Recruiting Forum Football Talk II

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Freak said:
I was thinking about a comment Pruitt made earlier in the year about how thin we were, especially on defense, due to injuries, transfers, or whatever.

I know Bituli was injured early. Gooden went down. Buchanan, I think we learned about in the summer. Thompson was suspended. Flowers broke his leg. Trey Smith didn't practice. Jordan Allen had a hip issue.

Will Ignont, Shanon Reid, Jacquez Jones, Terrell Bailey and Maleik Gray transferred.

Anyone I'm missing?
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I can't think of anyone else but I was thinking about this as well. Also consider the lack of run game, until tonight, and reliance on the big play. None of those things help a defense. All things considered the job this staff did with the defense was remarkable.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
I asked you a question. You're arguing a point I'm not. You're arguing that bigger teams won't schedule them. I'm arguing their schedules suck. Can both not be true?

The fact is, most of those teams want a home and home. Most big time programs are not giving up a home game to a 30k stadium. It's stupid to think they would.
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I'm not arguing the in-conference schedule. Nobody can't control that... Im talking strictly non-conference. I get the home & home for most group of 5's. USF (when they are consistently good) & UCF are the exception. They are big enough (stadium) and good enough (at their peak) to do a home & home.
 
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85SugarVol said:
Intellectually? You point to 2 outlier examples. One from years ago in a meaningless game. The other in a meaningless game against a beat up Auburn that wanted nothing to do with being there.

You’ve made no valid point. It’s just your opinion. You want Cinderella to get a chance. It’s just not fair!
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Calling those games "meaningless" doesn't change the fact that they won straight up. Without them playing in a game you would coin "meaningful" there is no way to prove their worthiness. You can call them outliers, but what happens when the next "outlier" team pops up that has the potential to make headlines?

We can prevent the watering down during some seasons by adding the stipulation that only G5 teams with 1 or fewer losses qualify. In the event none are available, there would be 3 at-large bids. Or make it more strict to only undefeated.
 
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99Vol said:
I don't control who starts but it's possible we see McCullough and Beasley on the backend with Flowers at Star....
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Shamburger is back next year. Flowers & McCullough at the Safety positions.

Alontae Taylor could move to Safety too.
 
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SoilVol said:
Calling those games "meaningless" doesn't change the fact that they won straight up. Without them playing in a game you would coin "meaningful" there is no way to prove their worthiness. You can call them outliers, but what happens when the next "outlier" team pops up that has the potential to make headlines?

We can prevent the watering down during some seasons by adding the stipulation that only G5 teams with 1 or fewer losses qualify. In the event none are available, there would be 3 at-large bids. Or make it more strict to only undefeated.
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They’re outliers. 2 games in over TEN years.

And that UCF vs Auburn absolutely was meaningless. Auburn didn’t even bother to show up...
 
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85SugarVol said:
Shamburger is back next year. Flowers & McCullough at the Safety positions.

Alontae Taylor could move to Safety too.
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It's Sham's 3rd year and though he has improved I'm not sure he is the guy. If we've learned anything with Pruitt it's that he experiments with players and positions and the Star / Sham is the weakest this year and next year we replace Warrior so anything is possible....
 
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85SugarVol said:
He already put in Memphis.

Memphis. The team that lost to... Temple. Lol.
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I haven't put in anyone. Memphis (2 ranked wins, 2 wins over P5), App State (two P5 wins), and Boise (1 P5 win) are all 11-1. They each have conference title games to play. I'm fine with a stipulation that only allows an undefeated G5 team if that makes everyone happy. Otherwise, unless they lose to Cincy, it would be Memphis.

If it's a warm-up game, so what? If they were to shock them, cool. We won't ever know until it happens.
 
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99Vol said:
It's Sham's 3rd year and though he has improved I'm not sure he is the guy. If we've learned anything with Pruitt it's that he experiments with players and positions and the Star / Sham is the weakest this year and next year we replace Warrior so anything is possible....
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Point is he’s not playing THIS year.

Sham is playing this year. He’s back.
Tank is playing this year. He’s back.
Flowers was playing over all of them. He’s back.

Beasley is being recruited over. It happens. He can still contribute on ST. I think he will.
 
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I’m in a dilema.

On one hand, my mouth is watering thinking about when we will have a full stable of Pruitt players. Championships are inevitable.

On the other hand, I am going to miss this group of seniors. They bought in and the turnaround we’ve experienced is unprecedented.

I think I’ll just sit here and enjoy watching Tennessee become great again.

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