Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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Aesius said:
Agreed. This hire was a huge gamble, but it was probably the best we could do at the time and given the circumstances.

It's unbelievable that TPTB botched another coaching change. If Fulmer had been AD from day one of the 2017 season, I think we make a bowl game due to Jones getting canned much sooner (which prevents the team's mindset from completely imploding and carrying over into 2018) and we would have a proven P5 head coach right now.
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The change should have been made after UGA last season. The team quit on Butch that night. They would have rallied around an interim imo.
 
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VolGee4 said:
I am not going to get into a debate about it. The media could be wrong, but the OK article probably looked into it before publicizing. You can use your redshirt year when you transfer, so why would this be any different? It's the same thing.
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The biggest reason is the transfer isn't at the school in residency while they sit out.


I am certainly not trying to debate just think it's important to know this rule didn't change things as much as is being suggested here. Think about this way. Every single redshirt throughout the country would now be a threat to transfer and play immediately every year. That would be a massive rule change and that isn't the case
 
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LA Vol said:
It was terrible-- but that's the past. UT has a new AD and a new board-- even the President and Chancellor will be different. Fulmer has gotten funding for every single thing Pruitt has requested. Pruitt was allowed to hire every staffer he wanted-- even overpaying Tyson Helton to get him to UT. He was allowed to rip out the old weightroom and rebuild and re-equip it, and it's NFL-caliber. Even the field looks better. Pruitt gets everything he wants from a resources and facilities standpoint, so UTAD really isn't the impediment going forward.
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Sure for now but whats going to happen when Bill Haslam takes over as president of UT
 
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tennesseefan31 said:
This kind of reminds me of the early Majors years. Especially because we were playing some teams that were as good as they've ever been (Georgia with Herschel, Pitt, Alabama with Bear).

Really the more I think about it, the more similarities I see.
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The only thing to bring it full circle would be to hire an alum to clean things up if Pruitt fails. "Cooter Comes Marching Home."
 
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BruinVol said:
The biggest reason is the transfer isn't at the school in residency while they sit out.


I am certainly not trying to debate just think it's important to know this rule didn't change things as much as is being suggested here. Think about this way. Every single redshirt throughout the country would now be a threat to transfer and play immediately every year. That would be a massive rule change and that isn't the case
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It's quirky, but the only thing that changed is playing in 4 games and still being able to redshirt. If he leaves the school immediately, then it gets interesting. I have now seen it stated both ways- he doesn't have to graduate and he will be a graduate transfer.
 
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VolGee4 said:
It's quirky, but the only thing that changed is playing in 4 games and still being able to redshirt. If he leaves the school immediately, then it gets interesting. I have now seen it stated both ways- he doesn't have to graduate and he will be a graduate transfer.
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If somehow they could enroll in a school they would be eligible exactly a year later. Happens in basketball All the time.

I feel very confident that is accurate
 
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tennesseefan31 said:
This kind of reminds me of the early Majors years. Especially because we were playing some teams that were as good as they've ever been (Georgia with Herschel, Pitt, Alabama with Bear).

Really the more I think about it, the more similarities I see.
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Interesting comparison. Johnny went 4-7, 5-5-1, 7-5, 5-6 in his first four years. Before my time, but I don’t think he would have survived had he not been a homegrown boy/Heisman runner up at UT.

Pretty wild looking at his total record. Before 1985 when he turned the corner in the Sugar Bowl, he was 51-39-5 in his first 8 years.
 
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I keep watching the highlight video of the game and trying to watch and figure out what went wrong. Our initial blocking for the run isn't awful we may not get a huge push but we also dont get blown up too often. The problem is when guys go to the second level they are blocking the wrong guy. On the 3 and 1 toss to London if the pulling guard takes on #2 for UF instead of turning back inside and trying to block a guy that is on the ground then London has a huge lane
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Interesting comparison. Johnny went 4-7, 5-5-1, 7-5, 5-6 in his first four years. Before my time, but I don’t think he would have survived had he not been a homegrown boy/Heisman runner up at UT.

Pretty wild looking at his total record. Before 1985 when he turned the corner in the Sugar Bowl, he was 51-39-5 in his first 8 years.
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Just further tells me how hard it is to win at Tennessee. Pretty sure Majors has been on record multiple times saying that Tennessee is not a top ten job.
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
I keep watching the highlight video of the game and trying to watch and figure out what went wrong. Our initial blocking for the run isn't awful we may not get a huge push but we also dont get blown up too often. The problem is when guys go to the second level they are blocking the wrong guy. On the 3 and 1 toss to London if the pulling guard takes on #2 for UF instead of turning back inside and trying to block a guy that is on the ground then London has a huge lane
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It looked to me like FL was stacking the box making it almost impossible to run the ball. We played right into their hands by trying to run it right at them. They were daring us to beat them with the pass and we didn't take them up on it.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Also shows you how special a guy like Coach Fulmer was and the run he had.
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Fulmer was an outstanding coach. Baffles me why we still have people who think he wasn't that good. In his hay day, he was a top 5 coach. With that being said, the run we had in the 90's was also a factor of a down SEC. Our only true competition was UF. It's just easier to win at UGA and UF than it is at Tennessee. That's why I say from we're an inferior program to those two.
 
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