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Article: Healthy Hardesty set for new season.
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- Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2007
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Byline: Gentry Estes
Aug. 6--KNOXVILLE -- Erik Ainge still remembers watching footage of a young tailback rip through a North Carolina high school defense.
Before knowing much else about Montario Hardesty, Tennessee's quarterback turned to a teammate and said, "This kid can play."
"He's had flashes of it when he's 100 percent healthy," Ainge said of Hardesty, "and I believe that he's 100 percent healthy now."
Hardesty, a 6-foot, 205-pound product of New Bern, N.C., arrives for his sophomore season at Tennessee a bit below the radar -- and it doesn't bother him at all.
After undergoing surgeries on both knees, including ...