Crompton's legacy

[TriedAndTrueVOL]

I'm already thinking of him as the kid who finally got the coaching and play calling he needed to succeed.

This. Exactly what I was just about to post. :good!:

 

[killacamoh9]

He will be a legend in my book for getting Fulmer fired and then getting the Lane Train rolling.

This. Guiding The Lane Train to a 9-4 record and a bowl win in his first season would help his legacy.

 

[volger]

Servicable QB under what he had to go through. Woulda coulda shoulda been a great one coming out of HS if he had one set system to run. When you have 4 diferent systems to learn in 4-5 years you are bound to screw something up.

 

[crusse10]

He will be a legend in my book for getting Fulmer fired and then getting the Lane Train rolling.

That's actually the one shining attribute of Nicholas Stephenson.

 

[UTMark]

Just read where he is the 14th QB to throw for over 3,000 yards. Then you have to take those option running QB's of the 60's and 70's....I would say he's barely top 20 QB at UT. I have no idea how many starting QB's there have been though

 

[dickens821]

I'll remember him as the beginning of it all.

 

[NUUUUKE]

yea im sure you do man. its carthage everyone knows everyone. i played a couple years back.

 

[SGMVols]

That's actually the one shining attribute of Nicholas Stephenson.

Never said he didn't have help.

 

[CardassianVol]

It's obvious that Crompton has been playing great football over the past few weeks. IF the Vols win out this season, how will Crompton be remembered? Will he be considered an overall bad qb, a qb who evolved to his full potential a little too late in his college career, or do we blame the Cutcliffe/Clawson/Chaney changes for all those losts? I admit that I've written some anti-Crompton posts over the past season and a half, but are JC's latest performances enough to forget the past?

Or should we wait to see Nick Stevens next year before we make this decision?

Crompton's legacy will be redemption if this team keeps playing the way it has since the Georgia game. I hope to never see Nick Stephens starting a game again. One word. Wyoming.

 

[kennyb010]

He will be a legend in my book for getting Fulmer fired and then getting the Lane Train rolling.

this.

he will be the foundation that started the lane legacy and what its about.. developing players

 

[81Bubbavol]

I think that his legacy is still being written. Your operative line in the original question is "if we win out".

If we do win out then I think we are sure that last year's debacle was coaching and not player(s). It also turns Jonathan into a player to be admired for working hard in the face of adversity and finishing triumphant.

Just think - from death threats from his own fans to a celebrated QB for the University of Tennessee.

I hope it happens. If so, I for one will have a sense of admiration years from now when I think of him. I may do so regardless.

 

[Volgrad98]

He's Tennessee's version of Rocky. I can't take credit for that though, another poster did a masterful job of comparisons with pics.