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supersmo18

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Let me first start by saying that I'm EXTREMELY glad we have Bray, and would much rather have him than any other QB at this point in the SEC. That said, I can't help but wonder what BJ Coleman would have been able to do had he not left UT.

I was reading an article today in the Chattanooga Times-Free Press about how strong UTC has come along (I'm a Moc, c/o '03 and '05 for grad school), so when I came to Chattanooga for college in 1999, I already knew how bad we were at football, and all I wanted was for us to have a decent team while I was a student there. Needless to say, that crapped out--badly. Rodney Allison came on as the HC after my freshman year, and was around WAY too long. I feel now that we have the right Coach in Russ Huesman, and a very solid team. UTC is now ranked 13th (or 14th, depeding on the polls) in the FCS polls, and has beaten 10th ranked Jacksonville St. (as a 23 ranked team), and plays at #3 Appalachian State this weekend, with BJ Coleman at the helm.

Through 25 games at UTC, Coleman has passed for 6,091 yards and 47 TDs. He is currently 4th on the all-time passing record at UTC and only needs 1,139 yards to break that record into first place, and 3 TDs to become all-time TD pass record holder.

Again, I'm VERY pleased that we have Bray and would NOT trade Bray for Coleman, but part of me wonders--if Bray never came to UT and we were stuck with Coleman, would he have been able to develop into what he is now? Granted he's playing at a lesser level, but I still gotta wonder... :whistling:

Let the blasting begin. :)
 
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supersmo18 said:
Let me first start by saying that I'm EXTREMELY glad we have Bray, and would much rather have him than any other QB at this point in the SEC. That said, I can't help but wonder what BJ Coleman would have been able to do had he not left UT.

I was reading an article today in the Chattanooga Times-Free Press about how strong UTC has come along (I'm a Moc, c/o '03 and '05 for grad school), so when I came to Chattanooga for college in 1999, I already knew how bad we were at football, and all I wanted was for us to have a decent team while I was a student there. Needless to say, that crapped out--badly. Rodney Allison came on as the HC after my freshman year, and was around WAY too long. I feel now that we have the right Coach in Russ Huesman, and a very solid team. UTC is now ranked 13th (or 14th, depeding on the polls) in the FCS polls, and has beaten 10th ranked Jacksonville St. (as a 23 ranked team), and plays at #3 Appalachian State this weekend, with BJ Coleman at the helm.

Through 25 games at UTC, Coleman has passed for 6,091 yards and 47 TDs. He is currently 4th on the all-time passing record at UTC and only needs 1,139 yards to break that record into first place, and 3 TDs to become all-time TD pass record holder.

Again, I'm VERY pleased that we have Bray and would NOT trade Bray for Coleman, but part of me wonders--if Bray never came to UT and we were stuck with Coleman, would he have been able to develop into what he is now? Granted he's playing at a lesser level, but I still gotta wonder... :whistling:

Let the blasting begin. :)
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There is the key word, stuck with him. There is a reason he is playing at UTC and not a major D1 school.
 
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Why even bring this up? Vols are delighted to have Bray and Mocs are delighted to have Coleman. Everyone's happy. Drop it
 
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Was disgraceful that we were at a point that people like BJ Coleman thought he had the talent to be a QB at our fine university.
 
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Too much of a head case for the QB position IMO. He would have been riding the highs and lows of the game. I'm basing this off of whining about not getting a "fair shake" against Crompton in spring practice. Coleman might have had the better stats, but Crompton had the better potential that year, which finally came around in the 2nd half.
 
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Man, you're right. If we just had coleman handing off to Brice Brown and throwing it to Ted Meline, Todd CampbeLl and Ahmad Paige! We woulda laid a beat-down on UF - good gravy, what a ridiculous thread
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My beef with what Coleman was griping about was that Kiffin didn't name Crompton the starter. IIRC he said that JC and BJ would have to compete for the starting job in the fall. I was at the Orange and White game that year and both of them looked about the same so when Kiffin came out with that, I wasn't surprised.

I didn't care for Coleman's whining exit interview in the paper.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Ugh. This again.
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govols120 said:
Was my immediate thought as well.
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So sorry to have hurt y'all's feelings. My apologies. Good grief. Apparently you both missed the part where I said I'd rather have Bray.

GAVol said:
All he had to do is stick around and compete.
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I agree, and he left, and like another posters said above, we're happy, UTC is happy. Had he stuck around, well, we can assume, but we'll never know what would have happened.
 
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Bigun said:
My beef with what Coleman was griping about was that Kiffin didn't name Crompton the starter. IIRC he said that JC and BJ would have to compete for the starting job in the fall. I was at the Orange and White game that year and both of them looked about the same so when Kiffin came out with that, I wasn't surprised.

I didn't care for Coleman's whining exit interview in the paper.
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I do agree with that.
 
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I will say that I would have liked to have seen Coleman with Cut as his QB coach. If anyone can coach up QB's it is DC.
 
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I can kind of see where you're coming from but its tough to compare winning in the SEC to winning at UTC.

"If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle!!!!!!!!!!" :dance2:
 
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vols27 said:
I can kind of see where you're coming from but its tough to compare winning in the SEC to winning at UTC.

"If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle!!!!!!!!!!" :dance2:
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LOL Yeah, I tried to qualify what you're saying by pointing out that I realize he's in a lesser division with lesser talent. But at least thanks for seeing where I was trying to head with this. It obviously crashed and burned... :)
 
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utvolpj said:
why do we keep talking about a QB that couldn't hack it at UT 2 years ago?
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Because he's a pro bowler and he's in the process of winning hypothetical bcs bowls for our fired coach as we speak.
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supersmo18 said:
So sorry to have hurt y'all's feelings. My apologies. Good grief. Apparently you both missed the part where I said I'd rather have Bray.
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Then why even start the thread? You also said "let the blasting begin", so you knew most of the responses would be negative. You just wanting attention or something?

You're on a roll, how about starting a "What if Fulmer were still here" thread?
 
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