re: So Where does Eason transfer to?

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Are you saying Kirby is playing a player simply based on his being here longer?

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I am saying a Kirby wasn't gonna sit the starting QB before the season. That would have been a poor decision from a roster mgmt standpoint. Thats how you get a player to transfer before a season even starts.

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Florida? He was at least semi-interested

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He's not sitting out two years to go down to Gainesville.

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Smart and company had all off season, spring and fall to evaluate the two and Fromm lost out to Eason.

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Like how Bledsoe was starting ahead of Brady?

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He's not sitting out two years to go down to Gainesville.

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That may change if the ncaa votes to change the transfer rule

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He's not sitting out two years to go down to Gainesville.

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You are counting this year? Because if you are he would be sitting out two years to go anywhere. the main missing ingredient at Florida is the QB. Same for LSU. (Well...their coach at LSU, too.) If he is sold on playing in the SEC, and he was at one time, it seems, Florida would be a logical landing spot.

Washington State has Tyler Hilinski, whom they are very high on and is a Sophomore. I would be shocked if he went there. (I know you didn't say that...just responding to someone else that did)

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That may change if the ncaa votes to change the transfer rule

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Honestly, I hope they don't. It would be free agency with players transferring all over the place. But he would have to sit out another year no matter where he goes.

Eason would be foolish to transfer at this point. He played a full year in our system and will get an opportunity to win back the starting position. Having said that, I'm pretty much convinced that Fromm is the better overall QB in our system but we might well need Eason's big arm vs Auburn and/or Florida. You have to stretch the field against good defenses and Auburn and Florida both have good defenses.

Every 2016 opponent loaded the boxes in spite of Eason's big arm because they knew that big arm wasn't often accurate.

Eason provides nothing unless he magically starts throwing catchable balls on time and on target. If we can get big leads against Vandy and Mizzou maybe Eason will get another chance to demonstrate improvement.

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A big part of football is roster mgmt. Only having one qb is a recipe for disaster. That's not a roster game, it's roster reality

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True. But you don't play an inferior QB to keep him from transferring, either. I can't imagine Louisville starting their backup QB to make sure he deosn't transfer leaving Jackson on the bench. If a player earns it in practice you play him. If Smart is playing second string players over first string players to keep the inferior players from transferring, then he needs to be fired now. That's incomprehensible.

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No coach is gonna sit the returning starter in the preseason for a freshmen unless the differences were glaring.

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Because the returning QB has true game experience, which gives him a definite edge. Not because he doesn't want to inferior QB to transfer. This is the argument many were giving when it was argued Eason should get his job back when healthy. Now that Fromm has continued to do well, and gained valuable experience you don't hear that argument as much....or any lately.

Fromm struggled mightily against Tennessee. He threw one INT. and it could easily have been 3 against a real defense. His accuracy was way off, too. The only thing that salvaged his performance at all was he showed he could be a running threat. However, I don't necessarily count that as a negative. the best QB's have bad games. how they handle those bad games and adversity is what matters. Had we been playing Auburn Fromm likely would have gotten us beaten. Let's see if he puts his performance behind him and bounces back this week.

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But there is no denying that Eason was named the starter.

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Lambert started the first game last year. How'd that work out for Lambert? Could've had Fromm may have had significant playing time in that first game if Eason wouldn't have been injured. No one knows.

Eason very well could take his job right back next week but based on the very, very small sample size so far he hasn't progressed much. I'm kind of hoping he does take the job back. If he does, that means he's made progress we haven't seen and he's better than Fromm. If he's better than Fromm, this team just got much better and I just went from six to midnight.