Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[Maxwell865]

Is Torrance Gibson still on his visit? Maybe he'll sign tomorrow.

I’d heard he’s a silent commit

 

[theutvolunteers]

Made air fryer chicken wings tonight

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Knowing how extreme the mental and physical withdrawals are with opiates, even barbiturates, and alcohol, I'm just having a hard time believing nicotine should be anywhere on the list. Not arguing the point, it just seems questionable to me.

Different type of addiction. More long term consequences.

Tell you what. If you know someone who is a heavy smoker or vapes. Isolate them and watch. They will have the shakes, they will get nauseous and vomit. They will get desperate and even violent.

I know. I dealt with it with my son. It’s just awful to watch a loved one go through withdrawals.

 

[74volz]

I feel like I need to take the pain advocacy side of this because opiates and opiods save lives too. I'm not talking about people taking it for fun but people who are in severe pain who are dysfunctional and downright suicidal without them because life isn't worth living if you're hurting that much. These are the folks that are getting screwed. Today's opiate is yesterdays cocaine. It will be something else in a decade. People are always going to use and abuse drugs both legal and illegal but we've interefered in medicine because of the idiots who'd be idiots regardless and that's not right. There are a lot of people suffering and forced into pain clinics because of the idiot laws we've written to deal with an age old problem. All those laws brought were something much worse - fentanyl stamped into pills with a pill press and sold as hydrocodone to unsuspecting buyers who then often OD or die. It's an endless cycle but in the meantime the people who really need medication to live a functional life can't get it.

I agree you with you on that. It’s sad and horrific the way big Pharma has changed the way people need medication and want medication. A big difference.

 

[Dirty Vol]

Twitter silent banned you. You have to change political parties to see them again.

Ha ha that'll never happen, them fruit cakes can go suck on railroad spikes

 

[SweetasSoda]

2020, 3-9, 1st yr! 7-5 top 5 offense, Music city Bowl, top 20 recruiting classCoached up a QB, to have higher passer rating than Heisman winner?? Seems pretty damn good to me!

I this!!!! Don’t understand why others are focusing on what did not happen instead of what did happen. Last year they said none of this was possible.

 

[pierce60]

Solid effort by the BasketVols….let’s get our fists ready for Saturday in Nashville

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I think they are trying to highlight the Cowboy lifestyle as much or almost as much as the story at times but still about as good as it gets on TV now.

I love that part of the show...people griping about it makes me want to puke. The premise of the show, the creative impetus behind it is the fight to preserve the cowboy way of life. I love that they follow Jimmys total change of direction in life...to me it is one of the best parts of the show.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Nobody dies within a year from smoking a cigarette. I understand addiction.
How many people does sugar kill a year?
Overdoses get the headline because they should. They are sudden and a lot could have been avoided if pharmaceutical companies didn't lie about ocycodone not being addictive.
How many overdoses have there been from kratom?
Cigarettes cutting the last 10 or 15 years off of your life is a whole world of difference than opiates cutting 4 decades off.

This isn’t a contest. Addiction is awful regardless of the addiction substance.

I honestly don’t know about other states, but the PMP in Texas has really helped. It shows every medication that a patient takes or has been prescribed for at least 2 years. PMP = Patient Medication Profile.
Opiates benzodiazepines, anti anxiety medication, some seizure meds, ADHD meds, and many more. It actually gives the prescribers a percentage of overdose potential. It’s a great tool to protect patients. If you don’t document it’s usage, you can verify quickly be penalized, put on probation, lose your license or even go to jail. I wish it was required in every state.

 

[SweetasSoda]

A lot of the federal laws now are due to how out of control the prescription mill clinics in Florida were. You could walk in with a $100 and leave with a prescription.

There was a doctor in Dallas that did that. All cash $50 or $100. Drug dealers would line up the homeless and run them through his clinic.
Dumbass got caught because he deposited $2 million at one time in the bank that his normal family practice used…bank calls the FBI and bye bye freedom.

That story was repeated so many times in Florida. The docs there almost can’t prescribe any anymore.

Next Weezer post will be telling me to fund NIL this way. No Weezer just no.

Those are the places where it’s all about the cash. Scary as hell.

No more paper prescriptions for opiates. Must be sent electronically now. Pharmacy has to report it to the state. Can’t prescribe without checking patient’s prescription prescription history. Great system, but not every state participates. Not federally mandated yet , yet our government is waging a war on addiction to opiates. Buncha DC dumbasses.

And yet I know people who get whatever they want and resell them. And I know people that have severe pain, some dying, who can’t get anything or enough to help. I had a friend who had both kidneys taken out who was sent home from the hospital two days later and told to take Tylenol. There’s always going to be people who abuse things and people who make a profit from it. Hate that good people get punished. (I do understand it is not the good doctors’ fault.)

 

[engineerVOL]

Solid effort by the BasketVols….let’s get our fists ready for Saturday in Nashville

96

 

[VOLSONLY]

Good grief. First it was we have to get rid of Pruitt. Then we are losing all our players and can’t get a coach. Then it was we don’t have a QB and not enough players on defense to get through a game. Then it was we don’t have enough players on the offensive line with injuries. Then we had no pass rush. Then we had no DBs. After ALL that we went 7-5 with a chance to win 8 in year one of a disaster with a new coach!!!!!!!!!!!!! And a year later y’all are screaming about a few players that had no intention of coming here, most of which were committed somewhere else, picking who everyone said they would. Can’t you be thankful for good coaches and the good players we got, with free agency in the portal????

THIS

 

[SmokinBob]

Say a prayer for our family tonight, my Mother in law found out earlier today she did not have insurance to cover her storm damage. My brother in law and I will be doing the repairs beginning this weekend.

She's had a rough couple of years, her husband passed a year ago and my wifes older sister has been diagnosed with psychosis/schizophrenia. She's beyond stressed but this is where we get to be a blessing. I'll get firewood and she'll get repairs, we just need a slight break in the weather this weekend. That's where your prayers and best wishes come into play!

 

[Orangeburst]

96

Delta 44...
I had an Olds Delta 88 as a kid...but that is irrelevant unless we use a multiplier of 2

 

[VOLSONLY]

This staff has been together a little over 10 months and people are already stating they need to get new people to recruit better.

All of this coming off a 3-7 year with a whole new coaching staff and a NCAA investigation hanging over everything. Y’all crazy.

Dang right Brother! Bunch o morans

 

[SweetasSoda]

I feel like I need to take the pain advocacy side of this because opiates and opiods save lives too. I'm not talking about people taking it for fun but people who are in severe pain who are dysfunctional and downright suicidal without them because life isn't worth living if you're hurting that much. These are the folks that are getting screwed. Today's opiate is yesterdays cocaine. It will be something else in a decade. People are always going to use and abuse drugs both legal and illegal but we've interefered in medicine because of the idiots who'd be idiots regardless and that's not right. There are a lot of people suffering and forced into pain clinics because of the idiot laws we've written to deal with an age old problem. All those laws brought were something much worse - fentanyl stamped into pills with a pill press and sold as hydrocodone to unsuspecting buyers who then often OD or die. It's an endless cycle but in the meantime the people who really need medication to live a functional life can't get it.

All of this.

 

[Pruittwinner]

And yet I know people who get whatever they want and resell them. And I know people that have severe pain, some dying, who can’t get anything or enough to help. I had a friend who had both kidneys taken out who was sent home from the hospital two days later and told to take Tylenol. There’s always going to be people who abuse things and people who make a profit from it. Hate that good people get punished. (I do understand it is not the good doctors’ fault.)

No one is sent home after two days form having both kidney's taken out. That is a BS story.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Boy did you miss the point. Someone draw this kid a map.

Exactly what I thought..

 

[VOLSONLY]

Jerk Johnson is right. Nail on the head

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Lol hey I’ll take it.

But seriously I think what makes our “defense look bad” to recruits or what people have been saying about our defense playing so many snaps is a misrepresentation of our defense.

if our defense found a way to get off the field on crucial 3rd downs they wouldn’t of played half the time they did this year. Hopefully next year we find a way to get off the field on those crucial 3rd downs.

That in itself will help defensive recruiting in my opinion.

And it would give our offense a chance to score even more points..

 

[Orangeredblooded]

We should invite them to this forum…plenty of people with their panties in a bunch (no offense @SmokinBob or @SweetasSoda haha).

Pizz off .

 

[Ace]

It's a blocker of some sort. I have a designated browser on my desktop for VN.

What is this desktop you speak of, sir?

 

[UTMVol76]

Why expedited coaching carousel, stacked transfer portal could lead to end of early signing period

Also need obvious rule change on “cramps” (my recommendation is a “hurt” player sits out remainder of series, for their safety) plus I would recommend a “black out” period for transfers during the season where players can’t just bail on their teams like they do.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

The defensive side of the staff has more proven names and recruiters. If we are struggling to recruit on that side of the ball, then that likely means the investigation/uncertainty is playing a role.

Additionally, most kids being recruited now are going to have to see UT sustain some success. Every time there has been hype around UT in the last few years, the results have not followed.

Heupel has done a great job so far, and he appears to be building a successful culture. I just do not have any faith that our fan base has the ability to show any patience with him and recruiting.

After reading through and catching up on todays miserable bitchfest, I am 100% certain that your last sentence is pure truth.

It is exhausting and depressing...not the recruiting, I expected it to be like this...but VNs miserable hateful reaction.

I am disappointed in us..

 

[Glocker_Alum_2005]

So, we rooting for Bammer or Tiger High?