Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

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Atlanta VOL said:
If I were in JP’s shoes...I would probably look to the future. Shore up one of the best ‘22 classes the program has ever seen and make it extremely hard for the administration to get rid of me for fear of loosing such a talented group of players...
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Do you expect staff changes as well and how many? It seems if JP is truly looking to the future of the program that this is needed also.
 
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butchna said:
Most of his rep built at Stanford. Would wonder about his recruiting since Vandy.
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He'd probably recruit terribly at Tennessee. At Stanford and Vandy he only could go after a certain type of recruit. You get lucky occasionally and can land a player like Josh Dobbs, but they are few and far between.
 
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bignewt said:
This pretty much sums it up. We are a bunch of fans living in the past who have watched the slow death of something we love, wallowing in denial thinking that the right nobody head coach will catch lightning in a bottle and bring us back. The sad fact is there is no bringing this back. This is now a lower to middle tier SEC East team. There is no savior booster or champion inside the University who will go out and hire a home run. It isn't happening. Pruitt will sink down into the quicksand and after a 5-7 season next year we will make yet another move to another middling hire we all hope works out. It won't. I am now at acceptance on the grieving scale. My once enormous emotional investment is now at a trickle.

I will stay on this board because of the great people who share in our communal pain but I see the writing on the wall. It's donesies.
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And the younger fan base will not be as rabid a fan because the team has always been low performing in their memories. This leads to an aging fan base and will be quite difficult to replace the older fans with younger fans...because who grows up wanting to be a fan of poor programs? In the long run, fix it now, or the stadium will look like Vandy’s in the future.
 
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willinhf said:
And the younger fan base will not be as rabid a fan because the team has always been low performing in their memories. This leads to an aging fan base and will be quite difficult to replace the older fans with younger fans...because who grows up wanting to be a fan of poor programs? In the long run, fix it now, or the stadium will look like Vandy’s in the future.
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Not all, but a lot of our younger fanbase sees the games as a social/tailgating event. Pretty similar to Ole Miss fans. The game is in the background, either in person or on TV, but you're there to hang out with other people. The game is totally secondary. If football got cancelled tomorrow, I'm not sure any of them would be broken up over it - after all, there are other social events besides football.

There's still time to turn it around before we get to that point, but that is the direction in which we are headed.
 
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IF Pruitt stays and the staff is overhauled once again I would hope they would reach out to both Muschamp and Mason to gauge their interest. I also hope Pruitt would be given a list of things he has to do (less micromanaging for one) and some specific benchmarks he has to hit in order to keep his job past next year. I also hope that whatever he is told STAYS within the Athletic Department.
 
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The last 30 seconds on the first half against auburn is the worst coaching job I’ve ever seen. I’m still trying to figure out why with 13 seconds from our own 44 we run a flat route to move up to our own 49. Why not take two shots to the end zone? Or run a play to get in FG range and spike the ball after a first down.
 
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My biggest issue with this season and one I really will never understand is that in a "free year" why not get all of your younger guys game experience and come out firing for the next seasons?

Play and develop for the future - i see that is a critical failure/missed opportunity in this year especially.
 
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Has anyone heard anything of Trey Smith and Cade Mays getting into a fight around the Kentucky game earlier this year?
 
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HankHill said:
The last 30 seconds on the first half against auburn is the worst coaching job I’ve ever seen. I’m still trying to figure out why with 13 seconds from our own 44 we run a flat route to move up to our own 49. Why not take two shots to the end zone? Or run a play to get in FG range and spike the ball after a first down.
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There are so many things that teams do every week that never make sense to me. Not trying to score at the end of the first half when they are in decent field position. Snapping the ball with 10-15 seconds on the play clock when they are holding onto a lead and likely to punt it back. Not calling immediate timeouts when they need to score and the clock is still running. Being slow to get to the line of scrimmage when they are running out of time. Just baffling stuff every week.
 
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SpringBokVol said:
My biggest issue with this season and one I really will never understand is that in a "free year" why not get all of your younger guys game experience and come out firing for the next seasons?

Play and develop for the future - i see that is a critical failure/missed opportunity in this year especially.
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Never agreed with delaying winning. But we’re not exactly doing the winning so different would have to be more conducive.
 
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Smyrna ATL Vol said:
Lol! $230 million, $130 after taxes. UT winning = $25 million. Left with $105 million. I think I can survive and move somewhere warm to enjoy the championships.
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Taking lump sum cash option would be $180 million x 37% - $66,600,000=$113,400,000...but still you could do somethings
 
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HankHill said:
The last 30 seconds on the first half against auburn is the worst coaching job I’ve ever seen. I’m still trying to figure out why with 13 seconds from our own 44 we run a flat route to move up to our own 49. Why not take two shots to the end zone? Or run a play to get in FG range and spike the ball after a first down.
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Because coaches don't trust the QB they keep trotting out
 
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TheMagnificantOne said:
Taking lump sum cash option would be $180 million x 37% - $66,600,000=$113,400,000...but still you could do somethings
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I would take the cash option for sure. I would invest $75 at low risk options making around 3% in interest/dividend income. Never touch the principal and live off the $2,250,000 a year in investment income. I doubt I could even spend that in a year with no debt.
 
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