Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[drvenner]

Thank you for Shire-ing.

He seems to have made a Hobbit of it, lately.

 

[SoilVol]

He gained muscle mass, more zip and better touch as well.

I'm not sure why we aren't using Spyre to just pay recruiting services to make our recruits better.

 

[SoilVol]

It just means more *farts*

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

The back side of the park is beautiful, but the Tetons always get my attention first

 

[franklinpence]

Thank you for Shire-ing.

These constant puns have become a bad hobbit for you folks.

 

[Volnukem]

Seldon dropped 6 spots
Bradley dropped 9 spots
Herring dropped 29 spots
Davis climbed 18 spots.
Umarov climbed 62 spots.


These are all 247 sports rankings. Not the composite.

 

[TheRain]

Gotta be fake. Would not have injured Shy Tuttle at all.

It's most likely ceremonial.

 

[UTvol1fn]

Seldon dropped 6 spots
Bradley dropped 9 spots
Herring dropped 29 spots
Davis climbed 7 spots.

These are all 247 sports rankings. Not the composite.

kids should have committed to Bama or Ohio State. damn shame

 

[TheRain]

He seems to have made a Hobbit of it, lately.

It can be mordor sometimes.

 

[Weezer]

Seldon dropped 6 spots
Bradley dropped 9 spots
Herring dropped 29 spots
Davis climbed 7 spots.
Umarov no change.


These are all 247 sports rankings. Not the composite.

The Tennessee drop. 247 hates us.

 

[BigSteve09]

From ESPN's SEC East preview:

SP+ rank for Tennessee is 9
#4 offense, #43 defense
Average Wins: 8.5
Bowl Odds 99%

Is SP+ deluded to love Tennessee this much? The past eight times Tennessee began the season ranked in the AP poll, the Volunteers have finished with an outright losing record as many times (four) as they have come close to expectations. Alarm bells generally begin ringing when hype begins, and it seems likely that the Vols will be ranked in the preseason polls.

There are numbers to back up the sentiment. I'm not going to try to justify a top-10 SP+ ranking to you; even though SP+ is adjusted for tempo, the ability of Josh Heupel's offense to not just outplay lesser defenses but utterly destroy them seems to almost rig SP+ in its favor. With Hendon Hooker at quarterback, the Vols averaged 53 points per game and 7.6 yards per play against teams outside of the SP+ top 40 last season. They averaged 29 points and 6.2 yards per play against everyone else, which was certainly not terrible but perhaps wasn't worthy of a No. 7 ranking in offensive SP+.

Regardless, the offense will be even better this year. Hooker finished 16th in Total QBR and teamed with backs Jabari Small and Jaylen Wright to form one of the most efficient ground games in the country. All but one member of last year's O-line two-deep returns, as does leading receiver Cedric Tillman, who averaged 131 receiving yards per game at 19.2 per catch over his last six games. The receiving corps is otherwise relatively unproven, but players like Jalin Hyatt, USC transfer Bru McCoy and Jimmy Calloway have obvious potential. The relentless tempo of a Heupel offense is built to maximize whatever advantages it finds, and it could find a lot.

The Vols' ceiling will likely be defined by their defense. They allowed just 22.9 points per game and 4.9 yards per play over the first seven games last year but slipped to 39.3 and 6.0, respectively, from there. Secondary injuries added up (pure fatigue might have as well), and the Vols finished just 47th in defensive SP+. But of the 17 players who saw 250-plus snaps, 12 return, including linebackers Jeremy Banks and Aaron Beasley and edge rushers Byron Young and Tyler Baron. Depth has seemingly improved, and if the Vols can play at a top-30 level on D, that would likely make them a clear No. 2 in the East.

10 Favorite Players mentions:

QB Hendon Hooker, Tennessee. Hooker showed promise in two years at Virginia Tech and fulfilled it last season, completing 68% of his passes with a 31-to-3 TD-to-INT ratio and averaging 6.1 yards per (non-sack) carry.

LB Jeremy Banks, Tennessee. Equally disruptive against the run and the pass, the senior from Cordova, Tennessee, took part in 16 run stops and recorded 5.5 sacks with an otherworldly 24.6% pressure rate when he got to blitz.

Honorable mention: RB Jabari Small (Tennessee), WR Cedric Tillman (Tennessee), C Cooper Mays (Tennessee), EDGE Byron Young (Tennessee)

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Seldon dropped 6 spots
Bradley dropped 9 spots
Herring dropped 29 spots
Davis climbed 7 spots.
Umarov no change.


These are all 247 sports rankings. Not the composite.

Umarov went from 204 to 140

 

[BigSteve09]

speaking of star gazing

 

[UTvol1fn]

class jumped to 6th overall with the Sham bump

 

[TheBigOne10]

So mixed bag of bumps and drops on 247. It’s not all doom and gloom!

 

[BigSteve09]

 

[TheBigOne10]

Now give Jalen Smith the bump he deserves!

 

[you]

You are not allowed to anticipate the gun and they consider starting 1/10 of a sec after the gun to be too quick to be a reaction to the gun going off.

Whatever happened to 1-2-3-go

 

[Orange_Crush]

These constant puns have become a bad hobbit for you folks.

You, sir, just opened the More Door!

 

[UTvol1fn]

So mixed bag of bumps and drops on 247. It’s not all doom and gloom!

Yes it is. It always is.

 

[Orange_Crush]

I'm not sure why we aren't using Spyre to just pay recruiting services to make our recruits better.

 

[jave36]

You are not allowed to anticipate the gun and they consider starting 1/10 of a sec after the gun to be too quick to be a reaction to the gun going off.

"they" are idiots. You can't set an arbitrary number like that. People believed forever no one could run a mile under 4 minutes, that it was impossible. Now they're saying it's impossible to react under 1/10 second? How about you train your dopey 80 year old man official who DQed Allen to vary his cadence for the gun? Wouldn't that be a lot more fair and logical? What a stupid, stupid rule. They said the guy next to him reacted 3/1000 of a second slower so he was OK, how incredibly asinine and arbitrary is that?! You can't just draw a random line in the sand and say "this is how slow you have to react or else." If the guy next to you can react in 1000/10000 second then how can they say you jumped the gun for 997/10000 second?

 

[thistime]

speaking of star gazing

We were looking at your Nebula and I'm guessing no on you selling.

 

[franklinpence]

You, sir, just opened the More Door!

You’re just being s-elvish at this point.

 

[thistime]

There is a strange form of water falling from the sky.......it's RAIN, it's RAIN !!!! It has been dry around here to say the least. I have birds lined up, taking turns at the birdbath.