Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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JacketVol said:
Renting a house in East Nashville. 10 minutes from downtown. Go to places to eat and better to drive and park downtown or Uber or lyft
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I also live in East Nash. For getting to downtown, I recommend Uber/Lyft or walking. Depending on where you’re at, the walk may not be too bad.

Five Points Pizza is great for a quick bite. Cheap too. The Pharmacy has a quality burger.
 
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For anyone who hasn't watched this 17min video of Pruitt answering questions from SEC Media Days, I highly recommend it. He's definitely grown as a HC from last year. I love how honest he is and how he doesn't make excuses and takes the blame. And he also seems excited and confident in his team. It's worth a watch...

 
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Darel Middleton appears to have taken advantage of weight room. Looks in better shape.
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The DL is interesting. Looking at a simple roster with heights and weights, we seem to have a lot of big bodies there and guys that we think have athleticism based on recruiting. But they are largely unknown. I could see them either struggling to hold teams under 200 yards rushing or being the surprise unit on the team. Honestly that may be the difference between a shocker 9-3 season and a ho-hum 6-6 with a bowl game.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
For anyone who hasn't watched this 17min video of Pruitt answering questions from SEC Media Days, I highly recommend it. He's definitely grown as a HC from last year. I love how honest he is and how he doesn't make excuses and takes the blame. And he also seems excited and confident in his team. It's worth a watch...

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Hindsight 20/20, he definitely had a lot of learning to do last year and was probably (understandably) a little overwhelmed.

I’m really excited to see whether (or how quickly) Pruitt becomes as good of a HC as he was a DB coach and DC. Seems like the administrative support is there more than it has been in years past (love you, Phil!). I know it will probably take another year or two, but I’m starting to get my hopes up that Pruitt will really come into his own this season.
 
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The DL is interesting. Looking at a simple roster with heights and weights, we seem to have a lot of big bodies there and guys that we think have athleticism based on recruiting. But they are largely unknown. I could see them either struggling to hold teams under 200 yards rushing or being the surprise unit on the team. Honestly that may be the difference between a shocker 9-3 season and a ho-hum 6-6 with a bowl game.
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Tons of potential, but no sure things heading into fall camp. Will be really interesting to see what becomes of them.
 
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Our defense at times last year looked very promising, all except in one aspect; we had to worst redzone defense in the history of all the known universes. Our redzone defense couldn’t stop a kindergarten offense last year. I mean you would think with much less field to cover that’s when a defense should stiffen as that is a significant advantage on that side of the ball. I’ve read article after article both at the college level and for the NFL trying to figure out how to fix an utter disaster of a redzone defense. The only thing I can come up with is first the guys have to know what to do and hopefully the defensive play-caller puts them in the right positions. Then the guys have to play with discipline and they have to communicate extremely well.

I remember a game between South Carolina and NC State a few years ago just after Boom took over the Gamecocks and the Wolfpack literally just ran up and down the field on Boom’s defense. They had something like 40,000 yards of total offense in the game but Boom’s redzone defense wouldn’t let them get into the endzone so State lost the game for lack of scoring.

I don’t know if Pruitt and Ansley can fix “their” redzone defense this year but if they do I’m calling it now. We will beat Georgia. jmo.

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Tons of potential, but no sure things heading into fall camp. Will be really interesting to see what becomes of them.
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Agree--- there's a lot of unknown talent there... hopefully with some experience at LB and DE we can gel as an upfront group. I don't think it can be stressed enough how important getting Solomon in the lineup this fall could be. Having both him and Gooden to work with will definitely be the difference instead of Gooden alone.
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
Our defense at times last year looked very promising, all except in one aspect; we had to worst redzone defense in the history of all the known universes. Our redzone defense couldn’t stop a kindergarten offense last year. I mean you would think with much less field to cover that’s when a defense should stiffen as that is a significant advantage on that side of the ball. I’ve read article after article both at the college level and for the NFL trying to figure out how to fix an utter disaster of a redzone defense. The only thing I can come up with is first the guys have to know what to do and hopefully the defensive play-caller puts them in the right positions. Then the guys have to play with discipline and they have to communicate extremely well.

I remember a game between South Carolina and NC State a few years ago just after Boom took over the Gamecocks and the Wolfpack literally just ran up and down the field on Boom’s defense. They had something like 40,000 yards of total offense in the game but Boom’s redzone defense wouldn’t let them get into the endzone so State lost the game for lack of scoring.

I don’t know if Pruitt and Ansley can fix “their” redzone defense this year but if they do I’m calling it now. We will beat Georgia. jmo.

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Think you got it right with knowing what to do and discipline. Remember Pruitt telling players what play was coming? That was probably a lot harder to see then get in in the red zone. That combined with lack of confidence and discipline was a bad combo. Hopefully that gets a lot better this year.
 
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vol2002 said:
The DL is interesting. Looking at a simple roster with heights and weights, we seem to have a lot of big bodies there and guys that we think have athleticism based on recruiting. But they are largely unknown. I could see them either struggling to hold teams under 200 yards rushing or being the surprise unit on the team. Honestly that may be the difference between a shocker 9-3 season and a ho-hum 6-6 with a bowl game.
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I think this is exactly right. I think we’re about to find out how good Fitz and Rocker are. We get to 9 wins, they need raises.
 
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So I’m amazed to find out there’s this thing called an “influencer.” Someone on Instagram who gets paid to advertise. I get that this probably isn’t something new, but the term to me is new. The name and the general idea somehow appalls me. Some random chick down the street advertising her new rug, NyQuil, or Brawny paper towels mixed in with trying to portray her perfect IG life. Will this social media monster ever end?

@Freak, if you start that here, I will disown you.
 
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Brillovol said:
So I’m amazed to find out there’s this thing called an “influencer.” Someone on Instagram who gets paid to advertise. I get that this probably isn’t something new, but the term to me is new. The name and the general idea somehow appalls me. Some random chick down the street advertising her new rug, NyQuil, or Brawny paper towels mixed in with trying to portray her perfect IG life. Will this social media monster ever end?

@Freak, if you start that here, I will disown you.
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Yeah, that’s crazy. Did I ever tell you how Tostitos Chunky Salsa changed my life?
 
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UTProf said:
Anyone know anything about Samsung J7's? My background has gone black (no wallpaper), the clock is gone, and so is the keyboard. It's like half the UI isn't working. It hasn't been dropped and I didn't get any error messages.
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I have a J7 and while its initial quality was high, once memory started becoming an issue, the whole phone has clunked up and been mediocre at best. I'm gonna be upgrading in a few months. Still sticking with Samsung, just getting away from a budget phone.
 
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Brillovol said:
So I’m amazed to find out there’s this thing called an “influencer.” Someone on Instagram who gets paid to advertise. I get that this probably isn’t something new, but the term to me is new. The name and the general idea somehow appalls me. Some random chick down the street advertising her new rug, NyQuil, or Brawny paper towels mixed in with trying to portray her perfect IG life. Will this social media monster ever end?

@Freak, if you start that here, I will disown you.
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So I’m amazed to find out there’s this thing called an “influencer.” Someone on Instagram who gets paid to advertise. I get that this probably isn’t something new, but the term to me is new. The name and the general idea somehow appalls me. Some random chick down the street advertising her new rug, NyQuil, or Brawny paper towels mixed in with trying to portray her perfect IG life. Will this social media monster ever end?

@Freak, if you start that here, I will disown you.
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That’s actually a pretty funny idea.

AV comes in a drops some recruiting knowledge. Then at the bottom posts #ad

Did you know there is a faster and more convenient way to fly. Rather lugging your UT gear to games in coach, fly with NetJets. Because that’s who I use to get to the games on time and in style. #NetJets
 
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UT = Checkmate said:
That’s actually a pretty funny idea.

AV comes in a drops some recruiting knowledge. Then at the bottom posts #ad

Did you know there is a faster and more convenient way to fly. Rather lugging your UT gear to games in coach, fly with NetJets. Because that’s who I use to get to the games on time and in style. #NetJets
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I’ll admit. It has a Rocky Bobby feel to it.
 
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ChismsHeadband said:
I have a J7 and while its initial quality was high, once memory started becoming an issue, the whole phone has clunked up and been mediocre at best. I'm gonna be upgrading in a few months. Still sticking with Samsung, just getting away from a budget phone.
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Thanks for the tip. I got it after the house fire to replace an older iphone and so far it's been a good little phone. I think it went into some sort of super-power saving mode and/or overheated because after I stopped fooling with it and placed it on the charger for a few more hours it suddenly went back to normal. Thing is, if it was a power saving mode, taking away the status bar that shows you that is a pretty stupid design flaw.

At any rate it's back to normal now. I was thinking of buying a microSD upgrade for it anyway but if memory/space issues can clunk it up, I think I'll go ahead and do that since I'm not due for an upgrade for a while.
 
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