Article: Why Vols Won't Miss Tiny Richardson

#29
#29
I love having Mosley but he will not be ready to help next year unless somebody is a big bust.
 
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#31
College football will always be a revolving door of players and that's just the way it works.

Schollies are only a 1 year, year to year deal, you either get renewed or you go play elsewhere.

Kids graduate every year or some of the best leave early for the NFL $$$ and that's just the reality of college football.

Every kid and his family knows this coming out of high school.

It's just a part of real life, do well, get better, stay out of trouble or go elsewhere.

Sounds harsh but life is tough, the NFL is tough so everyone has to learn to do a good job and be productive or else there's always someone else just waiting to take your job away from you.

No matter who you are or what your job is you can always be replaced by someone that will do a better job than you're doing.

Competition in everything is always a good thing because it makkes people work harder, try to learn more and better themselves all the time.

You don't get a pay raise for doing a lousy job despite what some idiots believe.

You don't get to keep your job for being the worst employee despite what some idiots think.

Everyone has the same equal opportunity to do well and make themselves better and those that fail choose to be lazy or not work to make themselves better.

How can you demand that a coach get Wins and at the same time demand that a coach keep lazy, subpar players?

How can you own stock and demand that company make profits and your stock value go up and you also make money and in the same breath demand that useless employees keep their jobs just because they belong to some dumb union that doesn't hold employees accountable to be dependable and do a good job that they're being paid to do?

How can you demand that your children get a good education to prepare them for adult life and then not stand up and demand the teachers unions to replace teachers that do nothing but go through the motions just to get a paycheck and the kids go through a lousy system that doesn't prepare them properly?

Either do the job right or go get a different job because reality says it's YOU that decides to make yourself better...or not.

Double standards have never worked and they shouldn't.

I feel sorry for any kid that can't or won't do what's required and has to move on to a smaller school.

I always felt sorry for all the people I was forced to fire but the reality is that in most cases those kids or people were talked to and warned several times before those people chose to force someone to tell them it's time for them to move on.

Welcome to real life.

#BrickbyBrick...VFL...GBO!!!
 
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ManningBerry#1 said:
Yeah, we shouldn't miss an NFL left tackle at all. Lol
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Yep about the size of it. Same people will be wishing we had him back next season. I'm hoping our Oline will be better next year with more time in the system but we lost a lot of talent and experience even though it underperformed at times. It would've been nice to bring back Richardson.
 
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OrangeDonkey said:
What do you propose? Like come on a JUCO is what you do for situations like that.

Haters gonna hate.
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What's your issue? I just said it was a problem... I didn't blame anyone or show anything but sympathy for the situation.

Haters gonna hate? Yeah, pretty much.
 
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walkenvol said:
Like Auburn did with Nick Marshal or Cam Newton or Nick Farley? Or TN with CP or Charlie Garner or Jesse M?
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You need more than one option. It is just a bad proposition to put all your hopes in one guy who might not work out. It IS where they are. Dooley didn't get a good LT HS prospect after Tiny and Jones has not yet in his two classes as far as I know.

LT's are unique athletes and great ones are pretty rare. You CAN build them or you can find them. Jones is unfortunately having to find one... or hopefully two.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Just hope he was highly touted and recruited for a reason and dominates next year. Fingers crossed, black lights, incense, candles, you know the drill.
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I'd really like to see them finish off with a good HS LT prospect.

None of the current commits really look like LT material to me but maybe I'm wrong. Do you see something different? Do you think any of them have that level of athleticism?
 
#39
#39
If anybody thinks Tiny going pro is not a loss or big deal is setting themselves up for a big disappointment . When these guys were freshmen they were really bad because they had no experience and now Tn is right back to square one. Be careful what you wish for.
 
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sjt18 said:
I'd really like to see them finish off with a good HS LT prospect.

None of the current commits really look like LT material to me but maybe I'm wrong. Do you see something different? Do you think any of them have that level of athleticism?
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I was referring to Blair as LT. The rest? Who really knows. I do know this, the 2010 o line with 3 true freshmen was horrible followed by the horrendous 2011 o line. Hopefully the 2014 line isn't as bad as those two.
 
#44
#44
I will admit that I was not aware that Tiny "has been battling a microfracture in his knee." How widely publicized was this injury?
 
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#45
#45
Either way our O line is going to lack experience next season. That should be a major concern going into the fall.
 
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