I'll give Kiffin credit for helping turn Crompton around to the point that he was draftable; it's hard to describe just how bad he was at the beginning of the year--bad enough that the yahoos in Tennessee were sending him death threats. Kiffin stuck with him, scaled back the offense so that he basically couldn't mess it up, and built up his confidence. I never thought that Crompton was the next Peyton Manning (I quote myself from the Texas vs. the Nation" thread):
>>Would I take him in round five? Boy, I'm not sure. Round six, maybe, depending on who else the team takes before that. But he's a project who needs a lot of work, and my concern is that he's got about a 30% chance of becoming a serviceable NFL QB (probably a serviceable backup) and 70% of turning into a shorter version of DA with less arm strength. <<
...but I can't hate on Kiffin for Crompton; even if he wasn't able to turn him into an NFL QB, at least he was able to turn him into a somewhat reasonable fascimile.
Dennis
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