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scores4fun said:
Senior Bowl Day 2 Standouts:
The Darnell Wright Show
Darnell Wright did a great job emulating Sewell in Wednesday’s practice. The power, the movement ability, the sheer aggression in attacking the defensive players–even in pass protection. Primarily playing right tackle, Wright absolutely dominated the 1-on-1 reps in the American team practice.
At 6-foot-5 and 342 pounds, Wright is a behemoth of a man. But he’s also, like Sewell, light on his feet and capable of making reach blocks and pulls. Generally projected as a second-round pick coming here, after what we’ve seen in Mobile you’re going to see a ton of Wright’s inclusion into the late first round of post-Senior Bowl mock drafts. And he’s earned it so far.
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DW reminds me of Sewell. Same number as well. Would be surprised he isn't a 1st round pick come the draft.
 
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scores4fun said:
Senior Bowl Day 2 Standouts:
The Darnell Wright Show
Darnell Wright did a great job emulating Sewell in Wednesday’s practice. The power, the movement ability, the sheer aggression in attacking the defensive players–even in pass protection. Primarily playing right tackle, Wright absolutely dominated the 1-on-1 reps in the American team practice.
At 6-foot-5 and 342 pounds, Wright is a behemoth of a man. But he’s also, like Sewell, light on his feet and capable of making reach blocks and pulls. Generally projected as a second-round pick coming here, after what we’ve seen in Mobile you’re going to see a ton of Wright’s inclusion into the late first round of post-Senior Bowl mock drafts. And he’s earned it so far.
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So glad to hear this. Happy for him!
 
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Orange. said:
I apologize for responding to an admitted troll who just did what you specify. My response was a waste of my own and the board's time. I will delete my post.

I only saw his post because I unblocked him last night to see who Freak himself was calling a troll in the basketball forum, and also in order to follow the string of his posts leading to Freak's observation. Forgot to re-ignore. Thanks for reminding me.

I won't see anyone do that anymore either 😂
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Freak called someone a troll??? Anyway someone could tell me who?
 
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jakez4ut said:
Winning b2b conf tithe games and going to the playoffs? đŸ€”

This is a terrible take. By your logic... We failed in football too.

Basketball is as good and as healthy as it may have ever been at Tennessee right now. Complaining about Barnes and this program right now is the epitomy of just being spoiled and feeling entitled to... More.

I say... Enjoy it. I've seen "suck", and this ain't it.
GBO.
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Thank you!
 
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Weezer said:
But will she be in the next Olympics? She very well might be because she is that talented, but most Olympians are young girls who have dedicated their lives and every waking hour to the sport. Then they retire from the national stage and go to college. My only point was that most are no longer Olympians. They're former Olympians.

And, it's not about being a smartass, it's about painting an accurate picture. In college, most of these young women aren't even close to competing at the level they were when they were on the national stage. An NCAA meet is nothing like the World Championships or the Olympics.
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Literally none of that has anything to do with what I said. I pointed out that the majority of NIL in gymnastics is probably tied up into the Olympians. Whether or not they return to the Olympics during or after college is irrelevant. The majority of the money is still probably going to them if nothing else because their prior Olympic fame brings a lot of publicity to those teams and puts butts in seats. Their Olympic futures have nothing to do with that LOL
 
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VolGee4 said:
I would argue that Barnes really wasn’t fired at Texas for his March performance. It was his regular seasons getting to March. I did a deep dive on his career this week while I was home for winter weather.

In his last 4 years, in 2012, they were an 11 seed. In 2013, they missed the NCAAT for the only time. In 2014, they were a 7 seed, won the first game and lost to the 2 seed. In 2015, they were an 11 seed. He did exactly what the seed lines should have done. He wasn’t expected to win as 11 seeds. But he didn’t have enough success in the regular season to give himself a chance to succeed in March.

I don’t think he got the guard play and got development from that position the last few years. His three highest recruits in the last 4 years were Cameron Ridley, Myles Turner, and Mick Kabongo. Ridley and Turner were PF/C. Kabongo left after 2 years. The other guards were 50-100 ranked players.
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I can agree with some of that but at the time all the talk was about his failure in the tourney
. I don’t think programs care about what seed you are
. You better show the potential to win once you get there. His winning at such a high level here will help overlook any tourney failures
 if he starts finishing lower in the SEC and has early exits
 he wouldn’t last too many years.
 
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VolNash17 said:
We’re lucky to have Heupel. Definitely but It all starts up top. AD White running the AD will be one of the best all time hires in Tennessee athletics history when everyone looks back 30 years.
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He will have saved Tennessee athletics. Heupal was an unheralded hire that leads us back to domination.
 
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SweetasSoda said:
Freak called someone a troll??? Anyway someone could tell me who?
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Big Orange Train? Il be honest don’t think there are actual trolls in here. The only troll imo is the Hallie poster, whoever that is.

It’s okay to “troll”, just don’t be an actual troll, you know what I mean? Lol
 
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Don't care to bump his thread but apparently mazeo bennett is committin to uscjr today.

uscjr is doing well on the trail this spring. Hopefully its like our 2020 class and doesn't stick...
 
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VolNash17 said:
We’re lucky to have Heupel. Definitely but It all starts up top. AD White running the AD will be one of the best all time hires in Tennessee athletics history when everyone looks back 30 years.
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It starts above him with Boyd and Plowman
.. without them placing an importance on athletics
. There would be no DW
.. it’s a great time to be a Vol!!!
 
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butchna said:
Following his Twitter, LOT of OL recruits mention him. Warren and Castles seem psyched. Maybe Heupel knows what he’s doing
again. đŸ€”
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I don’t know why anyone would doubt Heupel on offense or defense right now
. Both units have outperformed where they should be at this point
. I trust every decision he makes.
 
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I’m good with these internal hires. It sustains the staffing and coaching stability. My operating theory is that Tennessee football does best when there is coaching stability. We used to be nationally recognized for our stability (2 coaches over 30+ years, etc).

In the wasteland between Fulmer and Heupel, arguably the best stretch of football happened when a chunk of Butch’s crew followed him from Cincy and helped him get his operation off the ground. His tenure started falling apart when those guys left and/or he brought in bigger name hires to jazz up his staff.

Time will tell of course but I think the TE and OC promotions and the overall lack of off-season drama surrounding Heupel’s program are a good thing.
 
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