You prove to me that he would not.
Bottom line is that I do know a thing or two about how recruiting works and what is said to players to get them to come to a particular school.
I do not believe that Butch is a dishonest recruiter. I believe that he is a straight shooter. Quinten Dormady has said an awful lot in his interviews that makes it sound like he understands that he and JJ are the only players being recruited to play QB.
A QB like Dormady could go play at a lot of places that have nobody to compete with if he wanted and have a real chance to compete for quick playing time. Think about why he would want to come to school that was recruiting 3 QBs? Seriously. He likely would not commit to a school if they had 3 QBs that a school intended to sign.
I remember when I was recruited and the coaches would sit in the living room and my dad always asked, who else at my position was the coaching staff recruited. They were honest with me. Every school had other prospects that they were recruiting and told us that they were recruiting two players for most positions.Coaches that lie about that have their lies catch up with them in time. I do not see how Dormady would agree to signing anywhere that had 3 QBs set to sign. Forget all of the "I don't anyone who is afraid of competition" talk. Most QBs don't want any part of that. They are okay with competing with another QB in their class, but 3 in one class would not make many top QBs happy.
Next, you consider the style and offensive scheme that your team runs. Ours is the zone read, not the read option that Auburn runs. Tennessee has been recruiting a lot of tall and highly rated WRs who are playmakers. No coach is going to recruit players that take away from the strength of their recruiting. That would be recruiting suicide. TG is not a skilled passer. He does not even play QB in his team's 7 on 7 tournaments. Why is that? It is because 7 on 7 is based on a strong passing game and you are not going to run away from anyone in 7 on 7. 7 on 7 is closely related to what our offensive scheme requires in regards to passing skills needed to succeed at UT. TG plays WR where his skills are fully utilized. He is going to be a stud WR.
Bottom line is that Butch is not recruiting the next Nick Marshall to run the read option because we don not run the read option, we run the zone read-two distinctly different forms of the spread. Butch is recruiting skilled passers to deliver the ball downfield to his playmakers to make plays, not spend their careers stalk blocking for a running QB. Talk about killing your WR recruiting.
Those who do not understand what I am saying, are merely refusing to see reality and fantasize about UT running the Auburn offense, which is not what we are going to do. It is all about putting 2 + 2 together. When you do that, it is very easy to see what Butch is reciting and why he is doing so.
