Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[OrangenSC]

There are a handful of homegrown Vols fans content creators on social media that have been positively reinforced for years now to be miserable and make everything horrible. The rest of the fanbase likes and retweets those opinions and bases their attitude on the leadership of a few.

You could beg them not to make memes and videos, but they will. Only Kiffin could have galvanized the fan base and turned our best resource (our piss and vinegar attitude) outward to the world instead of inward on itself.

If you don't like miserable fans, just win.

Kiffin would not have galvanized the fan base. If you believe that you haven't been paying attention. He would have been very divisive.

 

[pierce60]

I'm ready for the press conference. Let's hope it's not as awkward as the one 10 days ago LOL

 

[Pepe]

Every little thing, is gonna be alright. I don't know if Heupel is going to win championships. I also don't know that he won't. I do know that he will score a lot of points and this team will be fun to watch. I also know that he's a better coach than Jeremy Pruitt, Butch Jones, and Jeremy Pruitt.

Does he run more than 1 play once he gets into the red zone? If so, that would be a big change.

 

[mthomp88]

Any chance we can get Gray back to be in this offense?

Doubtful since Graham is going to Bama

 

[Orange Studs]

Having coached in the SEC before Heupel knows how important a good D is. Can you imagine having a good D with an explosive O. wooooohhoooaaaa !!!

 

[bpvol]

Just got a text from a current player that Steele is staying on as DC

interesting...

 

[Nash_Vol97]

Lots of question marks in this hire, but what isn’t a question mark is his offense.

Bailey is going to FEAST in this offense.

Going to be fun, get a legit DC and it could be real fun.

 

[05_never_again]

My bad. I guess 12-1 and 11-3 the following years weren't very good either (on their part).

They are being salty, which I understand.

I'm not so sure they are being salty. Heupel took over a 13-0 program, and I understand there's nowhere to go but down from there, but they've steadily regressed over the 3 years he's been there. The defense in particular, which wasn't great under Frost to begin with, has gotten much worse and is absolutely terrible.

 

[UTK]

Not me

He’s a quitter

Kid was here for 5 years lol

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Except that hasn't happened to Heupel and he's been around a long time. Had top offenses at OU, Mizzou, UCF and now Tennessee.

FYP

 

[i2amavol]

Before looking at what everyone else has to say, I like the hire based solely on his resume', and the fact that the AD knows his work, has worked with him, and believes in him. Not saying that I couldn't change my mind after seeing the presser, but there is plenty to like.

 

[BleedorangeinGA]

You know as well as I do that this means nothing. Anyone who finishes second always said no. I don’t think he was ever offered.

I think we absolutely offered him. He said no SAV.

 

[VolInDayton]

Have you seen UCFs O-Line? They would maul our D-Line. They have some size, but more importantly, they are all mean dudes out there. I hope he brings his O-Line coach. We can recruit big bodies there all day long, but we have not really had great OLine coaching since PF was handling it.

Sam Pitman was our Oline coach for a short lived timed. We had some legit Oline talent about 10 years ago

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Soon as we hear "From the University of Tennessee" as the number 1 overall pick with one of our QBs, recruiting will not be an issue.

I think Heupel has 3 potential round 1 QBs on roster -right- now too. With how the NFL has drafted QBs, if Hooker won the job and slung 4k with 35+ TDs he'd be in the mix.

 

[AllVol11717]

Having a hard time getting excited about this hire. Especially with the big show they made about how they were swinging for the fences.

Sure his offense is exciting, but his record declining every year and not being able to get even one 4* recruit coming off of an undefeated season seem like red flags.

 

[bpvol]

If Steele is stayin wonder if this means Garner comin too?

That would help in recruiting defense.

 

[jave36]

Not excited about the hire, but it's far better than Pruitt or Dooley was at the time. I don't think our program is in a position to hire a Fickell or Campbell, but at least we didn't get a first time HC. Heupel inherited a thousand times better roster (relative to the teams he played against of course) at UCF than he is this time, and he hasn't proven he can build a team that isn't already in a good place. Reminds me a lot of Butch inheriting Kelly's team and looking a lot better than he actually was because of it.

But at least he's not learning to be a HC for the first time, so he's probably as good as we can get right now. I'll be surprised if he's anything but a stepping stone coach to get the program to a better spot where we can upgrade; but after the last 4, that would be a huge improvement.

 

[volbeast33]

Doubtful since Graham is going to Bama

Graham is not going to bama

 

[Vols2DaWall]

Heupel's body of work is a lot better than Jones

Still stuck 13 pages behind but the eerie comparison is that both schools were thrilled when we hired away the coach. Lot of chatter on UCF about how he lost the team, not well liked, and team regressing each year.

Offense is good because of tempo but defenses will always be bad

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

I think we absolutely offered him. He said no SAV.

Where did it say we offered terms? I could be wrong. But where has anyone reported that it was formally offered?

 

[UTK]

Our skill players on offense are thrilled I'm sure, our oline are probably like "****"

 

[VFLBerg]

Jay Graham leaving according to Bob Vols

Taking that job at Bama?

Vols Assistant Coach Among Names for Final On-Field Spot at Alabama

 

[V_f_l423]

Graham is not going to bama

Yes he is

 

[BruinVol]

Kid was here for 5 years lol

But couldn’t stay the last 2 weeks thus he’s a quitter

 

[MattR11]

I think we will have very entertaining Saturdays now. CJH should have plenty of weapons to work with.