Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[Jameis Jones]

Seems like with the moves Barnes is making that he's making 1 or 2 more last push seasons. Moving out developmental guys and bringing in transfers that are ready to play and win now. Feel like Edwards could be great with 1 more season of development but Barnes needs a plug-in guy now.

He's just made decisions this offseason that we haven't really seen before, advising OK, JJJ, BJE, JP, UP, etc to move on and he brought in a huge transfer class.

I don’t see any change in terms of moving out developmental guys. We’ll have 1 sophomore (Awaka), 2 redshirt freshmen (Jefferson/Dilione), and 3 freshmen on the roster (Estrella, Carr, Phillips). None are obvious candidates to go pro after next year either.

 

[barrylee]

that's true! can't forget about my Night Witches either:

Have to admit I haven't heard this before and WW2 is one of my favorite subjects.

Thanks for bringing this to the board!

 

[vols4lfe]

I think you will be really disappointed in the 23. It will be very oaky/overoaked. The 15 is great but like others say, it is just popular because of the mystique of it. There are others out there that are just as good or better for a reasonable price. Personally, if you can find a barrel proof Four Roses (almost becoming impossible these days), that gives it a major run for the money.

Completely agree on this assessment. Have had 23 a few times, and it's an oak bomb. Not worth the price of admission. 15 is a treat, and 20 is very good as well, and worth trying at a reasonable price (I'm in VA and have seen 15 at $28 an ounce, which is a great price, but really anything under $50 is what I'd consider reasonable). ORVW is a slightly better OWA, and Lot B might be the most overrated of the bunch given retail to secondary costs. Not a ton of great wheated bourbon alternatives, but you can get really close with Boone County's wheated cask strength, or Old Elk wheated bourbon single barrel picks.

 

[utkevdawg1]

Completely agree on this assessment. Have had 23 a few times, and it's an oak bomb. Not worth the price of admission. 15 is a treat, and 20 is very good as well, and worth trying at a reasonable price (I'm in VA and have seen 15 at $28 an ounce, which is a great price, but really anything under $50 is what I'd consider reasonable). ORVW is a slightly better OWA, and Lot B might be the most overrated of the bunch given retail to secondary costs. Not a ton of great wheated bourbon alternatives, but you can get really close with Boone County's wheated cask strength, or Old Elk wheated bourbon single barrel picks.

Southern Star Paragon out of Statesville, NC is a fantastic Wheated. My parents got me a bottle after touring the facility on a press trip.

I frequently invite my bourbon buddies over to blind taste test it and the OWA and Paragon wins by a wide margin on nose and taste 100% of the time. I have cask strength and the flavor really expands with a dash of water.

 

[volbeast33]

 

[SweetasSoda]

Brian Daboll drafted Jalin Hyatt and is very happy to have him. Nothing else really needs to be said.

But I will say it anyway for those who do not understand.

Daboll has five SB rings. He was also the OC at Bama with their NC team in 2017. He has coached in the NFL for over 20 years and started as a D assistant before becoming a QB/OC guru. He won assistant of the year in 2020 and was NFL COY as HC last season. He is the next Andy Reid. He is his own unique winner as a coach and a guy that has total respect from everybody throughout the game.

That guy drafted Jalin Hyatt. The rest of the naysayers and posers can go pound sand. As has been posted, the negative recruiting BS will only go so far until it blows up in their faces.

Vols by fiddy every game. The great players will be coming from far and wide to wear the orange for years to come.

Good to know!

 

[Vols4us]

Difference in coaches from kiffin/dooley/butch/pruitt to CJH and staff. How many of us thought they had recruited scrubs only to see what good coaching and culture could do to transform a team.

Neither saban nor smart could have done it.

“Coach” prime prefers to run off players rather than try to get them coached up and better…

I’m not a fan of his style. It would help him out if he fails miserably, especially in the way he handles coaching.

Maybe, maybe not. I will reserve judgment until I see what happens on the field. We had talent on our roster - top 20 recruiting classes nearly every year. We did not have coaches who could develop. Colorado had a roster full of low rated players in terms of talent as well as effort on the field.

I cannot judge whether Saban or Smart could do it since they had access to talent. Maybe yes, maybe no.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Did they all turn into donkeys?

 

[SweetasSoda]

Nice!

 

[Chuckie]

Yeah my genetics teacher was the same. Understood every other word. I zoned out a lot in that class...

I had a statistics class one time and got about half-way through the semester always wondering why my professor was always telling us to "double-up" a model when I finally realized he was saying "develop" a model.

 

[SweetasSoda]

Have to admit I haven't heard this before and WW2 is one of my favorite subjects.

Thanks for bringing this to the board!

Yeah, I love WWII and had never heard of them or the Russian women snipers or Lady Death until reading that book. And had just read about the Enigma Code breakers. So much to learn about.

 

[ConwayFitty]

Completely agree on this assessment. Have had 23 a few times, and it's an oak bomb. Not worth the price of admission. 15 is a treat, and 20 is very good as well, and worth trying at a reasonable price (I'm in VA and have seen 15 at $28 an ounce, which is a great price, but really anything under $50 is what I'd consider reasonable). ORVW is a slightly better OWA, and Lot B might be the most overrated of the bunch given retail to secondary costs. Not a ton of great wheated bourbon alternatives, but you can get really close with Boone County's wheated cask strength, or Old Elk wheated bourbon single barrel picks.

For wheated I'm a big fan of the annual Maker's Mark releases. or just the barrel proof

 

[volbeast33]

I love it when they keep the receipts.

 

[butchna]

Brian Daboll drafted Jalin Hyatt and is very happy to have him. Nothing else really needs to be said.

But I will say it anyway for those who do not understand.

Daboll has five SB rings. He was also the OC at Bama with their NC team in 2017. He has coached in the NFL for over 20 years and started as a D assistant before becoming a QB/OC guru. He won assistant of the year in 2020 and was NFL COY as HC last season. He is the next Andy Reid. He is his own unique winner as a coach and a guy that has total respect from everybody throughout the game.

That guy drafted Jalin Hyatt. The rest of the naysayers and posers can go pound sand. As has been posted, the negative recruiting BS will only go so far until it blows up in their faces.

Vols by fiddy every game. The great players will be coming from far and wide to wear the orange for years to come.

Ditto all this and I’d add that he took the lead in identifying Hyatt as a want and in the TRADING UP to land him in the draft class…not his usual modus operandi. He had a special interest which has to be exciting for fans of the young man.

 

[butchna]

I love it when they keep the receipts.

They land on his not so exclusive blocked list.

 

[Glitch]

If I had access to a time machine, this would be something I would want to go back and witness. LOL

 

[Glitch]

I love it when they keep the receipts.

Twitter is wonderful for being able to throw people's blazing hot takes in their face when they turn out to be so incredibly bad, like this one.

 

[volbeast33]

College Football QB Power Rankings: Quinn Ewers surges after solidifying status as Texas starter in spring

Joe Milton is going to bust this list wide open.

 

[Wickman]

College Football QB Power Rankings: Quinn Ewers surges after solidifying status as Texas starter in spring

Joe Milton is going to bust this list wide open.

“Journalism”

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

I'm writing one. That will be the one to pick up.

Post civil war?

 

[volbeast33]

 

[Weezer]

Sound like my kind of people.

Only I'm not short.

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

Two things:

Not alphabetized. Monster.

I don't see a B.H. Newton on your shelf. Monster.

I once dated a girl who had her closet organized by the colors of the rainbow. ROY G BIV. Now that was a monster. Ha!

 

[bignewt]

Post civil war?

Its a little before, a little after and mostly 100 years after the "truce." Which happened in 1876, so mostly takes place in 1976. England negotiated the truce to remain a superpower. The North agreed to end it if the South abolished slavery which they did and England offered to ship to the new country of Liberia any slaves that wanted their own land and country. Most left. Now the borders have reopened and the new government is trying to establish itself but there are many that don't want it to succeed. It's told through the people that amassed at a border crossing in West Virginia, some going north, some south. There are a plethora of characters and storylines Im juggling but I think I see where it ends. I think.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

But they still would have a 1.3% better chance? Like why?

I'm old enough to remember the 2023 Orange bowl and uh they weren't exactly on our level to say the least.