🏈 Tua debut?

[rick4bama]

He's the first to be on scholarship sense David Smith that he being a left handed.

 

[We All Bleed Crimson]

I think Tua had an excellent outing.
He showed patience and leadership. He's gonna be a good one!

 

[JoshB]

I thought he did well. The moment was never too big for Tua and when Najee got in the way of a TD throw he showed a lot of leadership. With so many offenses from the best of the best college teams bogging down this weekend, it's good to know we have so much talent at the position.

His first drive with the starters was def. shaky. He hesitated too much on his first pass and then held the ball too long on the sack, but he bounced back and I'm glad Saban gave him plenty of reps. You're not ever going to be ready by practice only and if Hurts were to go down we would need him to have some experience.

 

[Tidestalker]

On another note - Thought Brian Robinson would get some carries in this game. Would love to see him RS at this point, considering Jacobs will be coming back soon and carries are already spread out. Potentially losing 2 backs next season he's in line for a nice role next year... This year it looks like a waste (unless he's been on S/T's?)

 

[It Takes Eleven]

He's the first to be on scholarship sense David Smith that he being a left handed.

I'm sure I'm missing some, but since Stabler I can only remember Don Jacobs, Shula and Smith. Anyone else?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Well, one thing is for sure.

If we don't see him today, we won't see him till next year.

You were sure we wouldn't see him at all...

 

[It Takes Eleven]

lmao its as if Saban had said all along that Tua would play or something... lol

Sometimes folks want to try to read between the lines to support what they think - and they ignore the lines.

 

[rick4bama]

I'm sure I'm missing some, but since Stabler I can only remember Don Jacobs, Shula and Smith. Anyone else?

My words may be wrong, but , per Eli, David was the last left handed to have been given a scholarship, until Tua was giving one.

 

[TerryP]

I'm sure I'm missing some, but since Stabler I can only remember Don Jacobs, Shula and Smith. Anyone else?

Back in the spring of this year (April, maybe?) Cassagrande wrote an article about an interview he had with Tua's dad. As it ends up, Tua is naturally right-handed but his dad forced the switch.

Anyway, in the same article Jacobs isn't mentioned, but Smith, Stabler, and Shula were as I recall.

"How Tua became left handed" through Google should pull it up...

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Back in the spring of this year (April, maybe?) Cassagrande wrote an article about an interview he had with Tua's dad. As it ends up, Tua is naturally right-handed but his dad forced the switch.

Anyway, in the same article Jacobs isn't mentioned, but Smith, Stabler, and Shula were as I recall.

"How Tua became left handed" through Google should pull it up...

Oops. This may be why.

 

[alagator]

Back in the spring of this year (April, maybe?) Cassagrande wrote an article about an interview he had with Tua's dad. As it ends up, Tua is naturally right-handed but his dad forced the switch.

Anyway, in the same article Jacobs isn't mentioned, but Smith, Stabler, and Shula were as I recall.

"How Tua became left handed" through Google should pull it up...

Oops. This may be why.

How Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa became left-handed

 

[JoshB]

I'm sure I'm missing some, but since Stabler I can only remember Don Jacobs, Shula and Smith. Anyone else?

Eli gave the litany of left-handed QBs in the history of Bama during the game Saturday. Like someone else said, Smith is the last one he cited as being a scholarship player but noted that the 1998 freshmen featured a walk-on that ended up winning a letter that was left-handed but I cant for the life of me remember who it was. Only QBs I remember off hand from 98 are Zow and John David. Another one was Frost maybe? But I think he ended up converting to receiver or something.