Recruiting Football Talk VII

[PlanetVolunteer]

Great. Heavy dose of Herring here on out.

Pickled Herring!

 

[engineerVOL]

Missouri: **** program.

They have a good football team but still don’t recognize them as an SEC school.

 

[nashvol1]

I’ll take a SEC Title or a National Title that is snuck in any day of the week.

I agree. We also need to realize he’s not on those guys level consistently.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

-Get to at least 8-4
-Win the bowl game
-Keep stacking recruiting class
-Hit the portal hard
-Nico will get the mojo back on the offense in 2024

Mizzou whipped us today no doubt, Heupel still will have the two best seasons in the last 16 years in only 3 years here. Banks has to figure something out, we still need a talent upgrade at most spots on defense but we are so hot and cold on D. Still clawing our way out of the gutter that has been the last 20 years. Heupel can get us there.

Banks is gone after this year.

 

[nashvol1]

Banks is gone after this year.

Or Banks at minimum has to fire Martinez

 

[pierce60]

Or Banks at minimum has to fire Martinez

Martinez is in the final year of his contract and likely won’t be back

 

[Devo182]

What we also need to realize that Kirby and Saban didn’t have losses like this in year 3. Anyone thinking Huepel is going to win a natty, might need to rethink. He is an excellent coach and might sneak one in but not elite.

Lololol Kirby and Saban's Y3 teams were #3 and #1 most talented teams, respectfully

Heupel with THEIR talent and his offense might have won 5 straight lol.

We're #16 rn, nowhere in the same LEAGUE talent wise. We're moving in that direction though.

 

[FollowTheLeader]

Banks is gone after this year.

Yes because he'll get a head coaching job.

 

[mrMet]

It wasn’t two years ago. It was with Pruitt and then we hired Heupel. If you don’t like it, put me on ignore. Had you on it a couple of years ago and seems good to do so again.

Well, sorry I got it wrong, 2.5 years ago then. My apologies.

2 years ago, I didn’t post anything to be put on ignore but ok buddy lol. You are upset and that’s ok. I’m sorry my CAREER in the liquor industry offends you as well

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Or Banks at minimum has to fire Martinez

Both likely gone.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Yes because he'll get a head coaching job.

I hope so

 

[Weezer]

One thing I notice on other teams that I don't see near enough on our own team, fired up players. Sometimes, our guys come across so dispassionate. Where's the excitement? Play like your hair is on fire. I don't see that enough from this team.

 

[JT3]

Calling BS on this. I’ve seen WRs drop wide Fing open balls all year. Joe miss schemed open 3rd down conversions all year. Runs that hooker would’ve made in his sleep for big gains he somehow searches and find someone to tackle him. It’s a BIG issue. This offense can’t take mediocre WR, inaccurate qb play and no threat to run from the qb. Just can’t.

You've seen 2 drops by a wide open WR this year. 2! Both were Keyton in the A&M game and Virginia.

And mediocre WRs or inaccurate QB doesn't have anything to do with scheming wide open WRs like years past. Again, we haven't seen anyone running wide open outside of those 2 drops and Keyton last week against UConn. It was a 3-4 time occurrence per game on average.

Has Joe missed some throws to WRs with a step on their man or thrown a pass behind a WR? Absolutely. But I'm not talking about that.

 

[Smokey123]

These same idiots are gonna be the biggest cry-babies when, because of this pack of idiots, Heupel packs his bags for another job the first chance he gets.

If Huep is fragile enough to leave because of a minority of a fan base he was never gonna survive in the SEC anyways

 

[berryvol]

Nah, people read my name and always assume im trolling. 99.9% of my posts are genuine.

That’s even more embarrassing, would keep that to myself in the future

 

[Smokey123]

Question, do our wrs run routes other than comebacks or streaks? Hard to tell watching on tv. But I never see post corners etc.. just curious

We run choice routes mostly

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Didn’t watch the game, glad I didn’t. Looks like Mizzou was able to shutdown the run and the defense couldn’t stop them.

That about sum it up?

Heupel has to figure out how to be a better road team.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

That’s even more embarrassing, would keep that to myself in the future

Nah, unlike most, I dont stay in a box and just say whatevers popular to make friends. I dont care if people like me or not.

 

[Weezer]

That’s even more embarrassing, would keep that to myself in the future

 

[Vols410]

He’s showing that’s he’s not more and more as time goes on unfortunately. Next year is going to tell us if he’s it or not. I hope I’m wrong but he’s trending down and hasn’t overcome the same weaknesses for 3 years.

Don’t forget how bad it was when he got here because he was good enough to make you forget in year 2

 

[Midas]

One thing I notice on other teams that I don't see near enough on our own team, fired up players. Sometimes, our guys come across so dispassionate. Where's the excitement? Play like your hair is on fire. I don't see that enough from this team.

They looked like they barely wanted to be there from the start of the game to the finish especially on defense.

 

[VolNash17]

If Huep is fragile enough to leave because of a minority of a fan base he was never gonna survive in the SEC anyways

Exactly… sec is cutthroat. Just watch the Florida documentary on Netflix. It’s a grind every day and expectations are high for the top 7.

 

[Volunteer821]

Interesting thread of thought. For my part, I don’t think Richt v. Smart is the right comparison because I think Tennessee is just a different program than Georgia at this point in history.

I’ve long ago concluded Tennessee will never have runs like UGA and Alabama - there just isn’t the ability to stockpile elite talent year in and year out.

But I still think it can recruit well enough to periodically catch lightening in a bottle with a great QB and win a title.

My question is can our coach create and seize that moment. We saw a glimpse of it last year. It makes me think Heupel can.

I see what your saying but from 89 to 99 we would have had several playoff appearances and between Johnny and Phil we had talent 3 deep at most positions. I believe we can absolutely recruit on that level. We have before and we can again.

 

[Devo182]

Welp guess we weren't playing for the East regardless, just an NY6 vs regular bowl game. And NY6 is still ever so slightly on the table.

 

[Weezer]

These same idiots are gonna be the biggest cry-babies when, because of this pack of idiots, Heupel packs his bags for another job the first chance he gets.

Heupel needs to be concerned with fixing what is wrong, not what idiots are saying. If it's the idiots he's focusing on, then maybe this is too big a job for him. Every big job is going to have idiots. It's not just Tennessee.

And the best way to quiet the idiots is fix what's wrong. It's not like we lost a close game that could have gone either way. We got dominated. A coach should expect to hear chirping when you get embarrassed.