Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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Jimmy Football said:
Home teams in the SEC were 7-1 today, winning by an average margin of 20 points.
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With this league so strong, any road win should be celebrated, no matter the margin of victory or how "ugly", just win!!
13-5 wins the league, so if we can steal 4 road wins and hold serve at home, we should be in line for 1 seed.
Go Vols!
 
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Happy Sunday

January 5, 2025: We are in a new year, a new cycle. It will be full of challenges and opportunities to put the word of God into practice. We will have plenty of chances to succeed or to fail; to walk in the Spirit or live in the flesh. We will either grow because of our experience or we can give up. Every day is a new day; begin with a clean slate. Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
I've asked Joey Halzle what exactly he does here like the Bob's from Office Space a dozen times over the last few years. So don't mistake this for a ringing endorsement of Halzle.

But the hard-on some Vol fans have for Golesh the head coach is kind of a head scatcher given the evidence. We had fans in here shaking in their boots because they thought he might end up at Florida. They had a worse offense than us this year, at 42nd in YPG and went 7-6.

I have watched a few of their games, and it seems to me they are dealing with the same schematic problems as us. Golesh did great here, whatever that looks like under Heupel. But if he was a great offensive innovator in his own right we'd be seeing it by now.
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Once upon a time the scheme was new, we had explosive receievers, and the scheme did well. The scheme is now not new. We did not have explosive receievers. We did ok.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Women are sometimes great at gathering data, organizing, and multi-tasking. I bet there are women perhaps including her that can make a valuable contribution to a coaching staff...whether editing film into videos, organizing and presenting info, even helping maybe to set up drills and stuff in a support role. There is no way a woman...having never blocked, tackled, covered, run a route, run or caught a TD etc at the FBS level can coach young men to do so as well as a coach who has actually played the game. It just isnt possible. Watching something is not the same as actually doing it...and while knowledge can be gained in many ways, wisdom only comes from experience. Experience matters at literally everything. Thats why you never want to be someones 1st at anything that matters...like 1st heart surgery a guy has performed, 1st engine a mechanic has rebuilt, 1st person a lawyer has defended etc. You want experienced people who have done things many times and know it inside and out. Thats both human nature and basic logic. This is also why players will NEVER respect a band geek Butch Jones like they will National Champ QB Josh Heupel. They can identify with and respect CJH because he has been in their shoes. He has felt the stress and pressure of playing football in front of 100,000 fans. He has both won and lost big games as a player, and played hurt. He has been an elite athlete and lived in a fish bowl at 20 years old. Women have never done any of those things on a field or in a football program. They don't know what a "stinger" or concussion feels like.

I have a Mom, 3 sisters, a wife and daughter who I adore. I am as pro-women as I can reasonably be. There is no way a woman is as good a college football coach as a man who has played his whole life by the time he is an adult and old enough to even become a GA. I think its silly to pretend otherwise. Doesnt mean there isnt a place for young ladies like above to contribute though. I hope she thrives in her role and finds happiness.
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Coach Leach never played and did pretty well. Hugh Freeze never played either. Nor did Coach Cutcliffe (and where would we be without him?).
 
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Vols4us said:
Free market capitalism. We should all be so lucky.

When the providers of the money decide to starting using business acumen on the overall product and individual service provided versus using fan emotions, they will adjust the amount they are willing to spend. The going rate will be informally established.

Until union/collective bargaining happens.
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It is so odd that the coaches haven't cried about such teams being more or less "developmental leagues" for coaches.

"Other schools are offering our best coaches between 2x and 10x what we can pay them. And I'm one of them! Cash them checks suckas! I'm out of this blizzard fest!"
 
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UTProf said:
Coach Leach never played and did pretty well. Hugh Freeze never played either. Nor did Coach Cutcliffe (and where would we be without him?).
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I don't know about the others but coach Cut played football in high school.

Edit: Leach played as well in high school but an injury prevented him from playing in college.
 
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jave36 said:
Either we didn't have many strengths to adapt to, or he didn't do a good job of it. Our offense was bad this year.
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Playoffs.

Maybe the underperforming WRs and the RSFR QB and underwhelming OL conspired against him. Shockingly, the WR room is getting a major refresh...almost like the coach is trying to fix something. Just maybe he knows what he is doing.
 
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