Recruiting Football Talk VII

[PKT_VOL]

No my argument has been Nico because he's the one on our roster. We need young talent, and we needed it on the field yesterday. If it doesn't want to play don't take it.

He's only on the roster because we promised to uphold his redshirting wish.

The other young talent who do not wish to redshirt are an entirely different conversation.

Apples to oranges. Literally, elite but undersized QB talent to regular positional talent. They are not the same.

 

[Fun coupon VOL]

Best case scenario to end the season is Nico plays some vs Vandy and gets the start in a bowl game vs USC

Best case scenario is Joe slips and falls on a helmet injuring his throwing hand, shoulder, elbow, and wrist.

 

[TrippieRedd]

What people didn't want to happen to Nico today. For nothing. He'll start in the bowl game imo.

Yup.

That’ll be his 4th game. He can still redshirt.

If we play some low team like Rutgers, then he better start.

 

[mrMet]

Well, it’s not year two.

Go smoke some weed and relax lol we are just fine where we are. Sometimes taking the Birds Eye view is needed for a memory refresher

 

[mrMet]

Yup.

That’ll be his 4th game. He can still redshirt.

If we play some low team like Rutgers, then he better start.

Bowl game doesn’t count towards redshirt

 

[Orange.]

BuT i WaS tOlD bY lOcAl MeDiA tHaT hE wAs NeVeR gOiNg To ReDsHiRt!!!

 

[JCVol00]

so if the plan all along was to redshirt nico, then WHY DIDNT WE GO AFTER A TRANSFER QB???? We wouldn’t be in this situation if we got a transfer qb. We could have sat Milton a long time ago and had a different qb, or at least sit him when he isn’t performing for the transfer, but instead we rode with a mediocre qb, a qb with no intentions of playing this year, and 2 walkons…

 

[volinexile17]

That game sucked. This season hasn’t been as fun as the last two. But, to all the whiners and doubters, you sound stupid.

 

[Memphisvol87]

Could have easily went 5-7 with him as well. This site would have burned Heupel after an 11 win season

Huepel is to blame for all of it at the end of the day. Good or bad. Last year he got all the credit in the world and rightfully so. This year is not a good look and he deserves criticism. Defense improvement was fools Gold. Joe ended up being the joe none of us wanted. Seasons over and next year with expanded playoff should be primary focus. Fix the issues even if it means upgrading staff/ players. Huepel will be on the hot seat if he goes 8 or worse next year. No matter what these other morons says.

 

[ndubvols]

Don’t think people want to admit it, but we just don’t have that much talent on this roster, at least in the upper class. Not enough of a playmaker at qb, nobody on offense scares the opponent at wr, oline isn’t good enough at this point to dominate the way we would need to in order to run on people with a one dimensional offense.

Defensively, pretty decent up front, young at linebacker, nobody to lockdown on the outside and nobody to erase plays on the backend, especially without hadden.

Bottom line, 8-4 is a pretty decent season all things considered. A lot of the roster issues are due to factors outside of huepels control. Keep recruiting better, and stack classes like he has been. Then get a little bit of luck on the injury front going forward. Think likely a similar type season next year, then hopefully get back in contention the following year.

 

[Glitch]

- Our Oline has been a MASH unit all year.
- Our QB1 just doesn't have what is needed to operate this offense and it would appear promises were made to RS Nico and Heup is a man of his word.
- Our WR core lost a huge piece when Bru got hurt.

 

[PKT_VOL]

so if the plan all along was to redshirt nico, then WHY DIDNT WE GO AFTER A TRANSFER QB???? We wouldn’t be in this situation if we got a transfer qb. We could have sat Milton a long time ago and had a different qb, or at least sit him when he isn’t performing for the transfer, but instead we rode with a mediocre qb, a qb with no intentions of playing this year, and 2 walkons…

While I'm sympathetic to this line of thinking, we were not going to get a top tier QB transfer after Milton's play last year (which wasn't horrible) and Nico's hype coming in.

 

[turdherder11]

Yup.

That’ll be his 4th game. He can still redshirt.

If we play some low team like Rutgers, then he better start.

Don't think the bowl game counts towards the 4 game rule. I could be wrong though

 

[Orange.]

They’re still gonna go undefeated and win the acc. But they’ll get uga in first round of playoffs and get beat 50-0.

Anything is better than Bama. Bama should be disqualified after forfeiting rigged games. F them.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Schrader got loose against florida. He's fun to watch.

10-7 mizzu

 

[VolGee4]

Well, it’s not year two.

If trajectory was only linear. I guess we should be 12-1 after our Heisman QB (should have been invited) graduated. It was always going to be a bit of a step back, at least for reasonable people.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

He's only on the roster because we promised to uphold his redshirting wish.

The other young talent who do not wish to redshirt are an entirely different conversation.

Apples to oranges. Literally, elite but undersized QB talent to regular positional talent. They are not the same.

It doesn't matter if he's on the roster if he's not playing. With average QB play this team could've been 11-1, take that guy and move on.
This team didn't need a QB thay didn't want to play.

 

[LargePairOfVols]

How much better would Nico getting being thrown in situations where he is set up for failure?

If he folds when things don’t go well then he isn’t your guy. Let’s find that out as soon as possible.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

If trajectory was only linear. I guess we should be 12-1 after our Heisman (should have been invited) graduated. It was always going to be a bit of a step back, at least for reasonable people.

11-1 was on the table with better QB play.

 

[Big Orange#1]

Don’t disagree. But saying this is the floor is a bit naive. If we played TAMU on the road, that’s likely a loss. We own UK, but that wasn’t a shoo in win. I agree that this isn’t a bad season and that the last two years, in a vacuum, are excellent for our recent history. But there are issues this staff has to address moving forward if they want to have longevity at a SEC blue blood.

Can’t include ifs. If we got Florida at home (before the team gave up on Milton) we could have won as well.

 

[TheRain]

 

[Ace]

NM State beat Auburn today. They were 7-3 coming into the game with losses to UMass and Hawaii (2 of the worst teams in college football). They also lost to Liberty. All losses early in the season, yet they turned the season around and won on the road at Auburn. Wonder what made the difference? 7 game win streak

 

[TrippieRedd]

Huepel is to blame for all of it at the end of the day. Good or bad. Last year he got all the credit in the world and rightfully so. This year is not a good look and he deserves criticism. Defense improvement was fools Gold. Joe ended up being the joe none of us wanted. Seasons over and next year with expanded playoff should be primary focus. Fix the issues even if it means upgrading staff/ players. Huepel will be on the hot seat if he goes 8 or worse next year. No matter what these other morons says.

He won’t be on the hot seat if he goes 8-4 next year.

We will hear, “this was Nico’s first year, what’d you expect him to do”

That coupled with the fact that he and DW are buds.

 

[TrippieRedd]

Don't think the bowl game counts towards the 4 game rule. I could be wrong though

Nope I am. So forget I said that.

Go ahead and start him against Vandy

 

[TrippieRedd]

If trajectory was only linear. I guess we should be 12-1 after our Heisman WB (should have been invited) graduated. It was always going to be a bit of a step back, at least for reasonable people.

I’m just being petty right now, just ignore me