Recruiting Football Talk VII

[CAVPUT]

Ryder cup coverage is absolutely awful. After all the outcry of butchering the solheim cup they have managed to lower the bar. Commercials galore.

Everything and I mean everything is chock full of commercials. Ruins a lot of what sports fans used to enjoy. Games, talk shows, podcasts, etc. Ridiculous.

 

[85SugarVol]

I’m aware. I don’t credit the 30 additional stolen bases over the magic 40 mark to bigger bases and limiting pitcher throws tho. There are six total who reached 40 this season. That 100 figure requires a lead off hitter to get on base regularly and the TEAM to be proficient at small ball. It was an outlier even back in Henderson and Coleman’s days…back when they were a little more durable. I’d love to see it, but not as optimistic.

Yea the strategy has changed league wide. Would also need a specific type leadoff guy that wasn’t consistently launching doubles and dingers - so he had more opportunities to run.

But I think the changing in the unwritten rules would allow guys to run in situations in 2023 where it would have been verboten in 1983, so that could be a tailwind for seeing 100 again.

 

[Playdo]

 

[85SugarVol]

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Beautiful

 

[VOLED]

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Life is about the small victories.

 

[peaygolf]

 

[mrMet]

From RTI’s staff predictions article:

 

[butchna]

Baseball is analytics based…. teams will adjust based on what it is telling them to do…. Right now stolen bases has increased by 1,000 in the first yr of the change along with a success rate of over 80%…. That is true even with the fastest pop time by catchers in MLB. Add in the fact that players are not getting on base more due to the no shift rule….. BABIP has risen from .291 to .297 in MLB. There were six players that more than doubled their previous high in steal attempts this season. As the data starts being utilized by MLB clubs…. i think we will continue to see a greater emphasis on the SB…. we will never go back to small ball but why not take an easy base?

It’s a theory. Steals as an aggregate have gone up and shouldn’t go backwards, but 100+ steals over the course of a WHOLE SEASON is an INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT which requires a perfect storm I don’t see happening. Problem with analytics is they were invented to explore possible advantages not readily apparent and they’ve become conjured gobbledygook for some wanting to appear smarter than others. If I need an algorithm to determine if one player is superior to another and disregard my regular peepers looking at ACTUAL STATS? I veer more towards real vs snake oil science…jmo.

 

[screenthis]

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Everything and I mean everything is chock full of commercials. Ruins a lot of what sports fans used to enjoy. Games, talk shows, podcasts, etc. Ridiculous.

I personally hate commercials at the Movie Theater. I paid money to watch a movie and now I'm stuck watching awful commercials before the show.

 

[drvenner]

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I often wonder where you find these photos. Soon thereafter, I realize I have no real desire to ever know. Carry on.

 

[screenthis]

From RTI’s staff predictions article:
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I was at the Mississippi game. Great game including throwing Mustard on the field.

 

[Jack Burton]

From RTI’s staff predictions article:
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Good stats and perspective. I still don’t feel great about the game. Joe should be able to light up Scar but Rattler has completed 90% of his passes over the last two games. Against our crappy secondary he will put up a lot of points, and if Joe is out of rhythm, or we don’t run the ball well, it will be bad.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Good stats and perspective. I still don’t feel great about the game. Joe should be able to light up Scar but Rattler has completed 90% of his passes over the last two games. Against our crappy secondary he will put up a lot of points, and if Joe is out of rhythm, or we don’t run the ball well, it will be bad.

He won't put uo a lot of points if his banged up offensive line can't block and has a bunch or presnap penalties.

 

[drvenner]

And then he ran out of bounds with no time left in a game we were losing.

This doesn't really help your argument.

 

[VolNash17]

That honestly makes me sad. 25 years ago…

 

[KptVFL]

The untold story of CFB's ultimate party crasher: Meet the fan who led the Vols onto the field for the 1998 title game

Twenty-five years ago, Vols fan J.R. Greene talked his way into leading the team onto the field for the national title game. This is his wild story.

www.espn.com

Thanks for the share! Had never heard this story. Very cool!

 

[drvenner]

Might get out of today with a point not looking good....Zach Johnson going have to regroup the team.. these two young bucks for Europe are unbelievable on this course...

Fahr Johnson

 

[drvenner]

The untold story of CFB's ultimate party crasher: Meet the fan who led the Vols onto the field for the 1998 title game

Twenty-five years ago, Vols fan J.R. Greene talked his way into leading the team onto the field for the national title game. This is his wild story.

www.espn.com

It was you, wasn't it, Nick?

 

[Vols410]

Good stats and perspective. I still don’t feel great about the game. Joe should be able to light up Scar but Rattler has completed 90% of his passes over the last two games. Against our crappy secondary he will put up a lot of points, and if Joe is out of rhythm, or we don’t run the ball well, it will be bad.

Watched some of the SC / Miss St. game. Our secondary is better than both of those teams.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Samesee, my son played both sides of the ball. Offensive line and DL. He used to tell me all teams played dirty. Sorta like ‘what stays in Vegas’….backwards I know, but I’m tired. When you see a pileup, there’s a lot of eye gouging, subtle punches and hits that will make a man ‘sing high notes’. Sorta like that picture we’ve seen of a UT player
untying a Florida player’s shoe strings. That sorta stuff.

Edit: should’ve added, the twisting of ankle does happen.

It does happen, a lot, . Linemen have different rules than the rest though, bar room brawl rules for them. No doubt in mind you'd be one of the ones twisting ankles, spitting tobacco juice in eyes, and calling everybody's mamas names.

 

[VolNash17]

USCe offense is one dimensional. Should be easier to shut down although I suspect a high percentage of completions for Rattler and nothing much over the top unless they want to pick on Hadden which wouldn’t be unexpected. He’s insanely accurate and the UT defense is 123rd/133 in completion percentage allowed. They should be too one dimensional to put up too many points

 

[Wadetime]

Tomorrow looking great:
AM: EPL soccer
Noon: FL/Kensucky
3:30: GA/AwBurn
7:30: Vols win

(expensive) Chicken Wings throughout out the day mixed with beers and more food.

 

[SoilVol]

Lawson out for Bama. 9pm ET kickoff in Starkville. State coming off huge offensive performance, at home, trying to salvage season and send Will Rogers off with some legend.

Could be an interesting game.

 

[drvenner]

I just fell in my driveway. I got skinned up pretty good. I called my lawyer to see if I could sue somebody over it and he said, "No, it's your own asphalt."

 

[Orange.]

I really believe a major factor is that dumb new rule where if the player runs out of bounds after a first down, the defensive team gets to sub. It does slow us down. Still faster than anyone else.

Saban obviously studied the film when we beat him and embarrassed above all his DBs, when DBs are his personal coaching specialty. He decided ending the clock rule would be much to our detriment and rig results in his favor. So he had the old rule killed and made a new to his favor.

He seems to have thought he couldn't outcoach Heupel. And breaking rules with impunity had always been the key to his success; but it was not enough to make him look sufficiently better than he is against us. He knew he could scapegoat his coordinators and his dumb fans would buy it. But that wasn't enough.

So he needed to use one of his top "unlevel playing field" unfair advantages: to throw rules out and to change the rules pretty much whenever he wants.