This Fan's Apology to Crompton....

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Oracle69

Oracle69

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If by chance JC reads this forum I want to apologize to him for the countless hours over the past 2 seasons that I have cussed him and blamed him for everything to include cancer. I put full and total blame on him last year and I sure thought after the UCLA game this year that Kiffin had lost his friggin' mind naming him the starter....

All season CLK kept telling us fans that JC was a real QB and we needed to focus blame on many other things (young recievers, bad play calling, etc...) but JC was a better target for me to holler and cuss at next to the water cooler at work.

All this being said, JC proved to me that he is a good QB. When CLK took him under his wing and didn't try to re-invent football like the previous offensive coordinator did, JC turned out to be a winner. I wish him well and hope he finds his way to the next level. I will eat my humble pie and and respect JC as a true VOL.

(Now I blame our kickers)

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I will always remember John Crompton as one of the classiest players ever to put on a UT uniform. He put up with some serious crap -- most of which was beyond the level of valid criticism -- and still managed to have a great senior season. JC played a big part in building the bridge from the lows to the Fulmer era to the beginning of the Kiffin era. Had Gerald Jones and a few others not gotten injured at the start of the season, Crompton might have started playing great earlier in the year. We'll never know, but I am confident that this is the case.

I can't imagine what he and his family went through when some idiots on this board and elsewhere were making death threats and making personal attacks against him. JC is a good man and a true credit to the Volunteer Nation. I hope he somehow makes it on an NFL roster and has a great career. Best of luck, JC!!!
 
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Oracle69 said:
If by chance JC reads this forum I want to apologize to him for the countless hours over the past 2 seasons that I have cussed him and blamed him for everything to include cancer. I put full and total blame on him last year and I sure thought after the UCLA game this year that Kiffin had lost his friggin' mind naming him the starter....

All season CLK kept telling us fans that JC was a real QB and we needed to focus blame on many other things (young recievers, bad play calling, etc...) but JC was a better target for me to holler and cuss at next to the water cooler at work.

All this being said, JC proved to me that he is a good QB. When CLK took him under his wing and didn't try to re-invent football like the previous offensive coordinator did, JC turned out to be a winner. I wish him well and hope he finds his way to the next level. I will eat my humble pie and and respect JC as a true VOL.

(Now I blame our kickers)

:salute:
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I emailed him an apology that there are fans like you. :p And i getting ready to send Daniel Lincoln one as well.... :eek:lol:
 
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+1, throw an apology in for Denarius Moore and Gerald Jones from me. I threw our whole receiving corp and Crompton under the bus at the beginning of the year. I was completely wrong.
 
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Yes, I too fell in to the bash Crompton rally. Not on line because I don't beleive in running down the VOLS on this site, but at work and with friends. I thought this QB sucks how could he be so highly rated out of high school and be so bad. Well JC has made me eat my words and I'm glad to be chewing on them. Well done! to JC wish him well where ever he lands.
 
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yeah every Vol fan, including me that has blamed him should owe him an apology
 
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Did he get the loudest ovation on Senior Night walking through the T? I was at a Pig Roast and couldn't hear the TV very well.
 
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I think Crompton made great strides as a player this season.

The great improvement Cromptom made under Kiffin makes me wonder what kind of player he would have been if he had 4 years of being coached by Kiffin and this staff.
 
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What amazes me about JC is his dedication to the Vols program through the worst of times and with the immense criticism directed at him. Even then, he was a true Volunteer. He even said he would select Tennessee all over again as his school of choice. A true testament to his character. What person would go through what he did and still select the Vols again? Just amazing.
 
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secfanclub said:
What amazes me about JC is his dedication to the Vols program through the worst of times and with the immense criticism directed at him. Even then, he was a true Volunteer. He even said he would select Tennessee all over again as his school of choice. A true testament to his character. What person would go through what he did and still select the Vols again? Just amazing.
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Very well said.
 
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MWR said:
I think Crompton made great strides as a player this season.

The great improvement Cromptom made under Kiffin makes me wonder what kind of player he would have been if he had 4 years of being coached by Kiffin and this staff.
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I am being serious when I say that I wish Kiffin had JC for one more year....WOW!
 
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Count me in on that apology - I think I actually learned what patience really means over the past 3 months.:ermm:
 
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Oracle69 said:
I am being serious when I say that I wish Kiffin had JC for one more year....WOW!
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My guess is that Kiffin wishes he had JC for one more year, also.

The kid has become "bona fide" QB this season. Another season under Kiffin and Crompton may have been drafted and made it in the NFL - which is not to say he will not be drafted anyway.
 
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Stone10 said:
yeah every Vol fan, including me that has blamed him should owe him an apology
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In all seriousness, I blamed JC for some of our problems early on, but I don't feel like I owe him an apology.

I don't boo college players. If I had, I would apologize. They are just kids, its poor form to boo them, and people who do boo need to take a look at themselves and their priorities.

That being said, JC still bothers me when he takes a 5 step drop. Too many times, a throw like the pick 6 on Kentucky's first score comes out of his hand on a 5 step drop. He is much better rolling out where he only has to read 1/2 of the field.

Notice that during the next possession after the pick 6, Kiffin called several plays which called for easier throws, and got JC back in his comfort zone. This was good coaching, but still an indicator that JC is not the great QB that some think he is.

Maybe I realized early on that some of his troubles were not of his making, and that the wide receivers were just as much as fault as he was. He still cannot throw a ball accurately if the throw is under 10 yards, and that is primarily the reason Tennesse does not run the screen any more than they do.

I am very happy for him, and wish him the best of luck. I very much appreciate his mental toughness, and ability to overcome the obstacles set up for him by his own wide receivers, and UT "fans." However, I personally feel no need to apologize to him.
 
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I apologize to JC and VY too....man I used to curse those guys like crazy. I thought they were both the worst QBs ever...good job guys Go Vols and Go Titans!!!!
 
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Somebody said after the UCLA game that Clawson was redeemed. It is true now more then ever, pure coaching. This teams as a whole is probably the lowest talent level we have seen in 20 years compared to College Football. I am talking 1988 low. Yet even at that and the talent in the SEC at the highest it has been, they finish second in the East. Crompton actually does have some talent, but he had not confidence. Clawson did not help him, Fulmer sure as HECK did not help him. Now this is not a beat down on Fulmer, it was his time. Kiffin takes responsibility for everything. If Crompton throws a pick, publicly he blamed himself. He built Crompton up and it showed the second half of the season that Crompton can play and could be a low draft pick.
 
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I guess its time for me to eat my crow also. I owe cromp an apology for my doubt in his ability to be a legit QB. JC is a true vol, & its been an honor to seem him wear the orange,& turn it around. I think its a great success story after all the adversity he went through. Would make a great movie. Maybe like the blind side. I don't know about the NFL for JC, but I have seen him make some incredible NFL caliber throws this year.
Hope JC shines & leads us to a bowl victory. I never thought I would say, but would love to have him another year. He really adapted to CLK system well as the season progressed.
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JC is the man, no doubt about it. And here's to the clown that made the death threat, may you get a severe case of the crotch critters.
 
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yea once he got his crompfidence goin he proved alot to alot of people. I'll sign that apology card. Were gonna miss J.C
 
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