Recruiting Football Talk VII

[butchna]

Its wild that he's not on everyone's ignore list.

Been on mine since he out-trolled himself posting we should sit our starters against good teams because we don’t have a chance to win.

 

[JCVol00]

1st bowl games:
Nico. . . . . 12/19. . . 151yds. . .1td. . . 3rushing td
Manning. .12/19. . . 189yds. . .1td

Nico should’ve had a lot more yards…thanks Keyton

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

That tends to happen with short punts...

Who the hell cares?...at the end of the day, we gave up 4...4!!! freaking yards in returns..so however the f they did it...it f'n worked.

I swear some of you will bitch about anything and everything.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

“Inconsistent on the offensive end” is just a bad take.

No team in TN history has played a stronger first 13 games. This team has had just 3 games failing to reach 70, against one they won by 19 points and the other 2 was Purdue & Kansas.

Kansas was our worst offensive showing, it was the 3rd day in a row we played and on a neutral court in a time zone a few hours behind us. Also the only game we didn’t shoot at least 10 FTs in so far this season.

Tarleton is a top 25 defense & Purdue/Kansas the way those games were officiated killed offensive rhythm.

We have players that are inconsistent offensively, but as a team we’ve done pretty good. And 77.8 ppg is second in the Barnes era to only that last Grant team that scored 82 ppg.

 

[Outofmyvolcanmind]

Switching from soda to water is so much healthier. I was a migraine sufferer and once I got off soda and started drinking a lot of water, the migraines stopped. Once you're off it, you'll lose the taste for it. Same thing with salt.

I'm not sure I agree about the salt take.

 

[Volfan39]

That tends to happen with short punts...

He was above average for yards per punt. At least look at the stats

 

[CitrusZynachino]

Because of a REP in an all-star game PRACTICE? You get paid for these “insights”?

I assume you get paid for very strange things.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Rewatched the Iowa game. I'm a Heupel fan... I just don't understand why we didn't use Nico in some fashion to help win games this year.

Maybe I'm wrong but redzone? We couldn't put together a Nico package? Heupel has always loved him some Joe.

Let it f'n go man....for craps sake..let it f'n go..

 

[KptVFL]

I hate to be this guy but i don't think she got that shot off in time.

She definitely did NOT. You can pause the clip and the clock is all zeros with her still holding the ball.

Edit: Saw where the clocks weren't synced.

 

[drvenner]

We did not have a good punter this year. A lot of out of bounds and/or short punts.

He had a very bad first game. 5/179 35.8 average. After that, he was pretty good. He had one game where he averaged 39.5 on two kicks and another where he averaged 39.7 on 3. All the rest were 40 or better. Again, a lot is what you seem to remember but not what the stats show.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

You might rethink that approach. What Happens if You Fly a Drone in Restricted Airspace? (Important)

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Im not sure that area is considered restricted by the faa. Maybe the inside of the stadium when it's in use. I think it's most likely restricted by the university. The b4ufly app shows no restrictions, other than island home airport and a small area around the military location. You can fly near UT hospital as well, even though they have lifestar flights all day.

 

[Volfan39]

She definitely did NOT. You can pause the clip and the clock is all zeros with her still holding the ball.

The clock on ESPN was wrong. The clock in the stadium showed she got it off with plenty of time

 

[Outofmyvolcanmind]

Somebody, please get that young lady a biscuit.

She looks better on TV. Hate to destroy some of your takes here but she might weigh 100 lbs and has zero thighs/rear. If you like bone skinny women, she's your thing. Very pretty face but anorexic if you saw her in person like I did.

 

[Outofmyvolcanmind]

Nick, where's the game thread?

 

[Glitch]

I’m sure your shared Facebook echoes this sentiment…

I don't Facebook. I am pretty boring when you get right down to it.

 

[Chuckie]

Look, I’m not sure you’ll ever get what your searching for and contrary to your belief that this is an NIL issue, it’s not.

Tennessee’s NIL has delivered on everything asked of it and continues to be ready for anything needed.

We brought back every top current player our coaches wanted to keep from transferring out. We secured tons of guys who could be on NFL rosters next year. We have brought in top key transfers at positions of need and will add 2-4 more. Very sorry they may not be the super sexy names you want but we got the top guys our coaches identified.

Lastly we have the best per quality of player class we’ve had in 20ish years. We’ve done it with a coaching staff who doesn’t believe in undo pressure on players to commit, over the top promises or anything other than very candid honest connections with players. It’s what they believe in and is what builds our culture and helps us retain. It certainly has us lose some HS recruits here and there as there are many coaches still recruiting like it’s 2017 and making Empty Butch promises left and right and not adapting to the transfer world which is why you see other programs hemorrhaging unlike us.

Also there is absolutely no old school recruiting tactics being done here anymore with the NCAa issues. So no handlers getting cash, no extra visit incentives, no gray area stuff which is still happening in
Recruiting and I’m sure hurts us as well.

But in summary, TNs NIL is the best thing going for our recruiting efforts right now
And we’d love to have everyone join us so we can be as strong as possible.

Memberships

But we work with our staff and our still well on our way to building a Championship team even if it doesn’t look exactly like @Chuckie thinks it should.

Go Vols!

Hey, I hear you. And contrary to the twitter reaction and the (implied) tone of your response here, I'm not saying you all are doing a bad job. You've given a lot of context that I've never seen disclosed before, which helps to clear up some of the confusion that we as outsiders have when looking at the situation. I continue to take the stance that I (and I'm sure many others) want to see how this plays out before committing disposable income to it.

My biggest concern right now is that it looks like we have a once-a-generation talent at QB, and it would feel very reassuring to see commensurate talent in the position groups that are tasked with protecting him. You mentioned that we a lot has been spent to keep players on the roster, which we can all see. And I think our starting OL is serviceable. But it would feel really good to see an upgrade in talent in that group, or at least some good-quality backups.

I'm not trying to make this personal, just putting an opinion out there that is likely more prominent than you may think.

 

[butchna]

I assume you get paid for very strange things.

You ASSUME where your mind takes you.

 

[knoxvol52]

She looks better on TV. Hate to destroy some of your takes here but she might weigh 100 lbs and has zero thighs/rear. If you like bone skinny women, she's your thing. Very pretty face but anorexic if you saw her in person like I did.

Malika Andrews skinny?

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Coach Ekeler is arguably our best position coach.

When you consider the “Edge” guys are his responsibility and he is the primary recruiter on most.

Pearce, Caleb Herring, Bradley was secondary for Ross & Josephs

Him & RG have been killing it.

 

[Glitch]

He is going need two years to be ready IMO

These drills tend to favor the DL, but most OL need at least 1 year to be ready.

 

[MarcoVol]

That tends to happen with short punts...

35th in the country with 41.3 net punt average, which is the stat that matters. But better the rankings don’t take into account number of punts (first 3 listed had combined 7 punts on the season and others listed had less than 5, some only a single punt).

First punter with normal amount would FL’s punter ranking 4th @ 44.3 net yards.

So 3 yards better than Jackson Ross.

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[Glitch]

Your wife must be on VolNation....

I don't think so, but if you don't change who you are depending on where you are then life is a lot easier.

 

[butchna]

He had a very bad first game. 5/179 35.8 average. After that, he was pretty good. He had one game where he averaged 39.5 on two kicks and another where he averaged 39.7 on 3. All the rest were 40 or better. Again, a lot is what you seem to remember but not what the stats show.

I didn’t panic when the game thread wanted to drop both him and the kickoff specialist off in the country. That patience was highly rewarded. We’re great at punting for the next three.

 

[MarcoVol]

double post

 

[Glitch]

Nick, where's the game thread?

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Somebody call for a game thread?