Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[knoxvol52]

In today’s standards, the Big East is not a power conference.

So Connecticut which is a Blue Blood in College Basketball is a Mid Major team. Unbelievable...

You know maybe you're right a conference has to have 16-20 teams now.to be considered a "Power Conference".

 

[Ace]

Go Vols!!!
Everything school

 

[volbeast33]

….

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

They don’t look at conference standings. You look at schedule and who you beat. Conference standings and affiliation got thrown out the windows when we decided to have 14-18 team conferences with unbalanced schedules.

How is fair if UF beats us by one in the standings when they played UGA and USC twice this year? Blame conference greed for that.

Yeah the selection committee looks at your entire body of work for the whole season.

There is still a funneling of power by the P4 teams, especially the SEC and Big Ten that is making everyone else more and more obsolete.

Marquee non conference games are dying in college football and they're talking about guaranteeing multiple bids.

In college basketball they are phasing out the ability for mid major programs to get at large bids because they won't schedule them and the OOC tournaments like the battle 4 Atlantis are becoming history, in favor of these NIL tournaments that will only feature your most dominant schools.

Right now you have Boise State at 21-8 (13-5) in the 6th ranked Mtn West. Wins over Clemson, St Mary's, Utah St and New Mexico. All tournament teams. They played the 73rd hardest OOC. They are currently behind Oklahoma and all these other teams like Arkansas and Ohio State who have been dreadful for months now. Oklahoma with the 291st ranked OOC schedule.

It just sucks. Cinderella's are what makes the NCAA tournament great and they're being replaced by 4-12 SEC teams who want to fire their coach lol.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

My algorithm has moved on from midgets to flat-earth. I watched one video about the planets alignment from someone who apparently thinks the earth is flat, now that's all i'm getting. I'm really kinda surprised at how many people actually believe this. . . i mean fully, all-in believe it with every fiber of their soul.

If you know about I-75 through Knox County, I'm pretty sure that's why traffic gets stoopid slow between Raccoon Valley and Emory. I'm convinced flat earthers get going uphill, around all those curves, and get confused. Then right before they get to the top of the hill (looking towards Emory Rd), they freak out and slow down to 35 MPH or less. It opens up at that overpass and you're kind of looking skyward. I can kind of see why they panic, they think they're going to fall off.

 

[pierce60]

SIAP….

How did THIS guy rip through multiple good defenses in the CFP?!

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[tnvols72]

 

[ugg]

I went for a walk at Don Fox park here in Lebanon this morning while our cleaning lady was at the house. The TWRA Fisheries guys were releasing their fourth round of 350 Rainbow trout into the creek on the back side of the park. Before I could even reach my car, there was already 5 or 6 fishermen heading to the bank lol

I watched a YouTube video last week where a guy was filming TWRA release trout I believe it was below Dale Hollow. He panned out from the truck and you could have walked across the mass of fishermen in waders waiting to catch them. It was crazy how many of them were there furiously flinging fly lines. Almost comical.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Does a gata loss help us at all?

Never hurts

 

[Jackcrevol]

Never hurts

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Never hurts

TWSS

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

 

[TN-POSSUM]

NBA's best player from the greatest franchise ever?

Wow..... after hearing that story, it just adds a little more to the Legend that is Larry Bird. He is absolutely the best player of all time on the greatest professional team of all time.


If you look up 'dominant' in a Webster's dictionary, this is what you get.....
GO CELTICS

 

[Jackcrevol]

After hearing that story, it just adds a little more to the Legend that is Larry Bird. He is absolutely the one of the best players of all time.


If you look up 'dominated' in a Webster's dictionary, this is what you get.....
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there can be only one.

 

[knoxvol52]

Wow..... after hearing that story, it just adds a little more to the Legend that is Larry Bird. He is absolutely the best player of all time on the greatest professional team of all time.


If you look up 'dominant' in a Webster's dictionary, this is what you get.....
View attachment 725623GO CELTICS

Terrible .

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

That's fair but I will stand by my statement. As a 54 year old I don't like the scenario happening but as a young guy of 17-22 years of age yes I probably would do what these kids are doing now with NIL out there. If I was a betting man which I am . I would bet the some individuals on this site who don't like the things going on with NIL would've been tempted to do the same thing as the players now but will not admit they would.

I was a f'n drug dealer...and I kept my word on deals. Ricky Gibson is a sorry selfish dishonest crooked piece of that is screwing EVERYBODY over for a few extra bucks..his brothers, his coaches, his school...and us poor stupid sods that make ALL of this possible.

I don't want him back...this was a total garbage move...period...no excuses.

I hate the world we live in.

 

[Orange.]

what a shot

I've watched the replays 300+ times, I'm sure

can't get enough

I know, right? I was just watching it yet again before I longed in here a few minutes ago. Today I'm big into @MoCo_Vol's edit:

 

[Orange.]

I would normally agree that it's best to say nothing publicly, but now they're trying to blame his supposed character issues on the people at Tennessee. That will 100% be used against Tennessee in recruiting.

That makes me suspicious the source of the rumor is an SEC team.

But, really, I don't know how big this is. Is it all over, or just in this thread? Which tempts us to overestimate it?

 

[butchna]

Asinine...

Never go full Laker.

 

[knoxvol52]

Never go full Laker.

Oops. My bad...

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

It’s D4H level of idiotic

I just don't get it..not from him, one of my long time VN faves..I guess frustration is just able to make even level headed people lose all perspective sometimes.

I hope Rick Barnes makes a F4...not even for myself and our fanbase, just because if anybody in CBB deserves it...he does.

I will never be able to express the pure gratitude I have for that man giving us a REAL college basketball program...no flash in the pan, but a perinneal top 10 college basketball program.

It means something to me that we are ALWAYS a team that grinds so hard that NOBODY wants to play us...I love that being our identity..to me that exemplifies what a Tennessee Volunteer is.

 

[tnvols72]

 

[Orange.]

What was said?

This is what I mean, @Lloyd_Christmas and everyone. I'm not sure I would even know about this if I weren't in this thread. IDK

 

[WesTnVol]

I remember green too. Thought I was confusing it with 7up. Man at work must be fake news.

I’m old enough to remember Mt Dew being sold in a green bottle with a hillbilly and outhouse on it

 

[Orange.]

Ouch

It's not bothering me.