Quincy Carter
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 28 Nov
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And we took the opportunity, you know, at the time. East Cobb, which is, you know, well, really pretty nationally well-known, only had one, you know, team out the whole state for each age group. So we took advantage of that opportunity. So from 13 to 17, you know, I played a lot of travel ball, played about, shoot, 80 to 100 games a summer.
I had a really, really good coach at Southwest DeKalb, too, Coach Pruitt, who helped start, you know, the read-in program before Coach Goodwin later took it along And then the really winning region championships and the whole nine over there in the state championship at Redan.
But yeah, so with me getting so much experience during the summertime and my game really taking off, you know, a lot of scouts start, you know, buzzing around Southwestern Cab, you know, during the spring of my senior season. And my hometown team, who I say, well, my second hometown team, I can't Respect Atlanta and Decatur. Good Lord. Get me because, boy, my people here really fed my spirit.
But, yeah, my original hometown team, let's say it like that, the Chicago Cubs drafted me in the second round. And it was a dream come true, Mick. I think I told you this, but I tell everybody, man, that getting that phone call at graduation practice was pretty cool, you know, because I didn't know what time it was going to happen. You know, the baseball draft could go on forever.
you know, what, I think 30, 45 minutes a pick or something like that, if I'm not mistaken. I think it's changed now. But to get that call of graduation, man, it was pretty cool. Heck yeah.
What is that like? Well, shoot, not to cut you off, sorry about that. But me and my granddad, you know, I went to Chicago right after my short kind of baseball season growing up in Gresham Park. I went to Chicago the rest of the summer. So me and my granddad sat there and watched. Well, first we had to watch the Bozo show because grandma wasn't playing games.
Then it was General, I think General Hospital, One Life to Live, one of them. You know, then we can watch the game. But yeah, man, shoot, we watched, you know, Chicago baseball, man, all summer. And growing up and seeing Andre Dawson, I mean, Sean Dawson, Andre Dawson, I'm sorry. Sean Dawson, let me get my guys right. Mark Grace. Ryan Sandberg. Yeah, Ryan Sandberg.
And then walking in the locker room, drafted, which is so, you know, surreal. But man, that was, it was surreal, you know, to really get that phone call. And I think my mom called me first on the three-way with him. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. That's wild.
Exactly. It was.
Well, the first thing I was buying was a Mercedes. But then Sharon Carter Embry was buying something else. Not that she was taking my money, but I wasn't about to spend all this money on a Mercedes. So I think we settled. What did I get? Eddie Bauer. Yeah, I'll never forget. I got the Eddie Bauer edition. You know, Eddie Bauer started making clothes, I think, also. So I had the jacket.
What was that, a Ford, I think? Heck. The Explorer. Yeah, the Explorer. There it is. The Explorer. And I got the Eddie Bauer edition. Yeah, heck yeah. But in my mind, like you were, I thought I was getting ready to get a Mercedes, but that wasn't happening. And my mom wanted me to be smart. Smart for her, for disciplining me.
Yeah, well, it was probably my first morning at practice, and it's rookie ball. So rookie ball is, you know, you think you're getting ready to come to the park and have a little batting practice and then play a game. But rookie ball work started at 730, you know, to about 11. And so that's fielding, that's outfield drills, that's base running, shoot, you name it.
I mean, well, fielding situations as far as having men on base, you know, hitting the ball in the gap where you're throwing the ball. Batting practice for an hour, you're hitting live pitching in the cage. And then you go have lunch, probably about 10.30 maybe, 10.30, 11. And then you're out on the field, you know, playing a game at 12 o'clock.
So it became grown man business right away, you know, that first day. But hey, that's what I dreamed of. And that's what I wanted to do. So I embraced it, man. I embraced it and loved it.
Okay. All right. Now, I got to tell the whole story, too, now. Yep. And that whole story was... You got a bag. Well, no. No. I'm still not going to tell on nobody. But the whole story is, though, Mick, Georgia was getting ready to be on probation or was already on probation. And I just didn't feel comfortable in possibly going to college and not being able to play in bowl games.
Now I've got to add my real spin to it. And that's that, you know, Georgia Tech was pretty decent at the time. You know, the offense they were running, Ralph Free.
I didn't blend the red and black, but Mick, I owe you this one. There you go. That's my answer. But it was a it was a business decision, too. It was.
Yeah, it was a dream come true too, man. And shout out to Coach Donnie, you know, who believed in me. Shout out to him, you know, saying the words to get me down there, but then actually delivering as far as giving me a chance to compete, you know, against five other quarterbacks.
And, you know, being an African, being the only African-American in that room in Georgia, really not having a history of having a black quarterback there since, well, I think James Jackson. James Jackson. Yeah. So the opportunity, you know, to be a quarterback at the University of Georgia was a dream come true.
And, and you just, you said it best, man, for us to be throwing, you know, first and second down sometimes instead of running the ball on first and second down was unheard of. But, you know, Eric Zaire, he set the precedent for that. And he's, you know, he showed that it could be done. And then I had to go in and prove that an African American can do the same thing as Eric Zaire.
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