Sometimes, One Has To Admit They Were Wrong.

[TennTradition]

As I have posted elsewhere I was and am a Morley fan. Loved it when we signed him within shouting range of the Canes.

I think he will play inspired ball as he has now earned it, nothing given or expected, no longer entitled.

Just a "what if"...how much time would have Berry seen IF Morley had been eligible? Not looking for answers, just a little FFT (food for thought).

Berry would have been starting at CB for most of the season. He may have won the spot from Morley at Safety, but I think that the better combo would have been Berry + Morley over Berry + Vinson/Willingham. That's not to knock Vinson/Willingham, though. They put up some good performances this year.

 

[volbreaker]

Hitting rock bottom should be unacceptable as a student athlete at UT. I will praise Morley's effort, and find what he has done as an inspiration to those that hit rock bottom, but I don't think he should be promoted as an example.

Good luck to the young.

Oh, come on....how "squared away" were you at 20?? Are you really ready to "curse" this guy for doing what most don't. I'll bet you are the kind of guy who sees okra on the menu and then is pissed when it comes out encased in a batter shell instead of being how Mama made it.

 

[volbreaker]

Agreed hat....I'm defintely in that boat...I thought we had seen the last of him...

On another note....next year we will have the 2005 and 2007 #1 rated highschool CB's playing at safety...

Can anyone tell me why this is....are we against keeping them at CB and letting them be shutdown corners?

Or maybe safety is more important to the secondary than CB in our scheme...

Or is it that Berry and Moreley were just better suited for safety and the recruiting experts miss evaluated them as CB's?

Very astute observation. I've often wondered why we ALWAYS put shut-down corners at safety. Don't everybody jump on to answer....I know the patent answers.

 

[volbreaker]

What he has done is very commendable. It was a difficult road he has traveled. However it really is too early to say too much about how this is a success story. I will wish him the best and really hope he does great, but let's first see if he is able to succeed in his education at UT, the land of distraction, rather than a community college. It's a world of difference between the two. But once again, I wish him luck with his education first, and the football field second.

....so you think being at Pel State he has been a world away from those distractions and will now have to adjust???

 

[volbreaker]

Pellissippi and UT are vastly different in so many aspects, I don't even understand how you could make a statement like that.

Guys....come on.....do you really think he has been "removed" from the UT enviroment?? PS is a few miles away from the campus...not a JC in Mississippi. Nothing about his enviroment changed...he did'nt "go home" to get his grades up.

 

[KLayneUT8]

i am very pumped we need this kind of heart and the "want Too" on the field for the Vols

 

[RoanokeVol]

....so you think being at Pel State he has been a world away from those distractions and will now have to adjust???

I don't know if he was or not. I do have to say I took classes at Virginia Western Community College when I came home for the summer from UT, and anybody who can say the classes are comparable are lying to themselves or have simply forgotten what their classes were like. And I think you are taking my comments out of context. I am just saying what he has done thus far is commendable. However he is at the early stages of his ultimate success. He has quite a few more semesters that he could revert back to the way he was at UT, or he could have gotten his act together and is ready to get his education. I am not saying which one he is going to do, just playind devils advocate a bit. Statistics are stacked against him.

 

[UT IE 95]

Oh, come on....how "squared away" were you at 20?? Are you really ready to "curse" this guy for doing what most don't. I'll bet you are the kind of guy who sees okra on the menu and then is pissed when it comes out encased in a batter shell instead of being how Mama made it.

I've never said anything about cursing Morley. He was a privileged athlete that flunked out of school. He has worked hard to be readmitted to UT. That's great for him, but shouldn't be an example for other student athletes.

As for the okra example, I'd ask how it was prepared before ordering if I had a preference between batter shell and mamas.

 

[volbreaker]

I've never said anything about cursing Morley. He was a privileged athlete that flunked out of school. He has worked hard to be readmitted to UT. That's great for him, but shouldn't be an example for other student athletes.

As for the okra example, I'd ask how it was prepared before ordering if I had a preference between batter shell and mamas.

lol:Yeah....we call it yankee okra.
He did flunk out, but it took a stint in the military for me, personally, to start taking life more seriously. I just think it's a GREAT sign that, on his own, he stayed in Kville, worked to support himself, paid for his school himself, and passed....all to redeem his standing and get to put back on the orange. I think it's a HUGE deal that I can't remember hearing about at UT or any other school.