Who played the best as a Freshmen QB at UT?

Who played the best as a Freshmen QB at UT?

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#26
#26
Ainge. He won games against quality opponents and if he had not been injured against Notre Dame there's an outside chance we would have gone to a BCS bowl game that year.
 
#27
#27
41 votes for Bray? Good grief. I like the kid, but he only started 4 games and it was against some pretty crappy teams. Some of you are either too young to vote on things such as this, or your minds are quick to forget the past.

Casey Clausen did the damn thing, I hate it that so many Vols fan give him crap, he was a hell of a player for us, won some good games.
 
#29
#29
Ainge. He beat UF and a top 5 UGA team in Athens. The others may have gone on to have better careers, but Ainge was far and away the best freshman.
 
#30
#30
Sadly, Ainge peaked as a freshman.
Manning got much better.
Clausen stayed rather flat.
Bray ... time will tell.
 
#32
#32
vol63 said:
Ainge beat Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. How did those other guys fair against these three teams in their freshmen seasons? Also, he set the record for touchdown passes as a freshmen. Ainge was the best as a freshmen, hands down imo
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I also have to say Ainge. They all put up similar numbers, and Ainge did it splitting time with Brent Schaeffer.
 
#35
#35
really surprised that bray is leading this poll. he's played well as a whole, but he's mostly been up against lower competition in november. manning, clausen, and ainge all faced higher competetion their freshman year.
 
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#38
#38
Ainge was ridiculous in his freshman year..Casey was also very good, but Ainge wins. I thought Ainge was gonna leave here with every record in the book..but then 05 happened.
 
#40
#40
even though 2 of our main rivals were under mediocre coaching staffs at the time, ainge still managed to beat florida, bama, and georgia all in the same season. how often does that happen in the same year, much less with a true freshman qb? the winner is ainge hands down IMO.

i just don't see how bray's wins against memphis, a struggling ole miss squad, and perennial doormats vandy and ky could even compare with ainge's wins as a true frosh.
 
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#41
#41
I was too young to see and appreciate Manning's freshman season, but I have heard enough about it. He started off pretty well, but was obviously great later on in his time at UTK.

I am GLAD we have Bray, but I know everyone here is drinking kool-aid, he played well for a half against South Carolina, everything else was beating up on a bunch of cupcakes for the home stretch of the schedule with a near-elite D. Moore and burgeoning Justin Hunter.

Ainge was, IMO, the best freshman of the group. Winning at #3 Georgia, the game-winning drive to set up Wilhoit's 50 yarder heard 'round the world to beat Florida, Bama (granted, Ron Zook and Mike Shula were the respective coaches then), putting up insane stats... Really, other than running into the Auburn buzzsaw of '04, the Vols would have had an outside shot at a BCS game had he not been injured against ND, woulda finished 10-2.

After that though, was the last and worst four year stretch of Fulmer's disintegration of UT football.
 
#44
#44
Looking back, going through some of the AP polls, don't think we would have made a BCS game. The Sugar had its auto bids, the Orange was the BCSMNCG, and Pitt and Michigan made it in as autos in the Fiesta and Rose respectively. Texas and Utah were the at-large picks, and we were ranked behind both before we lost to ND.
 
#47
#47
FireMedic75 said:
Bray for the simple reason of the lack of talent around him this season
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And the lack of talent on the other side of the ball?

Bray has looked great so far, but folks here are acting like he has been a world-beater. I'm excited to see some life, as well, after all the mediocre football we've seen over the last few years, but the four teams Bray started against were 13-35, and had an average ranking of 94th in the country in opposing QB rating.

He had a decent half against USCjr, but everything else has been junk time games that were out of hand, and four starts in the last third of the season against C-USA level pass defenses.
 
#48
#48
Bray could play against Maryville in a 7 on 7 and you can see he can make throws most freshman can't.
 
#49
#49
He can, not denying he's talented, but in no way has he truly been put to the fire yet.

And really, SCjr's pass D was generally horrendous as well. They beat us because we couldn't stop Lattimore and Jeffrey.
 
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