Recruiting Football Talk VII

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peaygolf said:
October 8, 1918

Tennessean Alvin C. York, becomes a National Hero in WW1.

On October 8, 1918, Corporal Alvin C. York and sixteen other soldiers under the command of Sergeant Bernard Early were dispatched before sunrise to take command of the Decauville railroad behind Hill 223 in the Chatel-Chehery sector of the Meuse-Argonne sector. The seventeen men, due to a misreading of their map (which was in French not English) mistakenly wound up behind enemy lines. A brief fire fight ensued which resulted in the confusion and the unexpected surrender of a superior German force to the seventeen soldiers. Once the Germans realized that the American contingent was limited, machine gunners on the hill overlooking the scene turned the gun away from the front and toward their own troops. After ordering the German soldiers to lie down, the machine gun opened fire resulting in the deaths of nine Americans, including York's best friend in the outfit, Murray Savage. Sergeant Early received seventeen bullet wounds and turned the command over to corporals Harry Parsons and William Cutting, who ordered York to silence the machine gun. York was successful and when all was said and done, nine men had captured 132 prisoners.

That York deserves credit for his heroism is without question. Unfortunately, however, his exploit has been blown out of proportion with some accounts claiming that he silenced thirty-five machine guns and captured 132 prisoners single-handedly. York never claimed that he acted alone, nor was he proud of what he did. Twenty-five Germans lay dead, and by his accounting, York was responsible for at least nine of the deaths. Only two of the seven survivors were acknowledged for their participation in the event.


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I don't understand why people always try to downplay what York did...without him doing what he did that outfit was a goner...period....much less taking all those Germans prisoner.

Also...anybody that knows anything about Alvin York knows why he wasn't proud of it.

Not directed at you, just over people that always point out extreme exaggerations of a few idiots like they somehow discredit the very real acts of extreme heroism that absolutely WAS performed.
 
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Tennessee Golfer said:
Two time National Champion and NFL starting RB ain’t too shabby.
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Yes. He's a two-time national champion at Alabama. Alabama won ZERO national champions because Kenyan Drake was on their team. He was never the starting running back at Alabama. He's been a journeyman in the NFL. Many guys are here are proclaiming that Seldon is a future star. Kenyan Drake is no star.
 
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VolNash17 said:
This week Vs A&M will tell everyone a lot about Heupel and the stage of the program imo… A&M Isn’t a great team and it’s at Neyland… this is where you need the coach to shine and be the one
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This is not true...losing this week says nothing about Heupel imo, but it does say something about our roster at this point.


If it says anything about JH, it says even he can't overcome a mediocre QB, WRs and OL sometimes.
 
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MarcoVol said:
A&M is plenty capable. Vols passing game is inconsistent this year and now without Bru. Defense should show up and play off emotion of crowd. But I don’t think this game tells us much about the program. Tells us a lot more about how this year might go, but not the program overall. Next year will be a totally different team. Just like this year’s team is vastly different from last year’s team.
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Yep
 
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TN-POSSUM said:
^^^^I thought of Cousin Eddie describing his dog Snots:
"He's cute ain't he? Only problem is, he's got a little bit a Mississippi leg hound in 'em. If the mood catches him right, he'll grab your leg and just go to town. You don't want him around if you're wearing short pants, if you know what I mean. Word of warning though, if he does lay into ya, it's best to just let 'em finish."
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Sounds like a description of @Weezer except for the cute part.
 
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BJHSVol said:
With A&Ms secondary and Heupel ability to scheme up open receivers there’s gonna be plenty of opportunity for Joe to blow the game open "IF" he’s dialed in
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That is a HUGE..."IF" is the problem.

Fact is that TAMU is going to make us win on Joe's arm...I have seen nothing that inspires confidence that he has one of "those" games in him.

I love Joe....and I hope he finds one of those great QB performances somewhere in him...I think he does, but he has never really done it.


PS: He has had good games like Clemson...but never in his career had one of those 350+yard, 5td games when it was on him to win.

We can not be 1 dimensional against teams with good fronts...they will take that 1 dimension away just like UF did.
 
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