'24 Recruiting Forum: Official Arkansas Pregame/Game Thread

[jakez4ut]

Gotta have a short memory. Learn from it, flush it, and beast the hell out of Florida.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm ready to play in neyland again. Feels like it's been months since a home game.

 

[jmacvols1]

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#Vols RB Dylan Sampson: I think we were just real frantic. On the penalties, going on the road, we just have to keep our composure. They did a good job disguising their blitzes.

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Dylan Sampson on Nico Iamaleava running out of bounds on final play: “I just walked up to him and told him we got him. .. we’re not going to let him beat himself up for that.”

 

[ButchAintOne]

Josh called that game timid as hell. You didn'nt get the run or pass going just playing scared as hell. Completely bad unacceptable game in every aspect

 

[zhangliao04]

Don’t think we will get past FL. It’s a Mind **** with them. From what I seen tonight, we’ll do good to make 8-9 wins.

We came in completely unprepared and coming off a bye week. Play calling is way too vanilla, penalties, way too many mental mistakes for a championship caliber team.

Nico is young, but you either have that killer mentality or you don’t, and you definitely DO NOT run out of bounds.

Looking more and more like 2022 was a fluke. I’m hoping that’s not the case. As for coaches who I’ve been suspect on since last year, Halzle and Elarbee are at the top of that list.

 

[Ttucke11]

It wasn’t just said about tonight. I have no influence over the coaching staff.

Just emotions…but college football has been wild. It’s a roller coaster.

Yea well I'm 31 and it's been decades of losing for me. So I'm ready for the roller coaster to bring success. And 2024 is another lost year in decades of lost years.

 

[Midas]

That was a flash in a pan. Go back and look at the turnover luck from that season - completely unsustainable. Also, as I stated earlier, Golesh was calling the plays. We have seen a major offensive fall off since. Keep the wool over your eyes, we can meet on the middle in 2 years.

Is it the OC calling the plays or is it the OC relaying info to Heupel and he calls the plays/they take turns or something. How does it actually work? I thought it was more if the latter which anyways means we need someone better up there in the booth.

 

[JCP201]

We might, but we’ll lose to UF before we do it.

We won't lose at home.

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

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#Vols RB Dylan Sampson: I think we were just real frantic. On the penalties, going on the road, we just have to keep our composure. They did a good job disguising their blitzes.

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Dylan Sampson on Nico Iamaleava running out of bounds on final play: “I just walked up to him and told him we got him. .. we’re not going to let him beat himself up for that.”

Honestly, he should beat himself up for that p!ay. Never forget how dumb that decision was.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

It just sucks that we finally get an elite, #1 QB recruit, and it turns out he’s not that great. He has time to grow, but man watching Alabama bring in 5-star after 5-star for years and having them ready to rip it from day one and seeing our guy struggle to make basic decisions is maddening.

 

[Volunteer821]

Well...that sucked. And suddenly everybody hates our coach...and people wonder why I am always so cautious. We aren't as good as most of us thought we were..but this is mostly attributable to one thing.

I told you guys today that the SEC is a minefield...you can't be off by even a little, especially on the road or you get whipped.

They ruined our season with our help...but I'm still a Vol, and I still love Josh Heupel.

I do to McGill, Heupel and White saved our football program and put us in the spotlight again for the right reasons and for that coach should get a lot of grace. BUT, this is Tennessee and eventually 9 and 10 win seasons won't be enough. The expectation is championships, if we can turn on Fulmer, we can turn on any coach. I love Heupel too and am trying to not take him for granted after the last 3 idiots we had to endure but this is a bad loss, no other way to paint it.

 

[Vols2DaWall]

It just sucks that we finally get an elite, #1 QB recruit, and it turns out he’s not that great. He has time to grow, but man watching Alabama bring in 5-star after 5-star for years and having them ready to rip it from day one and seeing our guy struggle to make basic decisions is maddening.

6’6 Bryce Young…lmao

 

[Ttucke11]

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Josh Heupel on final play: Nico ended up scrambling off of it. At the end of the day, you’ve got to get rid of the ball and give your guys an opportunity to make a play. Nico, just like all of our guys, wishes he had played better. He’s disappointed with it, but he’s got to come back and bounce back from it.


Josh Heupel: Disappointing night for our team. It starts with me. We’ve got to all get better.

No ****. It definitely starts with you Heup.

 

[VolGee4]

Yea well I'm 31 and it's been decades of losing for me. So I'm ready for the roller coaster to bring success. And 2024 is another lost year in decades of lost years.

That’s why in the first year of a 12 team playoff you should be happy that these kinds of losses don’t doom you. This coach literally brought us back to playing high level games after 15 years.

 

[UTK]

It just sucks that we finally get an elite, #1 QB recruit, and it turns out he’s not that great. He has time to grow, but man watching Alabama bring in 5-star after 5-star for years and having them ready to rip it from day one and seeing our guy struggle to make basic decisions is maddening.

Don’t over react just yet. Yes he wasn’t great in that game, but we aren’t give him much chance to be great either.

 

[Christian Lowe]

We won't lose at home.

Florida is a loss until it isn’t.

 

[TrippieRedd]

Can’t wait to see everyone talking themselves into 10-2 or 11-1 still tomorrow.


I’ll probably be there as well tbh….ugh

 

[Ttucke11]

I thought heupel said before the season that the playbook was wide open with Nico at qb.

What happened?

Different playbook. It's 1 sheet.

 

[JCP201]

It just sucks that we finally get an elite, #1 QB recruit, and it turns out he’s not that great. He has time to grow, but man watching Alabama bring in 5-star after 5-star for years and having them ready to rip it from day one and seeing our guy struggle to make basic decisions is maddening.

Bama lost to Vandy today. They had Saban as a coach previously.

 

[WebbCobb]

We have a ton of receiver depth. And instead we are playing two below average tight ends. Makes no sense

It’s great we have a deep group that, to a man, can’t create separation

 

[Christian Lowe]

Can’t wait to see everyone talking themselves into 10-2 or 11-1 still tomorrow.


I’ll probably be there as well tbh….ugh

Sometimes it’s easier to be like me. Come to the dark side

 

[VolGee4]

It’s great we have a deep group that, to a man, can’t create separation

They got open. Nico didn’t see the field well.

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

When was the last time he caught a pass without immediately falling down?

It’s similar to Milton. He’s got the tangibles to be good but he never can put it together.

Don’t want to bad mouth him and I seriously hope he’s ok. Looks like a shoulder/elbow.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

These teams have figured out how to defend us and we don’t adjust at all. Heup, just like many coaches have an ego that won’t allow that.

There are zero easy throws.

Sampson, a great pass catcher gets no opportunities there.

Middle of the field never gets utilized.

There’s never any wrinkles, no outside runs. It goes on and on man.

 

[zhangliao04]

Not happening. Georgia is going to lock this offense down

The Tennessee School for the Mute and Blind could do that.

 

[Kurtastrophe]

How many years of football did Nico play before he got here? I thought I read that he didn’t start playing until high school.