Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[TrippieRedd]

Would be very interested to see this. Kinda tough bc you don’t know blocking assignments on every play but can def see when they get beat 1 on 1.

My guesses would be they’ll grade out (1 is best and just for reg starters):

1 - Coop
2 - Karic
3 - Spraggins
4 - Campbell
5 - Heard

Yeah I’ll probably have to only grade the 1on1 assignments.

I agree with the order

 

[BigOrange15]

Glad I wasn't awake to read this when you posted

Oh, look at Mr "Sleeps at normal hours like a regular person" over here.

 

[85SugarVol]

In terms of pure talent, this list seems pretty accurate!

It’s how I like to rank tailbacks.

If you could pick one, in his prime, running behind a generic o-line.

 

[MarcoVol]

Lol wut? Morris? How utterly deflating.

I guess when AP said “elite” and “position of need” I got my hopes up for some baller DT or S or OT coming out of nowhere.

Oh well. Thanks for the info.

AP’s job is to sell subscriptions

 

[vol9799]

Not my top 5, but a damn good top 5!

1. Travis Henry, only 3k rusher in program history, 5.5 ypc, part of the 2 headed monster that helped us win a natty
2. James "Little Man" Stewart, considering he had to split carries with Aaron Hayden & Charlie Gardner his whole career impressive that he's 3rd all time in yards and 1st all time in TDs at 35
3. Jamal Lewis, good chance he's a finalist for Heisman in 98 if he didn't get hurt.
4. Charlie Garner, there's a reason why he demanded carries despite Stewart and Hayden being in the same back field
5. Dylan Sampson, 2nd in all time rushing TDs with 30 and he's only played in 29 games a career 6 ypc guy and this is the first season he's gotten more than 110 carries...dude is a stud if he returned for a 4th season he'd own every career record and it wouldn't be close

Johnnie Jones, Webb & Cobb and a few others were just before my time.

Man alive, you youngsters make me feel old!! The two truly "great" RB that would have been most recently before my time would have been Majors and Lauricella. Not really anyone in the 60's and early 70's that would make the all-time list unless you are talking fullbacks and then Curt Watson would be included even though he played RB at the time.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Man alive, you youngsters make me feel old!! The two truly "great" RB that would have been most recently before my time would have been Majors and Lauricella. Not really anyone in the 60's and early 70's that would make the all-time list unless you are talking fullbacks and then Curt Watson would be included even though he played RB at the time.

Yeah the 80s and 90s were pretty much the "elite" decades from what I've been told by older fans and looking at the stats.

I would have really enjoyed seeing some of those guys play live.

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

AP’s job is to sell subscriptions

To be fair… AP very likely considers Morris to be elite. These are posts I made in the Morris thread over the summer where AP spoke of him.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Jadon Perlotte = huge flip and one I'd say fits the "elite" and "position of need" bill the most
Daune Morris = looks like a good one and a solid recruit, would probably be more of a position of need than LB too

Plus ya hope landing Morris could help land Tutt in the 2026 class

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Also...shoutout to @Aesius for reminding me of this hot take

 

[rikberry31]

One of the best concerts I have ever been to. Seen them in Chicago in 1993.

To be clear Toto is not a rock band. The best concert I ever been to is Monsters of Rock 1984.

 

[Aesius]

Also...shoutout to @Ace for reminding me of this hot take
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I gave you a like on this like two days ago so I think that might have been me that bumped this into your notifications. I searched "Heupel" pre-Jan. 2021 to see what people were saying about him. @drvenner was also a big fan going back to like 2018 so props to him as well. Also @chavisut was talking fondly of Heupel (as a player primarily) well over a decade ago!

 

[MoCo_Vol]

I gave you a like on this like two days ago so I think that might have been me that bumped this into your notifications. I searched "Heupel" pre-Jan. 2021 to see what people were saying about him. @drvenner was also a big fan going back to like 2018 so props to him as well. Also @chavisut was talking fondly of Heupel (as a player primarily) well over a decade ago!

Yeah wasn't sure you and Ace both gave likes around the same time oddly enough

 

[MarcoVol]

Jadon Perlotte = huge flip and one I'd say fits the "elite" and "position of need" bill the most
Daune Morris = looks like a good one and a solid recruit, would probably be more of a position of need than LB too

Plus ya hope landing Morris could help land Tutt in the 2026 class

Muster recruit is not Perlotte tho

 

[Aesius]

Yeah wasn't sure you and Ace both gave likes around the same time oddly enough

Interestingly I found a VQ tidbit from early 2015 that I think Ron Swanson posted about new potential OC candidates.

The three names they listed?

Seth Littrell, Billy Napier, and Josh Heupel.

 

[85SugarVol]

They all ran behind better o-lines than Sampson. Foster and Henry for sure would not have prospered this season.

And Sampson runs in a different offense.

Travis Henry was a bad man.
- 4,000 Yds & 40 TDs as a Sr in Florida
- 3,000 Yds at Tennessee
- 3 seasons of 1200+ Yds in NFL (6k total)

Cheese would do absolute damage in this offense, too.

 

[85SugarVol]

AP’s job is to sell subscriptions

 

[Vols410]

Would be very interested to see this. Kinda tough bc you don’t know blocking assignments on every play but can def see when they get beat 1 on 1.

My guesses would be they’ll grade out (1 is best and just for reg starters):

1 - Coop
2 - Karic
3 - Spraggins
4 - Campbell
5 - Heard

PFF agrees.

Mays
Karic
…
Spraggins
…
…
Campbell
Heard

 

[Orange_Crush]

 

[SSVol]

Amazes me how individuals want to re-hash topics. Like it's going to change the original outcome.

Obviously that could be said of the majority of what's discussed in here, since we talk about things in the past.

But it seems that this bothers you because it speaks to officiating.

 

[bigorange]

 

[rikberry31]

Chuck Webb and Jamal Lewis are the best running backs to ever play at Tennessee

Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry, Travis Stephens. God Almighty, not fair.

 

[Orange_Crush]

That day we called our insurance company because my wife got into my parked truck and backed it into my parked Jeep. Ah, good times!

(She asked me to edit and make it clear that it was an accident. She wants it clear that she is not a psycho. Just a woman driver.)

 

[vol9799]

Yeah the 80s and 90s were pretty much the "elite" decades from what I've been told by older fans and looking at the stats.

I would have really enjoyed seeing some of those guys play live.

One thing that made those years so special is the same thing that made '22 and this year resonate with fans so clearly: we had been essentially wandering in the wilderness from '72-'84 with a mixture of moderate success and mediocrity. Same thing now between '07 and '21. When a fan base gets used to having championship caliber teams and then has to suffer through those kinds of periods, it makes the resurrection that much sweeter. Hopefully Hype can create a stretch that doesn't include ('86, '88, '94 & '05).

 

[MockingVol]

I’ll try to give you easily streamable/rentable options. A lot of great indie horror is hard to find. Possession may not be streaming anymore sadly..

Classic: Rosemary’s Baby, The Thing (any John Carpenter), The Shining, Sixth Sense, Halloween, Evil Dead, Possession, Suspiria, could go on forever…

Folk: Wicker Man, The VVitch, A Field in England, Saint Maud, Blair Witch Project, any Ari Aster/Robert Eggers

Camp/Slasher: Ma, V/H/S, Dead Ringers (loads of cronenberg), Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer (challenging but rewarding watch, great performance), Terrifier, Bone Tomahawk

Cautionary Tale: Get Out, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Menu, Talk To Me, The Night House, Goodnight Mommy, Barbarian, Possessor, Watcher


Could list a lot of great foreign especially Korean and Japanese stuff but I find subtitles difficult when viewing on an outdoor screen.

I’ve got a crazy long list on Letterboxd lol

You’re a real one for that list — Very good taste.