Josh Heupel details starting quarterback competition at SEC media days
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Josh Heupel was the final coach to speak from the main stage on Day 1 of SEC media days Monday in Tampa, Florida. The sixth-year Tennessee head coach discussed the Vols' starting quarterback competition entering fall training camp.
Tennessee enters the season with four quarterbacks on roster: early enrollee freshman Brandon Faizon, redshirt freshman George MacIntyre, redshirt freshman Mason Phillips and redshirt junior transfer Ryan Staub from Colorado.
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"I know much is going to be made about our quarterback situation as we come in, starting our fifth different quarterback in five years," Heupel said. "We've done that historically. At some point I'm going to have the opportunity to come back here with a returning starter at quarterback. Seven out of the last nine years we've had a different starting quarterback, and seven out of the last nine years top 10 in the country in scoring.
"We're going to have a guy that's going to be ready to compete at an elite championship level. Whenever you start a young quarterback, it's important the other guys around him play at an extremely high level. We have a lot of guys that will put those guys in a good position to go do their jobs. It's important you tie everything, special teams and defensively, as well. Great thing is those two guys are going to have an opportunity to go earn it in front of their peers. We're going to let the quarterback competition play out here during the course of training camp. I think that guy, like everybody else, has to earn it in front of their peers."
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