Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#4,851
VolMike16 said:
Going forward this program should be at least a 9 win regular season team. Should have happened last year as well. The way they are recruiting/portaling crucial positions will have expectations where they need to be. 8 win season is a problem.
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I don't really like absolutes. Gosh forbid, Nico gets hurt, and 8 wins isn't a problem. All about the QB.
 
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GoBigOrange86 said:


Man do I wish we played Mizzou this year.
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Rent free baby. They literally made a t shirt after beating us rofl. Also, if I could offer a suggestion, why bother including MTSU, Memphis and Vandy on there? I would be kind of embarrassed to hang my hat on beating lesser teams, even as a joke. Just having the power T on there would’ve been much better.
I actually hate that we don’t play them just because id have loved to smack them on the mouth this year. It’s a travesty that in the first year of the playoffs they’re handed a schedule where we could have a path to 12-0 if we had the same. They just better hope that they don’t get exposed by the few good teams they actually play. TAMU vs Missouri is a game I will be watching for sure.
 
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peaygolf said:
August 6, 1945
US drops the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.


After President Roosevelt died on April 12th, 1945, it became Harry Truman’s job to decide how to end the war. The thought of invading Japan gave Truman and his advisors pause. The war had shown that the Japanese were fighting for the Emperor who convinced them that it was better to die than surrender. Women and children had been taught how to kill with basic weapons. Japanese kamikaze pilots could turn planes into guided missiles. The cost of invasion, they knew, would be high.

Upon becoming president, Harry Truman learned of the Manhattan Project, a secret scientific effort to create an atomic bomb. After a successful test of the weapon, Truman issued the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of the Japanese government, warning of “prompt and utter destruction.” Eleven days later, on August 6, 1945, having received no reply, an American bomber called the Enola Gay left the Tinian Island in route toward Japan. In the belly of the bomber was “Little Boy,” an atomic bomb. At 8:15 am Hiroshima time, “Little Boy” was dropped. The result was approximately 80,000 deaths in just the first few minutes. Thousands died later from radiation sickness.

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My grandmother worked on Little Boy and her birthday was Aug 5th. None of them knew what they'd been working with until the bomb was dropped and telegrams from the War Dept. came in congratulating them on their work. Most of what they learned though came from the news releases that had been carefully crafted to run in every US newspaper at once. I never thought to ask her what it must've been like to be celebrating your birthday with all the other girls at Oak Ridge, only to find out you had a major hand in this. To be happy that the war might be over but then to hear that this bomb might've killed millions (in reality 80,000+ in Hiroshima but the numbers suggested at first were even bigger) must've been incredibly hard to process. They all knew what they were doing was important and for the war but they really had no idea just what they were working on until after the fact.
 
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25vol said:
Rent free baby. They literally made a t shirt after beating us rofl. Also, if I could offer a suggestion, why bother including MTSU, Memphis and Vandy on there? I would be kind of embarrassed to hang my hat on beating lesser teams, even as a joke. Just having the power T on there would’ve been much better.
I actually hate that we don’t play them just because id have loved to smack them on the mouth this year. It’s a travesty that in the first year of the playoffs they’re handed a schedule where we could have a path to 12-0 if we had the same. They just better hope that they don’t get exposed by the few good teams they actually play. TAMU vs Missouri is a game I will be watching for sure.
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They would have zero chance of beating us in Neyland. Can we trade our road game with UGA for it?
 
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VolGee4 said:
I don't really like absolutes. Gosh forbid, Nico gets hurt, and 8 wins isn't a problem. All about the QB.
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Sure, with massive injuries. I'm talking from a talent and depth position. Expectations should be 9 regular season. If year 4 ends with 8 wins and no massive injuries occur that's trouble.
 
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JacketVol said:
My daughter’s BF asked me to go to dinner what will be tonight. I think I know what he’s going to ask. I’m not ready for this.
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