Recruiting Forum Football Talk II

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Devo182 said:
I'm curious of your all's thoughts or criticism of this:

Let's say some play this Fall, get halfway through the season, then have to stop for whatever reasons. Couldn't they just potentially pick back up in the Spring and attempt to finish anyway? I don't see anything stopping such a plan.

It just seems like an added benefit of flexibility. It gives a school the absolute best chance to get in a full 10+ game schedule. Outside of some NFL prospects prepping for the combine, rather than continuing to play (teams will look a lot different in the Spring regardless), am I missing something? Even if Jan-Mar is a cluster, at least you got some games in.

Seems like a lot of upside, little downside. But I haven't thought it through much either.
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How about they just let em play and quit being little coward bitches...the virus is still going to be here come spring, and next spring and next and next spring...hell..every spring that springs till time ends..so what is the damn point of putting it off?
 
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eVOLve said:
Looks like Russia has a vaccine that ole Pootin has registered to use.
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That’s crazy how he already had his daughter innoculated. That thing hasn’t even went into large scale trials yet and he’s already pushing it out there. Zombieland: Russia
 
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scienceteaching_vol said:
Love this! I think some of my students have tried this!
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The Valedictorian of my HS senior class told another student that the night before a test that he would put that subject’s textbook under his pillow and complete his test preparation through osmosis.

I overheard him, later that day in another class I asked him if he really did that...he said hell no, but that guy had been bugging him for years about his secrets to good grades. The guy wouldn’t listen to “I study every day and stay prepared for each class.” It got so bad that the Valedictorian just started making stuff up to get the guy to leave him alone. 😁
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
There are potential long term effects of many viruses. HIV, Polio, Mumps, Chicken pox. To name a few.

The long term effects of smoking, vaping, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, alcoholism, bipolar disorder.

Something will eventually end my life. I am taking all the recommended precautions for all of the above issues including Covid.

I am not going to stop my life because of one more thing that wants to kill me. Be prepared and continue living.

😷🙏
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This is such a simple, logical, common sense perspective. But yet somehow it is not the majority perspective. How sad is that?
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
@Rishvol - as you requested here is the link to the UT dashboard for Covid tracking in the state: ArcGIS Dashboards

Previously, I posted about our planned matchup with Auburn. This is my take on our planned hosting of Texas A&M.

There’s not really a lot of difference between the talent levels of the 2 teams but they are ranked 16th in the nation in overall returning production while we are at #50. Reportedly, they return 17 starters this year while as a minimum we return 14 but with a few more that have starting experience. They return more skill position starters so that could perhaps give them an early edge, at least on paper. jmo.

Their offense has the most returning production, ranked at #17. Bill Connelly had those offensive guys ranked as 9th best in the nation last year in his preseason SP+ but he had soured on them by the end of the year, pegging them as 33rd best. To be fair, last year, he, like many others, including myself, had expected a lot out of our offense in the preseason as well, ranking us as 13th best in the nation. By the end of the year he had given up on us, sliding us all the way down to #73.

According to an article in the Houston Chronicle recapping their season the big problem with A&M’s offense last year was their offensive line and in December the writer didn’t see how that was going to be fixed any time soon.

Against our conference opponents last year we ranked #8 in rushing offense. Right, not anything all that big to write home about. Texas A&M’s rushing offense ranked even lower at #11 against conference competition. Our passing offense was at #6 while A&M’s was at #4. We barely edged them out for total offense but they beat us by 5.3 points per game in scoring offense. We had 13 turnovers while they had 11, again, against only conference opponents. We allowed 44 TFLs last year while A&M allowed 45. In sacks we only allowed 13 against conference opponents while A&M allowed 27.

In the preseason last year the SP+ ranked A&M’s defense as 32nd best nationally and they finished the season ranked 23rd. The SP+ ranked our defense as 49th best before the season started but by the end of the year our guys had moved all the way up to #19. A&M’s defense is starting out this year ranked at #15 and ours is sitting at #7.

We had the 7th best run defense in the conference last year and A&M was at #6. Our pass defense ranked #5 against conference opponents while A&M ranked #10. In total defense we were at #5, A&M was at #9. In scoring defense we held conference opponents to 4.7 fewer points per game than A&M was able to do. We gained 8 turnovers from conference foes while A&M gained 7.

Overall, SP+ gives A&M a preseason ranking of #10 this year and we’re at #19, weighed down by the low expectations associated with our offense. Last year it was the opposite and what actually happened in the end was the opposite of what had been expected. The offense disappointed and the defense came into its own. Last year was the second year our guys had in Pruitt’s defense; this year will be the second year our guys have had in Chaney’s offense. Anything can happen. jmo.

These two teams appear pretty evenly matched, at least on paper and last year’s performance. I think we may have some hidden pluses that data mining might not pick up. For example, we return 4 cornerbacks with starting experience, 2 nickel backs with starting experience, and 3 safeties with starting experience. We have some experience on the defensive line that will be pushed by incoming young talent and that incoming young talent will be pushed by the older guys. We almost certainly will have to have some young guys step up in the linebacker group but we have a deep well of incoming talent there and they’ll have to outperform the older guys in that group if they’re going to get on the field. Given that we’ve had a very extended time to work on walk-thrus this summer the learning curve may not be as long as it may have been in the past. jmo.

With perhaps the best offensive line in the conference and a pretty decent running back room we just need to figure out our passing game and perhaps our offense will finally come into its own pretty much the same as our defense did last year. I think we have enough options at receiver between experience and talent that we’ll probably do okay there. We may be better later on that we are right off the bat but I don’t think that’s going to hurt us as much as some may think. I also think we have some decent options at tight end. I’m going to assume that Chaney will have our offense poised for a major leap in improvement this year and I think that’s a reasonable assumption. jmo.

In short, I think the A&M game is definitely winnable for us this year and perhaps even more so from the home field comfort and familiarity of Neyland Stadium. jmo.
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Translation and Reader’s Digest version: WGWTFA! 🤠
 
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therickbol said:
You spoke for yourself. And I am actually exactly the same way. But it's not like they for everyone. It has an impact of the quality of the product diminishes. Financially speaking.
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Can’t speak for other fan bases, but there are millions of VFLs that are exactly like us...
 
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