Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[UTSuave’]

What am I wondering?

Simply incredible he is shooting 8-10 from 3 in a game. I don't think any of our post players would have that state line for a whole season, much less a single game.

To answer the first question…what IF!…we kept drew and kicked the bucket on Uros and drew was in the post that was my point

 

[UTSuave’]

I think that whenever DW decides it's time for a change being a VFL will not be a prerequisite. There will never be another Pat and trying to bring in her old players to be what she was isn't the answer.

Agreed!!

 

[volbeast33]

I think it’s more of a development issue… the Lady vol brand still recruits itself kinda in way till this day even with our yearly slumps.perfect example is Sara Puckett..highly ranked coming in with a lot of hype and what has she done?..anytime there’s a coaching change I always give them 2 or 3 years and then I start watching the players for improvement individually and I’ve seen nothing from the starting 5 that I would write home to momma about.

Sarah Puckett is a secondary type of player….. we haven’t had a recruit on the level of the top teams since Horston.

 

[volbeast33]

Dee Beckworth signed a deal with WWE

WWE adds 15 athletes to award-winning NIL program

He found a place where you PRETEND to get hit…. Perfect place for him.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

rolling up in a jacked up diesel to play football with no helmet and pads may mean one's balls are gigantic, but is overcompensation. Again, so small...

And that sounds like something a wuss would say to compensate for being a wuss.

 

[volbeast33]

To answer the first question…what IF!…we kept drew and kicked the bucket on Uros and drew was in the post that was my point

We would be a much worse team….. we need UROS for bigger players down low…. Don’t let Drew’s stats against piss poor competition fool you….. against better athletes… he was 1-7 from the field against Arkansas and a little better 5-12 from the field against Dayton.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I can lucid dream pretty well after years of practicing and can end up in those once a month or so. Other times I'm too aware and wake myself.

I've also had a TON of inception leveling recently, where I "wake up" about 2 or 3 different times, but each time still dreaming. Those are a little wacky.

I always wake up now when a dream gets weird.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

There are many tricks and probably a modern google search would field best practices these days. There are plenty of online communities building shared knowledge on it.

I started about 15 years ago by both taking a sleep supplement (I want to say some combo of valerian root and htp-5 - but this isn't at all necessary) and doing one very simple thing as I fell asleep: repeating "I will lucid dream" in my head. Somehow that level of awareness can carry over to mid-dream.

Over the years I've found other tricks. Here's one of the oddest, yet well known amongst lucid dreamers - try crossing your arms over your chest. Just last night I was in this pose and had insanely vivid lucid dreams over and over. Maybe it is the tactile sensation of your fingers on skin that makes you aware, idk.

If you want to go further and really nail it down, there's a trick - practice your "token action" while awake. It is the thing that makes you aware you are either in a dream or awake. Think of Leo's spinner in Inception. The most common are looking at a clock or phone (because in dreams the time will change or the phone will look different each time you glance at it) or...made famous by Waking Life (great movie I recommend) is flipping a light switch. Light switches don't work in dreams. So...basically practice one of these actions 5, 10, even 20 times a day with the intention and focus of knowing you are awake because things are acting normally. Then you'll increase it happening in dreams, but will become cognizant that you're dreaming. And then off you go doing whatever floats your boat.


Side note - I've found a superior way to fly in dreams, at least for me. Rather than trying to flap your arms or getting a running start, just imagine you have a jetpack on and boost yourself off the ground like a rocket. I've had a lot of success flying for long periods with this.

I was going to say..my favorite dreams are the ones where I can fly. I've only had them a few times though.

 

[VolArtillery]

I was going to say..my favorite dreams are the ones where I can fly. I've only had them a few times though.

I hate the ones where you fall...

 

[Volsdeep4]

I wanted Willie Martinez fired under Lyle Jones and I still want him fired. I feel like at Tennessee we could do better.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I hate the ones where you fall...

Or the one where you are buried alive..

 

[StoVol]

 

[RikidyBones]

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

The Holly years took a toll. I don't watch as much anymore becuase frankly it's painful to see the state we're in. I had a lot of contact with the LV program back in the day and the highest respect for how it was run on the academic side which was far better than any other sport or official activity that I worked with. I don't know what we were doing with recruiting but the absolute lack of a playmaker was painful to see tonight. Most of the time even a bad team will have a playmaker but we have a collection of mediocre to good players that sometimes do good things but often just let mediocrity take over. It's enough to have something if we had just one player who stepped up and led but no one on that team even tried to do that tonight.

They have no one to develop them. They have no system to run. The offense is elementary level. It’s sad.

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

Kelly is under a lot of pressure I am sure..The Athletic Dept is humming and she is failing. Tough spot for a VFL.

But really LV are my last concern if we have failure. A shame really as it is the preeminent sport of UT historical success on the back of Pat.

She should do the right thing and step down. She has to be able to see that she’s not getting it done.

 

[SoilVol]

To answer the first question…what IF!…we kept drew and kicked the bucket on Uros and drew was in the post that was my point

Meh, that's assuming Drew wanted to stay and we picked Uros over him. Drew took a few years to develop. He wasn't ready when he started but had a high ceiling. Even at UNC Asheville it really took until his senior year to do what he's doing now. I'm happy for him. Maybe he's got a grad transfer season he can take next year.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Morphine is a heluva drug..lol

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

That’s true! Hope it happens whenever it does. Although there is one option that I’d personally would be open to is Lawson at Duke. She’s done well there from what I’ve looked at the last two years. Other than that I don’t see anyone in the LV tree really worth going after

Just hire the best fit that will elevate the program back to its elite status. If it’s Kara, then fine. Guarantee we could pull Staley from USCe. If LSU can pull Mulkey away from Baylor, then we should be able to pull Staley away from SC.

 

[SoilVol]

The Holly years took a toll. I don't watch as much anymore becuase frankly it's painful to see the state we're in. I had a lot of contact with the LV program back in the day and the highest respect for how it was run on the academic side which was far better than any other sport or official activity that I worked with. I don't know what we were doing with recruiting but the absolute lack of a playmaker was painful to see tonight. Most of the time even a bad team will have a playmaker but we have a collection of mediocre to good players that sometimes do good things but often just let mediocrity take over. It's enough to have something if we had just one player who stepped up and led but no one on that team even tried to do that tonight.

Rickea Jackson led the SEC in scoring last year at MSU. Horston creates for herself but not for the team.

I think the roster is decent, we just aren't working as a team.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Not wearing a helmet and scrum caps aren’t why rugby has less concussions so I’ve never understood the scrum cap debate for football. It had less concussions because of the laws of the game. You aren’t allowed to hit without wrapping in rugby. No throwing a shoulder into a ball carrier, no throwing your body at the feet of a ball carrier, no tackling above the shoulders (they are even looking to eliminate tackling above the torso soon) etc.. you have to hit with your shoulder and wrap your arms. If you don’t follow that, you get a penalty. Do it more than once and you can get a red card and are ejected. Rugby players are taught from the lowest levels of the sport how to tackle and how to protect your head going into a tackle and they practice it year after year, even the pros. This is why they have less concussions.

I actually got one concussion in rugby after 5 seasons. The one time I did, I was wearing a scrum cap. The other 4 years, I didn’t wear one.

I cover a professor rugby team and we see many more concussions than I expected.

For the longest time, golf was the number one sport for concussions. It’s simply a numbers thing. Worldwide, golf had the most participants. Think of all the golf courses around the world. Significantly increases the chances of being struck by a ball, getting hit by a club or falling out of a cart or just falling on a slope…

Soccer is now the number one sport for concussions.

I don’t know if anyone has looked at numbers of participants and concussions… it’s usually reported as a total number. Per capita concussion rate annually per sport may change the rankings…

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

Doesn’t get credit for Jackson, Taylor or George. He didn’t develop any of them. And can you please tell us what our pass defense has been ranked the past 2 years? Oh but the talent issue right?

So for the Martinez defenders who bring up talent, explain something to me. Explain how Akron, Ball State, Western Kentucky, Middle TN State and Bowling Green could possible have more talent in the secondary than us.

Oh and this list? He has been coaching for 30 years. If you think that’s somehow impressive then I don’t know what to tell you.

Ok hot shot why don’t you come to the table with some actual info? Like what stud DB coach you would replace him with and all the players they have sent to the league.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

These throwbacks for Saturday are NOICE!!
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Glad that they aren’t going old school shorts…

 

[InVOLuntary]

Just hire the best fit that will elevate the program back to its elite status. If it’s Kara, then fine. Guarantee we could pull Staley from USCe. If LSU can pull Mulkey away from Baylor, then we should be able to pull Staley away from SC.

I don't think they'd ever spend what it would take to get Staley. It's not in the UT DNA. They don't look to go big even with the bell cow that is the football program. They tend to look for the diamond in the rough. Unfortunately, they go through a lot of cubic zirconium before they find the diamond.

I could see Lawson. She checks all the boxes,

Up-and-comer. ️
Woman ️
Former Lady Vol ️
Relatively cheap to hire ️

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

So dang strange. I had one last night that went over several days. It was so wierd, I'm surprised I didn't realize it was a dream and try to have a lucid dream/ astral dream. I always thought astral dreams were , until I had one several years ago.

Have you ever had a dream where you woke up because of how drastic the dream events were? Realized it was a dream, then fell back asleep only to be right back in it? That kinda sucks when you’re trying to get away from the dream events.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Mani would love to crush a Pruitt led defense at Bama next year

I agree with Mani!

Who is Mani again?