Recruiting Football Talk VII

[Christian Lowe]

When he has the #1 team in Knoxville and we haven't even gotten fully started on his facilities and upgrades, why would he leave?

Because Ole Miss, Miss St, Texas and Arkansas all see themselves as baseball royalty and nothing that Tennessee (or any other school not named LSU) ever does could match them in any way.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Good thing I logged on tonight for the first time in a while!

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YOU ARE AWESOME. POST MORE!

THANKS BUD

*That look back says it all.

 

[SoilVol]

Wildish thing happened in college sports today. Let me paint a picture so you'll understand:

Imagine if you will that Fulmer is still the head coach at Tennessee. We've won a couple more natty's. Peyton Manning retired from the NFL several years earlier and since 2015 has been coaching at, say, UNC. He's won some ACC titles and put them in direct contest with Clemson and FSU for the top of the league. He's getting 1st rounders consistently and recruiting well. Unprecedented success for UNC.

Last year, in this fiction, Fulmer hired Peyton away from UNC and tabs him associate head coach and OC. At some point midseason, Peyton takes over practices, then Fulmer gives him HC duties in games to finish the season. At the end of the season, Fulmer retires and tabs Payton as his successor. Life is good.

But after 2-3 weeks there's been no contract announcement or official word from the AD. There's rumblings behind the scenes.

Suddenly, the AD and boosters have been tracked on a flight to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The next day, they announce Derrick Henry is retiring from professional competition and will be the head football coach at Tennessee. With no HC experience. And his alma mater is our rival. Spurning Peyton.


That basically just happened in collegiate wrestling. Legendary coach John Smith (like, Bobby Bowden of college wrestling maybe) retired from Oklahoma State with alum Coleman Scott tabbed as successor. An athlete he coached to great success who after his Olympic and World competitions were over, took over UNC's program. Putting them at the top of the ACC and having a national titlest. He returned to Stillwater last year as assoc. HC.

Then the AD and boosters flew to State College, PA and hired David Taylor (Olympic Gold, multi-World golds, 2x NCAA champ for Penn State) a week after he didn't get this year's Olympic bid.

Just wild. Did Scott dirty. Don't get me wrong, DT is an awesome guy and will be highly successful at OSU. But if this happened in football or men's basketball... heck, maybe even women's basketball. Like, if we had spurned Holly Warlick and hired UConn alum Diana Taurasi straight out of the WNBA after Pat stepped down. Almost that level of dirty. Except OkSU and PSU don't vehemently hate each other as much.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

It was tongue-in-cheek doc. Just wanted to point out that while lots of forum riff raff made the claim, TCU didn't, and went so far as to mention that Baylor had offered space to house the displaced students.

Cause they was skeerd.

 

[Weezer]

Wildish thing happened in college sports today. Let me paint a picture so you'll understand:

Imagine if you will that Fulmer is still the head coach at Tennessee. We've won a couple more natty's. Peyton Manning retired from the NFL several years earlier and since 2015 has been coaching at, say, UNC. He's won some ACC titles and put them in direct contest with Clemson and FSU for the top of the league. He's getting 1st rounders consistently and recruiting well. Unprecedented success for UNC.

Last year, in this fiction, Fulmer hired Peyton away from UNC and tabs him associate head coach and OC. At some point midseason, Peyton takes over practices, then Fulmer gives him HC duties in games to finish the season. At the end of the season, Fulmer retires and tabs Payton as his successor. Life is good.

But after 2-3 weeks there's been no contract announcement or official word from the AD. There's rumblings behind the scenes.

Suddenly, the AD and boosters have been tracked on a flight to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The next day, they announce Derrick Henry is retiring from professional competition and will be the head football coach at Tennessee. With no HC experience. And his alma mater is our rival. Spurning Peyton.


That basically just happened in collegiate wrestling. Legendary coach John Smith (like, Bobby Bowden of college wrestling maybe) retired from Oklahoma State with alum Coleman Scott tabbed as successor. An athlete he coached to great success who after his Olympic and World competitions were over, took over UNC's program. Putting them at the top of the ACC and having a national titlest. He returned to Stillwater last year as assoc. HC.

Then the AD and boosters flew to State College, PA and hired David Taylor (Olympic Gold, multi-World golds, 2x NCAA champ for Penn State) a week after he didn't get this year's Olympic bid.

Just wild. Did Scott dirty. Don't get me wrong, DT is an awesome guy and will be highly successful at OSU. But if this happened in football or men's basketball... heck, maybe even women's basketball. Like, if we had spurned Holly Warlick and hired UConn alum Diana Taurasi straight out of the WNBA after Pat stepped down. Almost that level of dirty. Except OkSU and PSU don't vehemently hate each other as much.

Sounds like this Coleman Scott guy needs to turn heel and challenge David Taylor to a "loser leaves town" street fight with tables, ladders, chairs, and kendo sticks. Maybe falls count anywhere?

 

[SmokinBob]

If cows are laying down in a field it might rain. If they are laying down around trees, rain is imminent shortly.

If leaves on the trees are being blown upside down, it's certain it will rain soon.

True or False?

True - only difference - If leaves on trees are blown upside down, storm is coming.

 

[vol_in_ga]

NFL teams that have never won the Super Bowl.

Minnesota Vikings
Buffalo Bills
Cincinnati Bengals
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
Arizona Cardinals
Tennessee Titans
Los Angeles Chargers
Cleveland Browns
Detroit Lions
Jacksonville Jaguars
Houston Texans

Well since it won’t be the falcons, I’d guess bills/bengals to grab it first. What yall think?

 

[vol_in_ga]

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I'm in the ATL Bermuda Triangle

It’s real. If you live here, might as well hand deliver.

 

[SmokinBob]

I like her - looking forward to the season.

 

[vol_in_ga]

River otters are cool little animals but theyre also little savages, will wipe ponds clean, and absolutely do a number on fish populations. They're wolves of the river. Native and an important part of riverine systems but with the drop off of trapping and fur prices they've really taken off after reintroduction.

They're also pretty dangerous. They're in the top 5 for wildlife attacks in some states. Also if they were humans they'd all be in prison. They do some awful things to each other

 

[vol_in_ga]

“I think we’re way ahead of schedule in really any way you measure it,” White said last week before the Big Orange Caravan stop in Chattanooga. “I mean, we’re in Year 2 of our five-year strategic plan where we hoped by the end of Year 5 to maybe have the stadium sold out, and it’s been sold out now a second year in a row. And where he’s taken the program so quickly from what he inherited from a culture standpoint, where the roster was – that was, if you remember, the first year of the transfer portal, we had 35-plus guys transfer out – it’s really been amazing to watch him rebuild the program so quickly."

Year 2? Aren’t we in year 4?

 

[vol_in_ga]

How is this possible