Recruiting Forum Football Talk II

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IhateGA said:
Not me, we are competing with Texas A&M for players, we don't need them building anything there. I cheer against all other SEC teams. All those SEC teams were having a good laugh at us last week and I can promise you not 1 of them was cheering for us to win that game.
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We have the same recruiting footprint as Clemson. We need that shine to come off them.
 
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NMVol said:
I've been following the Vols for over 5 decades. I listened to the radio call last week. Taking it down to the wire in the last 4 minutes of that game was the worst feeling I can remember following Vol football. Though I want to tune in tonight, can't say I am looking forward to it. Unbelievable.
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The brand of football we’re currently playing is unwatchable. Look at the last 3 games and you’ll see it’s just getting worse. We’re at a teetering point with Pruitt already and I think a bad outcome tonight is going to derail the whole season and likely his tenure. It’s depressing.
 
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Where is the fan and the tailgate?
Where is the helmet and the jersey?
Where is the band that was playing?
They have passed like rain on the Smokies.
Like wind in the meadow.
The days have gone down in the East,
Behind the hills,
Into obscurity.

How did it come down to this?


-Theoden King after Tennessee's loss to Georgia State.
 
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Vols4us said:
For you young guns who are struggling with understanding why we keep losing, take a couple of minutes to read this post from an old timer who is a lifelong Vol fan. As a kid sat in the stands in the north end zone with my dad watching Vol legends play the game with all they had as well as through the decades that followed. Though all that time I have never witnessed what I saw last Saturday. I also know it may not be the bottom and it could go lower. However, I sincerely hope that it was just a weird aberration.

I have no idea what to expect this evening and that's what bothers me most. Which is one major reason why I want the players to play and act like JJ. There are good reasons he is who the students/fans painted on the rock. The players and coaches should care about Vol football the way he does. Guys like JJ transcend time.

How did he get that way? By growing up as a fan. Think about it. Fan support is crucial and the lifeblood of Vol football. Don't diss the fans no matter how stupid they act. Fans are not media with agendas and narratives. As players if they cannot refrain from doing that, they should stay off social media. If coaches and administrators see it, they should stop it. Players represent Vol fans everywhere. Nearly every male Vol fan who played football in HS would have given anything to play on the field that bears the General's name wearing the orange and running through the T as the POTS plays when they were the same age. Only about 25 are chosen each year. It is a privilege, not a right. The coaches should recruit the guys that get that with zero exceptions. The players should not need more "motivation" or many proverbial kicks in the arses. That's where the Volunteer spirit comes from and how many Vol teams were able to pull upsets against the odds. It's how UT became the one team Bama hated playing the most and how one won the NC during most of our lifetimes.

That's what we have been missing for over a decade. Kiffin had that mentality, but did not buy in. Dools, Botch and now, Pruitt have not bought in or shown the Volunteer spirit. Pruitt still has the opportunity and I hope he chooses to embrace it. He will need it to be successful on the hill.
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millst987 said:
Where’s everyone at today emotionally?
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Anyone else glad it’s a night game in case we **** the bed again? Least it won’t ruin our whole Saturday!
I won’t be able to watch, have a event I have to attend at 6, which might not be so bad.
 
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millst987 said:
Where’s everyone at today emotionally?
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I’m full of doubt. Everyone wants a win tonight to wash away all the bad feels from Ga St and so do I. However, I doubt we’ll have our problems fixed and we’ll likely suffer a loss. The rage of that loss and the realization that there’s no hope is going to make a lot of people check out.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
They’re just mocking us on SEC nation. Just showed the clip of Hershel Walker running over Bates for no reason, and then Tebow shouted “that’s what Georgia State just did!”

I’m so tired of being the butt of the jokes. It’s been 12 years of this crap
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Bass you gotta stop watching TV.
 
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