Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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As of today, knowing that recruiting can be very fluid, what's your percentage chance of landing these guys:

Jay Hardy

Tyler Baron

Leneth Whitehead

Darnell Washington

Arik Gilbert

Rakim Jarrett
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Alright, 2 days out...real football tonight.


Trey is playing, Solomon is playing, anything else boom worthy? I feel a bit more confident now that 2 key pieces for the LOS are playing.
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And Pruitt got me fired up. Atm, Good news popping in from all over.

Except KNS who currently has 2 reporters trying to find a link between the football team and possible mold in student dorms.
And maybe one still digging through receipts of all taco stands during Foster's time here.
 
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utkevdawg1 said:
@jakez4ut @Aesius @zhangliao04 and other Charlotteans. Our watch parties have moved to Angry Ales on Montford this year. It's a great location for the game and the owner is apparently fully engaged in making it a great game day experience for us.
I'm out this week (travelling) but will be there most weeks since it is convenient for me. Hope to See all CLT Vol alumns and fans out there!
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Thanks for the heads up. I will try to make it either this weekend or in a few weekends for the Chatt game.
 
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chargervol said:
And Pruitt got me fired up. Atm, Good news popping in from all over.

Except KNS who currently has 2 reporters trying to find a link between the football team and possible mold in student dorms.
And maybe one still digging through receipts of all taco stands during Foster's time here.
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Just wandered over to the UK Rivals board and they think something shady is going on because the KDP didn't throw Thompson in jail for allegedly stating he was going to shoot up the school. So in at least one UK fan's mind, what you think or say is worthy of being locked up.

They also seem to think something sinister is going on with the NCAA because Solomon's waiver is approved and Xavier Peters is still waiting to hear on his.
 
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Catbone said:
The season is gonna largely ride on this right here y'all. Can we break the top 100 on all these catagories?
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I don't think that's going to be our problem at all and in fact I think you're fighting the last war.

As we head into kickoff I am thinking defense should be our biggest anxiety and what we need to find out about over the first 4 games. I think it’s reasonable to expect our special teams to be pretty solid and I think it’s also reasonable to expect our offense to take a significant step forward. I think there are a lot of questions on defense. When Pruitt says we're a young football team, he's almost exclusively talking about the defense. jmo.

We basically lost Richmond on offense and that’s it. We have all of our specialists back for special teams. On defense, most everyone focuses on the loss of the 3 starting defensive linemen but we lost a lot more than that. We lost Kirkland and Sapp at linebacker. Kongbo is gone. While not everyone we lost on defense were significant contributors, we lost at least 14 guys on defense or are down that many heading into our first game. 13 of those 14 were/are blue chippers. Some will likely be back, Bituli and Thompson, but for the moment we’re starting out already down arguably our best player at each of the 3 levels on defense.

While we don’t know how our new defensive line is going to perform or how much our secondary will improve, I think most expect our pass rush to improve and to be more consistent. The biggest issue I see with our defense is the inside linebackers. Bituli is expected back at some point but how long before he’s back to 100%? Ignont has had an ankle issue for what seems like most of fall camp. Peterson seems to continue to have an issue with his shoulder. We’ve become so desperate at inside linebacker that near the end of fall camp we moved a 205 pound freshman safety down to the position and a few days after that plucked Banks out of the running back group to shore up the inside linebacker ranks. By almost all accounts our best option at the position is a true freshman in To’oto’o.

I’ve long thought that the key to our improvement this season rested heavily on the improvement in our defense. We’re giving Ansley his first career shot at calling a defense this year and though we have Pruitt to back him up, the real issue as everyone has noted is the lack of experience on that side of the ball, and now perhaps even a dwindling number of bodies, especially for the first few weeks of the new season.

Offenses and special teams won’t win a lot of football games. Last year our young-at-the-time offense scored more points against conference opponents than either MSU or KY, both of whom won a hell of a lot more games than we did. It takes a stout defense to win football games in the SEC and if Pruitt and Ansley can field a decent defense this year with all the challenges we face right now on that side of the ball, then we should just go ahead and build statues for both of them. We’ll know in about 4 weeks whether or not to go on and place the orders in advance. jmo.
 
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Crazy Ivan said:
Just wandered over to the UK Rivals board and they think something shady is going on because the KDP didn't throw Thompson in jail for allegedly stating he was going to shoot up the school. So in at least one UK fan's mind, what you think or say is worthy of being locked up.

They also seem to think something sinister is going on with the NCAA because Solomon's waiver is approved and Xavier Peters is still waiting to hear on his.
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Yeah, because everyone loves UT and tries to help them out as much as possible.

Sometimes weird chit just happens.

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Crazy Ivan said:
Just wandered over to the UK Rivals board and they think something shady is going on because the KDP didn't throw Thompson in jail for allegedly stating he was going to shoot up the school. So in at least one UK fan's mind, what you think or say is worthy of being locked up.

They also seem to think something sinister is going on with the NCAA because Solomon's waiver is approved and Xavier Peters is still waiting to hear on his.
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You wonder into sh%%, you smell sh*&, then you hear sh&^.
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
I don't think that's going to be our problem at all and in fact I think you're fighting the last war.

As we head into kickoff I am thinking defense should be our biggest anxiety and what we need to find out about over the first 4 games. I think it’s reasonable to expect our special teams to be pretty solid and I think it’s also reasonable to expect our offense to take a significant step forward. I think there are a lot of questions on defense. When Pruitt says we're a young football team, he's almost exclusively talking about the defense. jmo.

We basically lost Richmond on offense and that’s it. We have all of our specialists back for special teams. On defense, most everyone focuses on the loss of the 3 starting defensive linemen but we lost a lot more than that. We lost Kirkland and Sapp at linebacker. Kongbo is gone. While not everyone we lost on defense were significant contributors, we lost at least 14 guys on defense or are down that many heading into our first game. 13 of those 14 were/are blue chippers. Some will likely be back, Bituli and Thompson, but for the moment we’re starting out already down arguably our best player at each of the 3 levels on defense.

While we don’t know how our new defensive line is going to perform or how much our secondary will improve, I think most expect our pass rush to improve and to be more consistent. The biggest issue I see with our defense is the inside linebackers. Bituli is expected back at some point but how long before he’s back to 100%? Ignont has had an ankle issue for what seems like most of fall camp. Peterson seems to continue to have an issue with his shoulder. We’ve become so desperate at inside linebacker that near the end of fall camp we moved a 205 pound freshman safety down to the position and a few days after that plucked Banks out of the running back group to shore up the inside linebacker ranks. By almost all accounts our best option at the position is a true freshman in To’oto’o.

I’ve long thought that the key to our improvement this season rested heavily on the improvement in our defense. We’re giving Ansley his first career shot at calling a defense this year and though we have Pruitt to back him up, the real issue as everyone has noted is the lack of experience on that side of the ball, and now perhaps even a dwindling number of bodies, especially for the first few weeks of the new season.

Offenses and special teams won’t win a lot of football games. Last year our young-at-the-time offense scored more points against conference opponents than either MSU or KY, both of whom won a hell of a lot more games than we did. It takes a stout defense to win football games in the SEC and if Pruitt and Ansley can field a decent defense this year with all the challenges we face right now on that side of the ball, then we should just go ahead and build statues for both of them. We’ll know in about 4 weeks whether or not to go on and place the orders in advance. jmo.
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Great post as usual! Need Bituli and Thompson (hopefully) before Florida BADLY
 
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Catbone said:
Great post as usual! Need Bituli and Thompson (hopefully) before Florida BADLY
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I think we will have Bituli by BYU no problem, but I'm going to go ahead and not plan on Thompson being back at all and then hopefully will be pleasantly surprised... the media has single handily ramped this damn thing up to a fever pitch and has spiraled out of control. There's no denying they have some vendetta with anything/everything UT sports... and this proves it.
 
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Crazy Ivan said:
Just wandered over to the UK Rivals board and they think something shady is going on because the KDP didn't throw Thompson in jail for allegedly stating he was going to shoot up the school. So in at least one UK fan's mind, what you think or say is worthy of being locked up.

They also seem to think something sinister is going on with the NCAA because Solomon's waiver is approved and Xavier Peters is still waiting to hear on his.
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Well, we all know you can't fix STUPID, so..............
 
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LA Vol said:
KNS probably starts editorial meetings with "OK, what dirt do we have on UT athletics today?"

Scratch that. They probably don't have editorial meetings.
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They don't have editors anymore. They have middle managers that write headlines designed to drive clicks.
 
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volfaninpa said:
As of today, knowing that recruiting can be very fluid, what's your percentage chance of landing these guys:

Jay Hardy 100

Tyler Baron. 100

Leneth Whitehead 80

Darnell Washington 20

Arik Gilbert 50

Rakim Jarrett 50
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If I am being honest with myself.
 
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