Not the Expert, also known by his real name Drew Morris, is a Youtube content creator who focuses primarily on Let's Plays of the NCAA Football video game series. His best known series focuses on the University of Georgia Fairburn (UGF) football team, known as the Pandas, a fictional team created in NCAA Football 14's Dynasty Mode. He followed this with the Death Valley State University (DVSU) Dingos, a similar series surrounding a team of walk-ons playing in the desert.
Tropes:
- The Ace: UGF has had several standout players, but the offensive and defensive units each have one in particular.
- On offense, it's Daniel Sanders, whom Drew has referred to multiple times as the greatest receiver in UGF history. He's got plenty to back it up, namely holding all but one receiving record in UGF history. Became Drew's most reliable weapon by far in his senior season and demonstrated a ridiculous knack for getting around defenders and making contested catches. Additionally, he performed well running the jet sweep in his sophomore and senior seasons. To top it all off, he was skilled enough to get appointed the emergency quarterback after Andre Avery declared his transfer, although Drew never had to use him.
- On the other side, Nehemiah Fowler grew into a dominant defensive force in Season 5. Drew loved controlling him during plays as he could fly all over the field, and was regularly seen making sacks or tackles for loss in addition to grabbing interceptions.
- DVSU has William Corona, nicknamed "The Virus", who showed ability as a quarterback, running back and wide reciever, on route to a Heisman victory.
- Acrofatic: Backup QB Howard Cooke in UGF Season 1. Notable for scoring the first touchdown in UGF history...on a 22 yard scramble.
- Always Someone Better: Andre Avery was recruited to play quarterback during Will Horton's time as starter, but after Horton graduated, Jimmy Williams ended up taking the reins. When Williams declared for the draft a year later, Avery seemed like the clear choice to start...only for Drew to choose incoming freshman Ken Burks due to his running ability and potential. Ultimately, Drew had Avery transfer to Missouri to give him a shot at starting. It should be noted, though, that a considerable portion of the fanbase didn't consider Burks to be better or more deserving than Avery.
- The Bus Came Back: BJ Hale graduated early on in the Pandas series, only to return as the coach for the Dingos
- Celebrity Resemblance: Drew and Tony Romo, which is why he gives the latter name to UGF's coach.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: A fair amount of these in the UGF series, both in UGF's favor and against them. If the rating bars are so far in another team's favor that they're shaking, it's safe to bet that this will happen.
- For the first three games in school history, UGF played Georgia, Alabama, and Ohio State. The scores were predictably lopsided.
- UGF pulls off an unexpected one against a ranked Pitt team in Season 4 as they grab 10 interceptions en route to scoring over 70 points. Against a ranked opponent.
- Downer Ending: The end of Season 3, when UGF loses its bowl game for the only time in the series due to committing four turnovers. To add insult to injury, it's against rival Georgia.
- First-Name Basis: Drew usually refers to his players by their first and last names...except for Mike Marquardt, whom he simply calls "Mike" due to an unwillingness to try pronouncing his last name.
- Fragile Speedster: Ken Burks, the third starting quarterback in UGF history. He's a speedy dual threat player, but is rather injury-prone, getting injured in multiple games in his freshman season and even missing three weeks at one point.
- Hero of Another Story:
- Tulsa running back Greg Larkin in UGF Season 6. The Pandas never played Tulsa, but Drew became interested in him after seeing his stats on the Heisman watch, and was happy when he won the Heisman.
- Andre Avery in Season 7 as we follow his exploits at Mizzou, aside from the two games where he plays UGF and becomes a Hero Antagonist.
- In-Series Nickname:
- Drew refers to the cheerleaders as "thotties".
- UGF's stadium, "The Big House", is nicknamed "The Adamodome" after Season 1 to honor
Memetic Badass Tom Adamo.
- It's Personal: When UGF plays Oregon in Season 6, Drew spots multiple players on Oregon that chose the Ducks over the Pandas, and becomes interested in shutting them down.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Blaze Bortles, who according to Drew has no relation to Blake.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted with Will Horton and Will Smith.
- Mike Marquardt and Mike Holt.
- An extreme example of this trope being averted came from "Backbreaker is a very confusing football game", where his team, the Drew Morris, consisted entirely of clones of himself.
- The Rival: As is typical for a football team, even a fictional one, although Drew's ideas are different from the game's. The game officially lists Virginia as UGF's rival, although there is little connection between them besides being in the same conference in Seasons 4 and 5. In Drew's mind, UGF's top rival is Georgia due to their geographic proximity, as well as Georgia State when UGF was not as good.
- Self-Deprecation: Drew is usually pretty quick to own up to mistakes he makes during games and make fun of himself for doing them.
- Shout-Out:
- Drew named some of the UGF players and recruits after people he knows, particularly Andy Francis, Sayquan Jones, Michael Grayson, Jacob Rigdon, Nick Lockert, Zach Nash, Dylan Reutter, Rory Alston, Dan Vescio, Ben Schmidt, Connor Hoffman, Dylan Brown, and Tom Adamo.
- The DVSU roster that Drew received gives a couple to the UGF Pandas in the form of Brylan Down and Dom Atamo, as well as Ryan Dingle's cousin Bill Dingle.
- Signature Move: The Fullback Dive
- Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: The Pandas, now multiple time champions and still being coached by Tony Romo, become rivals to the new protagonist DVSU Dingos.
- Unknown Rival: With San Diego State running back Tyler XXXX in Season 5, due to him competing heavily with Raishaun Tanner for the Heisman and ultimately winning. However, he's just a computer generated player with made-up stats, and has no real drive to win the Heisman.
