QB transfer opportunities

[S.C. OrangeMan]

Man I sure hope we get a qb transfer. Imagine if jg would transfer. We’d probably immediately improve 2 games over this last year.

Agreed. It's a long shot, but Clemson's #2, Chase Brice should be in the portal this spring. He is a very good QB and would likely start anywhere outside the Top 10 or 12.

It's more likely he goes to USF with Jeff Scott, but he'll actually have two years of eligibility. He is tough, a solid passer, a tough runner, and rarely makes mistakes.
He runs the read option well.

I'd love to have him in Knoxville for two years, even if it cost us Maurer or Shrout.

 

[Vol737]

Won’t be surprised if we have three QBs when next season starts. Four, okay maybe. I’d be totally dumbfounded if Pruitt entertained a transfer QB. It would have to be a rock star and I don’t know who they would be right now.

 

[I40flyer]

They're going to have to find a way for players to distribute some of that personal money around. Not a lot of opportunities for a left guard on offense to make a lot of money anywhere selling his likeness. However the QB can easily be making six figures. The NCAA is going to have to find a way for kids who make the most money to kick back a certain percent to the team IMO. Lots of rules to come about this IMO.

The way I understand it (with what little has been written about the mechanics), the money "earned" is outside the schools control (NCAA) as it is Their Likeness. IMHO kicking California out of the NCAA would have been the right thing to do. Once the NCAA caved because the libs in CA made a bad decision-the game as we know it will be forever changed. Every player will need a "Likeness agent"-and those with the deepest pockets, and most sets of car keys will dictate, to a large degree, where the top talent goes, in short we'll be watching low level pro football. The Sportsbook guys are going to have a field day with this. I don't doubt that some law firm pushes for a shortening of the "study period", very soon. We are watching the last of real college football-once this gets started we'll be watching college+ shoe sales+ car sales+ electronic sales, etc. etc. football.

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Skin color is about it.

Lamar Jackson is black, plays football in Maryland and plays the quarterback position.
Hill is black and also played football in Maryland and also throws forward passes.

I mean the parallels are endless

 

[bag12day]

So Felipe Franks is in transfer portal and is talking to some teams. Does he make anyone in the SEC better? Other than the stench of swamp from strictly a skills perspective I would think a trade JG for Franks would be an upgrade. Don't think he meets the requirements for what we need only for a year ( at the risk of losing a couple of our youngs guys) but he definitely could be used on several teams.

 

[krbster]

Well sorry about the intro I couldn't really think of a better way to state the question. It just occurred to me that when 75% of the national championship playoff teams are doing it with transfer QBs that 1) It is an amazing coincidence 2) It could be a shift that coaches looking for talent that is older might be easier/ more effective than bringing in a freshman to develop from a yet unproven skillset in DIV1. and 3) I wonder if CJP and staff might have missed the mark.
Before I get roasted for 3, I know we tried the transfer QB route with Chryst that never saw the light of day and that it certainly would have been difficult to convince players the caliber of those three to come here for the obvious reasons. They left for exposure, starting, and championship quality teams but also left similar quality teams.

The elephant in the room for me is was the coaching staff so fixed on keeping JG in the starting role that they missed the boat of making the team better by finding a transfer QB that increased our QB skills. I DO NOT intend that to be JG bashing as the guy is VFL IMO for what he has endured and has given his all for Tennessee but to build a championship caliber team those 3 teams were willing to break a few eggs (existing QBs on their team). @HuntlandVolinColo made an excellent point that may answer the question with regards having to sit if you transfer unless TRUE hardship or Grad Xfer and something I had not considered going forward. I guess as with so many NCAA rules it depends on how/if they actually do what they say.

I haven't looked in detail at the style of offense they left and what they had to learn but all three certainly seemed to have a fairly seamless transition. @Pride85 not sure what you intended by your question. They clearly don't come from thin air but obviously three coaches saw something in a backup QB that could get their team to the top 4 in the country and made their teams better as a result. As I said before I am excited about Bailey coming but wonder if things would be different going forward based on what 3 teams did with transfers this year.
I guess my real intention after thinking about the 75% was to ask my VOLNATION friends if yall see this a trend going forward or a 1 off situation this year.

I think Chryst got caught in the childish crossfire between our HC and OC - JG, bless his heart, was awful 10 of the 12 games last season...I think coaches need to make a major mental mindset change - and find a way to regularly play 2 QBs.

 

[dcm3w]

57.8% to 77.9% to be exact. Lol. Dude, you were off by a country mile on both.

Burrow had over 78 until the last game iirc. Almost broke the record...but still he did that putting up insane numbers.

 

[cgrish]

How does JG transferring immediately improve us by two games?

We already have a transfer (Hill), Bailey, Maurer and Shrout even if JG were to transfer that's 4, how many you think we need?

Because if jg stays Pruitt will start him regardless of how the others do, or play him a lot if he doesn't start. And I have no hate toward jg, he seems like a very good person, but he is not a good sec qb. He has good stats all but points scored, we just don't score enough points with him as qb. Pruitt seems to want a game manager qb, which jg is good at that, but we will never win sec with that type of offensive stradegy. We can win 8 or 9 games that way, but thats about max. For example, Ga. has a lot of 4 and 5 stars on their roster, but not that good of a passing game. Fields should have been their qb this year and they would probably be in the playoffs with the defense they have. I think jg is a very good person and loyal to ut, but just look at his record of points scored when he is qb. I hope someone beats him out in the spring, but don't think they will because jg apparantly does very well in practice which is much slower than game speed.