Recruiting Forum: Football Talk XVI

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DaddyChad said:
Hurd should be suspended..............

for the first play of the game. That will teach him not to act like 99.99% of college freshmen.
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What's crazy is depending upon your age and what state you grew up in drinking at 18-19 was perfectly legal until Reagan tied highway funds to raising the age limit to a universal 21. It would be hard for a lot of adults to act all high and mighty about this one. At 18 you're old enough to die for this country - you should be old enough to drink.
 
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VolGee4 said:
I am a Cowboys fan as well, and it seems like it has been a long time coming. But he proved you don't have to be sexy in the draft. The only real disappointment the last few years has been Morris Claiborne. I thought it was a good pick at the time. To be really good, they need more defensive help.
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I agree they need help in defense. I like te system they have in place and the effort they give. Now just need more talent on all three levels. I think they could draft a DL, LB or DB in the first round and be totally justified.
 
#328
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We're going to have a skeleton crew of skill position players for the bowl game. Luckily, it looks like both of the lines will be relatively healthy. I think getting Crowder back is going to be a big help.
 
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Regarding Pickett... wasn't it reported by someone that his grades wouldn't allow him to play in the bowl game? I could be wrong on that but it seems I recall hearing that.
 
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UTProf said:
Regarding Pickett... wasn't it reported by someone that his grades wouldn't allow him to play in the bowl game? I could be wrong on that but it seems I recall hearing that.
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A couple of different posters on here said he was academically ineligible.
 
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Hurd disciplined internally, will play in bowl
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Freshman running back Jalen Hurd has been punished internally but will play in Tennessee’s bowl game despite being cited earlier this month for underage drinking, Vols coach Butch Jones said after Thursday’s practice.


Hurd and another UT student — a non-football player — were arrested by citation on Dec. 3 after university police spotted a car with its lights on in a parking garage late at night, according to a report uncovered by The Tennessean.

“We’ve handled that internally, and we’ll continue to handle that,” Jones said after Thursday’s practice inside the Neyland-Thompson Sports Center. “That’s been about a few weeks old now, and it’s just like raising your children. It’s all about decisions and the one-second rule, and we’ll continue to educate and talk to them, and it’s all about choices. And they understand that. We have good character kids in this program, and they’ll continue that way.

“Raising my three boys, I know at some point in time they’re gonna make probably a poor choice, and it’s all about how you handle it. It’s being firm, and it’s being fair in your punishment, and it’s being stern and it’s being disciplined. I think we all who have had children (know) they’ve made a bad decision one way or another, and you continue to educate him.

“But our character of our football team and our kids is outstanding. It’s just the power of choices.”

Jones was asked to clarify if Hurd’s situation would affect his status for Tennessee’s Jan. 2 TaxSlayer (Gator) Bowl game against Iowa, and Jones said, “No.”

Tennessee’s coach, the son of a longtime police chief in a small Michigan town, said he does take underage alcohol consumption seriously, though.

“It’s a very big deal to us,” Jones said. “Maybe I look at things a little bit differently because I grew up in a law-enforcement house, so I’ve seen it all. I’ve seen just about anything and everything that you could see. Shoot, I used to sneak out at midnight and ride around in a police car with my dad’s police officers. If my dad knew about that, I’d probably have been in trouble, and they’d be in trouble. But I think that’s really helped me.

“We take great pride in that. We spend an inordinate amount of time with our personal growth and development here, and we talk about those issues. And, again, being here for bowl practice has actually accelerated that program. We spent about 15 minutes today talking about that, as well.

“That’s something that we talk about every day. We talk about every societal issue. We talk about it.”

Hurd, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound five-star signee from the Nashville area in the 2013 class, collected 994 total yards from scrimmage and five touchdowns this season, starting eight of the Vols’ 12 games as a true freshman.

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Great job on the video, POA. I really enjoyed it. Screw the haters man. That's an awesome video.

As good as the 14 highlights were just imagine next year's and beyond. I know most think we're probably a couple years away from contending in the East, but I wouldn't be all that surprised if we made it to Atl next year.

We lost by a total of 4 pts to uga and uf and by 8 to mizz in which all three could've been wins with a play or two in each game going our way. So we were pretty dang close this year even with a such a young team that had key injuries and a pretty bad Oline all year long.

The East will be more down next year than it was this year, imo. So with what we have coming back and some of the new guys coming in, there's really not a team in the East that I'm all that worried about. I aint gonna be scared about bama or OU that much either. Obviously anything can happen in this conference but I like our chances for next year.
 
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Neyland2nd2none said:
...We lost by a total of 4 pts to uga and uf and by 8 to mizz...
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I think it is interesting that if you analyze results of each teams games against us, UF, UGA and Mizzou, although we had the worst win-loss (0-3), we were the only team that didn't get blown out by one of the other three (UF got smacked by Mizzou, Georgia demoralized Mizzou, and UF had their way with Georgia).
 
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PassedOutAwake said:
Someone in the FF said that Coleman Thomas got reps at center today... bout time
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He's suited to center. If Crowder is unavailable and he doesn't have terrible snap issue, I can't see how starting him over Wiesman is a bad idea at all. Wiesman nearly got poor Lane and Dobbs killed on several plays against Vandy. It was that bad.

That said, I do believe that CT has been taking reps at center since Crowder's injury.
 
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