That said, sometimes saying there will be competition in the spring, and there being "real" competition is something else.

Take, for instance, Paxton Lynch at Memphis under Fuente. Sure there was real competition before Lynch was named starter for the first time. However, does anyone thing there was a "real" competition the spring of Lynch's final year? It would have taken something akin to Lynch "shooting the president" for him to not be named the starter his last season.

Now fast forward to VT in spring of 2019. In this case there will be real honest to goodness competition between RW & QP, and if JJ hadn't have left the program, he'd have been in the middle of the competition as well.

Now what if OP wins the competition and is named starter in 2019. If he lives up to the hype than has been dumped on his broad shoulders, does anyone think there will be real QB competition for 2020? CJF may say there is, but in reality there will not be.