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[VolJarhead]

Name a more disappointing performance

Wake forest in 85 under Majors.

 

[Buddr]

Does that comment extend to the coaching staff???

My thoughts too, seen a lot of possibly unprepared players for the game.

 

[Jackcrevol]

My thoughts too, seen a lot of possibly unprepared players for the game.

we were definitely unprepared

 

[VolJarhead]

Getting blown out by a team the quality of Ohio state doesn't rank anywhere near some of the losses we have taken. You can say we looked confused or not ready, but there are other losses that I can point to (2001 LSU) that were way more painful.

 

[Buddr]

My thoughts too, seen a lot of possibly unprepared players for the game.

we were definitely unprepared

Yep this is not all on the players.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Yep this is not all on the players.

100%

 

[cgrish]

The Vols got their ass kicked by a pissed off motivated more talented team.

Right, and much more motivated than we were

 

[cgrish]

We definitely benefited from an easier schedule than most others in the SEC. I’m concerned about next year. We will have more areas of question than we did this year, but I will wait and see before I panic like so many others.

I am very concerned about our recruiting. 2022 was Hypes best team, and the stars were not his recruits.

 

[Bigorangefaninga]

You throw enough money at any 18 year old high school football player and they will come here. That was my point. That's where this is.

it doesn't mean you are going to win championships. It doesn't mean the kid is going to be worth a ****. It just means you can get the players you want. It is nothing different from what goes on in the rest of professional sports.

Yes, but the issue is, we already throw the 2nd most amount of money at players in NCAA football, so instead of it being about money, maybe it’s the fact that we have some crappy coaches that don’t need to be here and need to be replaced! Because if we are that far out talented by OSU but not that far behind in NIL payments there is a disconnect there that needs to be taken care of. Bad player evals and no development is what I am seeing! We have a 5 star WR that was ranked right there with the others and he barely saw the field and even when he did there wasn’t much there to show. Cam and Wingo both had pretty good seasons although not to what Williams and Smith did, but ours never showed up even though our WR room is average at best. So we just aren’t spending our money correctly!

 

[Bigorangefaninga]

Except that OSU has many many consecutive top five recruiting classes while we have barely been hovering outside the top 10.
Stacking classes over time to build depth is maybe more important than how much a team spends in the current year.

Yes, but they have also lost a lot of those players also that weren’t getting playing time. Thats what’s happening with every team that has recruited amazing like Bama through the years, these players aren’t wanting to sit and wait their turn. The thing is they have paid for the correct players and we haven’t. So they have lost a ton of their recruiting classes that were top ranked, but they have kept the studs on those to be really top heavy. But make no mistake, they had a patchwork OL the other night and still made our DL look like trash!

 

[StuckInBamaVol]

We were straight outplayed, out coached, and very out talented.