Practice 8/27/14

[Brave Volunteer]

No they won't. Clowney and Quarles made their defense what it was and elevated the whole team (more defensive shutdowns = more series on offense = more points). Without them, SC is just an average SEC team...well below where they were last year, when we beat them.

I'm not saying they're going to win 11 games or anything but I do believe that team will rally back to get 7 wins and get to a bowl. Like I said, Spurrier is just too good a coach to allow the entire season to go down the toilet. This isn't a Muschamp coached team.

 

[DD4ME]

I cannot get over the size Maggitt has put on. He is a man among boys.

They don't grow'em (or recruit 'em) like that in Utah.

He looked like a young buck coming in and now he is a grown ass man.

 

[volinbama256]

Nothing. Croom just met him over the middle and knocked chunks out of his helmet.

We will see....

 

[volinbama256]

I like the fact that the photos look as if we are truly having fun, excited, and have become a family... these kids have definitely bought in. Now its time for them to stick together when it gets rough, stay calm, and have each other's backs. I really think our game will mirror the Ole Miss/BS game last night to a certain degree. They will play us tough the first half and then we will slowly wear them down in the second and eventually pull away. Of course I would love to be wrong and just have us shalak em right out of the gate and never look back! GO VOLS!!!!

 

[ile3000gt]

What I see from those pics are coaches and players seriously focused and having a good time too.

Stay focused and loose and ready to show out all season long!

#RiseToTheTop...VFL...GBO!!!

So in other words... Keep Calm and Chive On. Butch is totally a chiver. KCCO!

 

[VolPack22]

In the words of Bart Scott, "Can't wait!" :loco:

 

[Volumnus 2011]

In Heather Harrington's practice report yesterday, she stated that while working on special teams, Medley kicked off three times, Bullock kicked off twice and Brodus kicked off once in a special teams drill. This MAY be indicative of who will start Sunday.

 

[aaronvol]

I think Maggitt has plenty of size for the league at his position.

sarcasm...

 

[FlyTNGuy]

Magitt and Hurd will be our biggest "surprises" IMO

 

[james_govols]

I'm not saying they're going to win 11 games or anything but I do believe that team will rally back to get 7 wins and get to a bowl. Like I said, Spurrier is just too good a coach to allow the entire season to go down the toilet. This isn't a Muschamp coached team.

You cant judge SC off one game. AtM may be a great team this year. We need more games first. I wouldn't write them off as a seven win team yet.

 

[sameolvol]

No they won't. Clowney and Quarles made their defense what it was and elevated the whole team (more defensive shutdowns = more series on offense = more points). Without them, SC is just an average SEC team...well below where they were last year, when we beat them.

Agree 100%. Aside from choosing the defensive coach, Spurrier doesn't run the defense......never has......not his strength as a coach. Lorenzo Ward, the gamechickens' DC, was bailed out time and time again by Quarles and Clowney and some beter-than-advertised LBs and DBs the last two seasons. They're playing on Sundays and, aside from teaching basic schemes, Ward is often over his head when facing innovative offenses. Spurrier's solution at hand, IMHO, will be to pressure Ward to turn this not-as-talented group into overachievers or maybe end up at SC State or Newberry College. Unless they turn that swiss cheese defense around, 8 Ws will be a reach for 'em and the Vols will have a party at Williams Brice. That's quite a way down the path, though.

 

[Smokeyman]

if maggitt wants to play in this league he needs to put on some weight

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[Brave Volunteer]

You cant judge SC off one game. AtM may be a great team this year. We need more games first. I wouldn't write them off as a seven win team yet.

I'm not writing them off. I was just using "7" as a reference. It could be 8. It could be 9. Hell I don't know. My whole point was that Spurrier is too good of a coach to allow his team to just cash it in for the whole season because of 1 game. I don't see SC suddenly going 4-8 just because of last night's beat down. Do I think they're going to win 11 games again? No I don't. You can't just lose players like Connor Shaw, JaDaveon Clowney, Quarles, etc and expect to be just as successful. And if you follow their recruiting from the last 4 years, you'd see that they're not "reloading" like the elite teams do. They're not immediately plugging in comparable talent to what they've lost to graduation and the NFL.