Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[DD4ME]

Model - but it was wrong with AR

 

[DD4ME]

Your eyes aren’t lying. UT’s opponents are flagged 4.3 times per game this year—9th fewest in the nation (126th of 134).

For comparison:

UGA’s opponents are flagged 5.5 times per game on average (89th out of 134).
Bama opponents are flagged 5.6 times per game (86th).
Auburn’s opponents are flagged 9.6 times per game (3rd).
Ohio State’s opponents have the fewest penalties called against them—3.4 per game.

Link here: College Football Stats - College FB Team Opponent Penalties per Game | TeamRankings.com

BS too - We have to handle business this weekend, but that game against Bama is going to decide the SEC IMO. Whoever loses is out of the convo for good.

 

[tnhunter 10]

If this football thing doesn't work out we have options.

Surprising considering pretty Holly was a LV.

 

[smokeyhuntsgators]

This discussion on officiating is why I no longer get as upset with a loss or the obvious cheating as I once did for many years. When it is clearly permitted or even directed from the conference office, it is hard to get excited about the sport. The telling sign is that each year they come out with a point of emphasis on a specific action the officials will be watching. Why? All of the rules are to be observed and penalties called with the infractions. If it takes five hours to play a game, it takes five hours. If they want to fit the TV window, the players and coaches will be forced to quit cheating the rules by the school and conference admins. Bending the rules and permitting the infractions is what causes the whole sport to decline. Basketball has been the absolute worst with this forever, but now it has taken over football.

The general condition is not just incompetence, although there is a lot of that. It is intent. They keep trotting the same officials out there year after year and you can count on specific crews being assigned to promote the game results they want. They influence results. If your team is on the wrong side of that they have to beat both the officials and the opponents. That is hard to do, especially on the road.

Standing a few yards away and looking at an obvious infraction in the open field without the flag being thrown time after time tells all of us the truth of what is going on. Admit it or not, personal decision.

Good post!
There have been many times that I’ve been watching a game and screaming at an obvious penalty with the ref(like you said) standing 5yds away from infraction.

 

[sreveisVol]

The more penalties called against another team’s offense = more offensive plays for us and more running for officials. The more penalties called against our offense, the less running for same officials. Has been happening for 3 years now and now one can convince me that it’s anything other than that.

more penalties called against T

IMO this makes the most sense. Part time officials running 5-7+ miles per game (chatgpt) are in too much control

 

[mr.checkerboards]

The only thing I care about this weekend. I want to see our tempo back. I don't care if we go 3 and out 15 times in 20 seconds. This offense has to use tempo

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

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There have been too many times in my lifetime where this score was reversed.

Please let’s just not win. Let’s wreck them.

 

[BigSteve09]

Anybody heard of this or done it?

 

[DD4ME]

Boy folks are selling Nico stock quick. Lol I say roll the bones play like you have nothing to lose and if he falls short he falls short. He ran like crazy against Iowa.

 

[DD4ME]

Anybody heard of this or done it?

Heard of it, but also found it funny that the FL loop looks like a penis. I'd steer clear of that.

 

[DD4ME]

Any thoughts or theories on our offensive struggles being a road problem?

 

[jave36]

Tbh, I'm not sure what we as a fanbase are supposed to believe? That it's all purely innocent and just a huge coincidence? Live ball fouls are NEVER called on teams playing us. Ever. They are called on them playing other teams and they are called on us...but never on them when playing us. It's essentially statistically impossible for the foul situation to have been this way for 2 year so...the only reasonable explanation is that multiple ref crews have been instructed to call games that way.

On the road. I'm pretty sure we get those calls at home.

 

[Aesius]

Y'all remember when Big John Kongbo reminded them oh John Henderson in the camp reports?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

That was THE fall camp "observation" that made me stop paying attention to fall camp reports. Believe it was John Brice with that gem, and he added that Kongbo was a MORE athletic Henderson.

 

[Outofmyvolcanmind]

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Probably should not make a roof out of cloth in Florida.

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

Some of the comments by fans are hilarious.

One guy said he would eat a white dog turd if FSU lost to Boston College and now a TENNESSEE fan is going to drink his own piss.

A little extreme in my book.

I’m a Braves fan and I’ll cheer for the dudgers to win the WS if Vols lose all 3 to UF, Bama and UGA.

That’s a little more extreme than eating a dog turd or drinking one’s own piss.

 

[Jackcrevol]

There's nothing wrong with the offense There were opportunities and open men all over the field. You're putting to much emphasis on scheme, execution particularly our blocking is the problem. It's the Jimmies and the Joes.

no one wanted to hear it

 

[Jackcrevol]

perhaps they will look at an adobe brick or thatched roof to replace the tattered cotton one that Milton removed?

 

[jave36]

Your eyes aren’t lying. UT’s opponents are flagged 4.3 times per game this year—9th fewest in the nation (126th of 134).

For comparison:

UGA’s opponents are flagged 5.5 times per game on average (89th out of 134).
Bama opponents are flagged 5.6 times per game (86th).
Auburn’s opponents are flagged 9.6 times per game (3rd).
Ohio State’s opponents have the fewest penalties called against them—3.4 per game.

Link here: College Football Stats - College FB Team Opponent Penalties per Game | TeamRankings.com

So the refs love.... Auburn?

Last year Ohio state, Texas, and Notre Dame were all lower than us.... Hard to imagine it's a conspiracy against us if opponents of those teams were getting fewer flags than our opponents.

 

[TrippieRedd]

My papaw use to say Kongbo reminded him of Shazzon Bradley.

Said Bradley was too dumb to understand the playbook and coaches told him to just get the QB, said the same about Kongbo

I’ll always remember that.

 

[eVOLve]

Any thoughts or theories on our offensive struggles being a road problem?

I think our OL is dysfunctional. I think Nico is rattled a bit.

 

[knoxvol52]

I’m a Braves fan and I’ll cheer for the dudgers to win the WS if Vols lose all 3 to UF, Bama and UGA.

That’s a little more extreme than eating a dog turd or drinking one’s own piss.

Yea you're right. I would eat a WHITE Dog turd before EVERY cheering for the Braves or 49ers or the Boston Celtics.

 

[screenthis]

Yea you're right. I would eat a WHITE Dog turd before EVERY cheering for the Braves or 49ers or the Boston Celtics.

The only Pro Sports team that I feel that way about is the Boston Celtics...and the Celts are odds on fav to win it all AGAIN.

 

[knoxvol52]

So the refs love.... Auburn?

Last year Ohio state, Texas, and Notre Dame were all lower than us.... Hard to imagine it's a conspiracy against us if opponents of those teams were getting fewer flags than our opponents.

Uh oh you went and done it now...

 

[Visidog]

So the refs love.... Auburn?

Last year Ohio state, Texas, and Notre Dame were all lower than us.... Hard to imagine it's a conspiracy against us if opponents of those teams were getting fewer flags than our opponents.

I don’t think there’s an anti-UT deep state. (Look who had the most penalties called against opponents in 2022). And I also think that what’s frustrating to fans is not the total number of fouls but rather the flags that weren’t thrown at some critical or noticeable moment. But it’s interesting to see that many ranked teams have fewer penalties called against their opponents on average.

A real analysis would have to control for total plays and compare against expected rates for all three phases of play. I don’t have that data.

 

[knoxvol52]

The only Pro Sports team that I feel that way about is the Boston Celtics...and the Celts are odds on fav to win it all AGAIN.

I hate those Leprechauns and those Puke Green Uniforms...