Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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ChattaTNVol said:
From the Erik Ainge show today:

While Corner is a concern, we have some guys like Bryce Thompson, Alontae Taylor, Shawn Shamburger, Baylen Buchanan, Marquill Osborne, and if there is anyone who can put together a working secondary in his first year, it’s Jeremy Pruitt. It’s his (corn)bread and butter.

WVU has consistently struggled with 3rd down conversions ever since Dana has been there. The reason according to Ainge is because they are in 3rd and long or 3rd and medium more than almost every other team in college football. They ranked #111 last year. They score points off of chunk plays and rarely have long time consuming drives. 59% of WVU’s 3rd down situations last year was 3rd and 7 or more. They feast or famine off of explosive plays. Ainge thinks we have to win on 1st down on defense because when WVU gets behind on down and distance Dana is not a get back on track kind of guy. Us winning on 1st down will get them out of their comfort zone.

They basically agree with a lot of people on here in that their game plan would be to get off the field on defense and eat a lot of clock on offense. Ainge thinks if we can score 34 we win. He’s saying we’re at least comparable to a Virginia Tech or TCU, both of which beat Grier & Co. last year. He thinks our game most likely will be like WVU against Virginia Tech last year.

Another point Ainge made is that WVU will have difficulty preparing for us and watching what Jeremy Pruitt called on defense the last couple of years at Alabama isn’t very smart. The reason being that play calling is going to be dictated more by the respective rosters than anything else. The most comparable situation to study for our Pruitt led defense would be his first year at Georgia. Even then WVU will still need to watch film on our guys to get an idea of what we can do. On the other hand we have the advantage because for the most part WVU has all the same coaches and players they had last year. Ainge said he thinks there is going to be game plan problems for WVU.

He said we need to be able to score or get a turnover in the first 2 or 3 drives when WVU is still trying to figure out what we are doing. The first quarter, he said, is going to be hugely important. That’s when we probably have our best advantage. Getting to the second quarter in decent shape game-wise will do a lot for the confidence and belief of our players regarding their ability to play with the team on the other sideline. Many of our guys know that in their careers they have already played against much better players than what WVU will put on the field. We will not be intimidated.

Another point Ainge made is that week 1 college football betting odds is a crapshoot. Ainge had a fight with his substitute partner because his partner said he would take WVU to cover at -9.5. Ainge is ready to fire the guy. They’ve finally agreed that on offense WVU is mostly one-dimensional and they are turrible on defense. The partner finally concedes our wide receivers are a huge mismatch for their secondary. The idiot also concedes that Tennessee has a much higher ceiling than the national media is giving us credit for.

A third guy shows up to do battle with Ainge. The nega-nancys are claiming we will not be all that up to speed with our new schemes by the time we hit Charlotte. Ainge isn’t really backing down. The losers are getting desperate. Caller comes on and slams the Debbie downers. Ainge points out the ages of the two idiots (25 & 26). Will West comes on and says we’ll be like Saban & Kirby in their first years. Ainge is in never give up, never surrender mode. Ainge is calling out West for not really knowing what he’s talking about.

Ainge signs off, “I’m taking bets!”
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Awesome summary. I am becoming more all in every day.
 
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rekinhavoc said:
If I was suspicious man I would think Pruitt is doing his best to hide the TE's and RB's from prying eyes. What does he have up his sleeve?
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Wood Anderson is who he has up his sleeve. Kid can run and catch almost like a WR, LBs are having trouble covering him not to mention if he isn't 260lbs right now he almost is.... He was weighed at 257lbs kid is a beast.
 
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govols717 said:
Good read here: — Athletes For God - it's essentially Lane Kiffin's testimony. Talks about his time at UT and more. Pretty cool stuff.
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Only a bit of that reads as sincere to me and by that I mean I believe he knows he was immature and selfish and that he's grown up a tad but I don't believe for a minute the religious stuff he put in. It doesn't read sincere to me, just that he's finally spent enough time in the South to know that he needs to be able to approximate the religious angle to recruit and get along with others. It's still an interesting read and obviously different people will come to different conclusions about it. Thank you for sharing it.
 
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SugarCC said:
Right
Right now, OSU/CUM fans are wishing they had the power of Vol Nation.
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It helps when you're on the right side of an issue. As skeptical as folks were of our motives, we were on the right side of the issue. tOSU fans supporting Urban aren't on the right side of this one. It sucks for them but he's got to go. It's their BoTs call but keeping him would tarnish the entire university.
 
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I signed up for The Athletic earlier today. It was a year at $47.99 after the 7 day free trial. After a year it is $59.99 annually. From what I have seen so far it is really well done with top sportswriters. They are still adding writers to represent various teams in some of the primary sports. They still must be working on a Titan writer because it didn't show them yet. The Vols FB and BB along with the MLB pages iprovided really good info and was easy to follow with great graphics. No ads or interrupting videos sure is nice.
 
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Vols4us said:
I signed up for The Athletic earlier today. It was a year at $47.99 after the 7 day free trial. After a year it is $59.99 annually. From what I have seen so far it is really well done with top sportswriters. They are still adding writers to represent various teams in some of the primary sports. They still must be working on a Titan writer because it didn't show them yet. The Vols FB and BB along with the MLB pages iprovided really good info and was easy to follow with great graphics. No ads or interrupting videos sure is nice.
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Dude.... Ubben posted a 40% off thing to the board.....
 
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AppStVol said:
Is Austin Smith ever going to break through for any valuable PT? I assumed this new scheme would suit him better at SAM.
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I think smith could get some looks at end in a dime package or for sure passing downs. Maybe some jack looks too. He has always looked the part.
 
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The difference between JG and KC's zip on the ball was noticeable today - granted in the limited amount of clips that we are able to watch.
 
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HankHill said:
I think smith could get some looks at end in a dime package or for sure passing downs. Maybe some jack looks too. He has always looked the part.
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Smith has drawn some high praise this of season. Have seen several little blurbs about him from some folks that cover the program about breaking out this season. Relatively speaking anyway...
 
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SpringBokVol said:
The difference between JG and KC's zip on the ball was noticeable today - granted in the limited amount of clips that we are able to watch.
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It’s always noticeable. The way our offense is set up wth easy throws tho it just depends on what the coaches prioritize more.
 
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