Tennessee football: Vols sabotaged Dormady, will start Jarrett Guarantano

After sabotaging Quinten Dormady, the Tennessee football coaches will now start Jarrett Guarantano when the Volunteers face the South Carolina Gamecocks.

What we expected is finally happening. Coming off of a bye week, Tennessee football is making a switch at quarterback. They’re going from the accurate pocket passer with experience in Quinten Dormady to the mobile freshman phenom in Jarrett Guarantano.

And they’re doing it the week they get set to face the South Carolina Gamecocks, who are led by one of the greatest defensive coaches in all of college football in Will Muschamp. Good luck.

The report first came across on Volqeust from Brent Hubbs and Austin Price. It added that Dormady is now contemplating his football future.

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If I’m Dormady, I quit immediately and transfer. Let’s be clear, this was an outright sabotage from the start of the season. It may not have been intentional, but it was there. So let’s go back to the beginning.

Dormady was set to be the starter and replace Joshua Dobbs, the most productive Tennessee football quarterback since Peyton Manning. His first start came against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, who run a triple-option that the Vols could not stop and who have an elite and experienced secondary.

With the triple-option torching the Vols’ rush defense, Dormady torched that elite secondary and led a game-tying 95-yard drive late before winning the game in double-overtime. He should have shown enough there.

But that wasn’t enough for the coaches to name him a starter. Then, against the Indiana State Sycamores, the Vols don’t let him get into a rhythm and alternate between him and Guarantano to get both reps.

The next week, against the Florida Gators, Butch Jones and Larry Scott put way too much on him. They called for him to throw six straight times in the red zone. He actually completed two sure touchdown passes. But both turned into drops.

And he completed a beautiful touchdown pass to Ethan Wolf while bringing the Vols back late. But against one of the most elite secondaries in the country, the coaches kept having him throw while abandoning their elite rusher in John Kelly.

That resulted in three interceptions, including a pick-six. But again, you have to put that on the coaches for putting too much on him.

They were setting up a first-year starter to lose that day. But with the deck stacked against him, he still nearly pulled out a victory.

Against the UMass Minutemen, they pulled him just as he was about to get his team in rhythm and pull away.

Finally, the Georgia Bulldogs game came around. The Tennessee football coaches employed a tactic of predictable play-calling that gave Dormady no chance.

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Now, to be fair, Dormady under-threw at least three balls to receivers who had a chance to make a play in one-on-one coverage. But if you look at all three passes, it was due to his horrible footwork.

Shouldn’t the coaches have fixed that? Jones brought in Mike Canales to coach the quarterbacks this year, and he has a reputation as a quarterback guru. So why is a pure pocket passer struggling with his footwork this season with Canales there?

That’s a major question on its own and more proof of sabotage.

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So rather than develop the pocket passer with deadly accuracy, the Vols are turning to the mobile quarterback, hoping his legs can bail them out of bad play-calls and terrible player development.

Hey, Dobbs did it for them for years. So you might as well hope Guarantano can.

But if you’re Dormady, you can see what other pocket passers have done after leaving Jones’s system. That is proof alone that he should leave the program. Riley Ferguson is starring with the Memphis Tigers right now. Nathan Peterman became an NFL quarterback with his play for the Pittsburgh Panthers.

Both were Tennessee football quarterbacks, but Ferguson never played, and Peterman looked awful while in there.

So yes, Guarantano may be the answer for Tennessee football right now. Heck, there’s a chance his playmaking abilities as the main guy could turn things around.

After all, we can’t completely absolve Dormady. His six touchdowns to six interceptions is indeed a bad ratio, along with the fact that he’s averaging fewer than 200 passing yards a game and is only completing 55.5 percent of his passes.

But he’s faced three top secondaries so far this year. And make no mistake about it. Guarantano is only the potential answer because Jones and the coaches refuse to take the time to develop quarterbacks properly. And as a result, they need a mobile guy who can bail them out of their terrible play-calls.

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All of that means that Dormady’s benching is a result of direct sabotage by the coaches. They sabotaged him with terrible play-calling, refusing to fully name him the starter, and by not developing his footwork.

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Tennessee football: Vols coaches sabotaged Quinten Dormady before starting Jarrett Guarantano

By Caleb Calhoun | Oct 10, 2017

After sabotaging Quinten Dormady, the Tennessee football coaches will now start Jarrett Guarantano when the Volunteers face the South Carolina Gamecocks.