Recruiting Forum Football Talk XXVI

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I need a pep talk. The excessive negativity from recruiting I think (on this site and others) has started to wear my confidence down.

What if we really aren't as good as we look? What if the angst over recruiting is all because these players choosing not to come here know something we don't? What if we start out 2-3 again? What if we lose to Appalachian State? What if everything falls apart because we have all these injuries? Is this just battered Vol fan syndrome talking? What if we turn out like Auburn did last year? Or what if it's a repeat of 2005 -- supposed contenders with all the pieces, but it just doesn't come together? What if we have to FAHR Butch and we end up hiring a MAC coach?

I'm ready for the season to start, but given the downs Vol fans have been through the last eight or ten years, I'm just still so uptight in many respects. I really redded out on Butch a couple of times in his tenure (most notably after the OU game last year and when we were down two touchdowns to South Carolina in 2014), and although he's proven me wrong and shown he's a solid coach, there ARE still those losses that we should have won -- UF the last two years, OU last year, Vandy in 2013...I want to think we turned a corner with UGA, but the quality of teams on our schedule really softened after that game (with, of course, the glaring exception of Alabama). What if this is all smoke and mirrors?

The OU loss last year really stung. It was heartbreaking and ruined my whole week. Then Florida ripped my heart out, but I got over that within a day because I decided I didn't want to let football have such an effect on my mood.

But then we had to go out and finish the season strong and have all this hype coming into this year and I'm afraid it's all part of a cosmic trick to get me excited just so I can blow up again. I CAN'T TAKE THE SUSPENSE!

Ahem. Pardon my inane ranting. I'm going to switch to decaf.
 
#6,357
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GoBigOrange86 said:
I need a pep talk. The excessive negativity from recruiting I think (on this site and others) has started to wear my confidence down.

What if we really aren't as good as we look? What if the angst over recruiting is all because these players choosing not to come here know something we don't? What if we start out 2-3 again? What if we lose to Appalachian State? What if everything falls apart because we have all these injuries? Is this just battered Vol fan syndrome talking? What if we turn out like Auburn did last year? Or what if it's a repeat of 2005 -- supposed contenders with all the pieces, but it just doesn't come together? What if we have to FAHR Butch and we end up hiring a MAC coach?

I'm ready for the season to start, but given the downs Vol fans have been through the last eight or ten years, I'm just still so uptight in many respects. I really redded out on Butch a couple of times in his tenure (most notably after the OU game last year and when we were down two touchdowns to South Carolina in 2014), and although he's proven me wrong and shown he's a solid coach, there ARE still those losses that we should have won -- UF the last two years, OU last year, Vandy in 2013...I want to think we turned a corner with UGA, but the quality of teams on our schedule really softened after that game (with, of course, the glaring exception of Alabama). What if this is all smoke and mirrors?

The OU loss last year really stung. It was heartbreaking and ruined my whole week. Then Florida ripped my heart out, but I got over that within a day because I decided I didn't want to let football have such an effect on my mood.

But then we had to go out and finish the season strong and have all this hype coming into this year and I'm afraid it's all part of a cosmic trick to get me excited just so I can blow up again. I CAN'T TAKE THE SUSPENSE!

Ahem. Pardon my inane ranting. I'm going to switch to decaf.
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beaten vol syndrome taking over. relax.
 
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Joe Stocstill appears to have moved on. Cody Blanc was not on the practice field yesterday. Fortenberry is looking into it.

*Hubbs just said Blanc has moved on.
 
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Ugh! Just met with my new CMO for the first time. I'm wearing a UT shirt and sporting my Volunteers coffee mug. He noticed, said he is a Clemson alum, then asked if i follow recruiting. I said, "No."

This is a little too surreal and yet pertinent to a number of the conversations we've been having here lately.

GBO!
 
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GoBigOrange86 said:
I need a pep talk. The excessive negativity from recruiting I think (on this site and others) has started to wear my confidence down.

What if we really aren't as good as we look? What if the angst over recruiting is all because these players choosing not to come here know something we don't? What if we start out 2-3 again? What if we lose to Appalachian State? What if everything falls apart because we have all these injuries? Is this just battered Vol fan syndrome talking? What if we turn out like Auburn did last year? Or what if it's a repeat of 2005 -- supposed contenders with all the pieces, but it just doesn't come together? What if we have to FAHR Butch and we end up hiring a MAC coach?

I'm ready for the season to start, but given the downs Vol fans have been through the last eight or ten years, I'm just still so uptight in many respects. I really redded out on Butch a couple of times in his tenure (most notably after the OU game last year and when we were down two touchdowns to South Carolina in 2014), and although he's proven me wrong and shown he's a solid coach, there ARE still those losses that we should have won -- UF the last two years, OU last year, Vandy in 2013...I want to think we turned a corner with UGA, but the quality of teams on our schedule really softened after that game (with, of course, the glaring exception of Alabama). What if this is all smoke and mirrors?

The OU loss last year really stung. It was heartbreaking and ruined my whole week. Then Florida ripped my heart out, but I got over that within a day because I decided I didn't want to let football have such an effect on my mood.

But then we had to go out and finish the season strong and have all this hype coming into this year and I'm afraid it's all part of a cosmic trick to get me excited just so I can blow up again. I CAN'T TAKE THE SUSPENSE!

Ahem. Pardon my inane ranting. I'm going to switch to decaf.
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If that all happens we will survive and life will go on. The last eight years have proven that.

But rest assured: this team is loaded and will not disappoint.

My advice to you though is to go ahead and brace yourself for a key injury or two this August. They happen every single year and, while abundantly predictable, people melt down over them every year. We have the depth to absorb that kind of thing now.
 
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GoBigOrange86 said:
I need a pep talk. The excessive negativity from recruiting I think (on this site and others) has started to wear my confidence down.

What if we really aren't as good as we look? What if the angst over recruiting is all because these players choosing not to come here know something we don't? What if we start out 2-3 again? What if we lose to Appalachian State? What if everything falls apart because we have all these injuries? Is this just battered Vol fan syndrome talking? What if we turn out like Auburn did last year? Or what if it's a repeat of 2005 -- supposed contenders with all the pieces, but it just doesn't come together? What if we have to FAHR Butch and we end up hiring a MAC coach?

I'm ready for the season to start, but given the downs Vol fans have been through the last eight or ten years, I'm just still so uptight in many respects. I really redded out on Butch a couple of times in his tenure (most notably after the OU game last year and when we were down two touchdowns to South Carolina in 2014), and although he's proven me wrong and shown he's a solid coach, there ARE still those losses that we should have won -- UF the last two years, OU last year, Vandy in 2013...I want to think we turned a corner with UGA, but the quality of teams on our schedule really softened after that game (with, of course, the glaring exception of Alabama). What if this is all smoke and mirrors?

The OU loss last year really stung. It was heartbreaking and ruined my whole week. Then Florida ripped my heart out, but I got over that within a day because I decided I didn't want to let football have such an effect on my mood.

But then we had to go out and finish the season strong and have all this hype coming into this year and I'm afraid it's all part of a cosmic trick to get me excited just so I can blow up again. I CAN'T TAKE THE SUSPENSE!

Ahem. Pardon my inane ranting. I'm going to switch to decaf.
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Tennessee has spent the last 10 years trotting out teams that were less talented and/or experienced than most of their opponents and then losing a lot of games. Let's try it the other way around this year and see what happens.

17 starters returning off a team that took 2 CFP teams down to the wire. A 6 game win streak including the destruction of a 10-2 top 15 Big 10 team that had a win over the PAC 12 champ on its resume. And they just replaced their DC with the only coach in my lifetime that managed to make Vandy relevant.

The fact that Fulmer lost to Urban Meyer ten years ago has nothing to do with this team. They're going to roll this year. Just sit back and enjoy it.
 
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Hubbs on Jennings:
He's not 100%, but he did more than I expected him to do. He's pretty tough and was pushing through to the point some were telling him it was ok for him to take a rep off and for him not to do too much.
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Our players hardly ever get the respect they deserve. Until the media's preseason all SEC this season, nobody has talked about JRM. He had better stats that Ragland who played in 2 more games than him, but Ragland was everybody's "best linebacker in the SEC". Barnett gets overlooked in favor of several other DE's and especially Garrett who, though he can get after the QB, can't stop the run which is why Barnett has 1,000 more tackles than him. Hurd gets placed behind Chubb, even though Chubb is coming off an injury. I've seen lists where Hurd was listed 4th or 5th in the SEC! Our players simply do not get the respect they deserve. That will change though when we win this year.
 
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