Recruiting Forum Football Talk II

[TrippieRedd]

So now we’re watching Rocker and Weinke?

.....watching them do what exactly?

 

[Kingston Vol]

.....watching them do what exactly?

Rock their winkies

 

[Sleegro]

Everyone just gonna let this one go, huh.

I mean I tee'd it up and everything. #disappoint

 

[butchna]

.....watching them do what exactly?

Not recruit worth a durn!
- 85Sugar prolly

 

[utkevdawg1]

Tennessee this off-season: "Good luck everybody else!"

 

[Exiled]

Board question: who is your favorite VFL that you wouldn’t consider an absolute superstar. No Peyton’s, Reggie’s, Eric Berry’s, that Ilk.


Mine is Deon Grant.....and it ain’t close

Billy Ratliff and Casey Clausen

 

[HankHill]

my bachelors degree got me in the door in the profession I chose, the rest was up to me but without it I wouldn't have gotten in.

I’m not banging the table for players to make 200k and all this stuff but we just made 50 million dollars off the SEC shared revenue alone...... If we have ~300 scholarship student athletes on campus.... if we gave everyone of them 25,000$ a year.... that’s 7.5 million dollars a year. No one is even going to know that’s gone and this whole conversation goes away. If you can’t live off 25k a year on top of all the stuff you’re getting from your university... then that’s a whole different conversation.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Accidents are typically caused by a chain of mistakes or poor decisions. All it takes is breaking the chain to prevent the accident. Anyone could’ve spoken up about being uncomfortable flying in that weather, but no one wants to be “that person.”

Contributing factors:

Poor weather planning and collaboration between the pilot and Bryant family.

The charter company did not allow its pilots to fly on an instrument flight plan.

Because the flight couldn’t be completed IFR due to company policy and with the weather being so low, it should have been cancelled.

Because of company policy, the pilot was not proficient in instrument flying and when they punched into the clouds (imo) experienced spatial disorientation.

This accident had nothing to with the integrity of the helicopter and rests entirely on the decision making of the pilot and Kobe Bryant. It could have happened just as easily in an airplane. Don’t push weather when you are limited in alternate courses of action.

Tell that American pilot and reschedule your helicopter tour.

Wow you're a total dickbag, like all of 'em too. Not a "small gift" sized bag, but like the probably need to double bag it type.

 

[HankHill]

I loved Grant as well. Interesting question though...

Basketball: Isiah Victor (he got forgotten a bit cause CJ Black, Ron Slay, Marcus Haislip)
Football: Cedric Houston he's always been that RB that I feel didn't get the workload he deserved. First Jabari Davis was vulturing and then Riggs. Was also always impressed by Jonathan Hefney, he seems to get forgotten a lot as well.

Heffney and riggs were very good players. Loved chism and Tyler smith in basketball.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

I’m not banging the table for players to make 200k and all this stuff but we just made 50 million dollars off the SEC shared revenue alone...... If we have ~300 scholarship student athletes on campus.... if we gave everyone of them 25,000$ a year.... that’s 7.5 million dollars a year. No one is even going to know that’s gone and this whole conversation goes away. If you can’t live off 25k a year on top of all the stuff you’re getting from your university... then that’s a whole different conversation.

Pretty fair, 25k a year equates to about $12 an hour for a normal 9-5 job. And they'll have insurance paid for, housing, food, and school.

 

[Smokeytom]

I loved Grant as well. Interesting question though...

Basketball: Isiah Victor (he got forgotten a bit cause CJ Black, Ron Slay, Marcus Haislip)
Football: Cedric Houston he's always been that RB that I feel didn't get the workload he deserved. First Jabari Davis was vulturing and then Riggs. Was also always impressed by Jonathan Hefney, he seems to get forgotten a lot as well.

Hefney a favorite too I returned so many punts and kickoffs back for 6 with him in the old NCAA games.

 

[tn88volfan]

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He left out a few words. How much they paid him to move from Hawaii to Tuscaloosa.

UAB about to get shut again

 

[T Dog]

Like most things, wages aren't matching price increases.

1970 - average car cost $3500
1970 average income - $9870

2019 average light vehicle - $37,129
2019 average income - $31,099

Been saying it for Years now. Everything is going up except our pay. Which in turn leads to less purchases at store, which means more store closings, which in turn means less jobs, which means defaults on loans, then bad credit happens, lower scores cant get loans, look to Gov to help, then they put more restrictions on access, more incarceration. Recidivism.
Prison nation, people. Look it up.

 

[snowvols]

That normally would have went here. We used to dominate the Carolinas

I was talking about Southern Cal.

 

[Rishvol]

I’m not banging the table for players to make 200k and all this stuff but we just made 50 million dollars off the SEC shared revenue alone...... If we have ~300 scholarship student athletes on campus.... if we gave everyone of them 25,000$ a year.... that’s 7.5 million dollars a year. No one is even going to know that’s gone and this whole conversation goes away. If you can’t live off 25k a year on top of all the stuff you’re getting from your university... then that’s a whole different conversation.

So $25k on top of the $40k they get for scholarship then there's how much Fitz (and other S&C coaches) then how ever much the nutritionist makes. Don't forget how much the tutors cost. Oh yeah and books. Then thier living expenses. Sounds like you'd need to make more than doc as a regular student to get half the stuff these athletes get.

 

[Ace]

I’m not banging the table for players to make 200k and all this stuff but we just made 50 million dollars off the SEC shared revenue alone...... If we have ~300 scholarship student athletes on campus.... if we gave everyone of them 25,000$ a year.... that’s 7.5 million dollars a year. No one is even going to know that’s gone and this whole conversation goes away. If you can’t live off 25k a year on top of all the stuff you’re getting from your university... then that’s a whole different conversation.

SEC schools are only schools getting 50 mil.
Paying athletes $25,000 would bankrupt most athletic departments except for P5 and some P5 would struggle.
Has to be equitable across the board.

 

[HankHill]

So $25k on top of the $40k they get for scholarship then there's how much Fitz (and other S&C coaches) then how ever much the nutritionist makes. Don't forget how much the tutors cost. Oh yeah and books. Then thier living expenses. Sounds like you'd need to make more than doc as a regular student to get half the stuff these athletes get.

They are making the university more money than all of that......fitz is also a top 3 paid strength coach lol. Pretty sure he makes like 600k.

Like i asked before, would you be ok if you didn’t make any actual money at your job, but you had of your expenses covered excluding car, car insurance, phone, social life.

 

[VolsnCards5]

I think they really like Weinke.

I remember when my son discovered his Weinke and how much he liked it.

 

[WriterVol]

Marshall’s had Whittard’s of Chelsea... huge decorative tins of 250 bags, earl grey and English breakfast tins on clearance for $8.00 and I hated to see it... bought one of each. Both are very good but I hear you... tea is stacking up by the pound

I love a good deal, but check those best by dates. Time is not kind to the tea leaf. Unless it's a pu-erh. Then, I guess it's OK.

A month or so ago, my boss gave me a couple of tins of tea she bought at TJ Maxx at some point. They have best by dates of 10/2015. I have no idea when she actually bought them, but I haven't seen any point in getting in a hurry to try them.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

I have a feeling we are going to see a lot more RPO’s incorporated into the offense next year... Love the moves!

 

[butchna]

So $25k on top of the $40k they get for scholarship then there's how much Fitz (and other S&C coaches) then how ever much the nutritionist makes. Don't forget how much the tutors cost. Oh yeah and books. Then thier living expenses. Sounds like you'd need to make more than doc as a regular student to get half the stuff these athletes get.

And you have to pay the 85th man on the roster same as the starting QB. Can’t wait for the first “why are we paying this bum?” post after a shaky long snap or missed ST block. Much less pass not reigned in on a 3rd down.

 

[HankHill]

SEC schools are only schools getting 50 mil.
Paying athletes $25,000 would bankrupt most athletic departments except for P5 and some P5 would struggle.
Has to be equitable across the board.

With the billions of dollars the NCAA makes, I’m sure there’s a way to equally distribute it. Even if P5 schools get 25k and others get 15k it would still even out.

 

[Smokeytom]

I was talking about Southern Cal.

Ah i see. My mistake!

 

[butchna]

I have a feeling we are going to see a lot more RPO’s incorporated into the offense next year... Love the moves!

Lot of time for the TE’s coach to talk to Chaney about a defensive formation.

 

[WriterVol]

Agree South Carolina will be a tough game for us. They played Ol Miss last night and drummed them. It was 32-2 at halftime.

I saw that, but Tennessee held them to fewer total points than South Carolina did and beat them by more. So, you know...