up and let the best man take the job!!
volsfansc writes:
As long as it is not JC i dont care who it is. I would like to see Nick or Bj have a shot at it bc as we can see JC does not have it.
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