Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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Big Sun said:
I remember watching Webb and Cobb on tv. They were awesome, but I was younger then. That doesn’t take away from Henry’s dominance which I saw from the stands.
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Henry was dominant, Webb was as I said..transcendent. He would have been our Heisman winner if that cursed injury had not happened.
 
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drvenner said:
Why are people saying he should get a ring? HE QUIT THE TEAM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEASON. Thus, he was not on the team, BY HIS OWN CHOICE, when they won the championship. For the love of all that is holy, what is wrong with people?
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I don't care! I just want it to affect Clemson's recruiting!
 
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Volfanatic_20 said:
LOL no it wont
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Can you imagine a coach using this in recruiting,


“Come play for me and if you decide to transfer in the middle of the season we will have a little going away party for you and send you rings for all your and the teams accomplishments. Clemson just isn’t the place for you because they won’t do that”
 
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BruinVol said:
Can you imagine a coach using this in recruiting,


“Come play for me and if you decide to transfer in the middle of the season we will have a little going away party for you and send you rings for all your and the teams accomplishments. Clemson just isn’t the place for you because they won’t do that”
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If he truly wanted to help Clemson like all these talking heads are acting like he did, he should have stayed at Clemson mentored the young QB and then transferred after the season. Just like Jalen Hurts did.
 
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Tennessee was back in full pads for the second-straight day, with the media observing just two quick periods as the Vols held their final install day and beginning to ramp up more team work.

Here are Thursday’s observations…

Jeremy Pruitt’s public praise for Henry To’oto’o yesterday does not appear to be false bluster, as the freshman linebacker saw ample reps with the 1s — in both indy and team drills. During a run fit drill, the California native squeezed in extra reps by working alongside Daniel Bituli and then shadowing Shanon Reid the next time through. As we were leaving practice, Bituli and To’oto’o were on the first-team defense during 7-on-7 work. Notably, Tennessee was short a linebacker Wednesday, as Will Ignont was not present at practice.

Elsewhere defensively, today was Shawn Shamburger’s turn to get work at the nickel/STAR. The Vols continue to rotate bodies there, with Jaylen McCollough, Cheyenne Labruzza, Bryce Thompson and Shamburger all seeing time there during the first week of opening viewing periods. The safeties worked on two ball-skills/tracking drills, while Pruitt spent two periods with the corners focusing shedding blocks. Tennessee’s head coach was giving freshmen Warren Burrell and Kenney Solomon lots of 1-on-1 instruction.

I watched the defensive line for just a bit, including the stance-race drill. Elijah Simmons was back out there impressing, beating Aubrey Solomon and Savion Williams in two reps. Willams later beat Kingston Harris and Darel Middleton also smoked Latrell Bumphus. While I was watching a separate pass rush drill, Tracy Rocker was very complimentary of Solomon and Ja’Quain Blakely.

Offensively, the first-team OL stayed mostly the same, with Brandon Kennedy back at center in place of Ryan Johnson. Johnson, who met with the media earlier Thursday, still saw some work with the main group though, as the Vols are clearly managing Kennedy’s reps. Much of the work was about exploding off the ball and hand-placement in fundamental work.

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Mainly, Thursday was all about leverage in the trenches and timing in the passing game.

For the tight ends, it remains all about being physical. All of the early fundamental work is on blocking and they are getting plenty of coaching from both Brian Neidermeyer and Jim Chaney. A couple of poor reps meant up-downs for that unit to get things started. Just like Wednesday they did several scrape drills, working to reach the second level blocking in the run game.

For the running backs, it’s about pad level. David Johnson as put the backs under the chute making them doing fundamental work at his desired pad level.

The highlight of the offensive fundamental work on Thursday was the timing and rhythm of the passing game. It got off to a good start, and the rhythm throughout — in the short and intermediate stuff — was steady the whole period.

The receivers caught the ball well and the placement by the quarterbacks was good, too. It’s worth noting that Chris Weinke and Chaney are certainly looking for their backup quarterback, as both J.T. Shrout and Brian Maurer were getting 2-3 more reps a piece than Jarrett Guarantano was and there’s not physical issues or concerns with JG. It’s simply more reps to the back up quarterbacks as the staff looks for one of the two to separate themselves.
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-Simonton
 
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