Names of some obscure Tennessee Quarterbacks through the years? Who was the best?

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Thanks for the opportunity to pay tribute to 2 SPECIAL VOLS!!

Both deserving of mention because they had patience with their superior talent and got a degree at Tennessee after long term backup duty. Always felt sad for Colquitt but always felt grattitude to Ryan and Colquitt. Thanks for being a VOL to TWO VERY LOYAL VOLS!!!
 
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Backwards K said:
Jim Maxwell, Gary Valbuena, Jeff Olzewski, and Steve Alatorre come to mind as obscure QBs who had at least one day in the sun while at UT.
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Nice call on Jimmy Maxwell...the Blue Max...you beat me to it naming him, he was one of the first guys I thought of when I saw this thread.
 
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Vol4life25 said:
BJ Coleman

Transferred to UTC

Took UTC to their best record in 50 years.

Is still in the NFL as a 3rd string Qb.
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You'll never be able to convince me that he wouldn't have won the starting job from Crompton in 09. We beat UCLA and the Barn that year with Coleman.
 
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We who remember the 50's Vol teams, there was a great quarterback named Bobby Gordon...He passed away several years ago in a terrible fire accident [if I recall correctly]....
 
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Bo Hardegree- Perhaps the worst QB I have ever seem in warm ups.. Every pass was in the dirt including designed fade routes
 
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KBVol said:
Sterling Hinton, Jimmy Streeter, Alan Cockrell
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Cockrell wasn't a back-up, but was a starter and one of my all-time favorite Vol QBs. Just played with a lot of confidence and toughness, could throw fairly well and run a bit too. One way or another, he'd find a way to make it happen.
 
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The answer is JEFF FRANCIS.. he is so obscure that nobody mentioned him in 8 pages of this thread and he was a 2-year starter ('87-'88). When he left, he was Tennessee's all-time leader in pass completions and passing yards. How's that for an obscure QB?
 
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lockvol said:
The answer is JEFF FRANCIS.. he is so obscure that nobody mentioned him in 8 pages of this thread and he was a 2-year starter ('87-'88). When he left, he was Tennessee's all-time leader in pass completions and passing yards. How's that for an obscure QB?
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I think that somebody mentioned him on the "Obscure sideline announcer" thread.
 
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lockvol said:
The answer is JEFF FRANCIS.. he is so obscure that nobody mentioned him in 8 pages of this thread and he was a 2-year starter ('87-'88). When he left, he was Tennessee's all-time leader in pass completions and passing yards. How's that for an obscure QB?
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I think he started in 86 as well.
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cardwell said:
Who was the qb that came from tony robinson's high school and broke all of his records? Was that Moses Collins?
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Yeah...good recall...never got past third string...buried behind Jeff Francis and Randy Sanders
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I think the most obscure QB was Bubba Wyche in 67-68. He was a 5th team QB how had to play the last 3-4 games of the season and beat Ole Miss, UK, and Vandy to get us to the Cotton bowl where we played Texas but lost. Seldom do we see a 5th string QB play, much less win SEC games.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
I think the most obscure QB was Bubba Wyche in 67-68. He was a 5th team QB how had to play the last 3-4 games of the season and beat Ole Miss, UK, and Vandy to get us to the Cotton bowl where we played Texas but lost. Seldom do we see a 5th string QB play, much less win SEC games.
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I think that Bubba Wyche was the 3rd string qb in 1967, and came in to beat against Ga.Tech after both Dewey Warren and then Charlie Fulton got hurt. He started the next week against Alabama, and Tennessee beat them for the first time in many years.

I don't remember if he quarterbacked after that in 67, but he was the starter in the first game of 68 when we tied Georgia 17-17 with a last second pass and 2 point conversion in the North end zone going toward the hill. That was the best tie that I have ever seen. I was a student then, and we felt really fortunate to escape with a tie. I think that Wyche was the starter for the entire 68 season, but I may be wrong.

Wyche may have been 5th string when he was a sophomore, but a couple of our qb's switched to the secondary, and he became 3rd string in 1967 behind Warren and Fulton. Wyche's brother Sam is better known as being a Super Bowl coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, after being a qb at Furman. Bubba also once struck out all 18 batters that he faced in a 6 inning Little League baseball game. He was a tremendous competitor who found a way to win.
 
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Jacksonvol said:
We who remember the 50's Vol teams, there was a great quarterback named Bobby Gordon...He passed away several years ago in a terrible fire accident [if I recall correctly]....
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I think Bobby was a tailback in the old Single Wing. He is the one who collided with John David Crow in the Cotton Bowl. One of the greatest collisions I can remember.
 
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vols 30 said:
Brandon Stewart
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What's funny (and telling about how we as Vol fans are moronic at times) is that after a couple of games when Stewart and Manning were splitting playing time, I can remember listening to the post-game call in show after a loss and the overwhelming sentiment was that Stewart should be starting over Manning. Another caller suggested the only reason Manning was starting was due to his family name.

Guess the coaches knew what they were doing after all.
 
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lostsheep said:
What's funny (and telling about how we as Vol fans are moronic at times) is that after a couple of games when Stewart and Manning were splitting playing time, I can remember listening to the post-game call in show after a loss and the overwhelming sentiment was that Stewart should be starting over Manning. Another caller suggested the only reason Manning was starting was due to his family name.

Guess the coaches knew what they were doing after all.
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I am not saying that Branndon Stewart was better than Manning. Obviously, it didn't turn out that way, but Stewart was the Texas high school player of the year , and recruited by every major school in the country. He also led A&M to their first Big 12 Championship after transferring from U.T.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I am not saying that Branndon Stewart was better than Manning. Obviously, it didn't turn out that way, but Stewart was the Texas high school player of the year , and recruited by every major school in the country. He also led A&M to their first Big 12 Championship after transferring from U.T.
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Manning spoke at The Boys and Girls Club of Murfreesboro just after he got drafted by the Colts. In that speech he told how he got the job over Stewart. He said he would arrive at the facility 30-45 minutes early, knowing the coaches were already there, and he would lock the door to the meeting room so Stewart would be late.
 
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volatil said:
Manning spoke at The Boys and Girls Club of Murfreesboro just after he got drafted by the Colts. In that speech he told how he got the job over Stewart. He said he would arrive at the facility 30-45 minutes early, knowing the coaches were already there, and he would lock the door to the meeting room so Stewart would be late.
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LOL...wow
 
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1972 Grad said:
I think that Bubba Wyche was the 3rd string qb in 1967, and came in to beat against Ga.Tech after both Dewey Warren and then Charlie Fulton got hurt. He started the next week against Alabama, and Tennessee beat them for the first time in many years.

I don't remember if he quarterbacked after that in 67, but he was the starter in the first game of 68 when we tied Georgia 17-17 with a last second pass and 2 point conversion in the North end zone going toward the hill. That was the best tie that I have ever seen. I was a student then, and we felt really fortunate to escape with a tie. I think that Wyche was the starter for the entire 68 season, but I may be wrong.

Wyche may have been 5th string when he was a sophomore, but a couple of our qb's switched to the secondary, and he became 3rd string in 1967 behind Warren and Fulton. Wyche's brother Sam is better known as being a Super Bowl coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, after being a qb at Furman. Bubba also once struck out all 18 batters that he faced in a 6 inning Little League baseball game. He was a tremendous competitor who found a way to win.
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That is one hell of a story. I love me some Vol history.
 
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RichRollin said:
That is one hell of a story. I love me some Vol history.
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That was the first game played on our artificial field, and the first game after the first section of the upper deck was built on the sunny (East) side of the field across from the press box. It seems like it just went goal line to goal line, maybe sections AA,BB,CC,DD,and EE. I remember that was also the day that Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers won his 30th baseball game of the year.

Anyway, Georgia scored on about a 90 yard punt return, and about an 80 yard run from scrimmage, and a field goal. We had a touchdown and a Steve Kiner tackle for a safety. So we found ourselves down 17-9 when we forced a punt and got the ball fairly deep on our side of the field with 2 or 3 minutes left, took it downfield with a key catch from Lester McClain, our first black player ( Georgia had not integrated the football team yet).

We wind up getting sacked I think, and are facing 4th down from about the 20 yard line with a couple of seconds left. It is looking bleak. Wyche hits wide receiver, Gary Kreis for the touchdown to make it 17-15. There is no time left on the clock for the 2 point conversion, which was a leaping catch by Ken DeLong, the tight end. The stadium went crazy. It was a walk off tie, and Georgia and their fans looked shell shocked.

I was a sophomore that year, and I think that was when I learned to never, ever give up on my team. I didn't give up then, and I ain't giving up now!

I think that Tennessee only lost one regular season game that year to Auburn, and Georgia went undefeated with 2 ties. Both teams lost their bowl games, but that was one heck of a start to the season.
 
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