Recruiting Forum: Football Talk XV

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glichtenwalter said:
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Ha ha ha perfect.
 
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Catbone said:
Our basketball team hasn't made a fg in 10 minutes. Unbelievable
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We're in the bottom 10 in the nation in 3 point percentage. They're 1-6 today. And all those missed free throws drive me crazy.

When was the last UT team that shot free throws and 3 pointer really well? It seems like we see the same old stuff every year, regardless of the coach.

They can beat this Butler team but they have to hit open shots and sink their free throws. It'll be interesting to see what kind of adjustments Donnie Basketball makes in the second half.
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Sucks that he was an academic casualty but it's like salt on the wound that he actually went through the clearing house, approved, enrolled, not only participated with the team but practiced and competed for playing time (regardless of whether he played)...only to find out the because of an oversight or clerical error or new information that he was not allowed to continue on as a teammate or student at UT.

It took me three years before my head was finally on straight enough to get my ish together and finally be admitted to UT. The day I got my acceptance letter was one of the best days of my life, up to that point...can't even imaging how much that hurts as a football player.

Hopefully he can go to a CC or Prep school, get his grades or whatever in line, and then rejoin the team in the future.
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I honestly don't think the NCAA should be allowed to do this - not the way it played out, anyway.

HERE is how I think it should've gone down: Once the oversight was realized, notify Henderson and UT (at this point the university must decide whether to allow Henderson to remain - universities do this all the time for non-sports related reasons and would likely allow Henderson to stay), remove Henderson from the field of play for one academic year (place him in a limbo of sorts where the eligibility clock doesn't run but he can't yet play), at the end of 2 academic semesters evaluate his grades.

IF his grades at the end of a full academic year show that he is capable of doing college work then the ACT score does not matter -- all the ACT is used for by college admissions is gauge how ready a student is for college work. That's it and in regular admissions it's not nearly as important as we make it out to be. Proving you can do the work for 2 semesters SHOULD automatically fulfill the requirement in a situation like this.

IF his grades at the end of a full academic year show that he is not yet ready THEN the NCAA should send him to prep or whatever.

But the ACT/SAT is irrelevant once you're in college and some colleges have dropped the requirement to take it all together because standardized tests really don't tell you much at all about a student.

/if I ruled the NCAA rant
 
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"@patrickbrownTFP: Not at Tennessee's practice today: Dewayne Hendrix, Daniel Helm, Michael Sawyers and Justus Pickett. Evan Berry got some running back work."
 
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jave36 said:
"@patrickbrownTFP: Not at Tennessee's practice today: Dewayne Hendrix, Daniel Helm, Michael Sawyers and Justus Pickett. Evan Berry got some running back work."
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Oh crap, Hendrix wasn't there? That's a pretty bad sign. And is Sawyers dinged up?
 
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rocktopper16 said:
Sawyers upset about playing time too.
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I swear, these kids need to look around the NCAA. How many freshman get serious playing time? Just because they happen to be on the one team in UT history where half of the starting lineup is made up of true freshman doesn't mean that every single one of them gets to start. (Again, assuming that what you're saying is true).
 
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The 2014 class is seriously losing its luster. Virtually everyone we have lost was a top 250 4 star player.
 
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Aesius said:
We don't have Bama's depth. The situations aren't remotely comparable.
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You're missing the point. If we'd signed 30 three stars our attrition would be 3*s. The fact is we signed a fantastic class all around so of course attrition will be composed of what we signed.

The sky isn't falling.
 
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A lot of people taking these transfers way to personal. Although it sucks if they wish to go somewhere else then good luck to them. Time to move on and focus on getting the players still here ready for the bowl game and next year.

NMVol said:
Could it be the coaching staff over-sold playing time?
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I actually wonder this myself. The defense has played well so I dunno why anyone would want to transfer from that. But the offense.....has to be very frustrating.
 
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