"I don't feel like an underdog at all," Hearn said. "Coach [Nick Hill] knows what I can do."
On Jan. 14, a Football Championship Subdivision scout tweeted that the quarterback battle between fifth-year transfer Josh Straughan and sophomore Sam Straub will be an intense fight.
Football fans, like this scout, may believe that a sophomore, and certainly a fifth-year transwer, would have the leg up on Hearn.
Hearn takes exception to this assumtion and said tweets like that motivate him.