Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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T Dog said:
Every story that was ever written is better than any TV replica of it. They just cant give all the nuances in a show that they can on paper.
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And my own imagination plays a huge role for me. When I create an image in my head of what a writer described, no one else's created image will ever match up.
Simply because it's their vision of and I already created the perfect one for me.
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
While true, fiber types convert based on the training stimulus applied.

There have been interesting studies performed on this including a set of identical twins, one a marathon runner and the other general recreation.

The general guy was around 50/50 diver type composition. Marathon bro was like 90/10

The dudes who train explosively get explosive. It’s the principle of specificity applied
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Yeah, I found the article interesting particularly because it addressed the potential for development of football players in the limited time window of 4 years. What can you get done in that span of time given what you have to work with at the beginning. I think guys who already possess speed and/or power are probably some of the critical factors that we may be using in our recruiting with this new staff. Apparently it's no big deal to add size and strength in the limited time window but speed isn't going to improve all that much. Of course guys will play faster and perhaps more in line with their top speeds as they better learned what to do and become more comfortable in their assignments but their 40 times when they get to college is apparently unlikely to improve all that much. The article suggested in the first 2 years you can get some limited power gains with skill position players but for linemen any power gains are going to be negligible. I went back and looked at some of the 247 evaluations of the linemen we signed in this most recent class and the key word power sort of jumps out at you.

We all want immediate impact players in our recruiting classes but the competition for those guys is increasingly fierce. We could be star chasers and possibly recruit some guys the public services have rated higher than some of the guys we end up signing but I think our staff may be looking for those things you can't teach in the time available to us so when you add what we can teach we potentially end up with high impact players. I think that's probably part of the explanation why 3 star teams like Vandy, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia, etc. have been having some success against our perceived more talented roster. They've recruited players who have some intangibles and things you can't teach and then they've added size and strength and developed them so that after 2-3 years they are often able to offset our talent advantage on paper.

And when you think about it, it sort of helps to explain why we would sign a guy like Kenneth George Jr. I mean the guy at the time I don't even think had any rating by any of the public services but something about the kid may have convinced our staff that the kid wasn't afraid to hit anybody and already had a pretty powerful punch. jmo.
 
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volfanngatorland said:
Wait this guy got his house vandalized and his first reaction is to drive to Florida to “pull up” on an internet troll?

Someone come get your mans
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Was my first thought but surely it's a gator fan that lives in TN.
Still doesn't change the fact that's what he's concerned about. 🙄
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
Yeah, I found the article interesting particularly because it addressed the potential for development of football players in the limited time window of 4 years. What can you get done in that span of time given what you have to work with at the beginning. I think guys who already possess speed and/or power are probably some of the critical factors that we may be using in our recruiting with this new staff. Apparently it's no big deal to add size and strength in the limited time window but speed isn't going to improve all that much. Of course guys will play faster and perhaps more in line with their top speeds as they better learned what to do and become more comfortable in their assignments but their 40 times when they get to college is apparently unlikely to improve all that much. The article suggested in the first 2 years you can get some limited power gains with skill position players but for linemen any power gains are going to be negligible. I went back and looked at some of the 247 evaluations of the linemen we signed in this most recent class and the key word power sort of jumps out at you.

We all want immediate impact players in our recruiting classes but the competition for those guys is increasingly fierce. We could be star chasers and possibly recruit some guys the public services have rated higher than some of the guys we end up signing but I think our staff may be looking for those things you can't teach in the time available to us so when you add what we can teach we potentially end up with high impact players. I think that's probably part of the explanation why 3 star teams like Vandy, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia, etc. have been having some success against our perceived more talented roster. They've recruited players who have some intangibles and things you can't teach and then they've added size and strength and developed them so that after 2-3 years they are often able to offset our talent advantage on paper.

And when you think about it, it sort of helps to explain why we would sign a guy like Kenneth George Jr. I mean the guy at the time I don't even think had any rating by any of the public services but something about the kid may have convinced our staff that the kid wasn't afraid to hit anybody and already had a pretty powerful punch. jmo.
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Needed bodies. Took more chances.
 
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Devo182 said:
to trade or hodl? I barely paid attention the last year, just left all mine on hardware wallet, a bit of exotics on binance, and decided to stop obsessing over prices and hodl for at least 2 more years (or until John McAfee eats his own d*#*). McAfee has less than 2 years...the world will be watching to say the least.
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I've been buying BTC and BAT. I'm trading BTC, the crypto market is hot so I'm locking in gains while I can. I've been steadily accumulating BAT since the rumours started swirling about a potential Coinbase listing. That's something I'm going to hodl. I really like the BAT ecosystem, and I think that blockchain enabled browsing via Brave is something where we're in early adopter stage. Tons of room to grow.
 
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chargervol said:
Was my first thought but surely it's a gator fan that lives in TN.
Still doesn't change the fact that's what he's concerned about. 🙄
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For those that listen to Finebaum, he has a regular caller from Jasper, Tennessee who is a huge Gator fan that hates the Vols. I think his name on the show is Lance.
 
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Nash_Vol97 said:
My wife works at Vanderbilt (I try not to hold it against her) and we get our prime membership with a big discount. It’s great.
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Yep, my daughter works at Vandy and gets Prime, and she can add it to 5 other tvs, so she was able to add it to 2 of my tvs even though we don't live in the same house.
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
While true, fiber types convert based on the training stimulus applied.

There have been interesting studies performed on this including a set of identical twins, one a marathon runner and the other general recreation.

The general guy was around 50/50 diver type composition. Marathon bro was like 90/10

The dudes who train explosively get explosive. It’s the principle of specificity applied
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That's fascinating. I'd be interested to know if the brothers had significantly different SVJs, as I've hard that's hard to improve.

So that makes you wonder, is it hard to train power and speed, or do college S&C staff just not know how to do it? Or maybe the college athletes come in having already trained for power and speed through practicing their sport and strength is just severely under trained when they arrive on campus as it's better built with weight lifting?
 
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