« Reply #202 on: May 02, 2012, 01:37:55 AM »
Here's a nice little gem:
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/05/phillip_sims_high_school_coach.html
Phillip Sims entered the 2011 football season in an open competition for the starting quarterback job at Alabama, and ended the season firmly entrenched as the backup to A.J. McCarron, who had just been named the Offensive MVP of the BCS National Championship Game.
Now that Sims has decided to transfer to another school, his high school coach says he believes Sims was a better quarterback than McCarron but lost the competition never really had a shot for the starting job because he wasn't from the state of Alabama white.
"If it's a close QB competition between an in-state a white guy and an out-of-state a black guy, the in-state white guy is getting the job," said Oscar Smith (Virginia) High School head coach Richard Morgan in an interview with The Virginian-Pilot. "Phillip was in a situation where I thought he was the better quarterback, but he was the out-of-state black guy. That's just the way it works in college at bama."
Sims, who was a four-star prospect coming out of high school, played in eight games for Alabama and completed 64 percent of his passes for 163 yards with two interceptions, but didn't play in the Tide's final five games of the 2011 season.
Morgan explained that Sims' decision to transfer comes at the right time for the Virginia native and is based on the availability of playing time.
"McCarron still has two years of eligibility," Morgan said. "If it was the case where (McCarron) was a senior and Phillip had to sit one more year and then have two years, he wouldn't leave. Let's face it, they did win the national championship. So you're not going to bench the quarterback who won the national title. And (Sims) doesn't want to sit because he feels he's just as good. So he has to go somewhere where he can play."
Now, Sims isn't the worst QB in the world. I've seen worse. And AJ is no world beater in his own right. But anybody that has seen Sims play a down of college football in a real game knows that his HS coach is probably half retarded if he thinks PS should start over AJ. Not meaning to run PS into the ground, as I'm sure he could be a good fit somewhere. But damn, come on.
Al.com should learn how to quote correctly and should stop sugar coating everything, it's high time the rest of the public knows the hard truth.
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