Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[SoilVol]

No

Of all the things to be concerned about, this is the #1 (and assuming no injuries.. #2 and #3 imo). idk if we did enough- I certainly wish we had more there. Kamari Ramsey was who we really wanted there but he just followed his DB coach from UCLA to USC.

Overall id give the portal an A/A- for how many guys we hit on but I wish we had another guy at S.

Not early on. Maybe later in the year. Harrison has been a really pleasant surprise. Thomas getting hurt just sucks.

Have to think the coaches expected Jakobe Thomas to be further along and slide right in at S. I know I did. Personally I expected the safeties to be Ja Thomas and either Turrentine or Jo Thomas, with the other at Star.

At Star, I know Boo can make some series plays for us there, but if Harrison is capable and we are getting burned on the back end it may be worth moving Boo to safety at some point.

 

[Orangeredblooded]

ER again. Damn infection. Prayers please.

I’m so sorry this is on going for you. . Prayers for you.

 

[cncchris33]

Halls kid here (Adrian Burnett Elementary) and so is my wife but middle and high only for her. Class of 2000 for me but I transferred to Powell. Wife is class of 2002. Anywhere near that? I'm pretty sure from reading the B-Ball forum that you are close but a little older.

Yes, I'm a few years older, but you'd have been in my sister's class. We may have had this conversation before...lol. I went to Brickey Elementary, so I knew a ton of Powell students.

 

[pismonque]

Didn’t Ty Hardin play Sugarfoot?

Nope. Will Hutchens

Rushin, I'm guessing you're old enough to have watched these shows at first airing because Ty Hardin was the star of Bronco, which rotated with Sugarfoot in the same time slot on ABC for 4 years. Cheyenne was in the mix too, as Bronco was a spinoff from it. But that would explain the association!

Those shows ran in the late 50s, early 60s and I wasn't even born till '65. I watched Sugarfoot in syndication in the early 70s. And I actually just learned that info about the shows on Wikipedia when I was trying to figure out what Ty Hardin was in. Show me a rabbit hole, I'm diving in.

 

[gainesvol82]

These uniforms are hideous. Thank God we aren’t stuck with Adidas anymore.

Disagree. I really like these as the best white unis in the SEC after our Vol Storm Trooper uniforms.

 

[pismonque]

Right behind water and chocolate milk, scotch is just ahead of sweet tea as my favorite drink in the world. Now days, I only have a drink, maybe 2, of top shelf on Saturday night; during the week, while cooking dinner, I'll have a cocktail or two of lower end, like JW Red or Black.

Right there with you, looove scotch (having a Highland Park logo as my avi for many years may have been a giveaway) but I've been missing it of late. Was just going through way too much of it, decided a few months ago I'd better step away for a bit till I get my brakes back. These days I'll have a beer if I'm at a restaurant (margarita if Mex) but not keeping anything at the house.

What I need is a good special occasion!

 

[screenthis]

I’m so sorry this is on going for you. . Prayers for you.

Welp...another antibiotic and going home. Hopefully no more ER visits. Thanks to all for the prayers.

 

[gainesvol82]

BMF is goated. Pretty sure I watched all his videos a few years ago. The man doesn't lose.

And yet he isn't a pound overweight. Life most definitely isn't fair...

That nurse/server was looking at him with a mixture of 'spect and seks in her eyes after seeing his dedication to eating and make sure he finished everything.

 

[gainesvol82]

I feel like if I met RG3 at a party or something I would like him... But he's quite insufferable on camera.

You're saying this because of seeing him go after the thicker/longer end of the croissant, aren't you?

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

 

[gainesvol82]

Just realized that I haven’t posted a new job update and it’s been a month since I started..lol
Changing jobs this time around is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made..Really happy with this company..Healthy, safe, and friendly environment and couldn’t ask for better management and co-workers..Been a couple of growing pains but that’s par for the course.

Company have work in the Jacksonville, FL area. I have a great resume but been very unhappy with my employer recently.....verbal abuse of all employees (especially a top seller like me) is a complete turnoff. If any opportunities, I would appreciate the company info and willing to send my email address.

 

[tnvols72]

 

[tnvols72]

I wonder if the person that came up with this still has a job

 

[gainesvol82]

I’m surprised no one has fallen from the current upper deck

What about that dentist that was a UF fan who "fell" years back? Heard he allegedly had some help in his pavement diving debut....sport never caught on.

 

[gainesvol82]

My ex used to go to Turks n Caicos to bonefish...the waitresses.

Was your boyfriend Drake and were you 15 at the time? #NotLikeUs

 

[SugarCC]

What kind of cocktails do you make with scotch? I genuinely don’t know

I only drink it neat, always have. I sometimes call a drink, straight or otherwise, a cocktail. Old habit. Had an old pipeliner/mentor, over 20 years ago...he would call anything with alcohol in it a cocktail, as long as you were kicking back, relaxing, knowing "you had done the day, the way the day was suppose to be done". I picked it up from him, and it stuck. You'd go to his motel room after a long day's work, he'd invite you in and ask, like clockwork, "Cocktail?" All he ever drank was Rare Breed.

Strange, the little things one remembers.

 

[SugarCC]

Right there with you, looove scotch (having a Highland Park logo as my avi for many years may have been a giveaway) but I've been missing it of late. Was just going through way too much of it, decided a few months ago I'd better step away for a bit till I get my brakes back. These days I'll have a beer if I'm at a restaurant (margarita if Mex) but not keeping anything at the house.

What I need is a good special occasion!

Whenever we win the National Championship in football. Winning it in baseball was AWESOME, cause for a very nice celebration; but, not worth falling off the wagon. We win it in football, the wagon can run me over.

I can definitely relate. In the past, it's been TOO GOOD a companion, especially single malts. I've been good over the last years of limiting myself, though. I've come to enjoy it even more by doing so.

Enjoy Highland Park, btw. Skol!!!

 

[gainesvol82]

Yes, I'm a few years older, but you'd have been in my sister's class. We may have had this conversation before...lol. I went to Brickey Elementary, so I knew a ton of Powell students.

Yep, we might have. I miss Coach Pennington from Halls Middle. He was huge.....biggest calves I'd ever seen but he was so nice. I was friends with his son Chad due to a best friend being Chad's next door neighbor and another best friend living about 4 doors down.....I was always happy to see Chad's success in the NFL.

He was always nice to us that were several years younger and would play basketball with us. His sister was also quite pretty and went to Halls (at least for a while) instead of Webb.

Brickey was an interesting school because about half went to Halls and the other half went to Powell. I'm just glad I didn't go to Gibbs. Lol, my wife's mother and Aunt had a younger friend that dated Kenny Chesney (Tebow loving douche). She was pretty certain that he didn't like women but maybe it was just her, lol.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

What kind of cocktails do you make with scotch? I genuinely don’t know

Blood and sand

Equal parts Scotch, sweet vermouth, orange juice, cherry liqueur. Good stuff!

You can do an old fashion with it too.

 

[gainesvol82]

I wonder if the person that came up with this still has a job

I kinda like it at the HS or G5 level.

 

[knoxvol52]

Did anyone get to see the cleats Ben Joyce was wearing on the mound vs Braves?

 

[VOLLeeann]

Was your boyfriend Drake and were you 15 at the time? #NotLikeUs

No and no.

 

[Buddy’s Bandit]

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It's been a rough year on this farm, we've welcomed new additions, took in a couple of sick animals we really couldn't afford to..... But as always we make it work. Lost a couple of our goats, one a surprise, the other was a long term cancer case nobody wanted a few years ago.

When we were still able to rescue we always made a promise to our animals. That we would offer them the best life we possibly could and relieve their pain when they told us it was time.

Tonight the longest tenured animal on our farm told us it was time. She's been here since the beginning, the prior owners of this place took her in when her previous owner realized she couldn't be ridden....tossed away like so many are.

The distinguished lady on the left pictured above is Charlotte from a few years ago. She was already an old girl in that photo, around 30 years. It's how I like to remember her, before going nightblind and then completely blind a year later. She had been stalled the last year because she couldn't adjust to the paddock no matter how hard we tried. With the help of our vet she went peacefully this evening after going down.

Our old farmhouse in the distance with the sunrise seems fitting, Chase that sunrise and keep the darkness behind you old girl......Rest Easy!

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Good People! God Bless!

 

[Jackcrevol]

I wonder if the person that came up with this still has a job

pretty dope

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

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It's been a rough year on this farm, we've welcomed new additions, took in a couple of sick animals we really couldn't afford to..... But as always we make it work. Lost a couple of our goats, one a surprise, the other was a long term cancer case nobody wanted a few years ago.

When we were still able to rescue we always made a promise to our animals. That we would offer them the best life we possibly could and relieve their pain when they told us it was time.

Tonight the longest tenured animal on our farm told us it was time. She's been here since the beginning, the prior owners of this place took her in when her previous owner realized she couldn't be ridden....tossed away like so many are.

The distinguished lady on the left pictured above is Charlotte from a few years ago. She was already an old girl in that photo, around 30 years. It's how I like to remember her, before going nightblind and then completely blind a year later. She had been stalled the last year because she couldn't adjust to the paddock no matter how hard we tried. With the help of our vet she went peacefully this evening after going down.

Our old farmhouse in the distance with the sunrise seems fitting, Chase that sunrise and keep the darkness behind you old girl......Rest Easy!

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Sorry for your loss, bud! Those decisions are always so hard, but you did the right thing for her.

 

[Enki_Amenra]