Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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csprig9 said:
Chaney is the coach of the offense
He can jump in and assist any offensive coach he wants, that’s his job. Quit making a big deal out of nothing. When Pruitt does it off defense people aren’t jumping to conclusions.....
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Following a day off Monday, Tennessee held practice No. 10 of fall camp Tuesday under thick heat and humidity.

Several coaches were demonstratively displeased with the effort of some units, including Jim Chaney with the offensive line and Kevin Sherrer with the linebackers.

The media saw just two short open periods. Here are some quick notes from Tuesday’s practice…

Chaney spent the entire two periods with the offensive line, leading multiple drills. Tennessee’s offensive coordinator went ballistic on several lineman for not finishing blocks, even throwing Jahmir Johnson out of the drill at one point following a poor rep. Newcomers (Darnell Wright and walk-on Parker Ball) and vets (Ryan Johnson and Brandon Kennedy) received Chaney’s wrath at spot point. Twice Chaney made the entire group redo a rep. Overall, it was not a fun few periods to be an offensive lineman Tuesday.

Didn’t get a chance to see much of the routes on air period but Jacquez Jones, who has generated some positive buzz behind the scenes, was taking reps ahead of Jordan Murphy in the slot at times Tuesday.

Unlike Chaney or Sherrer, Tracy Rocker maintained his newfound stoic demeanor during drills, calmly praising guys or correcting footwork. After Aubrey Solomon ran with the 1s during the scrimmage the Michigan transfer was at the back of the line of practice reps Tuesday. Greg Emerson was still at the first-team nose tackle.

A couple injury notes: JJ Peterson appeared full-contact Tuesday, and John Mincey was also full-go. Will Ignont also out there, with his left ankle still heavily tapped. Meanwhile, Roman Harrison was limited with an undisclosed injury, not doing much drill work.
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butchna said:
I’ve backed Friend and still do. This isn’t a good look.
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Not directed toward you, but I don't think it's a bad look at all, accepting others' input is a best practice in modern management research. Chaney is the OC and holds rank. Should he step back and hold his tongue and deny the group meaningful input? Should Friend be egotistic or paranoid and not accept others' help? Neither would be helpful to us. Great organizations crave additional input and great employees WANT other great people around them, not minimize, control, or be paranoid about them.

Friend is a beast...but also accepts help and input. Sign me up. That is the sign of a great employee. He's killed it in Y2 and onward everywhere he's been and now he has Pittman's right-hand-man throwing Pittman's knowledge out there for our taking. Let's roll.
 
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SLICKYINC said:
2 of those schools register as good competition. Arlington and central do not.
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Arlington is kind of like a Maryville in that they don't produce much D1 talent, they have had successful teams. I believe Arlington has been to the state playoffs the last 10 straight years, and they are in Cordova's district. Cordova beat them 72-63 in Banks' senior year.

While Central doesn't always have a great team, they produce D1 players. In 2018, they had two kids go to West Virginia. In 2015, they had a kid go to Miss. State. Central also produced Frank Herron, who went to LSU, and Jarnell Stokes started there in basketball. Chris Morris this year started at Central before transferring.

All this to say that Jeremy Banks did not play terrible competition. In fact, other than Whitehaven, Eric Gray played worse competition at Lausanne.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
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Well I think it’s fair to assume Solomans reps will go down if the optimism diminishes for his eligibility. Hopefully this isn’t the first sign of that

To be fair I’ve never understood how drills are showing these media guys who is the first team and who isn’t. Imo the only time to really learn that is during team periods which the media isn’t seeing
 
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SLICKYINC said:
Didn't play at a great school or against all that great competition but, other than the fumbles. I think he disproved those who were "familiar" with his HS performances last year as a true freshman.
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Don't get me wrong, I want him to prove that prediction wrong. I don't think he disproved them either.
 
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Devo182 said:
Not directed toward you, but I don't think it's a bad look at all, accepting others' input is a best practice in modern management research. Chaney is the OC and holds rank. Should he step back and hold his tongue and deny the group meaningful input? Should Friend be egotistic or paranoid and not accept others' help? Neither would be helpful to us. Great organizations crave additional input and great employees WANT other great people around them, not minimize, control, or be paranoid about them.

Friend is a beast...but also accepts help and input. Sign me up. That is the sign of a great employee. He's killed it in Y2 and onward everywhere he's been and now he has Pittman's right-hand-man throwing Pittman's knowledge out there for our taking. Let's roll.
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Allow me to continue my drama generating. When the OC is correcting fundamentals? Someone missed something. As previously stated, I’ve backed him and that hasn’t changed, but this was perceived BY ME as a bad look...so I stated it.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
@vol4092 yo, what’s up with Solomon?
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We wrote that article months ago so we could release something when it was announce which is why there was no date to it. It was never posted to the website but had an active permalink. No idea how that article got out or why. Assuming somebody found the article through a google search. Not sure. But there is nothing to it from our end. We know as much as Anybody else at this point. Nothing of it. All a big mishap but I have already downloaded a plugin that will prevent it from happening again
 
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Ten_Titans said:
If Chaney isn't impressed, Friend will be gone next year for sure.

Pruitt might not like it but I doubt he is going to force feed staff members to his very highly paid OC.
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Friend is under contract until 2020, so is Sherrer and Rumph. Nieds just got a well deserved extension.

I think if any coaches are leaving it’s based on underperforming in recruiting. Rocker, Weinke, and YAC’s contracts all end this year.
 
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VolGee4 said:
Arlington is kind of like a Maryville in that they don't produce much D1 talent, they have had successful teams. I believe Arlington has been to the state playoffs the last 10 straight years, and they are in Cordova's district. Cordova beat them 72-63 in Banks' senior year.

While Central doesn't always have a great team, they produce D1 players. In 2018, they had two kids go to West Virginia. In 2015, they had a kid go to Miss. State. Central also produced Frank Herron, who went to LSU, and Jarnell Stokes started there in basketball. Chris Morris this year started at Central before transferring.

All this to say that Jeremy Banks did not play terrible competition. In fact, other than Whitehaven, Eric Gray played worse competition at Lausanne.
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I mean we can cherry pick onsie twosie players off of individual teams all day. But, for the most part, they don't play great competition as a whole, it's just a fact. All anyone has to do is look at over all records for the teams they played while Banks was there to figure it out. But, the point I was originally trying to make is that Banks IS a SEC caliber player.

BTW, I live in the area and know about the teams here.
 
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engineerVOL said:
JMO Banks rarely sees the field this year.
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Wouldn't be a bad thing, unless he's improved greatly as a ballcarrier, which would be great for the kid and definitely pulling for him. Lowest YPC and most fumbles last year. He's got to earn his way back and pick up more yards if he wants a chance with Chandler and Gray who are explosive.
 
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