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On 8/9/2024 at 4:15 PM, Cr1028 said:

You are absolutely wrong. I know for a fact Riley was still at Southlake in 2007 because I saw him at the OU game that year. I also know for a fact that Riley played receiver as a true freshman in 2008 while Vizza remained our starting quarterback. You may be correct about him transferring out because he expected Riley to take over in 2009, which would have been Vizza’s junior season. Or maybe it was other recreational activities that were the driver behind him moving on. Only Gio knows.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/giovanni-vizza-1/gamelog/2008/

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/riley-dodge-1/gamelog/2008/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Navy_vs._North_Texas_football_game
 

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28 minutes ago, untjim1995 said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Navy_vs._North_Texas_football_game
 

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Yes that happened his freshman season of 2007. He came back and played his sophomore season in 2008 as well.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/college_sports/college_football/article/ex-heights-qb-vizza-tossed-football-and-scored-817823.php

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On 8/10/2024 at 11:16 PM, Cr1028 said:

Yes that happened his freshman season of 2007. He came back and played his sophomore season in 2008 as well.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/college_sports/college_football/article/ex-heights-qb-vizza-tossed-football-and-scored-817823.php

Are you talking about Vizza or Dodge?  Vizza was freshman in '07 and Dodge came aboard in '08

 

I think you are mistaken.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/riley-dodge-1.html

https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/stats/_/id/385052/riley-dodge

https://meangreensports.com/sports/football/roster/2008

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3 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

Are you talking about Vizza or Dodge?  Vizza was freshman in '07 and Dodge came aboard in '08

 

I think you are mistaken.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/riley-dodge-1.html

https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/stats/_/id/385052/riley-dodge

https://meangreensports.com/sports/football/roster/2008

The other guy was saying Vizza only played his freshman season of 2007 before being chased off by Rodge and I said that was false because in 2008 Vizza was still the qb for his sophomore season while Riley was a receiver during that 2008 season as a true freshman.

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59 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

The other guy was saying Vizza only played his freshman season of 2007 before being chased off by Rodge and I said that was false because in 2008 Vizza was still the qb for his sophomore season while Riley was a receiver during that 2008 season as a true freshman.

Okay.  I got lost in there somewhere and thought the argument was about Rodge playing in '07  

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8 hours ago, Cr1028 said:

The other guy was saying Vizza only played his freshman season of 2007 before being chased off by Rodge and I said that was false because in 2008 Vizza was still the qb for his sophomore season while Riley was a receiver during that 2008 season as a true freshman.

I think Rodge was committed to UT and Mack Brown thinking Vizza was still here and then Vizza transferred out unexpectedly.

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12 hours ago, meangreenfaninno said:

I think Rodge was committed to UT and Mack Brown thinking Vizza was still here and then Vizza transferred out unexpectedly.

No, Riley flipped his commitment to play with dad. Vizza transferred out after his sophomore season which was Riley’s true freshman season. Vizza was in the 2007 HS class and Riley was 2008.

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8 hours ago, Cr1028 said:

No, Riley flipped his commitment to play with dad. Vizza transferred out after his sophomore season which was Riley’s true freshman season. Vizza was in the 2007 HS class and Riley was 2008.

You are correct that Vizza was here for two years.  Loved that dude, despite all the smoke (cough) and mirrors that surrounded his exit.

Rodge flipped to be with his dad and play QB.  IIRC, Longhorns offer was as a utility player and not a QB.

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I thought Vizza was really stinking good at QB.  I thought for sure, back in that single season where he and Riley's careers overlapped in Denton, that we would see a lot of packages taking advantage of their skills on the field at the same time.

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18 hours ago, greenminer said:

You are correct that Vizza was here for two years.  Loved that dude, despite all the smoke (cough) and mirrors that surrounded his exit.

Rodge flipped to be with his dad and play QB.  IIRC, Longhorns offer was as a utility player and not a QB.

There are Heisman trophy winning quarterbacks that were only offered as DBs at Texas. I never understood how they could miss so bad over there.

Texas A&M offered me as a safety. Texas offered me as an athlete, which meant they could have put me at any position. I wanted to be able to go into the conference and show them why they should have offered me as a quarterback—to prove to them that they made that mistake.

 https://texashighways.com/culture/heisman-quarterback-nfl-commentator-robert-griffin-on-returning-to-texas/

 

“‘I think that's a big reason why I didn't go to the University of Texas. They wouldn't pull the trigger on me and my size at any position,' Manziel said. ‘They wanted me to play safety. Safety, me. Ain't got a lot of white safeties out there Shannon.'”

https://clutchpoints.com/texas-football-news-johnny-manziel-drops-truth-bomb-longhorns-recruiting

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