Was Riley ferguson a myth?

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tennesseeduke said:
yes and I believe Fergy won it. I think it's a matter of wrong place wrong time. He will be really good for another school and we will all be wondering why this didn't happen at UT. I have a hard time believing that Bama, LSU, Florida, UNC etc...all missed that he would be a failure!

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he didnt win the Elite 11
 
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BeattieFeathers said:
You got the point, the majority wanted the great Riley ferguson to be qb.:clapping:
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That's not true. The majority were interested in how good the kid was given that we struggled with good consistent QB play last year. The reports were that he was talented, had a better arm than the others. That's about it.

Many more on here were and continue to be absolutely brutal and unfair IMHO regarding their critiques of both Worley and Dobbs. A lot of those same geniuses then aimed their fire at a kid who never took a snap at UT, evidently because some offered the opinion that he might one day be the possible answer. And there are even a couple of guys who are so far off the reservation that they've resorted to making up conspiracy theories about the kid that rival the JFK assassination and Area 52... cough, cough.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Wait..we landed on the moon??
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Last week I think
 
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KBVol said:
With the exception of maybe 1-2 guys on here, nobody ordained him shiite. Most everybody who has commented on Riley has either "reported on him" via sources like VQ or simply said, "hey, the reports on this kid's talent is good, he's the only one we didn't see play last year and he couldn't be worse than the other 3". That pretty much sums up 90% of the "pro- Riley" posts on here since Spring started.

On the other hand, the irrational dislike for this kid and anyone who dared to cut and paste quotes on his performance/status/playing time has been unreal prior to this week's revelations about him leaving.

There's been no mythology about this kid IMO. Just a question as to whether or not he's better than the other 3 and if he would play QB at UT. We now have an answer to the second question and it's no .... we never will have one for the first.
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Uh, we already have the answer to that one as well. The kid isn't leaving because he thinks maybe one day he can surpass them and start at UT. I mean it's 1 year away from a qb battle between just he and Dobbs. I tried to tell you this already in another thread. Butch knows what he has in Dobbs and so does the rest of the staff, thus Riley bounced. Why is that so hard for you to see?
 
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the backtracking is at an all-time high since the announcement.

"I didn't say this"..."Nobody said that"......sure you didn't...lol
 
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KBVol said:
That's not true. The majority were interested in how good the kid was given that we struggled with good consistent QB play last year. The reports were that he was talented, had a better arm than the others. That's about it.

Many more on here were and continue to be absolutely brutal and unfair IMHO regarding their critiques of both Worley and Dobbs. A lot of those same geniuses then aimed their fire at a kid who never took a snap at UT, evidently because some offered the opinion that he might one day be the possible answer. And there are even a couple of guys who are so far off the reservation that they've resorted to making up conspiracy theories about the kid that rival the JFK assassination and Area 52... cough, cough.
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A couple of things I can say for WorleyBird is that had he been our q.b. the entire game at Florida, we just may have won that game. Had he been the q.b. for the Vandy game, we would have won that game also.
 
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Rudy123 said:
A couple of things I can say for WorleyBird is that had he been our q.b. the entire game at Florida, we just may have won that game. Had he been the q.b. for the Vandy game, we would have won that game also.
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A 7 win season would have gotten us in a bowl game. Thus in bUTch's 1st season, we beat a top #25 team and we also qualified for a bowl game and possibly won a bowl game.


Worley was good enough to get us those wins against Vandy & Florida.
 
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Rudy123 said:
A 7 win season would have gotten us in a bowl game. Thus in bUTch's 1st season, we beat a top #25 team and we also qualified for a bowl game and possibly won a bowl game.


Worley was good enough to get us those wins against Vandy & Florida.
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I agree.
 
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RiseToTheTop said:
what a reach. made up an injury? then Riley continued to wear a sleeve on his shin even in Spring ball? cmon man. some of the people on VN lol
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I actually opened this thread in the vain hope that the OP had a serious, salient thought. Unfortunately, it is about as well founded as his other posts have been.

There was a "myth" around RF. But it was one soley manufactured by fans and the media. They saw a big arm and started fantasizing about him being the second coming of Heath Shuler. (similar player physical btw) Now there just has to be some hidden demon in the kid. There has to be some grand conspiracy... Just leave the kid alone. If wants to leave then support the players who don't.

Matthews is a very good football program in NC. They have about 800 kids in HS and play 2A. Shuler, Pickens, and even going back to Streater... all played 2A or 1A in NC. I believe Franklin was still 2A when S Bryson played there.
 
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The myth was him actually taking a snap for the Vols in a real, live game that counted. Good thing the myth only got as far as practice and spring ball before we all woke up.
 
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BeattieFeathers said:
Not a mental game. I just doubt the kid was in any way ready to play from a mental stand point.
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I totally agree. Now hold on, probably 98% of True Freshmen are NOT MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY ready to play. That's why it is crazy to expect a ton of immediate success with an incoming class.. They need to marinate a while.. Honestly every one of last years OLine should be coming back as 5th year Srs who were redshirted as true freshmen then you would see the dominance you would expect
 
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sjt18 said:
I actually opened this thread in the vain hope that the OP had a serious, salient thought. Unfortunately, it is about as well founded as his other posts have been.

There was a "myth" around RF. But it was one soley manufactured by fans and the media. They saw a big arm and started fantasizing about him being the second coming of Heath Shuler. (similar player physical btw) Now there just has to be some hidden demon in the kid. There has to be some grand conspiracy... Just leave the kid alone. If wants to leave then support the players who don't.

Matthews is a very good football program in NC. They have about 800 kids in HS and play 2A. Shuler, Pickens, and even going back to Streater... all played 2A or 1A in NC. I believe Franklin was still 2A when S Bryson played there.
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Heath Shuler was put together as a freshman and was sturdily built. Rf was a toothpick. Shuler had a bazooka.....
 
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He did not have it in to compete, I am glad he is gone he was always the star and told how good he was when the going got tough he ran out the back door we don't need players like that we had our share the last few years coach is weeding them out fast.
 
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topdog4tn said:
I believe the part that Ainge said about Ferg thinking the job should be handed to him off pure skill. Thing is the school he's from in NC is not some small school, they are rivals with Independence in Charlotte, NC. Football is a big thing at that school and it probably got to his head at an early age, and no one was there to bring him back down to earth.
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It's small compared to where Dobbs played ball. Now that's a tough region. Wasnt Riley's school lower division?
 
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perico said:
It's small compared to where Dobbs played ball. Now that's a tough region. Wasnt Riley's school lower division?
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It was 2A. I believe that is something like 600-900 in NC. He played good competition but not on the level Dobbs played. In fact, you won't find a player in NC (yet) who plays competition on the level of the ATL area or GA generally. Like TN, NC football is getting better but has not caught up to other states yet. When I was young and playing, the mountain schools from western NC played the best quality of football but the athletes were mostly east of Asheville. That has begun to change.
 
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