Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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Geaux_Vols said:
Rivals - Three-Point Stance: Surprises, disappointments among '19 classes; Bru McCoy

"Surprise"
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SweetasSoda said:
A very good job!..... Need to keep this handy for next week when the FF comes over lol.
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Gotta say, regardless of how this class ends (which I'm still banking on Darnell at minimum, we can whiff on everyone else and I wouldn't really care), we've addressed major needs.

+ 2 JUCO DL with three years apiece, plus a portable mountain in Elijah Simmons to compliment Gooden/Mincey/Emerson/Taylor along the defensive front.

+ Verrry well-rounded OL class, featuring at least one Day-1 starter in Wanya (and again, Wright's gotta be a Vol at this point).. True guards in McBride and Lampley. Akpo is the sleeper.

+ Playmakers at WR and RB in Keyton and Gray, plus a worker to say the least in Means.

+ Shored up that pesky secondary problem with Fields, Tank, Beasley, and Burrell. McCollough could apparently play early, but I'm betting they all contribute.

+ Slowly but surely addressing LB. Can't understate Quavo and Harrison. One more between To'oto'o and Russell (or both!) will be super solid.

And Pruitt said something on ESD or shortly after about how each of these guys figure to help the program in their first year. Whether that means starting PT or rotational/situational, these guys are hand-picked by this staff, and not someone else's leftovers.

We can look at Georgia and Bama all we want, but at the end of the day, you can only play 11 at a time. Clemson figured that out. This class can still jump a couple spots from 15th to a sexier 12th or so, not worried about that. Start building for 2020!
 
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ChismsHeadband said:
Gotta say, regardless of how this class ends (which I'm still banking on Darnell at minimum, we can whiff on everyone else and I wouldn't really care), we've addressed major needs.

+ 2 JUCO DL with three years apiece, plus a portable mountain in Elijah Simmons to compliment Gooden/Mincey/Emerson/Taylor along the defensive front.

+ Verrry well-rounded OL class, featuring at least one Day-1 starter in Wanya (and again, Wright's gotta be a Vol at this point).. True guards in McBride and Lampley. Akpo is the sleeper.

+ Playmakers at WR and RB in Keyton and Gray, plus a worker to say the least in Means.

+ Shored up that pesky secondary problem with Fields, Tank, Beasley, and Burrell. McCollough could apparently play early, but I'm betting they all contribute.

+ Slowly but surely addressing LB. Can't understate Quavo and Harrison. One more between To'oto'o and Russell (or both!) will be super solid.

And Pruitt said something on ESD or shortly after about how each of these guys figure to help the program in their first year. Whether that means starting PT or rotational/situational, these guys are hand-picked by this staff, and not someone else's leftovers.

We can look at Georgia and Bama all we want, but at the end of the day, you can only play 11 at a time. Clemson figured that out. This class can still jump a couple spots from 15th to a sexier 12th or so, not worried about that. Start building for 2020!
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ChismsHeadband said:
100% wins:
Georgia State
Chatt
UAB

Probable wins:
BYU
at Kentucky
Vandy (at home, new QB, we should have enough horses to not utterly collapse down the stretch)

Toss-ups:
Mississippi State
South Carolina
at Mizzou

Uphill Sledding:
at UF
Georgia
at Alabama

Sweep the first two categories: 6 wins
Win one or two of the toss-ups: 7-8 wins.
Anything on top of that is icing on the cake.
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We will beat South Carolina and Mississippi state at home. 8 wins 9 with a good game in bottom 4
 
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VOLED said:
He reminds me of a TV preacher.
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Ernest angley like agreed. I think by what I see he is real fake but makes himself look good in the right spots. My opinion only. I really think he could be a lot bs under all of it. I really do not think he coaches them up much but feeds him his lines. It is working but I am real skeptical of him.
 
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VOLED said:
He reminds me of a TV preacher.
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Anyone who's like super duper outward about their faith is kind of inviting magnifying glass towards their character.. More often than not they fall short of the self-righteousness they espouse.

Dabo hasn't yet, and so far there's no obvious reason to think he will. He doesn't strike me as the snake that Freeze was.
 
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jakez4ut said:
all fair, but i'd just go back to the OL, and say "remember WVU and UF?" not saying we'd of won either of those games, but both games had game altering plays made where our OL not only got beat, but completely whiffed on who was coming, who they should block...defense tee'd off and got giant sacks, TFL's, and created turnovers....and a lot of that stuff happened early in the games. so who knows how those games play out if you don't find yourself in a multi TD game before the 2nd qtr gets started.

agree about Morris/wright. there will be unfair expectations placed on guys like that. OL is still a developmental position, not everyone can do what Trey Smith did. that's not the rule.

but yeah, they'll be expected to contribute for sure. and unfortunately, we'll need them to. but they are talented. i'd feel a littel better about it if both Morris and Wright were already enrolled and both were going thru winter conditioning and spring ball.

the DL, agreed.
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We kept the WVU game close until halftime. They won that game because our defense didn’t have the personnel to get after Grier and slow down heir passing game (despite Sugar’s claims heading into the game that the DL was completely changed and had a good matchup against WVU’s
OL).


But yeah, agreed on Morris and Wright. I’m really excited about them moving forward, but worried they may be asked to do too much to carry the OL as freshmen.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
We kept the WVU game close until halftime. They won that game because our defense didn’t have the personnel to get after Grier and slow down heir passing game (despite Sugar’s claims heading into the game that the DL was completely changed and had a good matchup against WVU’s
OL).


But yeah, agreed on Morris and Wright. I’m really excited about them moving forward, but worried they may be asked to do too much to carry the OL as freshmen.
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Was just really thinking about how that game started for the ol...
 
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Vols add support staffer with ties to Jim Chaney

Tennessee has filled one of the vacancies on its support staff.

Michael Colosimo, who was most recently a graduate assistant at Kentucky and played quarterback at Cincinnati, revealed via Twitter on Thursday that he's joined the Vols as a quality control analyst on the offensive side of the ball.

Colosimo's connection to Tennessee is new offensive coordinator Jim Chaney. The two worked together at Pittsburgh in 2015 when Colosimo was a volunteer assistant coach working with the quarterbacks and Chaney was the offensive coordinator for the Panthers.
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