This will be a very stupid thread full of negative presumptions.
FYP.
Hooker was a Pruitt recruit not CJH.
And? Literally... so what? EVERY YEAR new coaches inherit and coach up players they did not personally recruit. There was a time when Pruitt was still around that people openly wondered if Hooker didn't make a bad mistake. The Vols potentially had HB, Shrout, JG, Maurer, and Salter in the QB room for '21. Hooker decided on UT any way.
They (CJH) went after Milton and we have seen how that turned out.The kid is a train wreck and there was a reason Michigan didn't play the kid.
CJH specifically stated he wanted more competition in the QB room. That's all. So he offered a reset to a guy with freakish physical talent. Do you know of anyone who denies Milton has that? CJH took a risk that he might be able to coach him up. Good coaches do that... A LOT.
If CJH evaluation says the kid can play or he could change him but his starting QB is now hooker speaks volumes about his evaluation for talent.
No it doesn't. Not even close. By the testimony of practice observers... Milton won the competition in practice and it wasn't close. It appears that what he did in practice simply has not translated to games. Precisely HOW is a coach supposed to just "know" that a QB who is dropping deep balls in left and right in practice won't be able to hit anyone in games? Now once he fails in games... you don't stick with him but you are essentially condemning Heupel for playing the guy who earned it in practice first. That's not only ignorant... it is a sure fire way to lose the team. If they see one guy performing and a coach favoring someone else... trust is gone.
I'm not about morale victories and a 24 point beat down by UF isn't anything to feel good about. You can spin it anyway you want but it is what is.
Do you even understand the concept of a "moral victory"? UT lost. However they lost not because UF just dominated them. They lost because they made CORRECTABLE mistakes that took them out of the game. That's signs of progress... not satisfaction in a "moral victory".
After we drop games to Missouri and UK we'll talk.
It is amazing the amount of vain confidence you place in your ability to know things about future events which you have no means... of actually knowing.
Our defense is the bright spot of the team and that's out of CJH's hands.
No it isn't. That's maybe more stupid than some of the other stuff you wrote... amazingly. Heupel contrary to the last 3 coaches showed up with big picture idea of the type of complimentary team he wanted to build. He specifically went after a DC and defensive coaches who would implement a fast, aggressive, "simpler" defensive scheme.
We don't have the personal to run as CJH wants to run and it's already showing. I hope I'm wrong but as of now I just don't see it.
You are at least partly wrong... and will never see it.
He has a very accurate QB he won't play because he can't run and how can you watch film when he runs with the 2's and 3.s in a game. For those that said HB was against the scrubs in the OW didn't watch. He ran with 1's and played against the 1's. But we'll see this kid transfer and it will haunt us but this post isn't about that but he's playing a Pruitt recruit instead of his guy.
Ah ha. There it is. Another ignorant Bailey cultist dreaming up some scenario where coaching incompetence or a conspiracy theory accounts for why Bailey isn't playing.
Heupel wants to win. He started Milton because he won the competition outright. Now he appears to be humble enough to recognize Milton isn't getting it done and playing Hooker. IF Bailey were "very accurate" in a way that is effective in moving this O... he'd be playing. There is significant evidence however that he's simply not. He's not 3rd because of any of the non-sense you seem to believe. It isn't because he cannot run though that doesn't help him. He's sitting because his overall demonstrated ability to get the job done has NOT earned him the opportunity to play in front of either of the others.
I was actually surprised that he wasn't #2 last week. But he wasn't. Milton for all his problems and a gimpy leg was seen as the better option.
I hope I'm wrong but we will be lucky to get to 6-6. Head tells me 5-7. And we'll see the love fest for CJH after that.
LOL... your "head" tells you. Your head should NEVER tell you to write off games against teams with less talent. Ever. If it does then there is something wrong with your head