The Middle Tennessee State football program is getting a winner who is right at home in Floyd Stadium.Tennessee Football Magazine Player of the year Brent Burnette committed Monday to further his football career with the MTSU Blue Raiders.
Burnette, a 6-foot-3, 207-pounder with a rifle arm, won three Class 4A TSSAA state championships on the MTSU turf.He was recently named to the Varsity Sports Media’s All South Phenoms 32 team, where he joined Miami Northwestern’s Jacory Harris at quarterback.
His career is documented in history with the 2008 Maryville senior football class that will graduate in May with a perfect 60-0 mark and four consecutive 4A state championships.
Maryville coach George Quarles is a former high school quarterback with a talent for developing signal callers."Brent's not too much fun to warm up with," Quarles said."
He has great arm strength, size and footwork. But he needed to develop that changeup to go along with his fastball. And that's what he did. He can make all the throws."Burnette won the 2007 Tennessee Titans 4A Mr. Football Award for the Best Back.
He was named the Tennessee Player of the Year by The Orlando Sentinel and selected to the paper’s 2007 All-Southern Player of the Year team.
Burnette completed almost 70 percent of his passes for 3,521 yards and 38 touchdowns against only seven interceptions.
In fact, his 2007 passing production ranks as the third best in TSSAA history. He now holds seven Maryville passing records and is tied for two more.
His elite performance didn’t come as a complete surprise.
Burnette threw for more than 2,000 yards and 20 touchdowns while sharing time at quarterback his junior season.
He was also a dual-starter as a sophomore and solidified his standing as an elite signal-caller in 2006 by completing his first 14 passes over two games.The bigger the game, the better Burnette responded.
In the 2006 4A state championship game at MTSU with Hillsboro, Burnette riddled the Hillsboro secondary with a variety of passes — deep, sideline, across the middle — in a 10-for-15, 215-yard, three touchdown performance.
This season, he was named the Most Valuable Player in the state championship game at MTSU after passing for 227 yards and two touchdowns in a victory over Maplewood.
He inked the scholarship papers on Wednesday at noon. His favorite target, tight end Aaron Douglas joined Burnette as he inks his papers to Tennessee.
Burnette visited MTSU two weeks ago and was scheduled to visit D-I Buffalo last weekend. However, the airport there was closed by a winter storm and he phoned the coaches to cancel the visit.
Burnette, a 6-foot-3, 207-pounder with a rifle arm, won three Class 4A TSSAA state championships on the MTSU turf.He was recently named to the Varsity Sports Media’s All South Phenoms 32 team, where he joined Miami Northwestern’s Jacory Harris at quarterback.
His career is documented in history with the 2008 Maryville senior football class that will graduate in May with a perfect 60-0 mark and four consecutive 4A state championships.
Maryville coach George Quarles is a former high school quarterback with a talent for developing signal callers."Brent's not too much fun to warm up with," Quarles said."
He has great arm strength, size and footwork. But he needed to develop that changeup to go along with his fastball. And that's what he did. He can make all the throws."Burnette won the 2007 Tennessee Titans 4A Mr. Football Award for the Best Back.
He was named the Tennessee Player of the Year by The Orlando Sentinel and selected to the paper’s 2007 All-Southern Player of the Year team.
Burnette completed almost 70 percent of his passes for 3,521 yards and 38 touchdowns against only seven interceptions.
In fact, his 2007 passing production ranks as the third best in TSSAA history. He now holds seven Maryville passing records and is tied for two more.
His elite performance didn’t come as a complete surprise.
Burnette threw for more than 2,000 yards and 20 touchdowns while sharing time at quarterback his junior season.
He was also a dual-starter as a sophomore and solidified his standing as an elite signal-caller in 2006 by completing his first 14 passes over two games.The bigger the game, the better Burnette responded.
In the 2006 4A state championship game at MTSU with Hillsboro, Burnette riddled the Hillsboro secondary with a variety of passes — deep, sideline, across the middle — in a 10-for-15, 215-yard, three touchdown performance.
This season, he was named the Most Valuable Player in the state championship game at MTSU after passing for 227 yards and two touchdowns in a victory over Maplewood.
He inked the scholarship papers on Wednesday at noon. His favorite target, tight end Aaron Douglas joined Burnette as he inks his papers to Tennessee.
Burnette visited MTSU two weeks ago and was scheduled to visit D-I Buffalo last weekend. However, the airport there was closed by a winter storm and he phoned the coaches to cancel the visit.
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