Recruiting Football Talk VII

[TheRain]

Shohei was gambling. That guy and shohei are closer than brothers. I doubt he’d have access to Ohtani’s bank that wasn’t allowed by Ohtani himself. There was even a clause in his contract that he could leave if ippei was ever fired.

Everyone has vices, and like Pete Rose, I don’t really care as long as he didn’t bet against himself. But this is a cover up, and Ippei is the fall guy from what I can gather so far.


Gonna go ahead and speak my piece before it becomes a convo here lol

 

[Enki_Amenra]

5 dollars...

But I'm still mad!

I get mad when I lose $.10

 

[Orangeredblooded]

I was in the invasion with 4th ID drove through Turkey. Ended up doing two more years in Iraq.

I was just separated from the Navy during Desert Shield (to get married and my time was up , idiot to myself). My Ex husband was attached to a LSD on a 6 month deployment at the time that turned into an almost 8 month. We weren’t allowed to know where or what they were doing at that time. Come to find out, they were off the coast of Liberia and were there to assist evacuations of US citizens. It was a scary time. I remember coming home from work at 2 a.m. and sleeping in front of the TV to hear any news. I even thought about re upping because I wanted to be up front and center. It was hard to separate your mind from a military mindset to a civilian one. Totally different for those that don’t know. I’ve got a lot of stories during my time in, but at the same time I want to keep them to myself. Civilians look at you blankly or skip over anything you even just tell them about that stuff. Long story short, I get what you’re saying, but in a different way.

 

[bigorange]

 

[Volunteer821]

We watched all The Dukes of Hazzard episodes (not Coy and Vance) together when they were in elementary school and they loved them more than any other show/cartoon I have shown them from my childhood.

*My older son got hooked on Hogans Heroes (my all time favorite sitcom) when he was in middle school. I thought that was pretty cool.

Did you watch any hee haw? Me and my wife both grew up watching it every Sunday after church. I bought the 4 disc set when my kids were toddlers and they used to fall asleep to it. Made my son a Waylon fan so it worked out even better than expected. My daughter, not so much. She don't like grandpa music, only 90s alt and grunge. Her favorite is Alice in Chains as is mine, but I love the Allman Bros and the Gourds too. Can't get her to understand good is good no matter what genre.

Dukes of hazard are a favorite of ours too.........but only Bo and Luke like you said, none of that coy and Vance stuff.

We watched hogans heroes on me tv when the kids are vacation too, used to come on at 10 and 1030. I must say you have excellent taste in cartoons and tv shows.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

I get mad when I lose $.10

I've been doing this thing lately, where I've been putting money on whoever is up by double digits late in the game and it had been paying off until Montana State REFUSED TO CALL A TIMEOUT

 

[Volunteer821]

Nobody does it like the Bull.

That smooth taste, it will fool you.

 

[clt_tiger]

Throw in baseball and all of the other athletics and it’s not even close. Damn, it feels good to be a gangster.

 

[drvenner]

Ginger
or
Mary Ann

That’s the question

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Yes

 

[Orangeburst]

Did you watch any hee haw? Me and my wife both grew up watching it every Sunday after church. I bought the 4 disc set when my kids were toddlers and they used to fall asleep to it. Made my son a Waylon fan so it worked out even better than expected. My daughter, not so much. She don't like grandpa music, only 90s alt and grunge. Her favorite is Alice in Chains as is mine, but I love the Allman Bros and the Gourds too. Can't get her to understand good is good no matter what genre.

Dukes of hazard are a favorite of ours too.........but only Bo and Luke like you said, none of that coy and Vance stuff.

We watched hogans heroes on me tv when the kids are vacation too, used to come on at 10 and 1030. I must say you have excellent taste in cartoons and tv shows.

I used to hop on my hog as a child, with a Totinos pizaa in tow ever Friday night to watch DoH..
After that a game of indoor football or basketball…



Man I was attached at the hip with this beast. 3 speed auto clutch and about 30 mph terrorizin* the neighborhood.

 

[drvenner]

What is the opposite of a croissant.





A Happy Uncle.

Relatively good!!

 

[Enki_Amenra]

This game is bad so far.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

That's kinda the point. The AP is a flawed way to pick a champ. Single-elimination basketball is also a terrible way to pick a champ. There's a reason the NBA plays up to 7.

NBA is boring.
College BB is exciting as hell because of the one loss and you are out.

 

[drvenner]

16 v. 16 First four games are way better than 10 v. 10.

 

[engineerVOL]

Throw in baseball and all of the other athletics and it’s not even close. Damn, it feels good to be a gangster.

 

[Orangeburst]

I still dont know how all this works with these playins..used to be one game for one spot.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

Go Buffs but omg yawn

 

[Volunteer821]

I used to hop on my hog as a child, with a Totinos pizaa in tow ever Friday night to watch DoH..
After that a game of indoor football or basketball…

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Man I was attached at the hip with this beast. 3 speed auto clutch and about 30 mph terrorizin* the neighborhood.

Man you were lucky, we never got pizza. Only thing we got was bar s corndogs.......which I still eat today........and no I'm not from Louisiana, I'm an east Tennessean. I would have killed to have that bike when I was a kid, my dad wouldn't even let me have a go kart.

 

[Orangeburst]

Man you were lucky, we never got pizza. Only thing we got was bar s corndogs.......which I still eat today........and no I'm not from Louisiana, I'm an east Tennessean. I would have killed to have that bike when I was a kid, my dad wouldn't even let me have a go kart.

My friend got a YZ80 after me letting him ride my mini all the time..boy was I jelly. .I asked to ride it and he said no I might wreck it..his Dad heard it and immediately set that straight..He had a minor crash out a few months later and was scared to ride it again..Sat there and collected dust.SMH. I do love the smell of a 2 stroke to this day..lol

 

[drvenner]

Stationed in Beaufort about 50 years ago. The fishing fresh and salt was terrific.

I love Beaufort

 

[ChattaTNVol]

It’s infuriating –

Statistically, if you suffer a negative yardage play on offense there is an 84% probability that drive is DEAD and you will have to punt. Penalties, TFLs, and sacks are the second most potent drive killers, only behind turnovers.

The games I often care about the most are the games we lose. I was impressed with the A&M win last year. It took all three phases of the game to come out ahead. Anyway, I’ve been mostly studying the 4 games we lost plus the bowl game as that suggests where we came up short and how we may be moving forward.



The Florida game we beat ourselves. It was Spraggins killing two drives, Lane killing two drives, Crawford killing a drive, and Castles killing a drive.

Historically, Napier is a ball control fanatic. I think for two years running now his games have featured the fewest drives among SEC teams. Generally, you’re only going to get 10 possessions in a game with Napier. It doesn’t really much matter who the opponent is – that’s Napier’s style of football.

When the offensive line basically kills half of your total possession opportunities in a game you have to ask yourself, what’s going on? Are they scared? Are they not well coached? Are they not paying attention? Do they even freaking care?

The same thing happened in the bowl game. On the drives where we punted we had negative yardage plays. On the drives where we scored we didn’t have any negative yardage plays. It’s really pretty simple. What is almost impossible is overcoming negative yardage plays.

I think maybe sometimes we beat our chests when we blow out teams that we have a significant advantage over because we’re bigger, faster, and stronger, but unless you’re Kentucky you measure yourself based on your performance against the big six of the SEC. At least that’s the way it’s been in the 60 or so years since I became a fan.

Anyway, what I’m bitching about are the false starts. It hurts us most against the big boys. I understand there’s a number of causes behind false starts, mostly (and obviously) having to do with the snap count. On the road the guys have to deal with crowd noise. There’s the QB shifting protections or mixing up the cadence so the defense can’t easily time up the snap. There’s thinking about your assignment, reading the defense, and figuring how you’re going to get leverage on your guy for the upcoming play.

This and more is all happening in maybe 10 seconds or less. They say sometimes it’s easy to get distracted, like thinking about what you did wrong on that last play or wondering if Crawford is going to puke again, any number of things could pop into your head. There could be movement on the defensive side of the ball that distracts you because some of that movement could change your assignment on the play.

I think playing offensive line they say generally requires a minimum of three years development. Many times we may think that’s so the guys can get bigger, faster, stronger, but it might also mean that they need to do their drills, work on technique, form, and leverage, and practice their plays so they can do it, essentially, instinctual. Going against inferior competition may allow you to dominate, almost like back in high school, but when you go up against peer competition, well, that’s when you find out what you’re made of.

It is widely accepted that the measure of returning experience on the offensive line is on average across all FBS teams the single most weighted metric for projecting improvement or regression of an offense from year to year. Experience is the best teacher and relative to some of the better opponents on our schedule we’re fortunate this year to have quite a bit returning on our offensive line.

I also think it’s likely we will have more power and athleticism on the line this year and that is what we need desperately if we are going to impose our will on even elite defenses when we get into the redzone.

My speculative lineup is LT Heard, LG Umarov, OC Mays, RG Spraggins, RT Campbell, but we’ll probably get Davis, Lampley, or Karic at LG, or maybe not.

Eric Cain said in his report on practice #2 that Umarov was running at LG with the twos. 247 had Umarov as a 94 rating and their evaluation had him as a prototypical left tackle so I see him similar to Kirby moving Ratledge from OT to OG. It may be risky with two 19 year olds manning the left side of our line but these two aren’t your typical 19 year old offensive line recruits. 247 reassigned Sham to its IOL rankings and he was #4 in the country in 2023. Lance was the #3 OT in the country in 2023.

I understand there’s a lot that goes into a coach’s decision on which players to put out on the field. It may not be simply a question of who may be able to help you the most; there’s likely some consideration on who may hurt you the least, so it’s probably a bit more complicated from their perspective vs from a fan’s perspective. jmo.

One thing I noticed in one of the early practice videos was Lance Heard coaching Gage Ginther in one of their drills. That was for me a big highlight because my sense is that it shows a measure of buy-in to the team, meaning Lance is a Tennessee Volunteer. jmo.

I think since the new staff took over they have demonstrated a high level of development for the offensive line group even though in some cases there wasn’t a lot to work with. I think it takes at least a couple years to get established relationship-wise on the recruiting trail and based on the recent and ongoing recruiting this staff is doing, and their demonstrated ability at development, we’re being set up to only get better in the near future with this position group and that will only make our offense that much more formidable. jmo.

 

[VolGee4]

Lotta thought went into that schedule. It's just the 2024 schedule with sites reversed.

Way to go SEC. Let's expand another 4 teams and play the same 8 every year..

When it was discussed among my friends, the thought was 2026 will have more teams in the conference. So, they are just flipping the schedule for one more year.

 

[Volunteer821]

My friend got a YZ80 after me letting him ride my mini all the time..boy was I jelly. .I asked to ride it and he said no I might wreck it..his Dad heard it and immediately set that straight..He had a minor crash out a few months later and was scared to ride it again..Sat there and collected dust.SMH. I do love the smell of a 2 stroke to this day..lol

I had an incident riding on the back of my friends 4 wheeler. Scared the crap out of me and my parents. We were turning in to another friends driveway and got hit by a s10 trying to pass at the same time. Buddy went over the handlebars and I went flying, had road rash all over my back and a nasty concussion. Knocked me out and I don't even remember the ambulance ride to the hospital. Next memory was in a bed and my parents lighting up the er nurses, mom was a nurse at the hospital but in labor and delivery, not er. Unbelievably no broken bones, but spent the night in the hospital. Scared to death of motorcycles and four wheelers ever since. Have a Kawasaki mule now, but its not for fun, its for work around the farm and for hauling deer out of the woods.

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

Once you have the @Glitch...
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[Orangeredblooded]

Again, I apologize for not seeking approval of this rib in advance. As punishment, I will step on a lego.

A real man (or a really) strong woman would say to hell with it and accept their ‘vaca’. Stand on business. . I’m that person.