This is a great example of confirmation bias. Don't address pile-driving, skull crushing reality of what I pointed out about a game in doubt - instead try to pick the facts that you like better. Including, of all things, the spring game.
In doubt? It was ECU with a 10 point lead at home in the 4th quarter.... but that is your only proof that is verifiable?
I'm not going waste anymore time on this - as it doesn't even really matter. I'm not the one with a narrative here. It's what the coach said, it's what the beat writers said, it is what the game situation says. It's a hell of a story you're trying to tell though. Facing a possible loss to a non-power 5 huge underdog, at home, in his second game, the coach goes to the clear number two on a drive that could determine the outcome of the game.
Okay, sure buddy. He did everything he could to hand the job to Treon.
This is a common tactic by you, when you don't have verifiable proof. Going with the I know I'm right? So if Harris was so equal, you forget the other three quarters of the game or the following game.
I know you're wrong and you know you're wrong - hell, I bet both our moms could read this and know you're wrong. Some people just can't admit it for whatever reason - which is ridiculous because this is something that doesn't even really matter any more. I'll give you one last piece of evidence - from the yearly anonymous players interviewed from Inside the Gators. If you won't accept the truth from the lips of a guy in the locker room, well - I guess you're just not going to accept it.
Some people don't admit it... You are basically McElwain at a presser with your statements. "I know the numbers and the game film doesn't match what I'm saying... but I'm right. You know I'm right" That is what you are suggesting to me. That the competition was so equal Grier had double the series in the ECU game and Grier played the whole Kentucky game.
"Will was and is a complete baller. The problem was he and MAC [Jim McElwain] didn't always see eye-to-eye. I'm not saying they didn't like each other personally, but he [McElwain] made it obvious that Will wasn't his first choice. The only reason he was playing Will that year because he had no one else. He tried to force feed the job to Treon [Harris], but he wasn't as talented as Will. That was plain in practice that year, but after they started playing the game on TV and in-front of fans, he couldn't pretend like they were equals. The quarterback MAC really wanted, he had faith in Luke Del Rio, but he had to sit out that year and could play the next year. That was his guy. Everyone could see that he was all in on him [LDR], I mean, he wasn't going to be able to play and they were giving him reps in camp, and was just trying to get through 2015 so he could play his guy the next year [2016 when Del Rio was eligible after sitting out a transfer season]."
Grier did do things McElwain didn't like, he is a gambler. Harris was a safer with the ball no doubt about it. But you have one quote and you rmemory of one 4th quarter drive while we were up by 7 in a game our defense was dominating (drive ended in a TD). But that is more important than what is on the film, what is in the drive summaries, what actually happened?
I don't disagree with you that Grier and McElwain didn't see eye to eye. Schit McElwain hated Chad Grier, which I'm sure didn't help. LDR is the guy McElwain trusted, but he wasn't available. If what you are claiming to be true, why didn't Harris start against ECU, or have more than garbage drives. Why wasn't he in the game when the game really was in question.
Butters was wrong too. While all of us could see WG was clearly the better player and the players could too, Butters couldn't bring himself to give him the job until he was basically forced to by Treon's off the field stupidity and WG's heroics against UT.
Again, telling me how you are right, instead of providing facts to the table. Unless you have FACTS, not your truths. You have yet to explain why Grier still have double the series Harris did against ECU (which is the crucially part of your argument) or what Harris didn't see the field in Kentucky as the only quarterback with SEC game experience at the time in a game that was horribly played.
The problem for you is, the actual facts, the game film, the drive summaries, the box scores don't agree with what you are saying. If Harris was truly equal to Grier in the eyes of the staff, then the difference in plays and drives wouldn't be so slanted towards Grier. But even in the O&B game Grier played with the 1s and Harris was with the 2s.
You at pretending like none of this happened. Like it isn't on film and in the stats sheets.
