Recruiting Football Talk VII

[nicksjuzunk]

Is UConn not a JV team??

 

[Glitch]

LeeeeerOOOOOOYYY GLITCH… do it, mane! Break stuff!

 

[smokeyhuntsgators]

The present game is the biggest game.

Never take anyone for granted.

It was actually a joke.

Geez..sorry I made a joke, didn’t realize it would offend anyone.

 

[tnvols72]

 

[InVOLuntary]

I think @InVOLuntary should hire you to be President of his company and pay you a HUGE salary.

 

[tnvols72]

This guys twitter name

 

[InVOLuntary]

I think @InVOLuntary is looking at me for that position, but I could go half-sies with Nick. I'm generous.

 

[tnvols72]

Silence

 

[Weezer]

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Big difference from last year to now. The interesting thing is I just heard the other week that the best RZ offenses tend to be the best rushing teams. Are we just not sticking with what works or do defenses know we want to lean on the run game moreso this year? I've also heard people say we don't trust Joe as much in the RZ and can't disagree...HH became a master of the short RZ slants for TDs and we seem to be lacking there this season. Either way, we know we're getting into positions to score...we just need to capitalize better and that could be the difference down the stretch. Fix that, find a replacement for Hadden, and it's not out of the realm of possibility we make a nice run and win 10+ again.


Red Zone Attempts (not a huge difference)
2022 - #2 SEC 5.2/game
2023 - #4 SEC 4.6/game

Red Zone TD% (Huge difference)
2022 - 79% #1 SEC #1 Nationally
2023 - 51% #13 SEC #113 Nationally

Simple to me...our running game depends on spreading the defense way out, not great power run blocking, so the closer to the end zone..the less ground the defense has to defend...the harder it is to run...so at that point it gets put on Milton passing for us to break the end zone....and he just hasn't been good enough putting the football in tight spaces for that to happen with the same regularity as last year.

3rd down has sucked too.

 

[mrMet]

This all feels like a meme at this point

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

our rushing success is based on spreading people out…. the closer we get to the end zone…. the less spread out the defense becomes and the less successful we are at running it.

Seems obvious to me too...especially since teams can choose to focus on the run on the red zone because our passing attack has not been very good to this point...so it becomes even harder.

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I think @InVOLuntary should hire you to be President of his company and pay you a HUGE salary.

And a huge shiny new houseboat on Norris to live in for free..

 

[KnoxLandcruiser]

fellas i'm all in on the basketVols making the f4 this year. never been all the way out here on this limb before on any TN team preseason but here i am. it's gonna be fun to follow these guys this season

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

He was never gonna say anything differently...that's just who Hendon Hooker is.

Plus...it wasn't having the offensive signs that won that game for them. We put up plenty of points....it was the fact that we played a team that had scored like 16 total points the two games before ours....and then all of a sudden they turned into a great offense for 2 games....and then right back to hot garbage.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I believe CPF would have figured it out. We jumped the gun.

No...we didn't...we hired idiots instead of competent coaches....Phil was done....he couldn't figure his way out of a paper sack by then.

 

[butchna]

@butchna, you too should write a game preview post for one of the quick "shell" game threads that Nick has initiated.

Nothing good would result from any effort on my part to be analytical.

 

[DarthVol1]

How about @Ulysees E. McGill doing the game threads? He would probably have it ready by Sunday afternoon. He would predict a loss because the other team is a bunch of cheating, artists, that sleep with commie women. Of course, that would be the same analysis each week, but it would consistently be ready to go!

 

[engineerVOL]

How about @Ulysees E. McGill doing the game threads? He would probably have it ready by Sunday afternoon. He would predict a loss because the other team is a bunch of cheating, artists, that sleep with commie women. Of course, that would be the same analysis each week, but it would consistently be ready to go!

@ChattaTNVol that guy would be a good one. Where is he?

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

JMO, Dabo is lucky Ed Orgeron. Dude was a joke until he had multiple years of Watson and Lawrence.

Phil lost to Memphis freakin State...with Peyton f'n Manning and a freaking loaded roster...most disgusting loss in program history when you take that huge of a mismatch into account...and then those embarrasing Bowl losses to those putrid ACC teams in the early aughts where it seemed the team never gave half a runny or were prepared at all to play....ughhh..

I was never a Phil fan.

 

[peaygolf]

umm, ummm....Arnold Palmer and....Bobby Jones...Weiskopf....dagnabit...

Hogan

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

@ChattaTNVol that guy would be a good one. Where is he?

It would be tldr

 

[engineerVOL]

Phil lost to Memphis freakin State...with Peyton f'n Manning and a freaking loaded roster...most disgusting loss in program history when you take that huge of a mismatch into account...and then those embarrasing Bowl losses to those putrid ACC teams in the early aughts where it seemed the team never gave half a runny or were prepared at all to play....ughhh..

I was never a Phil fan.

Yeah we get it, Uly. Good grief, man. YOU. ARE. OBSESSED.

 

[engineerVOL]

This guys twitter name

What is incriminating about any of that?