Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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Bring_Back_Dooley said:
I feel the same way about hockey.
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Bad take. The factors that make baseball a sport folks can't follow because they're too busy are mitigated to a great extent in hockey. Not caring about the sport is different than the sport being a waste of time due to the amount of dead time in each game and the number of games on the schedule.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
No media in a place like Alabama would hire a guy like him. They would get their office burned down, or just a million little aggravations from people stonewalling/blackballing them in everything they did, and everywhere they went...We just don't care enough, which is why our media has so much "integrity"...we make it easy on them.
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FWIW.

Gannett (USA Today) owns KNS. That tells you all you need to know about how the coverage will be slanted. Think Dan Wolken. All pf their media tows the official company line, so Adams fits in with the junk. Which is why all of the mediocre to good reporters/columnists have left or retired.

The Birmingham (AL) News daily is owned by smaller Advance Publications. They own a chunk of the Discovery Channel and Charter. They take less interest in slanting and more interest in making money. Which is why that publication has gone from a daily to only publishing 3 days a week as of this year. Advance is deemphasizing their print media holdings.

The Tuscaloosa News was owned by the NYT until a half dozen years ago. It was sold to a media company owned by GateHouse Media (Liberty Group). After bankruptcy to restructure their balance sheet and some debt from numerous acquisitions of dailies around the country, they reemerged and started buying again. They have 130 small and mid market dailies now. They operate more decentralized and local papers have more authority to print as the market dictates. They are pushing their circulation into Birmingham to fill the void.

So the uptake is Bama will continue to get good press in their state and UT will continue to get bad press in theirs as long as the KNS is owned by Gannett. Many of us locals jettisoned KNS years ago. Hopefully they will be sold to a more favorable owner in the future.
 
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delfonic said:
Bad take. The factors that make baseball a sport folks can't follow because they're too busy are mitigated to a great extent in hockey. Not caring about the sport is different than the sport being a waste of time due to the amount of dead time in each game and the number of games on the schedule.
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Hockey is for 40-year-old men that still wear backwards baseball caps and hoodies.

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Vols4us said:
FWIW.

Gannett (USA Today) owns KNS. That tells you all you need to know about how the coverage will be slanted. Think Dan Wolken. All pf their media tows the official company line, so Adams fits in with the junk. Which is why all of the mediocre to good reporters/columnists have left or retired.

The Birmingham (AL) News daily is owned by smaller Advance Publications. They own a chunk of the Discovery Channel and Charter. They take less interest in slanting and more interest in making money. Which is why that publication has gone from a daily to only publishing 3 days a week as of this year. Advance is deemphasizing their print media holdings.

The Tuscaloosa News was owned by the NYT until a half dozen years ago. It was sold to a media company owned by GateHouse Media (Liberty Group). After bankruptcy to restructure their balance sheet and some debt from numerous acquisitions of dailies around the country, they reemerged and started buying again. They have 130 small and mid market dailies now. They operate more decentralized and local papers have more authority to print as the market dictates. They are pushing their circulation into Birmingham to fill the void.

So the uptake is Bama will continue to get good press in their state and UT will continue to get bad press in theirs as long as the KNS is owned by Gannett. Many of us locals jettisoned KNS years ago. Hopefully they will be sold to a more favorable owner in the future.
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luckily no one give two sh!ts about knoxville press.
 
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Garren04 said:
Since there isn’t much to talk about until tomorrow nights game and the SEC tournament I figured I’d get a discussion/ prediction going. You don’t have to do all of these haha but anyways what position group will be our strongest on each side of the ball?
Predict a breakout player on each side of the ball. Predict which freshmen will have the best season this year (on each side of the ball if you want). Lastly predict our overall record and our standings in the east.
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Strongest position groups:
Offense: WR
Defense: Secondary

Breakout players:
Offense: DWA has a stronger year.. or maybe JG goes from manager to gamebreaker.
Defense: one of the Fr LB's-- Hank or Crouch

Freshman:
Echoing the previous answer-- Hank or Crouch

Overall record:
8-4 (4-4)

Florida 10-2 (losses at LSU, at South Carolina [big upset])
Georgia 10-2 (losses to UF, A&M)
Mizzou 9-3 (loses to UGA, UF, and idk someone else)
Tennessee 8-4 (losses to the three above and Alabama)
South Carolina 6-6 (losses to Alabama, at Mizzou, at UGA, at Tennessee, at A&M, and to Clemson)
Kentucky
Vandy
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
@Freak - I'm just curious who you were quoting in the above. I mean we already knew that Hall and Antonutti had RETIRED from football. We knew that Trey is out indefinitely and not expected by many fans to ever return. We also knew that Kennedy would be coming back from injury (Pruitt said he could have played today if we had a game).

This is how I would have written that:
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That is a great read. I especially like the fact that you were, well, factual. That seems to be something many of our local media struggle with.
 
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