Mike Matthews to portal? [He’s staying]

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Smokymtnbullet said:
They addressed it in a IG chat.They don’t like their coach but love Heupel
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I’m not even sure how much truth there was to that.

Spillman, Webb, Leacock were all told basically to kick rocks. Nimrod had potential but couldn’t catch the ball. Squirrel needed money that he wasn’t going to get here. All of those above leaving didn’t shock the program or concern it at all. Matthews of course did and is why were scrambling to get him locked up. I don’t see him leaving.

A lot easier to say you left bc you didn’t like a coach than to say you left bc you weren’t good enough to get on the field here going forwards.
 
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purp said:
Georgia is sitting at 0 incoming and 8 outgoing on On3 and ranked worse than us on their scale. Is this the end for Kirby as well?
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Georgia just recruited five 5* and eighteen 4* players and Lord knows who from the portal. For them it's just next man up and they will be just fine but Tennessee didn't sign five 5* and eighteen 4*.
 
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Maybe we can blame Deion. He walked into CO and told a bunch of guys to leave or show him something. Maybe Heupel is doing this on a small scale every year.

I cleaned the DB room last year, I think it's time to clean the WR room this year.

There's always the chance someone like Matthews plays a pretty good chess game too and uses your strategy against you. It happens but they'll probably work it out.

It's one of the "advantages" of the crazy transfer rules that you can do these "clean ups" as a coach and pick up talent in the Spring.
 
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DaddyChad said:
I’m not even sure how much truth there was to that.

Spillman, Webb, Leacock were all told basically to kick rocks. Nimrod had potential but couldn’t catch the ball. Squirrel needed money that he wasn’t going to get here. All of those above leaving didn’t shock the program or concern it at all. Matthews of course did and is why were scrambling to get him locked up. I don’t see him leaving.

A lot easier to say you left bc you didn’t like a coach than to say you left bc you weren’t good enough to get on the field here going forwards.
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I can see this but you have to wonder why in the world all the bench players from one specific position group bolted all at once. Makes no sense especially when we are losing Thornton, Squirrel and Bru, basically all our starting WRs. You'd think there would be plenty of chances to get in the game next season.

There has to be a common cause that made all these specific players make the same decision.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
Georgia just recruited five 5* and eighteen 4* players and Lord knows who from the portal. For them it's just next man up and they will be just fine but Tennessee didn't sign five 5* and eighteen 4*.
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Correct. Compared to our two 5* and 10 4* yet we had a better defense and played them respectably at their place. According to On3 they have not added anyone official yet in the portal. For anyone to say or agree this is the beginning of the end for Heupel is nonsense.

Alabama and Florida are also ranked lower than us in the portal rankings yet some people seem to think Florida is on the rise online and we are doomed forever.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
I can see this but you have to wonder why in the world all the bench players from one specific position group bolted all at once. Makes no sense especially when we are losing Thornton, Squirrel and Bru, basically all our starting WRs. You'd think there would be plenty of chances to get in the game next season.

There has to be a common cause that made all these specific players make the same decision.
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I don’t know but this was done in the secondary last year. This year it’s receivers. Could be a pattern.
 
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There are 81-83 scholarships available to the Vols thru 2028. This past season they were around 81, signed 25 and lost 26-27 to graduation or the portal. The Math is working and the sky is not falling yet. If Matthews stays, everyone else in the portal was expendable.
 
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purp said:
Correct. Compared to our two 5* and 10 4* yet we had a better defense and played them respectably at their place. For anyone to say or agree this is the beginning of the end for Heupel is nonsense.

Alabama and Florida are also ranked lower than us in the portal rankings yet some people seem to think Florida is on the rise online and we are doomed forever.
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I sure hope Tennessee is ready to rely on their incoming freshman WRs to run the offense next year.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
lol. You are using two absolute freaks as proof. Come on. We aren’t at a crossroads. This offense will be better next year. Calm down.
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our offense is predictable and limited. It’s not just the play calls or the coaching. It doesn’t matter who our WR or QB is, the scouting report is out and this scheme is unable to crack 30 points on a ranked team.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
I sure hope Tennessee is ready to rely on their incoming freshman WRs to run the offense next year.
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We will have plenty of targets in the passing game, regardless of what Matthews decides to do. I hope Matthews stays because he's possibly the most athletic player in the WR room, but assuming the worst (he leaves and Kitselman doesn't get another year like Pavia did), we have:

TE: Davis
TE: Brame
TE: Van Dorselaer
WR: Brazzell
WR: Staley (Explosive. Three 4A track & field State Titles in SC)
WR: Harmon (I'm thinking he's more explosive than people realize. Backup punt return specialist. Had a 6.95s 60-meter dash in HS)
WR: Smith
WR: Jackson
WR: Dodson

That isn't "elite" by any stretch, but it doesn't suck. ALL of them have potential for breakout seasons.

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m1al said:
Very likely our guy is nowhere near the level those two guys are. He could be lazy and not putting in the work or he may not know a route tree from a pine tree..

Just because a recruiting service christened him with 5 stars, some entity paid him more money than he's worth to come here and you believe he should be playing, doesn't mean jack to the coaches.

NONE OF US know WTF is going on behind the scenes, but it sure is entertaining watching people on here get their panties in a wad over baseless speculation.... It truly is.
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panties aren’t in a wad. Put smith or Williams in this offense and we still aren’t replicating 2022. The offense requires a lot of time to learn but evidently not much time to gameplan against.
 
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ThreatLevelOrange said:
our offense is predictable and limited. It’s not just the play calls or the coaching. It doesn’t matter who our WR or QB is, the scouting report is out and this scheme is unable to crack 30 points on a ranked team.
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The past couple of seasons has made me think that Heupel does not have a scheme, he has a gimmick. It worked well his first couple of years because Hooker ran it well and the reveivers and offensive linemen had NFL talent. Fast forward a couple of years and there are a few issues. First off Milton and Nico cannot run a hurry up offense effectively. Second, lack of talent and development at receiver and o'line. Third, Kirby Smart and Brent Venebles have shown how to defend it. If this offense cannot go hurry up then it cannot be effective. Heupel countered this with an effective running attack, but with little to no creativity in the offense and the gimmick not working anymore getting any yards at all was a slog and big plays dissapeared. Heupel needs to spend the off season developing a scheme. Evolve or die.
 
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ThreatLevelOrange said:
panties aren’t in a wad. Put smith or Williams in this offense and we still aren’t replicating 2022. The offense requires a lot of time to learn but evidently not much time to gameplan against.
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Evidently for the offense to operate as intended it requires a QB that sees the whole field, makes split second decisions and has a Dan Marinoesque ball release.... every year.

In this new era of college football it will be impossible to keep two or three good QBs on the roster, in line and progressing as one QB that has achieved jedi status gets his time in the sun.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
In a true free market employers can't collude to suppress employee wages. In sports they can do that with salary caps thanks to antitrust exemptions. For example in the NBA there's such a thing as "max" contracts. In everyday life there isn't a maximum on how much an employee can earn from an employer whose willing to pay. Pro sports owners basically built in safeguards to keep each other from spending too much on athletes. Right now in college football there are no limits on how much you can pay athletes. Hence why the players have all the power. If there was a cap on how much each team could spend then players would have significantly less power in negotiations. But then again that wouldn't be a free market. And last I checked this is America and shouldn't we all love unfettered capitalism?
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NIL is not equivalent to a pro sports contract. NIL is equivalent to a pro sponsorship or other name or likeness use. There are no limits on professional athletes’ endorsement deals.
 
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