Recruiting Forum Football Talk XXXIII

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Aesius said:
2017-2031: Starting NFL QB

2032-2038: NASA astronaut, first man on Mars (where he plants an American and UT flag in the Martian soil)

2039-2060: UT head football coach, first coach to field team comprised entirely of cyborgs in the fall of 2057

2061-2069: POTUS
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But are they 5 star cyborgs?
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
And who does cohesion ultimately reflect upon if not the guy in charge of recruiting the players and putting together the staff that coaches them?


All that aside, if you really don't think we should have been able to get enough out of a defense with Barnett, Kongbo, Phillips, Vereen, Vickers, and Taylor up front, DK (although not 100%) and McDowell at LB, Todd Kelly, Nigel Warrior, Justin Martin, and Cam Sutton (admittedly injured) to hold Vandy under 600 yards and 34 points and 600 yards, then IDK what to tell you. Shoop had less talent to work with his first year at Vandy and had a top 25 unit. The dude has a history of doing more with less and a track record of being successful in his first year at a new school (although in both of those scenarios he had a staff mostly of his own choosing).

Their QB didn't throw for more than 279 yards in a game all season (even against teams like MTSU, WKU, and TSU), but he passed for over 400 against us.

You can harp on injuries all you want, but more than anything the performance against Vandy was indicative that there was something rotten with the staff (whether it was Butch, Shoop, assistants, the S&C program, or (IMO) varying degrees of all of the above which made for the perfect storm of suck we saw the last few weeks of the season).

Hopefully those issues have all been properly addressed this offseason. It seems Butch has made a strong effort to make necessary changes. I'm hoping that's the case and we see the kind of defense we were expecting last year in 2017.
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Out of all the guys you mentioned for the front 7, there was only one DT mentioned and he is a 3 technique.

I think that should explain, very easily, what happened to our defense. That combined with a defensive backfield that was horribly coached hurt us the most.
 
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SSVol said:
It's not that we disagree about the trajectory, you honestly don't know what I believe about that, because if I did think we'd peaked, I still wouldn't say it. It's that y'all constantly harp on how bad things are...and it's really not that bad. Back to back 9 win seasons for the first time in a while. Beat UF like a drum. Saw some great games. Have an epic QB battle going on between three 4* QBs! When is the last time we had that much QB talent on the team at once? But rather than consider what might go right, you constantly...*constantly*...go on about how bad our coach is and how he squandered opportunity. Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't. I don't know. What I do know is that 9 wins including a beat down of UF and every Big10 team we've played, is much better than 5 wins including a loss to Wyoming.

I was at the NC game in 98. It was a pretty big deal. A good time. Did y'all get there for that one? I'd certainly love to do it again, but not enough to tear down our current coach who is doing a decent, if not elite, job of rebuilding the program that was destroyed by the clown show that ran ripshod through Knoxville. And I'm starting to resent those who would drag us back into the next clown show that might happen if our amazing leadership were to hire another coach. So if I'm a settler because I'd rather enjoy 9 or 10 win seasons year after year rather than risk the highly unlikely scenario where this leadership lucks into the next NC coach, then build me a sod covered cabin on the prairie and call me Ingalls.
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Pretty much my thoughts -
 
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MockingVol said:
Out of all the guys you mentioned for the front 7, there was only one DT mentioned and he is a 3 technique.

I think that should explain, very easily, what happened to our defense. That combined with a defensive backfield that was horribly coached hurt us the most.
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Ding ding ding....... we have a winner
 
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Aesius said:
2017-2031: Starting NFL QB

2032-2038: NASA astronaut, first man on Mars (where he plants an American and UT flag in the Martian soil)

2039-2060: UT head football coach, first coach to field team comprised entirely of cyborgs in the fall of 2057

2061-2069: POTUS
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D4Prez
 
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Ericvol2096 said:
If we go 9-3 this year with this schedule with a new QB I'll be satisfied anything better would be amazing. 8-4 I will be hanging on for one more season since we did have a new QB. 7-5 or worse will be hard to stomach.

@GT (basically)
@UF
UGA
SC
@Alabama
@Kentucky (not a pushover this year)
@Missouri (probably a win but road game could be tricky)
LSU
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I do feel dumb including them but for some reason the game gives me pause this yr. It doesn't normally.
 
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