Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[Glitch]

I’m about to do the abacos

What you do in the privacy of your home is your business, but don't bring your nasty kink on here, please.


Also, @Weezer is in to that sort of nastiness. You might want to invite him.

 

[screenthis]

OK, here are the sports that get me most excited as a Vol Fan. Football first. Basketball a fairly distant second. Womens basketball an even more distant third. Then Baseball. All other sports I generally learn about from posters here (Tennis, Golf). I'd possibly have more interest in those sports if I could watch them on TV. Not driving up 3.5 hours though just to see those sports.

Just interested in other's take.

 

[vols 30]

OK, here are the sports that get me most excited as a Vol Fan. Football first. Basketball a fairly distant second. Womens basketball an even more distant third. Then Baseball. All other sports I generally learn about from posters here (Tennis, Golf). I'd possibly have more interest in those sports if I could watch them on TV. Not driving up 3.5 hours though just to see those sports.

Just interested in other's take.

Football and men's basketball then a huge gap until lady Vols basketball/softball. Not a college baseball fan

 

[knoxvol52]

OK, here are the sports that get me most excited as a Vol Fan. Football first. Basketball a fairly distant second. Womens basketball an even more distant third. Then Baseball. All other sports I generally learn about from posters here (Tennis, Golf). I'd possibly have more interest in those sports if I could watch them on TV. Not driving up 3.5 hours though just to see those sports.

Just interested in other's take.

Enjoy them all equally, except for Rowing...

 

[screenthis]

Football and men's basketball then a huge gap until lady Vols basketball/softball. Not a college baseball fan

Vol baseball successes more recently got me engaged in that sport for the first time. I've actually watched some of the games (of course watched during our championship run). I remember Track being big when I was in college (willie gault). It was fun to follow back then.

 

[Rizzo924]

Do you think Swain will be the replacement for Foster?

I hope not.

 

[triadvolfan]

I didn't follow recruiting very closely back then. Was there any Tennessee commits who didn't show on campus and instead followed them to USC?

If I remember correctly, there were 8 or so early enrollees that were already on campus. There was a team meeting where they were discussing Kiffin leaving and Orgeron was calling the ee's telling them not to go to class and to go to USC instead. One of the early enrollees put it on speaker phone so the whole team heard it.

I don't remember any of the ee's going to USC, although it's been a while so I may be misremembering.

Yes. I particularly got a kick out of Orgeron calling our commits to tell them not to show up on campus or they wouldn't be able to follow he and Kiffin to USC. He's a real class act.

I didn't say he had character, I just find him entertaining. He hasn't spent the last 17 years annoying me the way Kiffin has. Now that we have a good coach I'm probably too mellow about all the people that dumped on the program.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

OK, here are the sports that get me most excited as a Vol Fan. Football first. Basketball a fairly distant second. Womens basketball an even more distant third. Then Baseball. All other sports I generally learn about from posters here (Tennis, Golf). I'd possibly have more interest in those sports if I could watch them on TV. Not driving up 3.5 hours though just to see those sports.

Just interested in other's take.

Baseball is dessert after the main course of football and a side salad of basketball season.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

I'd watch the hell out of track & field or diving, but never broadcast anywhere.

Football
Basketball
Baseball/Softball

I actually enjoy watching Softball as much as baseball...partly because the games are played quicker usually and less pitcher changes to slow things down.

 

[Dadof2Vols]

They should go to 24 teams and let the last 6 teams be play-in teams from 12 bowls the week before the playoff starts. It would give a little meaning back to the bowl games.

I say move the non major bowls to week 0 or 1(labor day) and have pre-season 1s from the different conferences and 2s, etc play each other.

That fixes the early season polls and prevents conferences from slacking on their scheduling and it takes scheduling OCC out of their hands and drives up competition from the get go. Don’t have a pool,lake or mountain home to go to for Labor Day, go to a previously worthless bowl game.

It used to work for Nascar with Daytona, why not CFB

 

[knoxvol52]

I'd watch the hell out of track & field or diving, but never broadcast anywhere.

Football
Basketball
Baseball/Softball

I actually enjoy watching Softball as much as baseball...partly because the games are played quicker usually and less pitcher changes to slow things down.

Track&Field and Diving are shown on the ESPN app...

 

[Orange.]

LSU baseball, winners of 2 of the last 3 NCs, projected to finish 1st in the SEC with 9/16 1st place votes pre-season, #2 preseason nationally, likely the most expensive roster in the country, and the current best HC in the game, finished 9-21 in regular season SEC play and will miss the NCAA tournament.

People who were on Elander's case need to spend some time meditating on that.

 

[TheBigOne10]

Bring back Tim Priest damn it! Make him say no lol

 

[Orange.]

LSU baseball, winners of 2 of the last 3 NCs, projected to finish 1st in the SEC with 9/16 1st place votes pre-season, #2 preseason nationally, likely the most expensive roster in the country, and the current best HC in the game, finished 9-21 in regular season SEC play and will miss the NCAA tournament.

I just found a couple of interesting stats in an LSU season review article.

The MLB’s usage of the ABS system has seen an overturned rate of 53 percent. So far, through two days and eight games of the SEC Tournament, the overall challenge success rate is 62.1 percent. Challenges from batters on called strikes are at 50 percent and challenges from catchers are at a staggering 66.7 percent.

And

LSU [before the start of today's games] leads the SEC in strikeouts and doesn’t have an individual pitcher in the top 15.

The Tiger pitching staff was awful in so many departments, but strikeouts wasn’t one of them. Ole Miss (32 short) and Mississippi State (51 short) are in striking distance...

 

[Orange.]

Bring back Tim Priest damn it! Make him say no lol

It would be great, but at 77 he deserves and prefers his retirement. I don't know if he has health problems; I hope not. But what a VFL!

 

[knoxvol52]

 

[volfaninpa]

Bring back Tim Priest damn it! Make him say no lol

Him losing it when Tennessee threw interceptions on the 1 yard line against Florida during the Butch tenure is epic!

 

[jave36]

I'd watch the hell out of track & field or diving, but never broadcast anywhere.

Football
Basketball
Baseball/Softball

I actually enjoy watching Softball as much as baseball...partly because the games are played quicker usually and less pitcher changes to slow things down.

I still say ESPN should have backed softball instead of the wnba. It's in the same level of enjoyment as baseball for me too, whereas the wnba is such a bad product.

They'd have had more success than they have had trying to force the wnba down everyone's throats.

Track and field major events are usually broadcast.

 

[JohnnyD1024]

 

[Orange.]

Sank is stank. Time to jettison meaningless bowls and get to the real playoffs. Anytime you can raise the level of play and numbers of programs that want to compete at a high level it helps the sport overall.

The biggest thing that is incompatible are the conference championship games. I suspect ESPN and Stanky are trying to hold on to that money. If they are going to play a championship game, the game needs to count. And that automatically puts an extra loss on a #1 or #2 team in the SEC. And the top two finishers will play 10 conference games.

You can't incorporate conference title games into the playoff: the seeding would be completely wrong.

But what is even worse is a game that doesn't count. Bama was absolutely humiliated in the SEC title game (-3 rushing yards and their only score was due to Birmingham refs marching Bama down the field with multiple penalties to prevent Bama from being shut out). Birmingham's boys then waltzed into the playoffs -- because their last game didn't count. Actually, Bama's first game in effect didn't count, either, because (as the media narrative had it) that humiliating loss to FSU "was a long time ago."

Leading the narrative was Saban, of course, who should not be on a network: he is still affiliated with Bama and has an office there.

Fortunately, it accidentally worked out last year because we got to watch Indiana absolutely sh-t stomp Bama. (Down big, Bama kicked a FG to keep from being shut out.)

 

[Orange.]

I still say ESPN should have backed softball instead of the wnba. It's in the same level of enjoyment as baseball for me too, whereas the wnba is such a bad product.

They'd have had more success than they have had trying to force the wnba down everyone's throats.

Track and field major events are usually broadcast.

Disney/ESPN appears to have made something other than a business decision.

 

[Orange.]

I see shoes, a belt, a wallet, and tail meat on skewers.

 

[Orange.]

https://www.espn.com/contributor/pete-thamel/0dbec765a052d

Kiffin hiring Orgeron!

 

[franklinpence]

Is @Devo182 still around? In Asheville tonight for work. Which Applebees should I eat at?

 

[Enki_Amenra]

I say move the non major bowls to week 0 or 1(labor day) and have pre-season 1s from the different conferences and 2s, etc play each other.

That fixes the early season polls and prevents conferences from slacking on their scheduling and it takes scheduling OCC out of their hands and drives up competition from the get go. Don’t have a pool,lake or mountain home to go to for Labor Day, go to a previously worthless bowl game.

It used to work for Nascar with Daytona, why not CFB

I thought of something similar a while back. Instead of a spring game, make it pre-season bowl games. Bowls to kick off the start of a new season. There are probably enough bowl games to do them at spring and the beginning of fall camp,

Also thought it would be cool if we did a real spring game, but with an FCS or small g5 team. Help the smaller schools out with $, make the spring a little more interesting, and take the FCS games out of the reg season. I guess we could combine the 2 together and make them bowl games. Would be cool for FCS teams to get a bowl game vs a P4 team and the fans get a real spring game.