Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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VolNRaleighNC said:
Refs blew that game. Quality of officiating gets worse and worse. Between the rule changes and horrible officiating it’s almost unbearable to watch NFL football anymore. Add to that all the sociopolitical bull crap...
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Refs did not blow game. They gave both teams touchdowns in the game through inconsistent calls during key drives. SD’s final drive and KC’s drive early in 4th.
The problem is no one knows what defensive holding is. Players are confused and refs are inconsistent. Great game, especially for Charger fans
 
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Ace said:
Refs did not blow game. They gave both teams touchdowns in the game through inconsistent calls during key drives. SD’s final drive and KC’s drive early in 4th.
The problem is no one knows what defensive holding is. Players are confused and refs are inconsistent. Great game, especially for Charger fans
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i'll be honest. i thought the officiating was bad, there was a stretch there in the 4th qtr where it literally felt like every other play had a flag thrown. there was one Def Holding call that the charger defender literally barely touched the WR. i think it was a TE, and he ran like a little 2-3 yard out.....it was ridiculous.

i turned the game off as KC was about score to go up 28-14 with i think around 8 minutes to go.

i figured the way the game was being called, and the fact it seemed like L A couldn't stop KC, and they way KC was getting after Rivers, it was over.

oh well.
 
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Ace said:
Refs did not blow game. They gave both teams touchdowns in the game through inconsistent calls during key drives. SD’s final drive and KC’s drive early in 4th.
The problem is no one knows what defensive holding is. Players are confused and refs are inconsistent. Great game, especially for Charger fans
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Disagree, ******** calls on the last drive. And *LA.
 
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jakez4ut said:
i'll be honest. i thought the officiating was bad, there was a stretch there in the 4th qtr where it literally felt like every other play had a flag thrown. there was one Def Holding call that the charger defender literally barely touched the WR. i think it was a TE, and he ran like a little 2-3 yard out.....it was ridiculous.

i turned the game off as KC was about score to go up 28-14 with i think around 8 minutes to go.

i figured the way the game was being called, and the fact it seemed like L A couldn't stop KC, and they way KC was getting after Rivers, it was over.

oh well.
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The officiating was bad both ways and favored KC for much of the game until the final drive. Lynn made good call to go for two on the road. Rivers said they literally ran a formation they had not run before to disguise the two point play. It confused KC and they busted the coverage.
 
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DD4ME said:
Hmmm. This tells us Pruitt liked McClendon just not initially in a coordinator way. Would McClendon want to leave the guy that gave him his chance?

McClendon family came to USC with intent to stay
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i think McClendon might have come last year if it was for an OC job....i don't see him leavint USCe for lateral moves. he didn't leave USCe last year for a lateral, and parlayed it in to a promotion, and i don't see him leaving this year for the same reason.

i think he probably is the guy though that checks the most boxes for pruitt. and if there was a way to get him, he would.
 
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BruinVol said:
He said that ?
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not specifically:
We know that Pruitt has formally spoken to four candidates. Hugh Freeze is now the head coach at Liberty. Kendal Briles is not an option. While Briles’ deal at FSU is not finalized, many feel he will still end up there, but he’s definitely not a factor with the Vols. Jeff Lebby has told people he’s not a factor and isn’t coming to Tennessee either.

That leaves Oklahoma State’s Mike Yurcich as the fourth guy who Pruitt has spoken with. Yurcich has told people, including staff members at Oklahoma State, that he’s staying put.
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i think it may be better stated that we haven't offered anyone that we interviewed. i think pruitt talked to all of these guys (maybe a few more as well) because you want to find out of they could be a fit. fact finding. what interviews are supposed to be used for.

a formal talk or an interview doesn't = offer or serious consideration. which is why i think there's some consternation about why/how all that became public.

fulmer and pruitt likely did know from the get go that they weren't going to rush, that they are going to talk to a lot of different people, and that not every conversation was going to be an interview for the position.
 
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DD4ME said:
I looked into Friend's coaching history and realized just how few SEC coaches he and Pruitt has really directly worked with or under. Friend was under Bobo for basically all of his career. Bobo essentially is his career.

That alone could shine some insight into the offense we saw trying to be implemented this year. It looked alot like a poor attempt at a 2013 Bobo offense. Versus the Helton USC air attack I think we would have expected.

Add to that most of their connections are already in HC roles (Kiffin & Bobo) or deeply rooted (Enos) to where they are. That would make a really shallow pool to go casting nets for coordinator.

That is not to say they don't have much wider circles of contacts and influences, but their paths are so narrow that one could assume it might have an effect.


The fact Friend is obviously close to Pruitt and a former coordinator, but he isn't in the role would open the question does he have input and to what extent? Why isn't he the coordinator?
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I would love to see a social network analysis of this.
 
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volatil said:
In true Tennessee fashion they have managed to ruin coaching searches for us.

We loved coaching searches. Poor Bass is probably in the fetal position right now
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Ace said:
Hubbs knows nothing. Pruitt and Fulmer have this search airtight, but Hubbs has to write something because he has paying subscribers.

I am waiting for John Adams to fill us all in on how the search is going. He has his finger on the pulse of Tennessee football - NOT
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I'm glad @Freak doesn't charge so we don't have to listen to his useless drivel. 😁
 
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jakez4ut said:
yep. @LA Vol has been very consistent talking about how this hire is way more about fit than anything else. it's at the top of the priority list it appears.
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This is pure speculation, but it would be worrisome if some of the issue finding the right “fit” is if Pruitt is telling these guys they have to put a governor on their offense like he told Helton. So when they kind of push back a little on that he scratches them off the list.

Again, I don’t know that to be the case. Just thinking out loud.

I remember early in the year, maybe even before the season, Pruitt answered a question about the offensive scheme with an almost braggadocios line of “I’m the head coach, I have the ultimate say on what we do.” Which, of course, is true. Just wonder if that’s rubbing people the wrong way.
 
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What seems odd about the Yurcich thing (or any of them really) is there hasn’t been some public announcement that the candidate has turned us down, no reports of a contract extension at their current school, no “Cowboy for life!” type tweets, etc. It’s been “Pruitt is talking to Coach X” and then - nothing. Makes me think either Pruitt has a “silent commit,” or he hasn’t really thought any of the ones he met would be the right fit, and/or he just isn’t that focused on it and wants to get through the ESD first. If we are able to get a strong offensive recruiting haul, it might make the job more attractive to potential candidates.
 
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