Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[TrippieRedd]

If we want a home run threat at this point, we need to hope someone from these playoffs team enter, or someone gets upset and enters during the spring portal.

 

[logginlarry]

Squirrel to the draft - I messed up, it was on Squirrel's story.

 

[dmwvol12]

Am I the only one who thinks next year feels more like a rebuilding year rather than the "year we put it all together"? At least half the OL will be new. Jenkins announcing he's entering the portal today makes me question the DL even more. Still think we need safety help and no truly proven WRs IMO. A QB can't really be great without a support system around him, and I question the support we're giving Nico next year.

Seems reasonable to wonder at this point. We will likely have some more people enter the portal. Also, some of the other playoff teams will experience portal losses as they get eliminated. We have some holes it appears. I do hope we can get dramatically faster at safety as that can cover up some big mistakes. They call them safeties for a reason. I also agree it would be nice to have some playmakers at WR and Heupel specifically mentioned that in his post game and he seemed a bit aggravated when he said it. We will likely get some nice new players but not sure we have the budget to get the super elite. Schedule also looks tougher to me next year with Alabama and Florida on the road. Team could be as good but lose an additional game. Good news we have an elite basketball and baseball team to cheer on before we find out.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Sigh

that hurts

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Whereas Sampson was the bell cow last season, next year will likely be RB by committee.

Yeah, 258 carries is likely not gonna happen for a single RB often with Heupel's style of play.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Squirrel to the draft

where is that reported?

 

[Jimmy Football]

Squirrel to the draft

Best of luck. Much rather it be that than transferring.

Gonna need some receiver help.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Squirrel to the draft

Mistake

 

[Enki_Amenra]

that hurts

TWSS

 

[MoCo_Vol]

He’s only looking at total yards. Look at competition.

Each RBs average carry in SEC play their freshman season:

Sampson: 9.1 yards per carry in SEC play
Lewis: 3.26 yards per carry in SEC play

Major Difference, BUT again I was encouraged by what I saw from Lewis this other night.

Ya wanna check the math again bud?

200 carries and 1051 yards for 5.3 in SEC play for Sampson...

He only had one game this year where he went over 8 YPC and that was against Chattanooga... How did you get 9.1 yard per carry?

Lewis was also 28 carries for 98 yards which is 3.5 YPC, but half of those were the 14 he got against Mississippi State without Nico and all we were doing was running the clock.

 

[GVol1966]

We hardly (actively) changed coaches last year.

And yet we became 2 games better.

Maybe, just maybe, we give coaches more than a year or two.

I'll trust Hype for now. He's done the impossible so far.

And, vs UGA , OHio st, Arkansas pretty much the consensus is we got outcoached!

And I’m not even talking about vol nation or
Vol fans.

Basically everyone who watches football or knows football.

 

[MarcoVol]

 

[TrippieRedd]

Ya wanna check the math again bud?

200 carries and 1051 yards for 5.3 in SEC play for Sampson...

He only had one game this year where he went over 8 YPC and that was against Chattanooga... How did you get 9.1 yard per carry?

Lewis was also 28 carries for 98 yards which is 3.5 YPC, but half of those were the 14 he got against Mississippi State without Nico and all we were doing was running the clock.

“Freshman season”

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Squirrel to the draft

Ya meant Thornton...since that's whose post you're sharing.

 

[VFLBerg]

Squirrel to the draft

The attached text is Thornton's announcement. Doesn't mention Squirrel.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Doesn’t seem like a big loss

Disagree. It’s a huge loss. He’s raw, but has a lot of talent, and with Boswell’s shoulder injury we’re are now down to 8 scholarship players most likely. I’m not sure we can survive the season with that little depth.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Mistake

What if he got news that said 'you have maybe 17-20 good solid hits left before you retire?'

Or staff is purging.

 

[Jack Burton]

9-3 or 10-2 is a hell of a rebuilding year

We haven’t achieved it yet. The rebuilding has to take place this Spring to repeat 2024 success.

 

[dmwvol12]

where is that reported?

I thought they were joking. If real he’s getting some bad advice. I still have a hard time believing it’s real.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Disagree. It’s a huge loss. He’s raw, but has a lot of talent, and with Boswell’s shoulder injury we’re are now down to 8 scholarship players most likely. I’m not sure we can survive the season with that little depth.

I think we will survive. Gosh, kids are idiots.

 

[Jackcrevol]

was a 4 yard gain.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

“Freshman season”

Ahhh yeah those 2 big games against Vandy and Missouri helped a ton.

We racked up 724 total yards on Missouri and Vandy gave up 362 rushing yards that game, Wright ended up with 32 ypc...

I mean if we wanna be fully transparent in the discussion.

 

[PYSCHO]

CJ Donaldson to Ohio State lol

not sure why because that line of backs us long and he is a lot different than what they have for sure

 

[TheMookieMonster]

I think we will survive. Gosh, kids are idiots.

Maybe. But one more injury and we likely don’t. And it also puts us in a really tough spot if we face foul trouble. People can spin this but it’s a huge loss. Depth is an issue that some are not as concerned about as they should be. We’re about to head into the toughest conference schedule in NCAA basketball history with how strong the SEC is this year and foul trouble and depth is going to cause us to drop a few games we probably wouldn’t.

 

[vol4eva]