Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Devo182]

It won't be Mike Keith but it will be someone young, talented and hungry. I have faith in DW to get this right.

If going Vol alumni and young, I could see Andraya Carter or Courtney Lyle.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

I don't care about any of those qualities as much as I care about his ability. I care about how well he does the job, describing what's happening in such a way that people listening can visualize all the details in their mind. That's the most important thing and the thing Kesling is not good at.

So we agree on John Wilkerson?

 

[Devo182]

John Wilkerson deserves the job...if he wants it.

Agreed. Would readily enjoy a Wilk broadcast.

 

[Devo182]

There are some good dual medium guys for sure, but radio is a totally different animal from TV, so I'd prefer someone who's spent their career doing it well instead of someone who's dabbled in it as a side gig for major games where ESPN wants to tout big names for a broadcast in order to draw viewers (or listeners rather).

Purely out of curiosity, how many folks nowadays "go into radio?"

Talking young, aspiring folks. I wonder how many people even listen to the radio broadcasts vs 30 years ago. Not diminishing it, as I still believe it's a great format in its own niche way. But would have to imagine not a ton of people with decades left in their career have cut their teeth behind a radio mic.

 

[Vol$_Deep_11_9]

Not sure if this is the place for it, but I did see earlier today where and local kid near to me got offered by Kentucky, the name is Brayden Maples and kid is absolutely dynamite. If anybody can get the word to somebody on the recruiting staff to check him out, its worth a look. JMO. Great kid and would fit the Vols offense like a glove.

 

[Devo182]

We need to go ahead and wrap up that title this year.

Offense will be improved. Raw defensive talent just continues to grow leaps and bounds. Now come in the young talent we haven't had in years, just had to develop out of necessity.

We'll go up from ~top 20 team talent to ~top 10 by next year and will continue to be much more talented than we have been under Heupel.

We're far from "there" yet, as seen with this year's ho hum struggles many a times. But we're just getting started.

That's scary for other teams...

 

[Big Orange#1]

Yes..... Neil Price!!



Pass on Roger Hoover. Unfortunately, we won't be able to get that bama Gump off of him. Look what it did to Pawl Finebauma.

Yep. You can watch his YouTube feed of Bama Tenn game this year. He’s a gump now

 

[Devo182]

How are we playing all the exact same sec teams again? I thought this was the last year of having UF UGA Bama?

I thought so too, but somebody here confirmed it a couple months ago. Seems like total BS to me.

That said there will be no easy schedules from here on out. All but 2 of the 16 SEC teams are in the top-26 of talent rankings.

Every year is insane. More reason 2 loss SEC teams are shoe-ins to the playoffs and some 3 loss SEC teams will deserve to be in the playoffs. And 9-game conference schedules would be a nightmare and suicidal.

 

[Jackcrevol]

....he was a good boy...

Man I cant imagine.

 

[DD4ME]

Lol

 

[tnhunter 10]

LV's not shooting good tonight so far.

 

[Devo182]

....he was a good boy...

Probably get 10% of the responses if for one of his relatives.

More proof humans like cats and dogs more than each other

 

[DD4ME]

The dates for all the SEC games all show the date as TBA.

But I only thought that meant the final date not the order.

 

[Buddy’s Bandit]

@UTSuave’ this **** got me cryin dawg

Bad Luck.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

POSSUM THOUGHTS: with @TN-POSSUM

So riding home from work today, I was listening to WNML 99.1. Normally I don't agree with much of what Tyler Ivens and Will West say, but today they sold me on John Wilkerson taking over for Kesling. Their main point, was that JW is already beloved by UT and the fans that tune in for his baseball call.

He also has 3 qualities that I personally want to hear in the "Voice of the VOLS". He's got passion for the University, he's extremely likeable, and he has a great distinguishable voice.

His age got brought up earlier and I couldn't find how old he is. He did graduate from UT in 1988. So he's maybe 60??? . (I'm behind some pages, so someone might have posted it).


After thinking a little more about it, John Wilkerson really is the perfect choice.

Yeah, he should be the one.

 

[Devo182]

But I only thought that meant the final date not the order.

Tricked me last year too.

They just have all the SEC games in alphabetical order.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

John Wilkerson. . . AND Mike Keith!

 

[jmacvols1]

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Purely out of curiosity, how many folks nowadays "go into radio?"

Talking young, aspiring folks. I wonder how many people even listen to the radio broadcasts vs 30 years ago. Not diminishing it, as I still believe it's a great format in its own niche way. But would have to imagine not a ton of people with decades left in their career have cut their teeth behind a radio mic.

If it were John Wilkerson or maybe even Mike Keith and I could sync the audio, I'd definitely listen to the radio while I watched.

In fact whoever broadcasts the game should give the option to listen to their announcers or your announcers . . or even the other team's announcers.

 

[pismonque]

Probably get 10% of the responses if for one of his relatives.

More proof humans like cats and dogs more than each other

That's because dogs are better people than people, generally speaking.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

 

[Enki_Amenra]

#12 for Martin is solid

 

[TheRain]

It just 'feels' like he gets any player he chooses.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Looks like Pat Adam's twin is in stripes

 

[Checker_the_Shire]

Offense will be improved. Raw defensive talent just continues to grow leaps and bounds. Now come in the young talent we haven't had in years, just had to develop out of necessity.

We'll go up from ~top 20 team talent to ~top 10 by next year and will continue to be much more talented than we have been under Heupel.

We're far from "there" yet, as seen with this year's ho hum struggles many a times. But we're just getting started.

That's scary for other teams...

Correct me if I’m wrong, but preseason, I feel like I remember several saying the coaches weren’t talking up this season, but were very excited about 2025.