Jarrett Guarantano Learning X can be BRUTAL!

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[utvolpj]

No, I'm pretty sure he knows ut fans can be aholes when a player doesn't meet their expectations

 

[TNHopeful505]

He was tough as nails. But I try not to think about him.

 

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[Vol in Buckeye Land]

Pretty classless response by whoever that clown Astro Smokey is.

 

[SCRocket]

Idiotic post by Astro .

 

[Other_Guy]

Pretty classless response by whoever that clown Astro Smokey is.

It is a fair question to ask the guy at some point, but it was classless because JG got beat all to heck and gave it his all. He still says he loves Tenn despite all the hate.

And honestly I wouldn't ask him about his decision. Not sure he'd tell us more than we could already speculate. I'd ask him how he felt about Pruitt grabbing his facemask, because I think it was overblown and JG was ignoring him.

 

[PEPPERJAX]

UT fans would have a much better opinion of JG if he had the opportunity to play under Heupel. Unfortunately, he was here during a period of time when UT had some poor coaches running the program. The guy gave it his all and for that, he has my respect.

 

[guesscrazy]

JG had alot of heart. He was hamstrung by coaches and wasn't as talented as some thought he would be. I wish him the best.

 

[Jpcisco]

I know I bashed JG from time to time on here. Looking back I will admit I'm a kinda ashamed. I can honestly say in all my years watching college and pro football, I have never seen a QB take an absolute beating like he did and still bounce right back up. At times I wondered if his o-line was intentionally doing it. It was brutal to watch. Kid was tough as nails. He was dealt a sh*t hand with coaches who were more fit for high school ball than SEC football. If I was his age, and went through what he did here, I probably wouldn't want anything to do with this program. Hoping he finds his niche in his post football life, whatever that is. Even better if it involves cover Tennessee football.

 

[farmdogvol]

JG is still on the Roughnecks roster and will be their starting QB. There is talent there, he just got a bad shake with terrible coaching at UT.

 

[Evol]

Remember the time that BYU player pulled his shoe off and threw it out of bounds right in front of a ref? As long as we’re demanding explanations of people, I’d like to talk to that ref.

 

[adam.vol]

I never had much confidence in JG, but damnit that’s classless to give a guy grief when things are going to well for us and he’s still calling himself a VFL after all that has happened.

 

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[Remy]

Some guys have the intangible of being winners. JG had the intangible of being a loser. He's not a bad guy he doesn't deserve to be trashed. But all one needs to see is a rerun of that play against Bama at the goal line where he literally took a win away from his team by not running the play as called handing the ball to the rb for a score, and trying to jump extending the ball over the top where Bama took the ball out of his hands and made a TD the other way. It was a 14 point swing -7 for us and +7 for them in that one play. He literally shot that team through the heart on that one play all by himself. It wasn't bad coaching, it wasn't multiple OCs making bad calls, it wasn't poor excuses for teammates, it was all him, and his career was full of these type plays.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Some guys have the intangible of being winners. JG had the intangible of being a loser. He's not a bad guy he doesn't deserve to be trashed. But all one needs to see is a rerun of that play against Bama at the goal line where he literally took a win away from his team by not running the play as called handing the ball to the rb for a score, and trying to jump extending the ball over the top where Bama took the ball out of his hands and made a TD the other way. It was a 14 point swing -7 for us and +7 for them in that one play. He literally shot that team through the heart on that one play all by himself. It wasn't bad coaching, it wasn't multiple OCs making bad calls, it wasn't poor excuses for teammates, it was all him, and his career was full of these type plays.

Let's not go overboard. The play didn't cost us a win. We were 15 points behind at that point.

 

[volfan102455]

Sometimes I just don't get some of the fans. I really don't.

 

[OrangeInKy]

That's bush league.

 

[OrangeInKy]

I never had much confidence in JG, but damnit that’s classless to give a guy grief when things are going to well for us and he’s still calling himself a VFL after all that has happened.

Same. I thought the "revenge tour" thing his last year opened him up to it, but I'll never get rubbing it in a player's face. Most people are their own worst ciritcs, no reason for people to pile on. I feel like he and his family saw quite enough of that when he played here, it's embarrassing that it continues to this day.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

I thought we established with Brian Maurer going nowhere after leaving UT and now having left football entirely AND Harrison Bailey going to UNLV and getting nowhere, then walking on at Louisville and being buried on their depth chart that JG was actually "the best guy to put on the field" for UT.

Is he a great QB? No. Did he continue his career successfully after leaving UT? Somewhat.

Those were not good days for the program but apparently JG was the best we had at the time.

 

[Majors]

Let's not go overboard. The play didn't cost us a win. We were 15 points behind at that point.

Cost us a one possession game instead of 3.

Back to back pick 6’s against Kentucky is hard to defend.

 

[Berry4Heisman14]

JG was a great kid. Sure he wasn’t fantastic here, but the odds were against him coaching wise. He was a class act here give him his flowers

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Cost us a one possession game instead of 3.

Back to back pick 6’s against Kentucky is hard to defend.

Yeah, I'm certainly not defending him. I'm just pointing out we probably wouldn't have won that Bama game anyway.

 

[cherokeeeVOL]

I don’t understand piling on a kid who tried his best? He made a big mistake, move on.

 

[Voltopia]

Sometimes I just don't get some of the fans. I really don't.

Fans want to be associated with winning and being the best. It's affirming for them, it bolsters their ego and sense of self-worth. And most people want to be in groups. Whether we consciously realize it or not. Tennessee athletics is one such group.

When a player or team does poorly, so poorly that the team is viewed as "bad," fans can and will try to distance themselves psychologically from those people. You've met the type, right? They're all "rah rah" and "Go Vols" when it's easy and Tennessee is winning, but when Tennessee struggled or was irrelevant, those people turn hostile or switch to attacking or trashing the program and the people involved with it. It's an act, more for the self than it is for other people. "I don't cheer for losers." Because only suckers would cheer for losers, right? So they create distance, in their own mind, to try to feel better about being a fan of the team, and to disassociate from the losing. This isn't unique to Tennessee. Fans do it across all of sports. We've all met that guy, or girl, who turns into a real hater when the chips are down.

So in Guarantano's case, due to the team's poor results and Guarantano's struggles, you're going to run into Tennessee fans who want to belittle or insult him whenever he's brougth up. Derision. Scorn. Cast out the unclean. Etc, etc. He was the QB, so he's a poster child for "bad Tennessee." And some people really can't let it go.

For the record, Guarantao put up with a lot of BS and while he made poor decisions he went out there and kept fighting. Did that play suck? A thousand percent. I don't get it, to this day. But the guy's A-okay in my book.