Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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Neyland Law Vol said:
Any truth to the rumor that the NCAA has already denied Solomon's request and TN hasn't announced it yet because they filed an appeal and are waiting on that? Would explain why it has taken so long compared to others.
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Haven't heard that one but no way that most of us could check.
 
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Disgusting. We will definitely be getting better soon, but still battling it out for 2nd place in the SEC east for the foreseeable future. Too much talent in Athens.

Btw I strongly recommend reading Tathan Martells twitter comments I'm dying
 
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LynxVol said:
I'm in this boat. I can see 8 wins, but I think 6-6 or 7-5 is more realistic. To get to 8 wins, I think you have to beat Miss. St., USC, and Mizzou, and I'm not sure we can beat all three. Miss. St. is in a bad spot on the schedule between UGA and Bama, USC needs that game just as badly as we likely will given their schedule this year, and Mizzou has had our number, plus its away. JMO.
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State lost a lot of NFL talent and a starting QB. They still have a solid roster but plenty of holes to fill.
I wouldn't favor us at this point over Mizzou at their place.
USC is interesting. Should have beat them last year (IMO the game everyone overlooks when talking about missing a bowl). They have been all over the place at times under Muschamp. I think they are on the edge of checking out on him. Its possible they walk into Neyland 2-5 with a trip to A&M and home against Clemson still on the schedule later.
 
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BeecherVol said:
State lost a lot of NFL talent and a starting QB. They still have a solid roster but plenty of holes to fill.
I wouldn't favor us at this point over Mizzou at their place.
USC is interesting. Should have beat them last year (IMO the game everyone overlooks when talking about missing a bowl). They have been all over the place at times under Muschamp. I think they are on the edge of checking out on him. Its possible they walk into Neyland 2-5 with a trip to A&M and home against Clemson still on the schedule later.
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But last year the Shamecocks played pretty hard (TWSS) considering all their injuries. Didn’t sound like they were checking out on Muschamp.
 
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Neyland Law Vol said:
Any truth to the rumor that the NCAA has already denied Solomon's request and TN hasn't announced it yet because they filed an appeal and are waiting on that? Would explain why it has taken so long compared to others.
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It has been speculated. Don't think any official word has been released or will be.
 
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Catbone said:
Disgusting. We will definitely be getting better soon, but still battling it out for 2nd place in the SEC east for the foreseeable future. Too much talent in Athens.

Btw I strongly recommend reading Tathan Martells twitter comments I'm dying
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Then how did we beat Auburn?
 
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Neyland Law Vol said:
Any truth to the rumor that the NCAA has already denied Solomon's request and TN hasn't announced it yet because they filed an appeal and are waiting on that? Would explain why it has taken so long compared to others.
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When a player who is not a graduate transfer leaves a school.it is an automatic sit out one year situation. The appeal is to eliminated that automatic requirement to sit out a year. Since they have not heard a NO, I am optimistic that he will be playing this Fall for the VOLs.
 
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coskramer said:
Atlanta Vol said this was the case
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He implied as much in his vague riddle way. But who knows if he was actually told this straight from the horse's mouth (hard to imagine Pruitt or a compliance person just sputtering it out tbh) or just hearing similar musings from other folks around there (who probably read VN, btw). Not doubting him if he said he heard it straight from a primary source, but sometimes you get that feeling when VN throws out a theory on Monday, it ends up on ToS by Tuesday, then someone on here says "there's a rumor on ToS" by Wednesday...considering we were spitballing this idea a week or two ago, then Tony B brings it up, it pops up on ToS as a bona fide rumor, etc it just has one of those "all roads lead back to VN" feelings to it.
 
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Coach Punk said:
But last year the Shamecocks played pretty hard (TWSS) considering all their injuries. Didn’t sound like they were checking out on Muschamp.
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They lost 6 games last year and their schedule just picked up UNC for a non cupcake and Bama replaces Ole Miss. They better get both UNC and UK early.

Their resolve will be tested.
 
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mrorange211 said:
The point is that the most talented team doesn’t always win. It’s important but if it’s all that mattered UGA would have 17 national championships.
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USC is talented. Texas is talented. OSU is talented. LSU is talented. AU is talented. None of them win consistently and some of them are like us, falling behind. Look at USC. They are clearly one of the most talented teams in the country and they went 5-7 last year and we look at them on Bama's schedule next year and laugh. They don't have a chance.

You have to have talent to win at a high level. But you have to have more than talent to win championships.
 
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BeecherVol said:
Their schedule is ridiculous.
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If USCjr fails to make a bowl game they may fire Muschamp. Which hopefully would spiral them down further. This article shows their fans may not put up with them missing a bowl game.

Gamecock Football 2019: Mission Impossible

We need to pass UK, Vandy, USCjr for the foreseeable future and put some laps between us and their programs starting in 2019. That is a reasonable goal for 2019 - and those three games plus winning the 4 out of conference games gets us to 7 wins.

I can get greedy and say let's also win one out of the Miss State and Mizzu games to get us to 8 total.

Win both of those that's 9, and with a bowl win we now have a 10 win season and Pruitt is COY!
 
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NMVol said:
Just something to watch for. Seemed like a few times last season on the opponents side of the field from 35 or 30 Chandler or Jordan were open for a nice gain 20 yards or more down the middle coming out of the backfield. Now with Johnson coaching the RB group and the sense that Chaney is going to be running a "throw first" offense, will be really interesting to see how the much the RB's are involved in the throw game. There's plenty to build on.
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If Gray is even a fraction of what Kamara was on the catch, I'd say let's throw out to him and Chandler in space and let's roll. Get DWA, Wanya, Trey blocking on the 2nd level...JJ blocking the safeties (plural)...hmmm
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
No way he gets it!! If he gets a waiver, then I would riot if I was any university with a transfer that didn’t get a waiver.
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Mehlen seems to be way too optimistic for a kid that was just arrested this year and was having issues...maybe more to the story than we know. If it means throwing Kirby under a 16 wheeler that destroys all credibility, I might get on board. As long as it all goes public and is very messy 😈
 
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