Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[Devo182]

Surely he gets 2nd half PT next week if Milton is out. Will be good to see him in this offense. Will he throw deep balls like in O&W or like last year? If like in the O&W, then he might earn himself a real shot sooner than later.

Seems Hooker either doesn't get those calls or doesn't take them. Granted, his legs can really make up for some of that and if he can use rpo slants, that helps too.

 

[SSVol]

They don’t even make sense. “Pay only for what you need”? What does that even mean? Who is paying for more than they need?

Everyone who blindly buys a policy without being aware of the specific coverages they are purchasing. Like paying for health insurance and including maternity coverage when you are 65 and have 0% probability of needing it.

 

[TheMagnificantOne]

who tf cares? either way it would be the other teams ball, cause one turns it over or we take the idiot that throws it 40 ft over the receivers head.

Keep trouting Milton out there and defenses will start playing Prevent converage

Then we run...so Milton still brings value

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

Yeah, the thing is if Milton starts hitting on those deep balls it's a wrap. That's just a different level of weapon to have a QB who can break off 50+ yard runs and also still hit WRs 60+ yards down the field in stride.

But "if" is a damn annoying thing to constantly hear about your starting QB, I got my fill of that with JG here.

TTU is a good game to have this week, WRs should feast and Milton/Hooker/Bailey or whoever is throwing it should have plenty of opportunities to get some work in with the deep ball.

I said it a couple of pages back, but I think you start Milton and let him launch that deep ball to open receivers. If he doesn’t hit those throws and continues to over throw them. You sit him and start playing your number 2 and number 3 QBs for the rest of the year.

However, if Milton fixes that long ball against Tennessee Tech we are in business for the rest of the season as long as he stays healthy. That’s JMO though.

 

[Devo182]

Do the official replays rely on network footage, because it seemed like ESPN was trolling UT with the horrific angles on the “not a first down” spot and the “not a touchdown” at the goal line calls?

Good question. The whole thing was infuriating. The ref was a good 5 yards off the play...wth.

 

[I4Jay]

wow..I can easily see the potential.

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

Everyone who blindly buys a policy without being aware of the specific coverages they are purchasing. Like paying for health insurance and including maternity coverage when you are 65 and have 0% probability of needing it.

Right but that doesn’t set LM apart from their competition. Every company allows you to “customize” your coverage.

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

What about the penalty? Holding. That play comes back and doesn't count.

That’s true. Forgot about the holding call. However, Atleast we would know Milton could hit it (maybe he gains confidence) and we don’t lose Hyatt

Edit: but that’s not what happened. So doesn’t matter.

 

[Devo182]

Then we run...so Milton still brings value

Lol yeah. PLEASE play prevent...that is the defense that constantly gets teams beat. We'll gladly throw screens and run wild.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Still beating Florida.

With Bailey right?

 

[SSVol]

That’s just “true fan” virtue signaling. Only die hard fans are left. Just because they expect better results doesn’t make them fair weather. Most people eventually stop throwing good money after bad.

Wut? That's exactly the definition of "fair weather".

 

[KPT_VFL]

With Bailey right?

With whoever hits a wide open receiver in the end zone.

 

[volbeast33]

That’s just “true fan” virtue signaling. Only die hard fans are left. Just because they expect better results doesn’t make them fair weather. Most people eventually stop throwing good money after bad.

Nah…. I’m stopping talking about it but I just want fans at the games to give us a home field advantage and to help show recruits that is a place they want to come…

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

Surely he gets 2nd half PT next week if Milton is out. Will be good to see him in this offense. Will he throw deep balls like in O&W or like last year? If like in the O&W, then he might earn himself a real shot sooner than later.

Seems Hooker either doesn't get those calls or doesn't take them. Granted, his legs can really make up for some of that and if he can use rpo slants, that helps too.

I don’t think Milton will be out. I think Milton could of come back yesterday but Coach Huepel stayed with the hot hand.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Seats are empty because UT is having trouble selling tix even with creative packaging and bargain bin prices. A lot of season tix holders can't even give them away. My parents had six to give away outside Neyland and no one wanted them. My dad left them outside the stadium with a note. No one used them.

Fan and donor apathy has been growing for a while. COVID has cloaked it. If you're looking for a silver lining, families who want to take their kids to a game can benefit from cheap or free tix.

That ticket won't be in demand until we have a legitimate chance of beating Georgia and Florida. If you go back and look at my post after each firing, I said then that with each hire it was more important than the last. They took UT fans for granted. You keep taking someone, something for granted it will eventually disappear. Well, it's pretty much gone. In any business, once you lose customers it's extremely difficult to get them back. It is often times very expensive to get them back too. It's difficult to overcome a trust issue.

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

Still beating Florida.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

This offense is better with Milton going forward if he learns to lay the ball up there and let the receivers get it. (That’s if he can hit those open receivers)

With Hooker you lose some pre-snap reads and the deep ball threat. You gain a little more mobility threat though. (Pitt played a completely different defense against Hooker than Milton)

Milton is the reason we didn’t blow them out. If he plays all game, we lose by more. Hooker came in and drove us to some touchdowns. Only touchdown Milton got was a two yard handoff. I don’t understand the love for him. He had looked like ass two weeks straight. Everyone is caught up in appearances instead of how he performs.

 

[SSVol]

Right but that doesn’t set LM apart from their competition. Every company allows you to “customize” your coverage.

Didn't say they don't. Just that's what LM chooses to sell. Progressive did the same thing..."name your own price tool".

 

[Devo182]

I know Pitt DL was their strength and we were missing our RB1 AND Coop...but still pretty dang disappointed our RB run game was so poor.

Small and Wright combined for less than 2 YPC.

Just a reminder, it was more than QBs, defense, or refs that cost us the game.

 

[TrippieRedd]

Then we run...so Milton still brings value

......lmao

 

[I4Jay]

Has anyone seen a team this year that has looked great other than Alabama? All of them seemed to have struggled out of the gate.

UCLA.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

That’s one reason I’m optimistic after yesterday. It’s pretty clear to that anytime Heupel can find a good QB, we’ll be good offensively for several years. And Banks/Garner has our undermanned defense playing at a high enough level for me to think that we can be good enough on defense to have success.

The worry about Heupel is ceiling, but the program isn’t currently in a position to fret about his potential ceiling.

Yeah, and the thing with UT football right now...is the team has to be not only good but ELITE to make it to Atlanta. At least why Bama is the juggernaut they are. Of all the teams in the SEC East we are without question the only one that has basically an automatic L from the SEC West on our schedule, every single year too.

We've had great 1st quarters in both weeks. We've scored in 7 out of 8 quarters of football thus far this season (all of which included at least 1 TD) we're 42nd in PPG at 36 right now.

The bad is we're 4th in TOs and 5th in penalties. So we still got a ways to go and things to clean up, hopefully we get/stay healthy and just clean up the self-inflicted mistakes.

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

Didn't say they don't. Just that's what LM chooses to sell. Progressive did the same thing..."name your own price tool".

Exactly. Not a good look when your best selling point is something everyone else can offer too and your commercials are still cringy.

 

[ChattaTNVol]

I’m not blaming the fans for a poorly run football program…. I am blaming the fans for embarrassing us by allowing Pitt to feel like they took over neyland

It didn't work for Hillary Clinton but hey it might work for you, "Our fans are not compliant." They may in fact be deplorable. I mean close to 70% of the state is "deplorable" so I guess it's maybe to be expected.

Here's the thing. We're not Miami yet and most years we have more fans at our spring game than Pitt has stadium capacity.

This chart shows annual attendance at Ole Miss football games after they fired Freeze.



This past weekend after appeals from Kiffin Ole Miss had an announced crowd of 47,848 for their game against Austin Peay. That's almost 75% capacity. So at least so far they still haven't recovered. Granted, Austin Peay may not be a marquee game.

We had an announced crowd of 84,314 for Bowling Green. That's over 82% of capacity. There was a lot of bitching about the QB after the Bowling green game. The crowd announced for the Pittsburgh game was 82,203, down 2,110 from week 1. So either some of our most die hard fans didn't turn out for the Pitt game or visitors to our stadium from Pittsburgh numbered significantly less that the visitors that showed up from Bowling Green.

I figure maybe close to 30% of our fans are in the "not deplorable" category. They're highly intelligent and health conscious so when the CDC says large outdoor packed gatherings like at college football games still carry a measure of risk for the transmission of the virus - well those fans, being compliant to the CDC, may be choosing to stay home and watch the game on TV.

It's like with Hillary. Many voters were not compliant to her message and aspiratons but they were complaint to the other guy's.

Finally, If you build it, they will come. I just made that up but it sounds good, right?

 

[volbeast33]

Surely he gets 2nd half PT next week if Milton is out. Will be good to see him in this offense. Will he throw deep balls like in O&W or like last year? If like in the O&W, then he might earn himself a real shot sooner than later.

Seems Hooker either doesn't get those calls or doesn't take them. Granted, his legs can really make up for some of that and if he can use rpo slants, that helps too.

If Milton is out…. I bet Bailey definitely gets in the game.