Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[WesTnVol]

I’ve watched and attended games since 1968. I’ve seen good quarterbacks not so good quarterbacks, absolute dismal quarterbacks and record setting quarterbacks.
This year I will be rooting for Joe Milton like nobodies business!!
This young man has earned everyone’s respect in how he handled being replace by Hendon. Light’em up Joe!!

 

[Weezer]

Where are the sneaker heads?

Need opinion on some Nike dunks

 

[tnvols72]

LOL

 

[tnvols72]

 

[Vol423]

LOL

Perhaps Heupel should slightly alter this great quote from Peyton back in the day by changing out kicker with punter.

 

[SmokinBob]

Anyone heard from WoodsmanVol? He hasn't posted since April and I think he was an older gentleman. I know he mostly posted in the RF

I just looked - he hasn’t posted since April…hope all is well

 

[Vol423]

Anyone heard from WoodsmanVol? He hasn't posted since April and I think he was an older gentleman. I know he mostly posted in the RF

He's around but must just not be posting. He's been liking some posts (even this afternoon). Oops. Sorry. That's Woodlawn Vol that's been liking posts.

 

[VolNash17]

Is 2023 the most anticipated season since '98 after the '97 season? '00-'01? '15-'16? . .

I think '15-'16 @ #3 falls just behind '00-'01 as #2, then '97-'98 as #1. Does this season' anticipation jump any or all of these?

05’ was supposedly setup to be a fantastic year… ended in flames. Absolutely awful. Hate even talking about that year

 

[Christian Lowe]

05’ was supposedly setup to be a fantastic year… ended in flames. Absolutely awful. Hate even talking about that year

We were preseason #3 and even #2 in some places for 2005.

That defense is one of the best of the 21st century, but the offense was so bad that no one remembers it

 

[Orange.]

Yeah, I shouldn't have said. It's miserable to think about. I'm just so happy that Heupel plainly knows what he is doing. Just gonna keep my focus on today.

 

[Vol423]

Is 2023 the most anticipated season since '98 after the '97 season? '00-'01? '15-'16? . .

I think '15-'16 @ #3 falls just behind '00-'01 as #2, then '97-'98 as #1. Does this season' anticipation jump any or all of these?

Since Peyton had just gone pro, expectations going into the 1998 season actually weren't that high as we had a first year starter (Tee) at QB.

 

[KptVFL]

I’ve watched and attended games since 1968. I’ve seen good quarterbacks not so good quarterbacks, absolute dismal quarterbacks and record setting quarterbacks.
This year I will be rooting for Joe Milton like nobodies business!!
This young man has earned everyone’s respect in how he handled being replace by Hendon. Light’em up Joe!!

Yes!


If ya know ya know...

Light em up Joe and stomp em into the floor...

Light em up Joe and stomp em into the floor


Edit: For some reason my mind went to Vern Gosdin.

 

[Aesius]

I think it was Josh Pate who said that after the 2016 UGA game, he was on the field well after nearly everyone had left when Butch came out with his entourage to soak it all in. That was as good as it would get for him. Arkansas State is fixing to can his fake backside, too.

At the time I loved hearing that. I thought of Butch as sort of an underdog coach who was learning how to win in the SEC and who would eventually be good with the right staff. Seemed like he was living his dream and finally tasting success.

But in hindsight…it’s a total “really?” moment. He just had low expectations for himself and the program. He genuinely thought 9-4 with a bowl win was a great season and that he should be coach for life for delivering results like that. Deep down, he didn’t believe Tennessee could compete with Bama or a full strength UGA/Florida.

 

[SweetasSoda]

I just looked - he hasn’t posted since April…hope all is well

Been wondering about @chargervol and @engineerVOL too…thought they would have dropped in by now.

 

[Weezer]

Just once this year, I want to see Milton do "The Longest Yard" play where you throw it as hard as you can into the blitzers nether region.

In the original, it was the blitzer, in the remake, a crooked ref. Either one would work for me.

 

[mrMet]

Here ya go

 

[KptVFL]

Here ya go View attachment 571287View attachment 571289

Nice! Did you wrap it?

 

[SweetasSoda]

Just once this year, I want to see Milton do "The Longest Yard" play where you throw it as hard as you can into the blitzers nether region.

In the original, it was the blitzer, in the remake, a crooked ref. Either one would work for me.

He would kill somebody!

 

[Orangeredblooded]

Someone in here said that it must burn Butch like hell that Heupel is living his dream.

Unlike @Orange., I wasn't completely out after that UF game. I was close to out but we finished 2015 so strong that I got back on the bus. The first half of 2016 was great in spite of the flashing warning signs (App State), but after we lost to Vandy in 2016 I was out. I STILL didn't think we should've fired him then because back-to-back 9-4 season weren't awful after what had happened with Dooley. But I was wrong because Butch followed that up with the only 8-loss campaign in Tennessee history. Until 2017, only two programs in all of college football had never lost so many games in a single season. It was down to 1 after Butch got done with us.

I can't stand him. And for him to smoke a cigar in the Bama locker room in 2018 -- I mean, I guess he deserved one given the ditch he put Tennessee further into, so he played a role in Bama's win in that manner I suppose -- but like we did him dirty by paying him tens of millions to go away after he objectively failed.

I think it was Josh Pate who said that after the 2016 UGA game, he was on the field well after nearly everyone had left when Butch came out with his entourage to soak it all in. That was as good as it would get for him. Arkansas State is fixing to can his fake backside, too.

As much as @bignewt hates to see a rehash of former coaches, I’ll put my two cents in, even if it draws his ire. I was out with the Vandy loss with a sugar bowl on the line. Okay, he failed here and fired, but to smoke a cigar in our house, against the players he recruited and while having nothing to do with the win, makes him the slimmest coach to wear the orange in my book. Sorry, Newt.

 

[Weezer]

Here ya go View attachment 571287View attachment 571289

 

[VolFanNC09]

Mertz plays for UF

Speaking of bad QB play

We have seen average QBs have a Heisman like performance when they play us. Anthony Richardson had his best game of the year against us. Anyway, I think we win, but until we really beat them handily, that game makes me nervous

 

[Weezer]

He would kill somebody!

I don't think he would kill them.

But it might be the first sex change operation performed on a football field.

 

[mrMet]

Nice! Did you wrap it?

I did. At around 170. 7.5 hours in I think it was when I wrapped it. Finished off at 205 in 9.5

 

[SweetasSoda]

As much as @bignewt hates to see a rehash of former coaches, I’ll put my two cents in, even if it draws his ire. I was out with the Vandy loss with a sugar bowl on the line. Okay, he failed here and fired, but to smoke a cigar in our house, against the players he recruited and while having nothing to do with the win, makes him the slimmest coach to wear the orange in my book. Sorry, Newt.

Perfectly said!! It was the celebrating like he actually did something to earn that win! When he was actually more to blame for the loss!

 

[SweetasSoda]

I don't think he would kill them.

But it might be the first sex change operation performed on a football field.

Okay, maybe they would just wish they were dead.