Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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GiggerVol said:
This reminded me of an event and funny story I was involved in many years ago. Me and 3 of my 1st shift buddies went night fishing for catfish one evening after work. After a little while, I noticed the tip of my rod bend hard and fast. After fighting that sucker a few minutes, I finally got it to the bank. It was a fresh water eel that none of us had ever caught. A little while later, one of my buddies also caught one of the darn things. After heading back toward the plant, we had discussed what to do with the eels. The night shift mgr of our dept. was a huge Kentucky basketball fan named Jack Cropper and was a friend of Joe B Hall, Kentucky's coach at the time. Jack liked to go out to his truck at supper time and have a few swigs of bourbon. It was that time of night so we took the two eels into Jack's office and placed them in his top desk drawer and then left. The next afternoon, we saw Jack coming up the aisle with a large bandage on his head. We said "wow, Jack, what happened to you?" he says " I'd like to know who the assholes were that put a couple of snakes in my desk last night! I opened it to pull out a legal pad and was so scared I leaned too far back in my chair turning it over and hit my darn head on the concrete floor. The company nurse had to bandage my head from a cut!"Of course we acted surprised and were glad he was okay. To my knowledge, he never knew it was us. Fun times
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Catbone said:
Bro... Cant believe im saying this to give you the satisfaction...what would it take for you to make you believe im a vols fan. You wanna see my room with autographed helmets? My tennessee undies? Im legit over it. Its been years of back and forth.
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You do not have to show me your Tennessee undies. I will never call you a Bulldog fan ever, ever, ever, ever, ever again.
 
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SweetasSoda said:
Speak for yourself. I tried with Dooley. When they hired Butch, I couldn't even try until I became a Dobbs fan plus a few more. Didn't want him to fail but sure was glad to see him go. This is a good group of coaches.
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I had a similar experience and thoughts. I was fortunate to go with a VFL friend to a couple of events with each coach along with a couple of camp practices of Botch's. Dools was a prima donna ***** back then. Botch appeared to be psychopath from the start and proved it along the way. I tried really hard to like both, but in the end could not because of the affect they had on our players - the VFL's who gave their all for Tennessee despite awful leadership. It was all on UT/major booster leadership that disastrous decade happened. When they finally acknowledged and fixed it with Phil's hiring, the cloud lifted. We have outstanding coaches now in nearly every sport. I am including Kellie in that group until proven otherwise because she has worked hard at her craft and was willing to step down to a mid-major in nowhere after the NCSU experience to prove it.
 
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cHiZzLeVOL said:
Honestly looks very fake to me, obviously the guy was pulling the boat in and where was Bill handing that tackle box to? The Motor?
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One of my closest friends worked for TWRA for years, and also worked on his own as a fishing and hunting guide. He had a house on Birdsong Creek near Camden and I was up there one week and we were at the marina getting ready to head out onto the lake. Bill Dance and crew were there filming a show, and apparently was not having much success so he asked my friend if he would catch some crappie for him, or at the very least show Bill where my friend had laid his crappie beds. My friend very politely said no.
 
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Crazy Ivan said:
One of my closest friends worked for TWRA for years, and also worked on his own as a fishing and hunting guide. He had a house on Birdsong Creek near Camden and I was up there one week and we were at the marina getting ready to head out onto the lake. Bill Dance and crew were there filming a show, and apparently was not having much success so he asked my friend if he would catch some crappie for him, or at the very least show Bill where my friend had laid his crappie beds. My friend very politely said no.
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Is this friend named Dan, by chance?
 
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chargervol said:
I think I used the wrong term maybe?
A nurse coming to my home so they don't have to send me to the hospital for the intravenous medications...
Home healthcare?
Sorry, new to all this.
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Holy crap dude. I'm glad I was busy yesterday because my heart skipped a beat when I read that...

Damn it man! Gotta be careful with that word!

Still hoping and praying for good news for you, @chargervol...but let's stay the hell away from hospice care for, let's say, another 50 or so years, mmmmkay 😂😂
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
It will never be like it was. Even UConn has dipped, ever so slightly.

Honor the legacy of the era of Pat, which will never return, and dig in with another Lady Vol and see where she can take things. Top 15 program annually would be an amazing job and commended
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No, no one could get that back. There are too many great programs now. LVs just need to get back in that top tier where competing for a championship is always the expectation. IDK if KJH can do it or not... but she should be able to get the players to make it a reasonable goal. She has most of them now-- just missing a few pieces.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Why would he? He'll be a RS Sophmore...he has 3 years eligibility left and if he graduates after next season might be able to Grad transfer and play his last 2 somewhere else without sitting out a year.
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I don't think he ever plays here so I guess it's up to him if he wants to be far from home doing nothing for another year or not.
 
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JohnnyD1024 said:
I don't think he ever plays here so I guess it's up to him if he wants to be far from home doing nothing for another year or not.
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I think if he was going to transfer he would have entered the portal already though? I know he has had some injury issues so that could be part of it, UT has a great medical staff though so could be part of why he has stayed.

I think there is a chance he's been comfortable developing, getting healthy, and waiting for his time. Kyle being gone and then also Grant potentially this season could mean he's needed more this upcoming season. We still don't know if Walker or Burns will be getting more minutes or not.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
I think if he was going to transfer he would have entered the portal already though? I know he has had some injury issues so that could be part of it, UT has a great medical staff though so could be part of why he has stayed.

I think there is a chance he's been comfortable developing, getting healthy, and waiting for his time. Kyle being gone and then also Grant potentially this season could mean he's needed more this upcoming season. We still don't know if Walker or Burns will be getting more minutes or not.
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Well Burns redshirted and knew he was redshirting going into the season so that's why he didn't play. I might be remembering this wrong but I believe Walker got in Barnes's dog house by showing up out of shape to the start of practices. I think Walker would have played a bigger role this past season if it wasn't for that.
 
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JohnnyD1024 said:
Well Burns redshirted and knew he was redshirting going into the season so that's why he didn't play. I might be remembering this wrong but I believe Walker got in Barnes's dog house by showing up out of shape to the start of practices. I think Walker would have played a bigger role this past season if it wasn't for that.
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walker has a big opportunity in front of him now. hope he takes advantage of it.
 
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