Recruiting Football Talk VIII

it might be normal in the portal age but it feels like our ‘23 class has kind of been gutted by portal.

a number of high four stars who couldn’t get on the field for one reason or another. Staff needs to evaluate better.
We just made the playoffs. Whoever made the field was playing well.

It'd be different if we went 6-6 and 4* 2nd yr players weren't seeing the field.

That's just football, plenty of players won't get their shot till later. But if we're averaging 10 wins a season, then things are working (better than expected even).
 
Gaston Moore in the portal?
I think he wants to become a coach (I have heard more than once. And he also wants to find a place he can start and play for a year, both for itself and also for the experience he would benefit from as a coach, playing under and learning from a different coach and staff for a year, as far as broadening his experience and getting a different first hand view of the coaching profession. I doubt seriously there is any resentment involved. He almost surely discussed it with Heupel. Heupel may have recommended it, for all I know. It makes that much sense for him and we have QB depth now. I think everyone here has a lot of appreciation and affection for "Gas Pipe." He's a loyal and hard working player.
 
it might be normal in the portal age but it feels like our ‘23 class has kind of been gutted by portal.

a number of high four stars who couldn’t get on the field for one reason or another. Staff needs to evaluate better.
Similar with the ‘22 class. Outside of Sampson, Pearce, Joseph and squirrel not a whole lot of contribution or transferred out. Evaluation or development issue?
 
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This one doesn't surprise me with all the QB talent here and coming here. Hopefully, he shines at his new destination.
Yup no way he wanted to sit behind 2 young guns when he can possibly start in the G5, definitely FCS. And maybe earn a little NIL before going GA and making (near diddly squat).
 
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Similar with the ‘22 class. Outside of Sampson, Pearce, Joseph and squirrel not a whole lot of contribution or transferred out. Evaluation or development issue?
Look down the class vs the historical average and you'll see it's quite normal.

I've went back and looked at rosters over the years...the number that contribute isn't that high, just the math with so many scholarships.
 
I probably fall in your newbie category but I've had pappy 12 and 15. Neither were that impressive. I would like to have one for the display but would never pay what it brings. I've tried to collect some to finish out a line, like the weller but I'd never pay secondary market. I'm starting to look for those craft bottles like you do. Some of those craft bottles ain't cheap either though. 😅
I did the same thing when I got into in years ago. I’ve had all the pappys except 23 and wasn’t impressed. For me, a “unicorn” to chase is RR13-15, those are outstanding. Bakers 13 is another great one.

And you’re right on the craft stuff too, but man there are some out there that are well under $70 and are great
 
Taking on my nephew has been a challenge, and my wife's grandmother passed away Dec, 7th. Also my 21yo niece (my nephew's older sister) is struggling with early adulthood. She flunked all her college classes this semester. My wife's sister passed away in 2011, and these are her kids. She was my wife's only sibling. My mother-in-law raised them, and neither of them have any coping skills for the real world. My wife's stepfather died unexpectedly last year, and now these kids don't have a male authority figure in their lives either, so I'm somehow expected to fill that role now. This wouldn't be such a big deal, except for the fact that their black uncle was always portrayed as the family villain. Which is crazy, considering that my niece and nephew both have criminal, absentee fathers and my wife is the only woman in the family that hasn't been married and divorced multiple times. They essentially disowned my wife when she started dating me almost 30 years ago. Sorry for the rant. It's been an interesting year to say the least, and they all (mother-in-law, niece, and nephew) acted a fool yesterday at the annual Christmas breakfast that I host every year for my side of the family. They embarrassed my wife and basically ruined Christmas day.
Breaks my heart, bigl. Intrafamily rivalries can be draining even in "normal-ish" circumstances; but that is a firestorm. You have the character to get through it. But that makes it all the more unjust that you have to. I knew about you taking on your nephew. The way they've treated you is horrendous, and look at the fruit it's born. I don't mind you saying. That's a lot to keep inside. I would have been humiliated, too, if I were the wife; I think any sensible person would have been. She has no real reason to feel that way (but it's perfectly normal to be embarrassed and angry). She's an exemplary person, from everything I know. It's not her fault they tried to humiliate her by being horrible to you and to her. You know better than I do that you can't let them create a wedge like that. Maybe you can have your own little family breakfast this weekend with just the wife and young men. Worst of all, I can only imagine what you had to hold your temper through. You're a good man. I wish they could see that you are their way up and way out and a strong and intelligent person to lean on, instead of doing everything they can to vilify you and shame the niece and nephew away from help. Probably the only kind, level-headed helping hand they may ever get. No one else would put up with that. I wish there were some way I could help you. It makes me really angry to imagine the insults and rants and asinine trash they must have slung at you and your family. I hope your sons are doing well. I hate they had to endure that too. It sounds like shame, self-degradation, and envy striking out as rage -- the more ignorant and hateful the "better." I wish they would put down the shovel and stop digging. MIL really pulled out all the stops to damage her kids' prospects, it sounds like. It's the worse thing she could do to them. I hope they didn't follow her lead. I'm really sorry.

Sometime when I'm going to be near the Nashville area maybe we can watch a game together on TV. I've always appreciated your remarks on the recruits and the team.
 
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Look down the class vs the historical average and you'll see it's quite normal.

I've went back and looked at rosters over the years...the number that contribute isn't that high, just the math with so many scholarships.
That’s not entirely true though especially from the top of the class. And even the classes with high transfers (2020) they at least contributed before leaving. That hasn’t been the case so far
 
Runny egg yolks or not?
Jackie likes hers raw, scrambled, boiled, a little corner of an omelette: anyway she can get them. Loves eggs. Will come quickly to the sound of an egg cracking. Maybe I'll drop a raw one in her bowl right now. She's running around outside.
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Well said my friend. Your sentiment is exactly where I find myself. 🤠
Definitely feels like swimming upstream against the legion of the miserable. I decided I was a Volunteer and it was time to stand up and fight back against all the negative vitriol against the coaches and program and try and make a last stand! The thankful and balanced fans are slowly mounting our comeback. Continue to join us in our crusade otherwise Volnation will just join the trash bin of all other social media negative wastelands.
 
Taking on my nephew has been a challenge, and my wife's grandmother passed away Dec, 7th. Also my 21yo niece (my nephew's older sister) is struggling with early adulthood. She flunked all her college classes this semester. My wife's sister passed away in 2011, and these are her kids. She was my wife's only sibling. My mother-in-law raised them, and neither of them have any coping skills for the real world. My wife's stepfather died unexpectedly last year, and now these kids don't have a male authority figure in their lives either, so I'm somehow expected to fill that role now. This wouldn't be such a big deal, except for the fact that their black uncle was always portrayed as the family villain. Which is crazy, considering that my niece and nephew both have criminal, absentee fathers and my wife is the only woman in the family that hasn't been married and divorced multiple times. They essentially disowned my wife when she started dating me almost 30 years ago. Sorry for the rant. It's been an interesting year to say the least, and they all (mother-in-law, niece, and nephew) acted a fool yesterday at the annual Christmas breakfast that I host every year for my side of the family. They embarrassed my wife and basically ruined Christmas day.
Sorry to hear that, praying for your family
 

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