Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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HoleInTheRoof said:
Anyone have the vol club 150 bottle of bourbon?

Is it any good? 150 seems pretty steep for a 90 proof. I live in SC but will be headed to Knoxville this spring and plan on getting some of the vol club vodka, yee haw beer that they sell at the stadiums, and maybe some of the bourbon if it’s worth it.
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Don't have it, but 150 is insanely steep for a 6yr, 7 month aged bourbon. General rule of thumb is $10 for every year aged. Not always tried and true, but that's usually what I'm willing to spend on a bottle. OTOH it's a fairly unique mashbill and proceeds go to Vol Club. I would have hard time believing the juice itself is worth 150 though.
 
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vols4lfe said:
Don't have it, but 150 is insanely steep for a 6yr, 7 month aged bourbon. General rule of thumb is $10 for every year aged. Not always tried and true, but that's usually what I'm willing to spend on a bottle. OTOH it's a fairly unique mashbill and proceeds go to Vol Club. I would have hard time believing the juice itself is worth 150 though.
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Not sure hwat this chit is but...she eatin'IMG_8006.gif
why are we giving this attention?
 
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Hold on, the UNC AD got a $104k bonus for UNC making the tournament, and he is the chairman of the committee?

How was he even allowed to ever serve/remain on the committee with that in his contract?

The fact he was comfortable enough to pull that maneuver in the open, and the NCAA obviously does not care or attempt to care at all, tells you everything you need to know about committees across all sports and the NCAA.

That is some egregious, crook stuff.
 
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BigSteve09 said:
Hold on, the UNC AD got a $104k bonus for UNC making the tournament, and he is the chairman of the committee?

How was he even allowed to ever serve/remain on the committee with that in his contract?

The fact he was comfortable enough to pull that maneuver in the open, and the NCAA obviously does not care or attempt to care at all, tells you everything you need to know about committees across all sports and the NCAA.

That is some egregious crook stuff.
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The vice chair said he wasn't even allowed in the room for any discussions involving unc. I agree it seems like they shouldn't even be allowed on the committee. At least get people who get no financial compensation. Even if he's not in the room, he's the chair, and all those people know what he wants.
 
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jave36 said:
The vice chair said he wasn't even allowed in the room for any discussions involving unc. I agree it seems like they shouldn't even be allowed on the committee. At least get people who get no financial compensation. Even if he's not in the room, he's the chair, and all those people know what he wants.
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it's a classic case of conflict of interest, no matter what other "controls" they put in place. and as you have correctly identified, that's a massive eyeroll of a control anyway
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Dude...when you take away our ability to play tough physical defense...you mortally wound this team period.

It changes the way we do everything...for the worse.

When they let us play OUR defense...we win...when they take it away from us...we lose.

Like I said in the post you responded to, and I stick by it..when you take a teams greatest strength away, you take their ability to win.

For us..that is suffocating physical defense...everything we do is predicated on that.
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There's a difference between a badly officiating game impacting us and "the fix is in"

I'm not disputing anything you're saying, but a proper fix is a completely lopsided whistle which against Florida I didn't really feel like we got. I think both teams got called for a lot of fouls and just as many that were missed. It benefited them because they're a lot deeper than us.

It was a good SECT for us though, the amount of foul calls should give us some stuff to work on so we can try and avoid having the same issue in the big tournament.
 
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gordonr24 said:
UT should have a big crowd advantage in Lexington. Tickets are cheap too.
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The other seven teams in Lexington are:
Auburn
Alabama State/St Francis play-in winner
Louisville
Creighton
Wofford
UCLA
Utah State

We will have the second highest turnout next to Louisville. And they will be in the morning session while Vols are in evening one.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Just thinking of this...

With Tony V & baseball I expect us to win, with Rick Barnes and basketball I think we'll win, and Josh Heupel (right now) I'm back to hoping we'll win.

And that's in matchups with good teams...I expect us to beat any lesser teams in all 3 sports.
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What's the difference between expecting and thinking we'll win?
 
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