Tony Vitello compares Tennessee baseball player's QB skills to Vols football coach Josh Heupel
Tennessee Vols baseball coach Tony Vitello said recently that one of his baseball players has some quarterback skills that reminds him a little bit of UT football coach Josh Heupel, who won a national championship as a quarterback at Oklahoma in 2000 (and finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting). And surprisingly, it's not RHP […]
Tennessee Vols baseball coach Tony Vitello said recently that one of his baseball players has some quarterback skills that reminds him a little bit of UT football coach Josh Heupel, who won a national championship as a quarterback at Oklahoma in 2000 (and finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting).
And surprisingly, it's not RHP Drew Beam, a former high school quarterback that can sling it.
Vitello joined the "In off the Bench" podcast earlier this month and while he acknowledged that Beam is probably "QB1" on the Tennessee baseball team, he pointed out first baseman Blake Burke as a player that reminds him of Heupel as a quarterback.
"I don't think so," said Vitello when asked if anyone on the baseball team can compete with Beam's quarterback skills. "You know (RHP) AJ Russell has the arm strength and Blake Burke kind of has — here at Tennessee, Coach Heupel is our favorite quarterback — and Blake Burke does have a little bit of rhythm and flow and can sling it from different angles like Coach Heupel used to do when he should've won a Heisman. He won a national championship. But neither one of those guys (Russell or Burke) would get the nod to start on opening day if we were playing football down in Dallas instead of baseball."
Just another example of how multi-sport athletes make the best players in college and beyond.
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