Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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buckfama said:
Good Lord, the FF is nuts. Got a WV poster acting like their team is Bama on steroids. That just brought out the teenager in most of them and it's like a pack of dogs on a 3 legged cat.

I'm ready for the talk and speculation to be over.
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I hope you went through the mandatory decontamination/steam cleaning before you came back over here.
 
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LA Vol said:
What's the topic? Which one will leave first... or whatever will we do when he's gone?
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Several topics like facial demeanor in a game, wins in a 3 year period vs 1 year, what a cousin of a player on the team says his cousin confided in him, how this ties in to the Lebron vs Michael debate...
 
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Kingston Vol said:
I feel the same way to a certain point. My peak level of “confidence” in Butch was probably 2013 when we beat South Carolina and had all the legacy guys committed. Then he lost me again when he lost to Vanderbilt to cost us a bowl opportunity.

The loss vs Oklahoma in 2015 was when I checked out officially and knew he didn’t have it.

I remained skeptical until 2016 when we really turned it on and were 5-0. But even then you could tell the players were getting it done in spite of the coaches. After the Vanderbilt loss that year I was 100% in favor of firing him and remained that was until he was terminated.

I feel better about Pruitt now in terms of SEC fit in regards to style of play and high school talent evaluation to play in this conference. We’re recruiting physical players to play in a physical conference.

I don’t know if he’s going to be a good game day coach though. That’s still up in the air.
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Yeah I'm with you on just about all of that. Defensively at least, he's an excellent game day coach. Calls as good of a game on that side of the ball arguably as well as anyone in the country. He's got a lot of developing to do as a head coach though as well, and I think a lot of people over overlooking that on here. By year two we should have a pretty strong team on the field.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
It’ll depend on the timing as well. If he’s got it rolling and Alabama comes open I’m sure he’ll be a candidate. But if we’re steadily a 7 to 9 win team for the next 5-7 years I would guess they’ll have bigger names ahead of him.

And honesty we’re all getting ahead of ourselves here. We don’t know he’s going to be successful and this conversation could be comical in three years. Much like the Butch to Michigan talk after his first year.
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Or he's hugely successful, and has come to realize being a Vol is far more awesome than being a Bammer, and he never wants to go anywhere else. I noticed this theory had not been mentioned...just thought I'd throw it out there.
 
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SugarCC said:
Or he's hugely successful, and has come to realize being a Vol is far more awesome than being a Bammer, and he never wants to go anywhere else. I noticed this theory had not been mentioned...just thought I'd throw it out there.
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And I think that us giving him his first chance as HC and giving him everything he needs to succeed will play a major role in him showing loyalty to UT.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Would like @HankHill to confirm this but have heard that Guarantano will get the bulk of #1 snaps starting today.

Nothing surprising - the VQ guys were all over it.
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Hank would never confirm positive news about JG. He only reports if it's not positive for JG. :D
 
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Sleegro said:
If WM leave we still have 2 returning qbs, JG and Shrout. Yer math is off. As far as questioning Shrout's signing because of his ints in HS, I never did. I think he'll be good. All I said though was I could see him being at least as good as Hurts after he has a redshirt year. That is not that far fetched. Hurts won a lot of games on a stacked team but not many would call him much more than an average qb with above average running ability.

So if JG lights it up, do you honestly think Hurts, who would only leave bama because he's a backup, would come here to be a backup. That is a way bigger fantasy than thinking our current qbs could turn out to be pretty good there. Qualify the spot how ever you want, I don't think it's worth it for a one year rental.

Again, back to my original point, how bout we see what we have this season before "not banging the drum" for hurts.
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If Hurts wants to be here no matter what capacity it is, you take him imo.

Idc if JG wins the heisman. I’m still not telling a highly productive sec QB to not come here. At the very least we have a proven capable back up.
 
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SugarCC said:
Or he's hugely successful, and has come to realize being a Vol is far more awesome than being a Bammer, and he never wants to go anywhere else. I noticed this theory had not been mentioned...just thought I'd throw it out there.
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Yep, nope. Make no mistake, he's an Alabama guy to the core.
 
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