Biggest bust as a highly touted recruit.

In his defense, Daniel Brooks was a very highly sought after player can’t really blame Fulmer for that one. Randall Cobb is another story
Brooks was a tremendous athlete. His loyalty to his immature high school buddies is part of why he got kicked off the team. I believe he served as a police officer before he died.

Being from West TN, I was happy for Daniel Brooks to get to go to UT, but I hate that we didn’t get Willis instead, since Brooks made the Vols choose between the two.
 
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I don't think he started as bust, be he ended that way. Jonathan Hefney. Not sure why he was so bad his senior year but he just gave up so many times. The shot of him standing there with his hands on hips when Florida was running past him was nasty.
 
I don't think he started as bust, be he ended that way. Jonathan Hefney. Not sure why he was so bad his senior year but he just gave up so many times. The shot of him standing there with his hands on hips when Florida was running past him was nasty.
Hefney was bad every year. Can’t believe they made Jabari Greer split time with Hefney!

A friend of mine who was a walk on safety at Alabama had a framed photo of himself de-cleating Hefney on a special teams play. 😂
 
I disagree with one statement, we we a good team that year, we were a top ten caliber team
We were overrated most of the year, and then were embarrassed in the Peach Bowl by a Tommy Bowden coached Clemson. We ended up 15th and shouldn't have been anywhere near the Top 10.

We had no WRs that year. That team had no explosiveness really. It was Clausen's senior year and he completed 56% of his passes. Cedric Houston rushed for 740 yards to lead the team, and Banks had 636 yards to lead the team.

That team was pretty abysmal on offense. We caught Miami on an off day and Florida was being coached by Ron Zook, so it is more fondly remembered. However, we completely crapped the bed against Georgia (I think Casey threw 3 picks that game) and then got steamrolled by Clemson in the Peach Bowl. Our defense was good, but offensively we were atrocious.

Yes we beat Bama, but that Bama team finished the season with a record of 4-9.
 
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"The Locke Package"
Eric Locke in at QB. Eric Locke takes it himself. Loss of 2 yards on the play. Joey Matthews is back in at QB. Incomplete. Broken up by a Southern Miss lineman. Locke is back in at QB. Takes it himself. Loss of 3 on the play. Here comes AJ Suggs. Pass complete for no gain. Matthews back in at QB. sack for a two yard loss.

The Locke era in a nutshell.
 
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Harrison Bailey seemed to be all hype.
Bailey was a product of bad timing for himself in general. Signed on to one system that abruptly changed. And likely more suited to G5 at the time. He was recruited into a system that may have suited him, but the O line at the time required a highly mobile QB that could run for his life. Hate it didn't work out for him, but he never really gained enough traction to become a bonified starter anywhere else, and IMO never made transfer decisions that would be favorable to him to establish some real play time. And not all move on to successful college careers so just as likely he was rated too high coming out of HS and had a hard ceiling.
 
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We were overrated most of the year, and then were embarrassed in the Peach Bowl by a Tommy Bowden coached Clemson. We ended up 15th and shouldn't have been anywhere near the Top 10.

We had no WRs that year. That team had no explosiveness really. It was Clausen's senior year and he completed 56% of his passes. Cedric Houston rushed for 740 yards to lead the team, and Banks had 636 yards to lead the team.

That team was pretty abysmal on offense. We caught Miami on an off day and Florida was being coached by Ron Zook, so it is more fondly remembered. However, we completely crapped the bed against Georgia (I think Casey threw 3 picks that game) and then got steamrolled by Clemson in the Peach Bowl. Our defense was good, but offensively we were atrocious.

Yes we beat Bama, but that Bama team finished the season with a record of 4-9.
lol imaging believing this
 
We were overrated most of the year, and then were embarrassed in the Peach Bowl by a Tommy Bowden coached Clemson. We ended up 15th and shouldn't have been anywhere near the Top 10.

We had no WRs that year. That team had no explosiveness really. It was Clausen's senior year and he completed 56% of his passes. Cedric Houston rushed for 740 yards to lead the team, and Banks had 636 yards to lead the team.

That team was pretty abysmal on offense. We caught Miami on an off day and Florida was being coached by Ron Zook, so it is more fondly remembered. However, we completely crapped the bed against Georgia (I think Casey threw 3 picks that game) and then got steamrolled by Clemson in the Peach Bowl. Our defense was good, but offensively we were atrocious.

Yes we beat Bama, but that Bama team finished the season with a record of 4-9.
I just remember Fulmer complaining before the season ended how we deserved a New Year’s Day Bowl. I mean, every sound bite coming from him was that. Then totally laid an egg in that bowl game.

Was he trying to get Casey Clausen’s stats up that game or something?
 
Not sure if was a pickup game but Brooks brawled with Jemere Hendrix and Andre Patterson both basketball players. Hendrix and Brooks were dismissed with Patterson suspended.
I knew Andre a bit around the time of the incident. He told me Brooks and Hendrix had some sort of feud and it all came to a head when Brooks came at Hendrix with a gun. Patterson was only suspended because while he was with Hendrix (and had his back) during the last confrontation, he wasn't engaged in the ongoing feud.

I liked Andre and he seemed truthful, but I'm sure there was more to it.

I didn't know Hendrix and Brooks never came across as approachable around Gibbs Hall.
 
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He’s probably not the biggest bust, but J.J. Peterson is a recent one that comes to mind. I remember folks watching anxiously as it got down to the wire to get him academically eligible for the season, then once he got cleared and on his way, excitement built thinking he was gonna be one of the big pieces to start turning the program around.
Yeah. Came on to specifically throw his name in the conversation.
 
I knew Andre a bit around the time of the incident. He told me Brooks and Hendrix had some sort of feud and it all came to a head when Brooks came at Hendrix with a gun. Patterson was only suspended because while he was with Hendrix (and had his back) during the last confrontation, he wasn't engaged in the ongoing feud.

I liked Andre and he seemed truthful, but I'm sure there was more to it.

I didn't know Hendrix and Brooks never came across as approachable around Gibbs Hall.
a period of very lax discipline on the Hill known as Fulmer Cup period which probably should have been the Fulmer-Pearl Cup
 
I knew Andre a bit around the time of the incident. He told me Brooks and Hendrix had some sort of feud and it all came to a head when Brooks came at Hendrix with a gun. Patterson was only suspended because while he was with Hendrix (and had his back) during the last confrontation, he wasn't engaged in the ongoing feud.

I liked Andre and he seemed truthful, but I'm sure there was more to it.

I didn't know Hendrix and Brooks never came across as approachable around Gibbs Hall.
Was Brooks not the guy that hit the traditional student during a pick up basketball game breaking his jaw?
 
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Was Brooks not the guy that hit the traditional student during a pick up basketball game breaking his jaw?
That was Tony McDaniel! I was there that night too (though about an hour later). It was my first night working at the Rec Center and they made me clean up the blood after the police finished taking their report.
 
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