Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[Devo182]

You read correctly. 15% or less actually.

Research shows it varies by location.

In Alabama, they only use 4.952% of their brain.

 

[Glitch]

Research shows it varies by location.

In Alabama, they only use 4.952% of their brain.

Well, they also only have 4.952% of their teeth as well. I am sensing a pattern.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

This absolutism is f'n stupid. It all depends on the situation as it happens, and S&C stability doesn't have a damn thing to do with pure bad luck.

This roster is still thin and underwhelming at many spots, and the OL is a couple of big injuries from being a sieve.

Or a couple big wins from being

15-0

You see it your way and I see it mine.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

My thoughts on recruiting "misses": we want players that want to be their best, not players that want to be their richest.

So guys like Franklin and Nwaneri just want to be the richest? They don’t want to be their best? Cool story. They tell you that personally?

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

It's so dumb that people just totally blow off the major effects that just a few bad key injuries could have on this season...we are NOT UGA and Bama..we do NOT have elite talent stacked up like cordwood.

The stupid absurd absolutism pisses me off.

I personally think that we have far and away the best head coach and OL coach. They will have the best players playing at each OL position by the first game.

In previous years and previous coaching staffs, we were scrambling just to find 5 players, much less the best. Many years, hoping that a freshman OL could play at the SEC level.

No freshman OL have been mentioned as must be ready by first game that I recollect this year. Arguing over which upper class man is ready for the first game puts us in a whole different category than we were in with the four stooges (kiffin/dooley/butch/pruitt), so I am going to stick with

15-0

 

[Orange.]

To our New Mexico Vols, not only did our grocery stock fresh Hatch green chile last week. When I swung by this weekend they were roasting it in front of the store!!! Took me back in time to my 3 years in Santa Fe and the smell emanating from roughly half of the parking lots in town.

That's not a usual thing in the Southeast. Yet?

 

[butchna]

Doug atkins didn’t play in the 1920’s. Sorry if you’re too stupid to realize that the the athletes of the 1920’s don’t match up with the athletes in the 1960’s. Just like the athletes in the 1960’s don’t match up with the athletes in todays games.

Best ATHLETES don’t necessarily dominate the game of baseball. Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Lenny Dykstra et al peel them out of one era and slap them into another and they bring it. Lou Gehrig is timeless. No way Christy Mathewson, Whitey Ford or Walter Johnson don’t supersede Justin Verlander nowadays. And Greg Maddux never threatened the number 90 on a radar gun and dominated the modern era. It’s tragic that Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell and others didn’t get to compete on the biggest stage (or in their prime in Satchel’s case), but that doesn’t erase the great players not excluded by racism. Athletes have ALWAYS been around. Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson with today’s training and nutrition would have set unapproachable records. Nothing is absolute.

 

[vols 30]

Best ATHLETES don’t necessarily dominate the game of baseball. Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Lenny Dykstra et al peel them out of one era and slap them into another and they bring it. Lou Gehrig is timeless. No way Christy Mathewson, Whitey Ford or Walter Johnson don’t supersede Justin Verlander nowadays. And Greg Maddux never threatened the number 90 on a radar gun and dominated the modern era. It’s tragic that Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell and others didn’t get to compete on the biggest stage (or in their prime in Satchel’s case), but that doesn’t erase the great players not excluded by racism. Athletes have ALWAYS been around. Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson with today’s training and nutrition would have set unapproachable records. Nothing is absolute.

Maddux threw in the low 90's durring the 1st half of his career. I know he did with the Braves. You're right about him not being a great athlete though. Great pitcher and excellent fielder.

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Apparently we can’t embed tweets anymore

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Not sure the science behind it but I’m fairly certain if we get to 100k posts in this thread before kick off vs Virginia, we win the SEC East this year.

 

[Big Orange#1]

At Alabama he may be a Greg McElroy type of QB with the supporting cast around him...

Can’t win even 10 games anymore with that style.

 

[Orange.]

Not sure the science behind it but I’m fairly certain if we get to 100k posts in this thread before kick off vs Virginia, we win the SEC East this year.

Let's do this!

 

[Orange.]

Apparently we can’t embed tweets anymore

Testing...

 

[Orange.]

Apparently we can’t embed tweets anymore

The Tweets that show up with the line "not available" will usually open if you click on that line (link).

 

[Jackcrevol]

Apparently we can’t embed tweets anymore

that's a shame

 

[volbeast33]

Juice wells might be out for SC first game.

 

[Ace]

Hey @Ace. I apologize for being so snappy about Harbaugh yesterday. I shouldn't have done that.

It is all good - I thought nothing of it. We all have our view points.

 

[Ace]

Typically the Krystal sprint occurs immediately before the Krystal runs. Often uncomfortably close together.

A Krystal run and Krystal runs are not the same.

 

[Glitch]

A Krystal run and Krystal runs are not the same.

Cause and Effect.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Is that where you get your Metamucil shakes at?

If that's Metamucil I'll take it.

#notmod

 

[Devo182]

Alontae Taylor forcing the interception!

 

[SergeantVol]

Apparently we can’t embed tweets anymore

Did you do the [/twatter]link[twatter] thing?

 

[SergeantVol]

So guys like Franklin and Nwaneri just want to be the richest? They don’t want to be their best? Cool story. They tell you that personally?

Oh look, its BOT being a wet blanket again....#somethingsneverchange

 

[Revived2002]

My thoughts on recruiting "misses": we want players that want to be their best, not players that want to be their richest.

My opinion is we aren’t having misses - we have a top 10 class and it’s headed higher and that’s amazing for Tennessee, given where we were when Pruitt was fired

Go Vols!

 

[Orange.]

My opinion is we aren’t having misses - we have a top 10 class and it’s headed higher and that’s amazing for Tennessee, given where we were when Pruitt was fired

Go Vols!

Absolutely amazing.

Heup was forced to start with a 65-man roster. And he won't have a full (standard) number of scholarships to offer until his 8th year! (10 scholarships down over 2 years, followed by 10 spread (prolly 2 each year) for 5 years.)