Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[nicksjuzunk]

We gon get a commit anytime soon lol

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

All pro sports can get bent. Play the flipping games you are paid to play and stop trying to force political agendas down peoples' throats. You will likely alienate a large portion of your fan base and draw unwanted attention to your already failing products. Just play your games and stop trying to socially engineer Americans. We are a stubborn hard headed lot and as soon as you try to tell us the sky is blue we will dig our heels in and you won't be able to convince us it isn't green. Just stop!

I hardly ever watch any of them anymore, between the greed and the dumb SJW crap I can't stand them anymore.

I used to watch every major pro sport religiously..I was a fanatic, but now they make me want to puke.

 

[LA Vol]

Apathy is at an all time high

And that's the crux of the dilemma. UT needs to get fans excited about football... but admin doesn't want to underscore how many are not. If UT promotes a fan event and fans don't respond, then UT has called attention to the issue. But being in Neyland has always been the best way to build support.

 

[Glitch]

I kinda think MLB made this decision based on not wanting to hurt their game sponsors. If they hadn't made this decision, I believe the ones pushing their agenda would have tried to organize a boycott of sponsors who support baseball. This seems to be the mode of operation in todays society. I don't agree with this strategy but the only pro sport I watch is golf.

Boycotts generally backfire because they are not righteous. People see them as cruel and unfounded so they go out of their way to see them fail. Companies need to just focus on their products and not worry about what UC Berkeley grads are complaining about being racist or some other ist.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I kinda think MLB made this decision based on not wanting to hurt their game sponsors. If they hadn't made this decision, I believe the ones pushing their agenda would have tried to organize a boycott of sponsors who support baseball. This seems to be the mode of operation in todays society. I don't agree with this strategy but the only pro sport I watch is golf.

Screw em...I wouldn't care if they disappeared off the face of the earth.

 

[Glitch]

I hardly ever watch any of them anymore, between the greed and the dumb SJW crap I can't stand them anymore.

I used to watch every major pro sport religiously..I was a fanatic, but now they make me want to puke.

I don't watch anymore either. The players are mostly incredible athletes but I don't want to listen to the announcers talk about social justice while the leagues are making millions of dollars off of slave labor and real human rights violations in China. I can't do it.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I don't watch anymore either. The players are mostly incredible athletes but I don't want to listen to the announcers talk about social justice while the leagues are making millions of dollars off of slave labor and real human rights violations in China. I can't do it.

Slave labor?

 

[JCVol00]

Funfact: If your ring finger is longer than your index finger your pp is above average











Guess who’s ring finger is longer than the index finger

 

[LA Vol]

Also, look for UT to hit the portal hard for a transfer QB.

 

[Glitch]

Slave labor?

Uighurs among other ethnic groups.

 

[Volbucky]

Also, look for UT to hit the portal hard for a transfer QB.

Yikes. He really that unimpressed with what we have?

 

[Fairacres Vol]

Funfact: If your ring finger is longer than your index finger your pp is above average











Guess who’s ring finger is longer than the index finger

Tennessee Stud?

 

[Glitch]

Funfact: If your ring finger is longer than your index finger your pp is above average











Guess who’s ring finger is longer than the index finger

What if your thumb is longer than your index finger? What does that mean?

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

I’m home

 

[JCVol00]

Also, look for UT to hit the portal hard for a transfer QB.

Is it because a certain qb is going to be dismissed from the team, or our qbs are just that bad?

 

[UTMVol76]

Funfact: If your ring finger is longer than your index finger your pp is above average











Guess who’s ring finger is longer than the index finger

Welp, that's a lie LOL

 

[Kingston Vol]

Also, look for UT to hit the portal hard for a transfer QB.

Yeeeeeeeeeep.

 

[ChattaTNVol]

Recruiting –

Recruiting is about relationships. All coaches say that. It makes sense if you think about it. jmo.

Some years ago I read a research paper from a sociology professor at the University of Kansas. The question what how long does it take (on average) for people to make new friends.
The professor recruited 366 adults from social media who had relocated from one city to another (presumably for employment reasons) and recruited 114 incoming freshmen to the University of Kansas. Thus he ended up with 480 willing participants for his research project. He would keep up with them over time and they would keep him informed and he would just collect data on how long it took them to make new friends in their new environment/circumstances.

He measured time these participants spent with a prospective friend in hours so it was cumulative. Additionally, it had to be time spent together by choice, interacting with each other. In other words, time spent together working in the same office didn’t count nor did time spent together in the same classroom. It had to be I guess sort of off-time or there is no fixed non-personal reason for you to be together.

So this is what he found out.

It takes 40-60 hours of people spending time interacting with each other, by choice, to develop a casual friendship.

It takes 80-100 hours of people spending time interacting with each other, by choice, to develop a regular friendship.

It takes 200+ hours of people spending time interacting with each other, by choice, to develop a good friendship.

There’s another theory called Dunbar’s number. The theory states that due to cognitive limitations in human beings there are only so many stable social relationships a person can maintain in a given time, relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. That theory has been developed over time identifying “social circles” around individuals.

The widest circle is the one which contains all the people one can recognize. For most people that’s suggested to be around 1,500. Extroverts can generally maintain a higher number of contacts than introverts.

The next circle in is the one for acquaintances. There are generally around 500 people in this circle.

The next circle in is for casual friendships. The population of this circle is around 150.

The next circle in is friends. There are around 50 people in this circle.

The next circle in is good friends. There are around 15 people in this circle.

And the last circle of stable social relationships are loved ones/confidants. The number here for true confidants is 3-5 at the most.

I always suspected that the push for the 10th on-field assistant coach was more about recruiting than anything else. I wasn’t convinced that we actually needed another coach. Pruitt proved that one man can coach an entire team by himself. Well, um, okay, never mind about that. jmo.

In summary, if recruiting is about relationships, the point is it takes time because relationships take time. I would add, having personally been recruited by the navy, it also takes a sales pitch. Butch was considered a good salesman but he may have had easy marks early on and when he ran out of those his success went downhill. Pruitt could sell based on the players on the teams he previously worked for that got drafted and the Saban and Fisher championships, plus fringe benefits. jmo.

Heupel has been here 10 weeks and the full staff just passed its week 5 anniversary. We may never know what their private sales pitch is but I think we have some very proven recruiters on our staff. At the moment they’re having to deal with some inherited headwinds so for a time the going might be a bit rough but I think they could end up doing much much better than some seem to be expecting. jmo.

It just takes time. jmo.

 

[SpringBokVol]

Also, look for UT to hit the portal hard for a transfer QB.

That says a lot.

 

[Fairacres Vol]

What if your thumb is longer than your index finger? What does that mean?

Means you have a micro pp

 

[LakeMaryFLVol]

Third shift is slow tonight huh

Soon

 

[GoBigOrange86]

Apathy is at an all time high

Yeah. Can't beat a fan base down for 12+ years and expect them to be excited just because you rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic again.

 

[LA Vol]

On QB-- looking for experience, leadership and quick decision-making plus multiple years of eligibility. The younger guys we have need seasoning and development, which they didn't get with the last staff. They're back to working on fundamentals. So bringing in someone more game-ready would be insurance while they continue to develop the guys we have.

 

[Catbone]

Also, look for UT to hit the portal hard for a transfer QB.

Very telling

 

[Glitch]

Means you have a micro pp

This checks out.

I has the sad.