Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[HighRockvol]

We made will howard look like the guy Ohio state thought he would be. Ugh.

We are good at making teams look a lot better than they are on the road

 

[engineerVOL]

We don’t have the culture, talent, and coaching Majors started and Fulmer continued. It’s sort of there, in its infancy, but a great chasm. Wishful thinking.

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

Think the importance of home field advantage can't be underestimated. None of the home teams had a rough game this weekend. Think neutral sites may have been another story. I think we should reduce playoffs to 8 teams and play neutral sites only

I think we would have gotten our asses handed to us even in Neyland. It wasn’t a problem with geography. It was a problem with on field coaching/execution.

 

[VolGee4]

It's to the point now that I need to know what is happening in the locker room before we take the field

To go from +10 or +14 in the first quarter, even against the best teams on our schedule, to -10 or -14 in the first half...

That's terrible. The swing has been noticeable and it cost us tonight dearly

It’s not one thing though. Sampson fumbled in 2 games in the first quarter. Tonight, it was a face mask, and we have the ball at our own 40 with a 0-0 game.

 

[engineerVOL]

Ouch lol. Go look for a real WR coach while you’re at it.

 

[Midas]

It's to the point now that I need to know what is happening in the locker room before we take the field

To go from +10 or +14 in the first quarter, even against the best teams on our schedule, to -10 or -14 in the first half...

That's terrible. The swing has been noticeable and it cost us tonight dearly

Idk man but what I’ve learned in life and in business that being too loyal to friends and trusting them too much can come back to bite you in the ass hard. So Heupel needs to recognize that and make some moves.

 

[Butch Jones]

wtf are you talking about? Nico is faster, quicker and has more moves. Howard went against a much less athletically gifted defense in the back end than Nico did. Howard literally just ran straight past them.

He looks like a newborn giraffe that doesn’t have the leg strength or coordination to run very well yet

 

[Smokey123]

It didn’t. It’s just not true.

Is not true that Uga won with a backup?

 

[Smokey123]

You should root for a different team. Bandwagon on over.

Lmao

 

[UpstateVol613]

Ellarbee has had 4 years….just sayin’

 

[BigSteve09]

It’s not one thing though. Sampson fumbled in 2 games in the first quarter. Tonight, it was a face mask, and we have the ball at our own 40 with a 0-0 game.

Our offense has been god awful.

If we go 3 and out or god forbid turn it over, they go stagnant for 20 game minutes. It is unacceptable

 

[LotteryPick]

Is not true that Uga won with a backup?

Did said backup start the game/lead the team to that game?

 

[JCVol00]

Im tired of the same **** different day when playing top competition, our ol and dl gets whipped every play, wrs dont get seperation and dbs bust coverages. At what point do we say “hey, this is a scheme and coaching problem” for 2 years in a row our ol, wr, and offense in general has been declining.

 

[Butch Jones]

Dude, you're as dumb as your namesake. Our WRs couldn't get open for Nico to throw the ball to them.

He has 5 passing TD’s in SEC play against teams not named Vandy and 2 of them were against lowly Miss St. Clearly, it’s not just the receiving core.

 

[JCVol00]

We absolutely need a rb and wr or 2 in the portal, our lack of depth showed tonight and that’s basically what the depth will be next year

 

[JCVol00]

We need to invest heavily in the portal this offseason and revamping several position groups, mainly OL, wr, lb and safeties

 

[Smokey123]

Did said backup start the game/lead the team to that game?

said backup lead his team to an SEC championship. Team scored 19 compared to 3 with Starter. What did I say wasn’t true?

 

[VolGee4]

Our offense has been god awful.

If we go 3 and out or god forbid turn it over, they go stagnant for 20 game minutes. It is unacceptable

I understand, but my point was it’s not one reason for it. Sampson fumbled against Bama and UK after good drives. Tonight, the defense couldn’t get off the field in the first 3 drives.

 

[JT3]

Wishful thinking would be Halzle coaching QBs exclusively and bring in a OC as Co-OC to call plays and bring creativity to the offense.

The defense took a huge step forward this year. Still need to get to another level with the elite teams but our offense has been steadily declining since Golesh left.

 

[Midas]

He looks like a newborn giraffe that doesn’t have the leg strength or coordination to run very well yet

Yeah…those moves he put on to get extra yards definitely looked like that…I bet you can run better

 

[TrippieRedd]

@Ericvol2096 tell Spyre to go get

Fa’alili, Branch, Gusta and Singleton

 

[Jack Burton]

Ladies and Gentlemen, we were embarrassed tonight. If we want to take the next step forward we need to recruit at a higher level and expect more from our gameday coaching. The truth is Heupel seems to struggle against teams with more talent like UGA and OSU. We need to close the talent gap which means not accepting every recruiting outcome as hard as that may seem.

 

[Weezer]

Not sure what to think of Halzle. I'm still not sure who calls the plays, him or Heup? If it's Heup, then it's silly to blame Halzle for the questionable play calling on offense.

I really think we need to replace Elarbee.

I'm good with the RB coach, but I think we need better than Pope to coach our WRs. They struggled mightily this season. At everything. Catching, route running, getting open. We need better.

Have no idea about the TE coach, but he needs to recruit his ass off.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Ladies and Gentlemen, we were embarrassed tonight. If we want to take the next step forward we need to recruit at a higher level and expect more from our gameday coaching. The truth is Heupel seems to struggle against teams with more talent like UGA and OSU. We need to close the talent gap which means not accepting every recruiting outcome as hard as that may seem.

we seem to struggle in recruiting against those two teams.

 

[TrippieRedd]

We about to get a DL from Grand Valley State or that other DL from Wisconsin that looks like Carlton from Bel-Air

Tragic