volbound1700
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Someone once said "it's easier to sling manure than grow roses" I said that!This thread is a microcosm of how information sharing has become so wacky in the world today.
There was once a time when you could pick up the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or International Herald-Tribune, read nothing but the headlines, and have a pretty good idea of what was going on in the world.
Then clickbait happened. The internet emerged and grew its own structure, which notably included clicks, likes, and subscribes as the metrics of journalistic success. And journalistic integrity went into a nose dive.
It suddenly was not successful to have an accurate, objective, honest and balanced headline. No, a writer needed a headline that was salacious, intriguing, or controversial enough to get people to click. Truth was lost in the rush to win clicks.
And this thread reflects that new reality. The ESPN article is very fair to Hendon Hooker. It puts him in the top 5%-10% of all FBS QBs in spite of a hot-and-cold first couple of years at Virginia Tech. Under those conditions, the lad's placement in tier 3 of that 25-tier ranking system clearly recognizes his 2021 success, and his exciting potential going into his senior season.
But because the Calhoun (what a moron) article headline says "egregiously low tier," the OP of this thread was fooled. And because he was fooled, this thread's title reads "ESPN hates him." And because of that title, a quarter of the people in this thread think Hendon has been disrespected. Like a boulder gaining momentum as it rolls downhill.
In the first 18 posts of this thread, I counted 5 folks (28%) who seem not to have actually read the article, certainly not with a functioning brain. @unfrozencvmanvol has been trying to make people understand what the article really says; I doubt many of them are spending much time following up and learning the truth.
They're simply not thinking for themselves. They're swallowing whatever bait is tossed in front of them.
This is such a good example of how society is being (willfully) misinformed these days.
Heupel's "system" doesn't make the completions for Hooker, putting the ball where it needs to be for the receiver to make the catch is what makes that happen. Short, intermediate, or deep balls, Hooker was accurate at all levels. I think he was under rated in the article, but we will see for sure when the games are played. I'd love to see him explode to the point that he can't realistically be denied the Heisman.
They are saying he is no worse than 15th out of 131. They are also only putting 7 quarterbacks of 131 definitively above him preseason. That's hardly "egregious" disrespect, that's pretty good. I think Hooker played well last year and I'm excited to see what he can do this year, but like most Fansided articles this is overdramatized click bait written with the flair of a middle school girl, I didn't think the actual ESPN article was unfair:
From Heisman or bust to intriguing non-Power 5 battles: The 25 tiers of college football QBs
Bad Florida team? I'd say if we played Florida towards the end of the year last year we would have won big. That team gave up on their coach soon after they played us. However they were a really good team in the beginning.He’s the same dude that struggled against a bad Florida team and a middle tier big ten team in Purdue.
It's all subjective. There are arguments pro and con for all sorts of guys anywhere on that list no doubt, but still out of 131 dudes he's only behind 7 out of the 131. That's not disrespecting the man. For Pete's sake we were 4-6 against P5 teams last year, it's a testament to Hooker that he's been noticed as much as he has. And while I certainly agree that the SEC is the toughest conference, most NFL quarterbacks aren't from the SEC, it's well established that other conferences can produce good quarterbacks.When you look at some of the guys ahead of him it could easily be considered egregious. SEC is the toughest conference without a doubt. I mean NC ST QB ahead of Hooker? Miami’s QB? Please. That’s a freaking joke.
He’s the same dude that struggled against...a middle tier big ten team in Purdue.
I imagine many of the newspapermen of the 19th and early 20th centuries were pretty adept at crafting a salacious, attention-grabbing headline, but you make a good point. If we could collectively break the habit of sharing things based on headline alone society would be better off for it.This thread is a microcosm of how information sharing has become so wacky in the world today.
There was once a time when you could pick up the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or International Herald-Tribune, read nothing but the headlines, and have a pretty good idea of what was going on in the world.
Then clickbait happened. The internet emerged and grew its own structure, which notably included clicks, likes, and subscribes as the metrics of journalistic success. And journalistic integrity went into a nose dive.
It suddenly was not successful to have an accurate, objective, honest and balanced headline. No, a writer needed a headline that was salacious, intriguing, or controversial enough to get people to click. Truth was lost in the rush to win clicks.
And this thread reflects that new reality. The ESPN article is very fair to Hendon Hooker. It puts him in the top 5%-10% of all FBS QBs in spite of a hot-and-cold first couple of years at Virginia Tech. Under those conditions, the lad's placement in tier 3 of that 25-tier ranking system clearly recognizes his 2021 success, and his exciting potential going into his senior season.
But because the Calhoun (what a moron) article headline says "egregiously low tier," the OP of this thread was fooled. And because he was fooled, this thread's title reads "ESPN hates him." And because of that title, a quarter of the people in this thread think Hendon has been disrespected. Like a boulder gaining momentum as it rolls downhill.
In the first 18 posts of this thread, I counted 5 folks (28%) who seem not to have actually read the article, certainly not with a functioning brain. @unfrozencvmanvol has been trying to make people understand what the article really says; I doubt many of them are spending much time following up and learning the truth.
They're simply not thinking for themselves. They're swallowing whatever bait is tossed in front of them.
This is such a good example of how society is being (willfully) misinformed these days.
Agreed.I imagine many of the newspapermen of the 19th and early 20th centuries were pretty adept at crafting a salacious, attention-grabbing headline, but you make a good point. If we could collectively break the habit of sharing things based on headline alone society would be better off for it.
Yup. If you've been watching baseball they've been GUSHING over us.To be fair, Tennessee hasn't done much the last 15 years to make ESPN not doubt us. In fact, ESPN's staff was the group that kept talking about Tennessee being back when Butch Jones and Jeremy Pruitt had semi-good teams in 2016 and 2019. So I don't think they are that unfair. We just need to win.
Why?
With guys listed ahead of Hooker who had less production? Who also werent in their first year witha team; who was jn the first year with a new coach?
At the end of November barring injury, i will be very surprised if Hooker's numbers arent better than all thr 2nd tier guys.