Tennessee quarterback Quinten Dormady was at practice yesterday despite a report suggesting that he was considering leaving the team after losing the starting job to Jarrett Guarantano. Today, Butch Jones said that Dormady had one of his better practices yesterday despite being disappointed about the switch:
“Quinten’s a competitor, and obviously he was very, very disappointed, but that’s what you would expect from a competitor,” Jones said. “You know, I thought he had one of his better practices yesterday. He came out and he worked. Again, you’re always one snap away. We go through life and we have setbacks and it’s how you deal with it, and I think he’s dealt with it very, very well.
“Again, he’s been disappointed, but when you’re a competitor, that’s what you would expect.”
Dormady won the starting job in fall camp and played the entire game in the Georgia Tech win and the Florida loss. The coaches then pulled Dormady in favor of Guarantano in both the too-close-for-comfort win over UMass and the blowout loss to Georgia, although Guarantano didn’t really appear that much better in those games. Jones opened the competition in the bye week last week and officially announced Guarantano as the starter today.
I also read about what Josh Smith said this week about the QBs and he has a point that I want to emphasize. The boos kind of go to far. It definitely had an effect on Dormandy’s mind in that UGA game. You could see him look up at the stands a lot in that game. I know there are tons of people that make the excuse that the boos are to the coaching staff and the players shouldn’t worry about it. Can you honestly believe and tell it straight to my face that it doesn’t affect the players even… Read more »
Yeah, I don’t like boos at games, either. I have been known to boo at officials a time or two. 🙂
Ha! True, I admit that I’m guilty of the same.