Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[LaagerVol]

1. Nuss
2. Allar
3. Nico
4. Hoover
5. Leavitt
6. Becht
7. McCown
8. Morton
9. Klubnik
10. Mateer

Next Tier:
11. Beck (depends on injury)
12. Sellers
13. Arch
14. Riola
15. Salter
16.. Mendoza
17.. Morris
18.. Murphy
19. Mensah
20. Jennings

Allar hasn’t impressed me at all.

 

[Vols410]

1. Nuss
2. Allar
3. Nico
4. Hoover
5. Leavitt
6. Becht
7. McCown
8. Morton
9. Klubnik
10. Mateer

Next Tier:
11. Beck (depends on injury)
12. Sellers
13. Arch
14. Riola
15. Salter
16.. Mendoza
17.. Morris
18.. Murphy
19. Mensah
20. Jennings

So many top QBs gone after this year - can't remember so many departing in one offseason. Fwiw, my model's early projections for next year.

1. Drew Allar
2. Carson Beck
3. Cade Klubnik
4. Haynes King
5. Garrett Nussmeier
6. Kevin Jennings
7. Avery Johnson
8. Kaidon Salter
9. Nico Iamaleava
10. Arch Manning
11. Sam Leavitt
12. Josh Hoover
13. Diego Pavia
14. Devon Dampier
15. Rocco Becht
16. John Mateer
17. LaNorris Sellers
18. DJ Lagway
19. Kyron Drones
20. Miller Moss

 

[LaagerVol]

Coaching salaries are unsustainable. One school can spend $30m for coaches while some only $3m.

What they want is to pay players as little as possible... to gain control over players and teams with enforceable rules... allow the leadership of the NCAA to pick winners and losers and how seasons flow.

He isn’t wrong that there needs to be some semblance of competitive balance, but as you said, his motivation for saying it isn’t pure.

 

[TrippieRedd]

So many top QBs gone after this year - can't remember so many departing in one offseason. Fwiw, my model's early projections for next year.

1. Drew Allar
2. Carson Beck
3. Cade Klubnik
4. Haynes King
5. Garrett Nussmeier
6. Kevin Jennings
7. Avery Johnson
8. Kaidon Salter
9. Nico Iamaleava
10. Arch Manning
11. Sam Leavitt
12. Josh Hoover
13. Diego Pavia
14. Devon Dampier
15. Rocco Becht
16. John Mateer
17. LaNorris Sellers
18. DJ Lagway
19. Kyron Drones
20. Miller Moss

Yeah I’m a big Dampier fan.

Clearance section Lamar, imo

 

[Jackcrevol]

Allar hasn’t impressed me at all.

Allar y'all morans!

 

[TrippieRedd]

Well, I just need Tatum to score 26 points for $500 off a free bet.

 

[SpringBokVol]

Loved being ranked as high as possible pre season as they are stupid polls but they give you some decent buffer for the first loss.

 

[jave36]

1. Nuss
2. Allar
3. Nico
4. Hoover
5. Leavitt
6. Becht
7. McCown
8. Morton
9. Klubnik
10. Mateer

Next Tier:
11. Beck (depends on injury)
12. Sellers
13. Arch
14. Riola
15. Salter
16.. Mendoza
17.. Morris
18.. Murphy
19. Mensah
20. Jennings

Allar?! You have to only be looking at win totals to have him anywhere near top 10.

 

[TrippieRedd]

Allar?! You have to only be looking at win totals to have him anywhere near top 10.

Vols410 has him at 1.

He has 53 TDs to 10 INTs in his career. Now add in the fact that their WRs are meh and have been meh.

He’s been throwing to a TE.


So yes, I’m impressed.

 

[jave36]

Vols410 has him at 1.

He has 53 TDs to 10 INTs in his career. Now add in the fact that their WRs are meh and have been meh.

He’s been throwing to a TE.


So yes, I’m impressed.

He's not good enough to throw to WR. He's a game manager at best, but more often a liability. They made it to the semis despite him, not because of him. I'd struggle to put him in the top 20, let alone top 10.

 

[Vol423]

And threw shade at Peyton saying “we want to win multiple championships, not just one” or something to that effect.

That worked out really well for Irsay.

 

[UTgrad2015]

My wife works at the local children’s hospital here in Knoxville and apparently some of the UT football team was there visiting. Someone asked Nico if he wanted to hold one of the NICU babies and he said “nahhhhh”

 

[Smokey123]

Apparently Florida and Louisiana is about to get a pretty gnarly snow/ice storm

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Can’t be true, some here said

- Loss was embarrassing
- should’ve been easy win
- Vandy isn’t even ranked


Did I miss anything?

The voters saw that the refs screwed us over and we should've won.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Can’t be true, some here said

- Loss was embarrassing
- should’ve been easy win
- Vandy isn’t even ranked


Did I miss anything?

they aren't.

 

[knoxvol52]

Got a little choked up over the Bech story, no lies to tell..

 

[Jackcrevol]

Got a little choked up over the Bech story, no lies to tell..

that was tough man. seeing the espn guy and the dad cry was tough. def teared up myself. Prayers for that family, I cannot imagine.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

My opinion of our 2025 team is somehow worse than the opinions of people that don’t like us.

I may need to step back gain some perspective.

You're not wrong...we will have some real easily identifiable issues which will have to be worked around in order to maintain our trajectory.

We could be better of some of the talented guys in key spots on both sides of the ball...especially Nico...REALLY step up and improve dramatically, and the transfers we get really play well.

We will struggle if many those guys stay "meh", and the staff do not figure out a way to squeeze every drop of quality production out of the roster.

I really don't know what to expect, but it wouldn't surprise me for us to be overall better...but...it also will not surprise me to be a little worse.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Pat MaCafee, does not compute.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Yeah I was initially optimistic NIL made the playing field more level, after years of only a handful of teams dominating. I still think it lifted many long dormant programs like Tennessee and Miami. But after watching the juggernaut of Ohio State rip through the playoffs and realizing how much more money they have to spend than we do, it made me think like you that it’s just replaced one group of dominant teams with another.

I’d share your concerns on the MLB, but baseball is so quirky as a sport that even a mid-tier team can get hot at the right time and still win it all, even without an elite payroll. The Braves did it in 2021. I just don’t think football works like that as a sport. You have to have the elite players and, if you have them, you are almost guaranteed to win big.

Nobody is beating the Dodgers unless a freak nightmare rash of horrible injuries water them down.

 

[Jackcrevol]

It is hard not to like ND HC.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Fine. Still have a small knot of infection, but I think it'll be okay as long as I take my antibiotics. Thanks to everyone for their concern.

Rub some dirt on it

 

[Jackcrevol]

It really is a testament to how little stuff is on TV right now. That Pat MaCafee is the best option.

 

[dmwvol12]

ESPN should be sued for abuse of the elderly for continuing to put Corso on TV. Someone in his family needs to tell him that it’s time to step aside. I respect the elderly but he should not be on TV. It’s sad.

 

[orangebloodgmc]

I read recently that Americans do not use the metric system because they have a foot fetish.

And also they were reluctant to meet 'er.