Recruiting Forum Football Talk II

[BigOrangeGoose]

Up to #2 on ESPN now. Somehow ESPN, who hates us, has us with 10 4 and 5 stars. More than the other sites

 

[drvenner]

Cool story, brah. I was at Fort Bragg mobilizing for Desert Storm when this game was played. We were living in WWII-era barracks (back when @BaldBiker became a senior citizen) and there were no TVs. There was one at the little snack bar not too far away on post and we sweet-talked the civilian employees there into making sure they aired the Sugar Bowl on the TV that night. There were some very pissed off Notre Dame fans who also were mobilizing with us because they could not watch their beloved Irish that night. It was a great comeback win and especially sweet because the ND fans had been cheering vociferously for the Virginia the whole game. Good times!!

 

[jakez4ut]

All but one of our commits in the rivals250 moved DOWN, of course, in the new update

And most of our targets too lol

Kamar -4
Evans same
Willis -2
Brown -2
Nixon -1
Lewis -2
Brooks -1

Rivals hates us too?

 

[jakez4ut]

Was talking about this in a meeting today. Who’s the player that you whiffed on the most? Either as a recruit thinking he’d be great here. Or thought he would be great in the nfl and wasn’t.

Couple for me. My first year with Kiffin...Brandon Warren thought Even tho he was undersized thought he Would be a serious weapon here.

Brent Vinson. Easily the best pure athletes we had. Could do between the legs dunk off an oop. Never was committed and should’ve played WR.

Steve Spurrier.

 

[HankHill]

I really thought Kahlil McKenzie was going to be an All-American and future 1st rounder. Measurables were off the charts. I recall reading that in high school he was benching 225 at reps even 2/3 the DL at the combine weren't doing. Subsequently at his actual combine, we only benched 225 26 times, which was barely average for a DL that year. That's the Butch Jones work out program for you.

From an NFL standpoint, I really thought Jason Allen would be a star. Dude was amazing in college. Ran a sub 4.4 40 at the combine, had the length teams craved, and lined up everywhere in the secondary at TN. He stayed around for awhile, but largely was a bust.

J Allen was never the same after that hip injury.

 

[drvenner]

Up to #2 on ESPN now

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Dang. Where's Rutgers?

 

[screenthis]

I really thought Kahlil McKenzie was going to be an All-American and future 1st rounder. Measurables were off the charts. I recall reading that in high school he was benching 225 at reps even 2/3 the DL at the combine weren't doing. Subsequently at his actual combine, we only benched 225 26 times, which was barely average for a DL that year. That's the Butch Jones work out program for you.

From an NFL standpoint, I really thought Jason Allen would be a star. Dude was amazing in college. Ran a sub 4.4 40 at the combine, had the length teams craved, and lined up everywhere in the secondary at TN. He stayed around for awhile, but largely was a bust.

Khalil Mackenzie is the first name that came to my mind a well. I'm still surprised he didn't do more.

 

[Pepe]

MJ was ass at baseball . Makes Tebow look like Barry bonds.

Largest strike zone in baseball history

 

[jakez4ut]

Khalil Mackenzie is the first name that came to my mind a well. I'm still surprised he didn't do more.

chris donald and kmac are two that do stand out to me....agreed.

 

[Pepe]

The thing that ends it for me is you NEVER hear of a sports talking head who’s seen MJ play and the current players who doesn’t say MJ is the best...period. There are some young pups who say otherwise but none of them saw MJ play in his day.

Some of us say "Who T F Cares?"

 

[Jack5151]

Princeton Fant
CFA

CFA and Fant could produce this year. They both have ability.

 

[Pepe]

Nah, Bo played baseball again, pretty sure with an artificial hip. Came back with the White Sox, still pretty good, but a shell of what he was

Don't think he ever got back to the bigs

 

[TurnoverTrashCan]

Cool story, brah. I was at Fort Bragg mobilizing for Desert Storm when this game was played. We were living in WWII-era barracks (back when @BaldBiker became a senior citizen) and there were no TVs. There was one at the little snack bar not too far away on post and we sweet-talked the civilian employees there into making sure they aired the Sugar Bowl on the TV that night. There were some very pissed off Notre Dame fans who also were mobilizing with us because they could not watch their beloved Irish that night. It was a great comeback win and especially sweet because the ND fans had been cheering vociferously for the Virginia the whole game. Good times!!

Were you in the 82nd, brother?

 

[Devo182]

SIAP

When do the git shirts start happening? Seems like we are in on so many more highly touted guys that it may make sense to go ahead and cut ties with some guys now rather than wait.

I've gone back and forth. On one hand, we could just take like 30-35 verbals and see how everyone develops over the Summer and plays in the Fall. Downside, this could be a bad PR move, since it is pretty obvious what we are doing and people will frown upon it when we start culling the herd.

Other option is to start gitting a few right now and not let our numbers get so high that people take notice (I'd say fewer than 30 and we can fly under the radar). Downside is we could gitshirt some guys that develop and ball out their senior year.

Great problem to have.

 

[Weezer]

CFA and Fant could produce this year. They both have ability.

Simply for his initials, I've always wanted to nickname CFA "Chick-Fil-A". Sorry, random thought.

 

[Weezer]

The ongoing question, I expected more from Justin Martin and Tyler Bird. Lot of players from the Butch era that never reached full potential IMO.

 

[Pepe]

"imagine chumming the waters for hours, and then throwing a puppy overboard"

lol.

Or your kid

 

[butchna]

The ongoing question, I expected more from Justin Martin and Tyler Bird. Lot of players from the Butch era that never reached full potential IMO.

I used to believe Byrd was wasted at WR. Now I lean towards both Martin and Byrd as talented athletes who weren’t talented players. Would’ve been great to see them properly coached up from the beginning tho.

 

[Devo182]

Siap ESPN finally did their manual update. We are 2nd now. About time.

 

[The Dog]

Don't think he ever got back to the bigs

Yes, he did

 

[volatil]

Siap ESPN finally did their manual update. We are 2nd now. About time.

But but but composite score and other things

 

[zhangliao04]

You know what sucks? Having your favorite UT Polo get messed up, I try to fix it and then make it even worse (can't be fixed now).

 

[Pepe]

Yes, he did

If he did, it was probably just for exposition

 

[Devo182]

All but one of our commits in the rivals250 moved DOWN, of course, in the new update

And most of our targets too lol

Kamar -4
Evans same
Willis -2
Brown -2
Nixon -1
Lewis -2
Brooks -1

Meh those aren't movements. Just people jumping them.

 

[Ttucke11]

If he did, it was probably just for exposition

He won comeback player of the year in 1993. This took about 5 seconds to google, much shorter than it took to post.