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GregAmsler said:
Dustin Moore smelled like weed every time I got in an elevator with him. He was dismissed because he basically had a pot farm in his dorm room. He was going to be an incredible TE. Had NFL high round pick written all over him.
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I feel like that is an incredible psychology study. To literally choose "smoke weed" (or insert some other illegal vice) over make millions of dollars playing in the NFL. That we have a brain that can mess that decision up is fascinating to me. I bet there are some good studies that have looked into that type of psychology. It's sad.
 
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GregAmsler said:
Dustin Moore smelled like weed every time I got in an elevator with him. He was dismissed because he basically had a pot farm in his dorm room. He was going to be an incredible TE. Had NFL high round pick written all over him.
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I will never forget the day I seen him play in Neyland. I think we were playing UTEP and Moore caught a pass and sprinted past their corners and safeties like they were sitting still. The entire stadium kind of gasp like what the heck did we just see. Unfortunately he couldn’t get himself straightened out. It is a shame, he was probably the most gifted athletic tight end we have ever had and really never made his mark. But that 1 play I will never forget. GBO
 
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Orange_Crush said:
Personally, I think he has all the tools. I just suspect he gets wide eyes and a little overly excited in game-time situations and overthrows are the result. I suspect he needs sports psychologist refinement more than physical refinement. Similar to golfers working on the mental aspects of their games.
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Is Valium considered a PED? If not, a little Valium before each game could get him perfect…😇
 
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thistime said:
One of the great things about being Southern is our accent's. People in Tennessee really have three. East, West and Middle all say things a little different. I was i n Detroit one time and the bar tender asked where I was from and I kinda smart a$$y said New York and she said "Nope your from around Nashville and I was stunned a little. She said she fancied herself an accent expert and could tell not only that I was from Tennessee but Nashville just by the way I said certain words.

On that same note a guy from Boston was working on a TVA job I was on and he was talking. He said "I can't understand why when you guys come up North everyone wants to hear you talk and when people from the North comes South nobody wants to hear him talk." When at the same time 10 guys said "SHUT UP" in unison......it was GREAT !!!!
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I am pretty good at guessing accents too. I asked the lady I just dropped off if she was from northern Illinois or southern Wisconsin...she said "southern Wisconsin...how did you know?". I told her I have traveled a lot, and have gotten to know people from a lot of places in my life and I have just always noticed the little differences in regional accents.
 
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More positive Hendon news. Potentially good update for Hyatt dev as well.

“That was one thing, right after the Purdue game, I think we were up here, I want to say a week later,” wide receiver Jalin Hyatt said after one of Tennessee’s spring practices. “Just me and him just running routes, one on one, just ball on air, just trying to get the connection between us.

“I’m very happy with what Hook has been doing. He’s in here 24-7. Every time I come in here, he’s already in here. The process that he’s taken from Year One to Year Two in this offense, it surprised me. He wants it very badly. He’s aggressive, and that’s what I like about him.”
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Most of the time, Hooker getting his teammates involved in his offseason work is off the cuff, unplanned, spur-of-the-moment, but it doesn’t diminish its value in his eyes.

“It’s really just like, I’m in the facility — ‘Oh, J-Hyatt, come one, let’s watch film.’ It’s just stuff like that,” he said. “It’s the little things that can change the season.”
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More on Milton as well, since it came up earlier today:
If Hooker can’t stay healthy, Tennessee has a better situation behind him than most programs do as far as backup quarterbacks go. Joe Milton III certainly hasn’t won everyone over, but there’s confidence in him within the program. Despite what happened last season, the dynamic between Hooker and Milton isn’t what you might think.

“Last year, he was a great support system, when he went down and I came in,” Hooker said. “Whenever he’s in, I’m the same way. We’re each other’s biggest fans and biggest critics as well. Whenever I’m coming off the field, or I could still be on the field, I can hear Joe in the back like, ‘Hen, move that safety,’ or, ‘Work on your feet,’ just little things that definitely keep us both motivated to get better and push each other to be the best we can be.”
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therickbol said:
I feel like that is an incredible psychology study. To literally choose "smoke weed" (or insert some other illegal vice) over make millions of dollars playing in the NFL. That we have a brain that can mess that decision up is fascinating to me. I bet there are some good studies that have looked into that type of psychology. It's sad.
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You know Ricky Williams had that issue, loving his weed too much to play in the NFL.
 
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2022 college football coach rankings: Bryan Harsin, Herm Edwards plummet among Power Five coaches ranked 65-26

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Josh Heupel: This has nothing to do with Heupel specifically, but I smell some SEC bias here. Yes, Heupel exceeded expectations at Tennessee in his first year, putting together a fun offense and leading the team to a 7-6 mark and the Music City Bowl. However, if he'd done the same thing at a program in another Power Five conference, would it warrant a 19-spot climb? I'm skeptical. All that aside, he's the first Tennessee coach to finish his first season in Knoxville with a winning record since Lane Kiffin. Simply sticking around for a second season puts him ahead of schedule from that perspective! 2021 rank: 52 (+19)
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Trent Dilfer was familiar with Tennessee commitment Nicholaus Iamaleave long before the five-star prospect participated in the Elite 11 Regional at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tenn. But Sunday’s competition gave Dilfer, the former Super Bowl-winning quarterback who’s now the head coach of the Elite 11, a firsthand look at Iamaleava and the impressive skill set that has made him one of the nation’s most coveted quarterbacks in the 2023 class.

Dilfer, who’s also the football coach at Lipscomb Academy, discussed what he saw Sunday from Iamaleava during an appearance Monday on “The Buck Reising Show” on Nashville’s WGFX-FM, 104.5 The Zone. Dilfer said Iamaleava, a junior at Long Beach (Calif.) Polytechnic High School, is a “fiercely competitive” player who’s “still in the ‘earn it’ phase” of his development despite his lofty rankings.

“He’s not entitled,” Dilfer said of Iamaleava during the radio show. “We’ve run into this over 12 years. A lot of guys are celebrated so much, and they get these stars and they get these big offers — and now, with NIL, they get a bunch of money — that a lot of them succumb to entitlement, think that they’ve arrived. And the ones we're really looking for are the ones who are in the ‘earn it’ phase, and Nico’s still in the ‘earn it’ phase. He still knows he’s got a lot of things to improve upon.

“He knows it’s a big job, being a quarterback in the SEC, knows he’s going to a program that’s just pouring gasoline on their development. Heup and UT have done such a good job of kind of taking themselves out of the dust bowl and putting them as a national, recognized program again,” Dilfer said, referring to second-year Tennessee coach Josh Heupel. “So (Iamaleava) knows the gravity of the job.”

“We knew about him because we know about him from Southern California,” Dilfer told Reising, referring to Iamaleava. “Remember, a lot of us are California guys by nature, so we kind of grew up out there and cut our teeth in California football, so we’ve known about Nico a long time.

“But for Middle Tennessee, (or) Tennessee in general, people that want to know about Nico: He is way more than the flash and sizzle. There’s a lot of substance there.”
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