Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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jave36 said:
I was just talking to my dad about this. I agree with you, I actually don't think we make the playoffs next year. Not because the team will be worse (I think we'll be slightly better), but because we won't luck into a terrible SEC again next year. Some people just see the surface level results and copy/paste it to next year, but our results had a lot of factors that I don't think will be in play next year (DL not as good, Sampson, really bad SEC).
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How so? We get the same teams.

FL will be better, but Bama may be worse. Arky we get at home.

We get UGA at home early off a disappointing season and with an inexperienced QB.

It feels very similar to me.

Will come down to variance imo. We could have easily beaten Arky last year and gone 11-1..or lost to UF and gone 9-3.
 
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jave36 said:
I agree, the reasons we were in the playoffs was our DL was the best in the country and Sampson was the best RB in the country (including Jeanty) and the SEC was so bad that our poor offensive play didn't bite us more than once (Arky). We won't have the best DL in the country and we won't have Sampson. And the SEC won't be as bad as it was this year.

And we still haven't proven we can play decently on the road against a decent team. So we'll have to beat UF or Bama on the road. And we'll have to avoid dropping one we shouldn't at all, and we'll need to beat UGA. I just don't see that happening.
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I’m pretty high on the DL next season. Will still have Eason, Moi, West and Hobbs. Return Josephs. That’s a solid core. Between Ross, Herring, Wallace, Gentle, Lindstrom and Weathersby, there’s a lot of young talent that has been on campus. Add Campbell, Dye, Utley, House and Loftin as freshman.

And, most importantly, CRG still the guy.

Maybe not quite as good as 2024 but not far off. I also think the top end talent is higher.
 
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Devo182 said:
How so? We get the same teams.

FL will be better, but Bama may be worse. Arky we get at home.

We get UGA at home early off a disappointing season and with an inexperienced QB.

It feels very similar to me.

Will come down to variance imo. We could have easily beaten Arky last year and gone 11-1..or lost to UF and gone 9-3.
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Bama will be better. They lost a truckload of talent when Saban left, they'll bounce back. OU will be better. And we have go a year without losing to an absolute trash team on the road, which we haven't done in the last 3 years. I just don't see it.
 
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jave36 said:
I agree, the reasons we were in the playoffs was our DL was the best in the country and Sampson was the best RB in the country (including Jeanty) and the SEC was so bad that our poor offensive play didn't bite us more than once (Arky). We won't have the best DL in the country and we won't have Sampson. And the SEC won't be as bad as it was this year.

And we still haven't proven we can play decently on the road against a decent team. So we'll have to beat UF or Bama on the road. And we'll have to avoid dropping one we shouldn't at all, and we'll need to beat UGA. I just don't see that happening.
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Can’t tell if meant to be blue font or not.

DL was not best in country. That likely belongs to OSU.

Jeanty was best RB in country.

Will be hard to keep Vols from winning 10 again next year. At some point you gotta trust Heup, no?
 
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