re: 4* QB Quinten Dormady commits to VOLS

I didn't realize Waller was even considering Bama.

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Agreed with all of that... AU is in a better position to take a high risk/ high reward QB prospect... UT needed a more polished passer.

Waller has outperformed both Ricky Town and Josh Rosen at camps this Spring.

Thanks for your analysis.

according to who? all the schools that keep passing on him?

so basically you concede that he is no better than all the QBs you listed - overrated.

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so basically you concede that he is no better than all the QBs you listed - overrated.

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Seeing as how he has been a late riser, I don't see why schools that took a quarterback earlier is relevant to the discussion. And fwiw, Sark has been telling Waller he is a better fit for the new USC offense than Town.

Dormady has a cannon. I think him and Jennings both have major potential for UT.

I like having a pass first QB with the weapons we are accumulating at WR and TE. Best part is where Dormady is completely shutting down his commitment.

Time to solidify the offensive and defensive lines

Top247 rising senior quarterback Quinten Dormady of Boerne (Texas) High School committed to Tennessee on Monday.

Their long search to find one finally ended Monday night.
The Vols addressed their most glaring need with the addition of Top247 rising senior quarterback Quinten Dormady of Boerne (Texas) High School, and 247Sports director of scouting Barton Simmons said Dormady is “a huge get for Tennessee” for multiple reasons.
“With the dominoes falling as quickly as they were, and the really elite quarterbacks nationally getting snatched up at a really rapid pace at this point, I think that makes this a huge get for Tennessee because, to me, this was one of the few remaining uncommitted, elite arms in the nation,” Simmons said of Dormady.
“Dormady’s got, I think, a really talented arm. He’s back full-speed after injuring (his shoulder) going into his junior year, and college coaches have really been raving about what they’ve seen of him in the spring. I like him because he’s athletic. He’s not a run-first guy. You don’t create an offense around his legs, but he’s capable. He’s a baseball player. He’s got some functional athleticism to him, and he’s got a live arm.
“He can make every throw on the field, and if he had played his junior year, I have no doubt that he would have been one of the real big names in this recruiting cycle from the start.”
The 6-foot-4, 210-pound Dormady — who’s ranked by 247Sports as the nation’s No. 174 overall prospect and No. 5 pro-style quarterback in the 2015 class — stands out because he has the “arm strength to make all the throws,” Simmons said, and “his best is as good as just about anyone else in the country.”
“I think he’s a big-armed kid. I think that’s what jumps out to me,” Simmons said.
“I think, with the body of work, accuracy is kind of maybe more of the question mark (than his arm strength), just because we haven’t seen as much of him and we want to make sure that he’s got the consistency to make the throws on a regular basis.”

Dormady missed his entire junior season after suffering a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder during baseball season last year.

Dormady missed his entire junior season after suffering a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder last year during baseball season, but he recently said he’s “back to 100 percent” and “throwing the best I’ve ever thrown.”
Simmons, who watched him participate in the Dallas-area Nike Football Training Camp in early April, said Dormady appears to be back to full strength.
“There haven’t been any signs of any lingering issues this spring, certainly, and if his team had made it to the playoffs in the fall, he would have been able to play,” Simmons said. “He just missed out on getting a little taste of action (during his) junior year. That hasn’t seemed to be a problem at all, and he seems to have a lot of confidence in his arm right now.”
Dormady, who plans to enroll at Tennessee in January, also has the “cerebral mentality” necessary to be a starting quarterback in the SEC, Simmons said, and he might even have a chance to make an early impact on the Vols’ offense.
“He’s a coach’s son — his dad coaches him. He’s been around the game a lot,” Simmons said. “He seems to be a mature kid, so I think some of those questions will get answered this fall, with what he looks like in pads this fall. But certainly, because of his cerebral mentality and background as a coach’s son, and he’s a big kid — all of those things lend to him having a real opportunity to compete early on.
“He was a four-star kid for our first rankings for 2015 — a Top247 kid — after his sophomore year, so him sort of falling off the radar is just a product of his junior year. I think he kind of earned his way back into that Top247 ranking.
“And when you add the off-the-field stuff, I think that there’s a lot of reason to think he’s got as good a shot as anybody to really step in and compete, at the very least.”