Why did Stephens leave UT

**Ironlung** · April 17th, 2010, 04:21 PM

Bray wasn't as sharp in the second half although he had his moments. He ended up going 14-37 for 155. A majority of the misses were in the second half and a lot of the misses were situational type stuff. His team got two FGs in the second half. In a regular game he'd have probably went about 50%. Neither really had a running game (outside of Poole's 13-59 yds) so they basically threw every play. Simms had a good drive after half and I think went 5-7 for about 60 yards and got a td pass. He was picked off 3 times though. Simms was around 50% for 124 yards. The White team won the game 16-7.

Victor Thomas went down with a knee injury. It didn't look too serious to me but he couldn't put any weight on it and was helped off the field. I didn't notice any other injuries.

Beforehand a lot was said about fan apathy and nobody showing up, it ended up being the 3rd largest crowd for a UT Spring game.

**Ironlung** · April 17th, 2010, 10:00 PM

An edit on the stats. Bob Kesling is a dolt and that's where I got the above stats from during the telecast. Below are the actual stats.

Bray - 18 of 40 for 200 1 td yards

Simms - 12-of-26 for 125 1 td 3 ints

Poole - 12 carries for 43 yards and 3 catches for 58 yards

Gerald Jones - 6 catches for 84 yards and 1 td

Matt Milton - 6 catches for 47 yards and 1 td

**UTVols2** · April 18th, 2010, 09:46 PM

My thoughts are as follows:

Tyler Bray is the future and should start his freshman year. After about 4 more months of the strength program and then more experience in fall practice has got to be our starter. He has a cannon and is more accurate than Simms. He hit Milton on a dig route right in the little dot on the 9 of Milton and it bounced off his chest. Milton is gonna be good too, he just needs to sharpen his route running.

Tauren Poole is gonna be good, he is one hard dude to bring to the ground. He should be fun to watch this year.

I also like the switch of Austin Johnson to LB, he looks natural there and should help this fall. That is one position we will be deep at due to all the youngsters getting PT last year when the 3 starters went down to injury.

And I wish Palardy would hurry and get on campus

**Biggin** · April 18th, 2010, 11:49 PM

didnt get to see the UT spring game, did you guys watch the Bama Crimson and White game?

AJ McCarron is gonna be a stud. He looked great. Hitting tough throws, making the right decisions, he is gonna be great. Sims looked okay, Star Jackson is prolly gonna transfer.
McCarron outplayed McElroy

The defense was very very good. Lost a lot of starters, but dont expect a huge drop off. Marcel Darius could be an All-American this year.
Dre Kirkpatrick looked good as well, him or BJ Scott are gonna have to step in and play corner with Robbie Green being in academic purgatory.

the offensive line and WRs scare me, neither looked really good, but the OL looked terrible in last years C&W game and turned out great.

the LB corp will be excellent again this year. Hightower will be the MLB this year, he was only 80% healthy but had a good game. Nico Johnson, Jerrell Harris, LB and DL will be strong, so will FS with Mark Barron who is now the leader on defense and will be even better this year.

All in all, the team looks to be stout again. The running game will be great, the passing game HOPEFULLY will have some more big plays and deep passes, JJ has to have a great year.
I dunno about the #1 ranking, but dont expect 7-6.

**Ironlung** · April 19th, 2010, 01:58 PM

I turned it on after UT's game ended and it was late 3rd quarter. It looked like Ingram was averaging about 10 yards a carry. I saw a DT or LB take kind of a cheap shot at him and pushed him when he got up and I think they pulled him after that.

Jackson was never going to play QB there anyway. No big loss.