Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[jakez4ut]

Ya get rid of the bs seeding and we would have gotten SMU in Neyland.

We'd still be in it. Wouldn't embarass ourselves on a Neutral field either. Horrible seeding, horrible timing for everything.

Not an excuse. All we had to do was not get totally embarrassed. That's it.

Agree with this. Hard not react to the result. But I'm not sure it would have mattered who Ohio st played, when they decide to play like that.

Tough draw in a bad format. And there are 3 other 1st round games that also support that.

Sucks we were part of it. Doesn't change what happened. Nor doesn't it change what we need to do if we see ourselves being considered with UGA, OSU, Oregon, TX etc.

We've reached the second tier. Next steps probably a lot harder.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Yeah I'm not buying those figures at all. 30-40% more in the NIL budget gets you THAT roster instead of ours? We started 2 walk ons this year. We're either mismanaging our NIL funds badly or OSU is spending way more than 5-6M more than us. I'm thinking it's the latter.

we don't get into bidding wars

that really chaps my ass

 

[tnvols72]

 

[Fun coupon VOL]

See and maybe it's just me, but I don't consider 4 a pressure. If you aren't bring 6 are you really blitzing

I agree.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Vanderbilt played TN, on its home turf. Got outclassed in every phase. next troll please

 

[Plove23]

why is he leaving?

I think its a combination of things

 

[HeuperDrive]

why should we care about the opinion of a team that couldn’t even finish above .500 on the regular season?

 

[Plove23]

I wish our coaches never moved him.

Who u telling, I think he would've been crazy at wr. But hey who am I, I'm no coach or anything to see what they saw

 

[Jimmy Football]

This would be somewhat akin to us trying to flex on Ohio State if they lost their next game.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

Lmao. Vandy has the first 6 win season in 5 years and they're talking smack. When we blew them out at their (our other) house.

Bring that 35yo QB to Knoxville mext season and we will run the score up on you even more. Dudes parents have to be extremely disappointed...he should already have his own drywall crew and 5 or 6 kids on Tenncare/medicaid by now. Yet he is still pretending to be a school kid.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

What's wild is if we had Vandy's schedule we probably win 11 and host the first round.

We don't lose at Georgia State
We wouldn't have lost at Missouri
Texas instead of Georgia, hell we may have won that one!
Don't think we lose to South Carolina at home
Don't lose at LSU either

 

[JCVol00]

This table I saw on another site pretty much sums up the OSU game
5 stars on roster: UT (4) , OSU (16)
4 stars on roster: UT (37) , OSU (55)
3 stars on roster: UT (41) , OSU (14)

But but but I was told that stars dont matter and that ranking systems are overrated

 

[SouthKnoxVOL]

Well...next year..you can go ahead and count @bama and @UF as losses. Better win the rest of them.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Well...next year..you can go ahead and count @bama and @UF as losses. Better win the rest of them.

I don't know about at Bama... gonna lose what little offense they had and really don't know if DeBoer will be as capable to reload as Saban was losing 14 in portal as of now and just 5 incoming, they do have the 2nd ranked class though...but will be breaking in a first year starter at QB either way at this point.

 

[therickbol]

Do the research. One game doesn’t make a QB. It’s all right there.

Does anything checkerboard posts ever demonstrate that he has any intention of researching to form his opinions?!?

 

[Volsdeep4]

Also, Ohio stadium is not loud at all. It’s hilarious to have 120 decibels on the screen. Even times when no one cheered

 

[TrippieRedd]

I don't know about at Bama... gonna lose what little offense they had and really don't know if DeBoer will be as capable to reload as Saban was losing 14 in portal as of now and just 5 incoming, they do have the 2nd ranked class though...but will be breaking in a first year starter at QB either way at this point.

It’s a loss.

We don’t have anyone like Sampson to keep us in those games.

How many wins do we have this season if Sampson wasn’t on the team

 

[Weezer]

Out and about earlier, Kevin Simon filling in for Swain on the radio today. They need to give that man his own radio show. Put him on in place of Tyler and Will. Even when he criticizes the program, you can tell just how much Kevin loves the Vols. And he had a lot to say on how we need to improve. And I agreed with just about all of it.

 

[csprig9]

I don't know about at Bama... gonna lose what little offense they had and really don't know if DeBoer will be as capable to reload as Saban was losing 14 in portal as of now and just 5 incoming, they do have the 2nd ranked class though...but will be breaking in a first year starter at QB either way at this point.

Refs and tv powers will do anything they can to have bama in playoffs next year
Bama plus refs every game gonna be tough for them to lose

 

[csprig9]

It’s a loss.

We don’t have anyone like Sampson to keep us in those games.

How many wins do we have this season if Sampson wasn’t on the team

Lewis gonna be real good

 

[MoCo_Vol]

It’s a loss.

We don’t have anyone like Sampson to keep us in those games.

How many wins do we have this season if Sampson wasn’t on the team

I think you're underselling Peyton Lewis BIG TIME and I think we'll be less dependent on elite RB play anyway with Nico in year 2.

Plus for whatever reason we don't seem to **** the bed at Bama like we do at the Swamp or at Georgia.

Last year a Joe Milton lead attack with a far inferior defense to this year was up 20-7 at the half.

 

[Weezer]

Had a thought earlier. Pickings in the portal are slim. Not sure how much help we're going to get from there this time. We need to tamper like every other team does and entice some guys into the Spring portal because we seriously need some help on this roster.

 

[TrippieRedd]

I think you're underselling Peyton Lewis BIG TIME and I think we'll be less dependent on elite RB play anyway with Nico in year 2.

Plus for whatever reason we don't seem to **** the bed at Bama like we do at the Swamp or at Georgia.

Last year a Joe Milton lead attack with a far inferior defense to this year was up 20-7 at the half.

I’m not underselling Lewis, I was encouraged by what I saw the other night, he just isn’t Sampson.

Lewis is fine as a #2 guy, we need to be patient and wait for an elite RB portal guy, if one enters that’s good enough. I’m fine with who we have if no one enters.

Take away Sampson and our record is around 7-5 or 8-4.

- Take away Sampson’s 2 TDs against UK and the score is 14-18, UK

- Take away Sampson’s 2 TDs against Bama and the score is 13-17, Bama

- Take away Sampson’s 3 TDs against Florida and the score is 2-17

I don’t think Lewis can provide us with those stats next year, and that’s not a knock on him.


An elite rushing game makes this offense click.

Hooker could run
Small
Wright.
Samspon
List goes on

I look at Lewis like I look at our team. He’s good, but not elite…yet.

 

[Midas]

Out and about earlier, Kevin Simon filling in for Swain on the radio today. They need to give that man his own radio show. Put him on in place of Tyler and Will. Even when he criticizes the program, you can tell just how much Kevin loves the Vols. And he had a lot to say on how we need to improve. And I agreed with just about all of it.

You got the cliff notes? Kevin Simon was a hoss when healthy. Would love to hear what he had to say.

 

[NMVol]

Y'all seen this? Probably have. Be nice to have some continuity of personnel and player development from season to season. Though I understand. I had wanderlust during my college age years.