Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

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MarcoVol said:
Why would you let others upset you over something they said about sports?
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I agree with this. I see all that trash talk as good natured fun and nothing else. I like to rib Bama fans when we beat them, but it isn’t personal. Just fun. They do the same with me. Life goes on.
 
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VolNash17 said:
Vols baseball will be fine. Clearly breaking in a new yet talented lineup that hasn’t played together much at all. Again. Wait until everyone gets together and see how it meshes. My bet is Vols will have a very good team by seasons end
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Yup. Betting against Tony V is a fool's errand.
 
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Orangeredblooded said:
I don’t know about anybody else still up reading crap like this, but all I read was blah, blah and more blah. What did it actually say besides we suck? I’ve got a sawbuck for the first person that can decipher this mess.
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Some people are only happy when their constant negativity is falsely vindicated.
 
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VolNRaleighNC said:
Haven’t read many of the reactions to the BaseVols 0-2 start but we clearly were spoiled last year with a season that is a rarity. Replacing almost all of our offensive firepower was almost assuredly gonna yield these results. We are horrid offensively. I know it’s baseball and a lot of games left to be played but gonna be a very, very rough year but I’m still rooting for them.
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Just like if we had scored 27 runs the first two games, there's no way you can make a sound judgment after two games. To say it's going to be very, very rough is a huge over reaction
 
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Wokepack said:
Base vols get a pass this weekend. Quality teams that squeaked by them. That being said we were only missing 2 players. We can't be 2 players away from being this incumbent offensively. We tore up the SEC last year, we will get everyone's best shot this year. We better get it going soon, its not like there is 162 games to be played. We just might have lost more than we think from last years team. I was in the boat that we didn't bring in quite enough with the production we lost. Talent alone won't get you by with our schedule.
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We have elite pitching. It will carry us in a lot of games if the bats are not clicking. We do need to play better defensively. Two players can make a huge difference.
 
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Devo182 said:
Though we're 20-7, KenPom has us ranked 290th in luck (out of ~350 teams). Aka we've had some really negative variance. Things out of our control, so to speak.

Considering things tend to regress to the mean, maybe some good luck awaits us in March. Let's hope.
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Probably not over the remaining games. Maybe over a five year span
 
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Love this mentality!

Tennessee offensive coordinator Joey Halzle believes in the idea that this spring is the perfect time to mess up. Especially when it comes to the freshmen in the room.

With so many things flying at these freshmen enrollees in the first few months, Halzle understands that mistakes are going to be made in spring workouts. But in his mind, this is the time for mistakes to happen, so that they can be corrected in the most infant stages possible.
One of the areas that Halzle will be watching closely is the quarterback room. Halzle, Tennessee’s quarterback coach over the last two years, has now added No. 1 overall recruit Nico Iamaleava to that room with a whole lot of excitement behind that name.

“With the numbers in that room, there are a lot of reps to go around, which is completely different from the last couple of years that we were here,” Halzle said about how much of a benefit it is for Iamaleava to get consistent reps this spring. “It is huge.” “The biggest thing about freshmen getting here, whether it is December for bowl practice or in spring ball, is they get a chance to mess it up,” Halzle continued on to say. “They are going to, I have told them that. ‘You are going to mess it up, do not play timid, do not play slow trying to be right, play fast as you can, rip it all over the field, make your mistakes, we will come into the film room and learn from them, and we will go back out there and try to make less each day as we are moving forward.’ It gives you the chance that, when fall camp comes around, they are not trying to figure out what to do, they have run all of this before, they have seen all of these different defensive looks, and now they are finding themselves as a player and how they operate in the system, which now gives you a chance to actually go operate with live fire in the fall.”
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On Barnes and this team, sometimes you have to take a step back a look at things from a broader perspective.

This team from a talent standpoint isn't close to being on the same level as KY or any top level team. It's a fact that Barnes has recruited better than any coach in modern history of the Tennessee program. But, that's not close to the big boys. We have 2 five stars on this team. Both haven't played the last few games. One, senior, that really hasn't lived up to his 5 star ranking. The other a freshman that's really honing his game for play at this level. The others are a bunch of rag tag players assembled from nooks and cranies all over the place.

ZZ - unknown, undersized, last minute discovery.
Vescovi - unknown player, again last minute, late add, that most programs knew nothing bout.
ON - foreign player, limited US exposure, limited interest from the big guys.
Key - grad transfer from, Indiana State. Great player there but this is big boy basketball.
Plav - another foreign player that was an unknown. Transfer from AZ state.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade these players for any others in college. As with most of Barnes teams, they're a special group.

The point is, this team is not comprised of elite players. The job coach Barnes has done is remarkable. To get this team to where it is, to compete, and win against elite talent.

If you want to criticize coach Barnes it's difficult to make the argument that he's not a great coach, especially at the most important aspect of being a coach, molding a group of players into a great team, getting more than the sum of the parts.

If you're going to criticize him, criticize him for his system, his philosophy. It's widely known CB is not easy to play for. He's very demanding of his players. He expects them to do all the not so much fun stuff. Most of the highly recruited players want to do their year and move on. I get the feeling he doesn't like most of the superstars any more than they like him. Again, point is, the pool of 5 star players that mesh with him and his system is super small. So if you're gonna ride CB, do so because of the way he runs his program, not what he does with the team because he absolutely does more with less. JMO

(Also, I think his assistants coaches aren't what they were 2-3 years ago. As he's lost those guys, I'm not sure he's replaced them with equal or better talent)
 
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