Times Free Press - Jonathan Crompton

[Rasputin_Vol]

Reports were that Cut didn't think very highly of JC. Cut thought Coleman would be qb in 2008 if he'd stayed. Supposedly Cut spent much more time with Ainge and Coleman than he did Crompton.

Before you call this bull**** it came from some good sources and made sense. Last thing Cut was going to do was give Ainge any reason to be concerned about being replaced. The 2005 season tanked cause his ego couldn't stand sharing PT witH Clausen.

Facts... nothing but truth right here.

 

[HoptownVol]

I hate to hear that. Crompton was a product of a mediocre and clueless head coach. The game at Auburn is emblazoned on my brain. I seriously think my 12 year old daughter would have played better. And as much as people ***** and moan about Kiffin, it was a work of magic that put Crompton into the draft. I'm still in shock over that.

 

[Roustabout]

op, please no threads with just player names. I thought he was hurt or something.

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[butchna]

Cutcliffe left once why bring back a guy that you know will leave again -- see Lincoln Riley as an example -- he could have took one of those numerous HC jobs last season but stayed at OU and it paid off

You bring him back to do what he did. Reestablish the fundamentals and teach. Ainge went from night to day on his watch. In reality good to great coaches typically don't have long tenures as assistants...it was a good thing. Riley was at Oklahoma for a grand total of :victory: seasons. Didn't hear tell of him turning down a P5 job between his neophyte years of 31-33. How do you bestow LIFETIME loyalty awards to him compared to Cut, who logged SIXTEEN seasons for our Vols before taking a SEC HC job at 44 and then decided to take another gig in his 50's?

 

[TNnative]

I remember him getting railed on by the fans for most of '08 and the beginning of '09 (that UCLA game, good lord). I was very happy when he finally broke out and played like a boss the back half of that year. He really did have a very tumultuous time in Knoxville.

As the OP said, some fans just have no perspective whatsoever. I think Charles Barkley said it best with this gem, "Fans are gonna be fans, but I still think you ought to be able to call 2 or 3 of em out after the game and beat the livin hell out of em."

There is a reason why "fan" is the base word for "fanatic".

As to Crompton, probably every Tennessee fan felt anger toward him. That is what happens when you are a D1 QB. Sadly, there is that 1/10 of 1% of fans who are lacking functional brain cells that will say crap to a player's family.

I have never witnessed anything like that, and I hope I never do. Just in case, I better put aside some bucks for bail.

 

[IknoxvolsI]

You bring him back to do what he did. Reestablish the fundamentals and teach. Ainge went from night to day on his watch. In reality good to great coaches typically don't have long tenures as assistants...it was a good thing. Riley was at Oklahoma for a grand total of :victory: seasons. Didn't hear tell of him turning down a P5 job between his neophyte years of 31-33. How do you bestow LIFETIME loyalty awards to him compared to Cut, who logged SIXTEEN seasons for our Vols before taking a SEC HC job at 44 and then decided to take another gig in his 50's?

I don't know about everyone else but I knew he wasn't gonna be here long when he came back.

 

[butchna]

I don't know about everyone else but I knew he wasn't gonna be here long when he came back.

Cuz he was too good a coach? Me too.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Cutcliffe left once why bring back a guy that you know will leave again -- see Lincoln Riley as an example -- he could have took one of those numerous HC jobs last season but stayed at OU and it paid off

Lincoln Riley is 33 years old and Cut was what? It's not comparable.

 

[IknoxvolsI]

Cuz he was too good a coach? Me too.

Exactly!👍🏻

 

[secking]

I hate to hear that. Crompton was a product of a mediocre and clueless head coach. The game at Auburn is emblazoned on my brain. I seriously think my 12 year old daughter would have played better. And as much as people ***** and moan about Kiffin, it was a work of magic that put Crompton into the draft. I'm still in shock over that.

It was Willie Martinez that put him in the draft. He literally used the UGA as 80% of his highlights sent to the NFL scouts. WM too dumb to stop a rollout. As for the story, some "fans" need a life. You hear of idiots like this, sisters shooting each other in Bama, some crazies. They need a different hobby.

 

[Forty]

Didn't somebody do a parody song of Johnathan Crompton on a radio station in Knoxville to that Old school rap song?

 

[JohnD13]

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/sports/columns/story/2017/jun/09/hargis-crompttrying-get-past-bad-taste-viciou/432491/

Now this is an indictment of the treatment of (some) players by a portion of fans. Embarrassing that someone actually told his mother that he or she hoped Crompton and his family would die.

All too often fans have no perspective on what truly matters in life. Not just at UT - UK fans threatening a referee, Bama fans and Michigan fans threatening kickers. It's despicable.

I can think of a dozen on here that are prime suspects...

 

[82_VOL_83]

This may be the dumbest thing I've read. Ainge put up fantastic numbers in 2006 and 2007, and until he got hurt vs SC in 2006 (on a dumb play call, qb draw near SC goal line in a game we had wrapped up late) he was being mentioned as a Heisman contender. We were the best one loss team in America after the SC game and that dumb play call getting him injured messed up what could've been a chance at a bcs game. Oh guess who called that bonehead play that got Ainge injured? Your boy Cutcliffe...

Wrong, but thanks for playing.

 

[82_VOL_83]

You bring him back to do what he did. Reestablish the fundamentals and teach. Ainge went from night to day on his watch. In reality good to great coaches typically don't have long tenures as assistants...it was a good thing. Riley was at Oklahoma for a grand total of :victory: seasons. Didn't hear tell of him turning down a P5 job between his neophyte years of 31-33. How do you bestow LIFETIME loyalty awards to him compared to Cut, who logged SIXTEEN seasons for our Vols before taking a SEC HC job at 44 and then decided to take another gig in his 50's?

Cut would have had us winning SEC Championships in two years from the debacle that was Fulmer's last years.

 

[82_VOL_83]

There is a reason why "fan" is the base word for "fanatic".

As to Crompton, probably every Tennessee fan felt anger toward him. That is what happens when you are a D1 QB. Sadly, there is that 1/10 of 1% of fans who are lacking functional brain cells that will say crap to a player's family.

I have never witnessed anything like that, and I hope I never do. Just in case, I better put aside some bucks for bail.

I actually thought that he wasn't coached well and when he shined under Kiffin I was thrilled. It's the one achievement that I think Kiffin can stand on here.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Cut would have had us winning SEC Championships in two years from the debacle that was Fulmer's last years.

David Cutcliffe will have a statue outside of Duke's Wallace Wade Stadium before it's all said and done. You guys discounting what he did for us and at Duke have no idea what he has done and what it has taken to change the culture at Duke. That's not really surprising considering his detractors.

 

[IknoxvolsI]

David Cutcliffe will have a statue outside of Duke's Wallace Wade Stadium before it's all said and done. You guys discounting what he did for us and at Duke have no idea what he has done and what it has taken to change the culture at Duke. That's not really surprising considering his detractors.

Steve Spurrior says no.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Steve Spurrior says no.

As great as SOS was at Duke, Cut has done more. I'm lucky enough to have had a fun relationship with both coaches.

 

[TNnative]

David Cutcliffe will have a statue outside of Duke's Wallace Wade Stadium before it's all said and done. You guys discounting what he did for us and at Duke have no idea what he has done and what it has taken to change the culture at Duke. That's not really surprising considering his detractors.

I haven't been to Duke in a few years, but if Coach K doesn't have a statue yet, they just can't agree on a beautiful enough area to place it.

Cut is a great coach and better man, but I doubt the sculptor has even looked at his photo yet. Championship coaches get statues. Those who change cultures get appreciation dinners and free trims at the university barber shop. And what he did for us means nothing in Durham.

 

[utchs81]

I can think of a dozen on here that are prime suspects...

All fan bases have their "fringe elements" but there are some that go beyond the fringes to the downright malicious. I suspect it has to do with their own inadequacies in their personal and work life that molds them to be so.

 

[jarnol32]

I hate to hear that. Crompton was a product of a mediocre and clueless head coach. The game at Auburn is emblazoned on my brain. I seriously think my 12 year old daughter would have played better. And as much as people ***** and moan about Kiffin, it was a work of magic that put Crompton into the draft. I'm still in shock over that.

Mediocre and clueless doesn't accumulate a record of 152-52, 2 sec championships and a natty....

 

[VolsnRavens]

Also, we got to enjoy this moment of Kiffin and Crompton. Which I thought was hilarious. I had to rewind it on TV a couple of times as I was laughing.

 

[TNnative]

Mediocre and clueless doesn't accumulate a record of 152-52, 2 sec championships and a natty....

Gene Chizik won a damn "natty" as well. When he went mediocre, what happened to him?

 

[StarRaider]

My son attended a camp when he was 11 at UT; Cromp invited him to play X-Box (or whatever it was at the time) with him during the evenings at Gibbs. He was a nice young man IMHO.

 

[05_never_again]

I wouldnt call him a bust -- the recruiting services apparently didnt take into account, the level of competition his high school played - therefore making him high in the rankings -- that other guy you mentioned Sanchez, now that is a bust, and how he hangs around the NFL is beyond me

The recruiting services are rating guys for their college potential, not NFL. Sanchez was a great college player.

But you are right about Crompton and his high school competition. I knew a guy who was a high school classmate of his. I remember him saying that Crompton was without a doubt a superstar at that level, but that the team overall was fairly mediocre and they would routinely lose games where he put up insane numbers.