Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[JohnnyD1024]

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

@cHiZzLeVOL - congrats on the upcoming best performance of the season for your NCAA fantasy team. You’re up against me.

Can’t wait for the Dub

 

[Johnny Majors' Ghost]

Hopefully The Pride of the Southland pulls out Eric Clapton's "Layla" during the halftime festivities.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

The wannabe football student in me wanna know what’s involved there.

It's an awesome play. Direct snap to Fant, who hands it to Hooker, who hands it to Velus on a sweep. Creates 2 lead blockers. Looks like a new era power-i play.

From the 1.00 mark:

 

[Christian Lowe]

We won’t rush the field simply because Tennessee won’t allow it. Students wanted to after UF 2016 but there were yellow jacketed security literally lining the entire wall of the stadium

 

[jakez4ut]

sweet. so they're expecting us to score.....a lot.

 

[jakez4ut]

Ok, peeps, It's my birthday. And yes, I may have recently admitted to openly yelling at a cloud, suggesting another age increase probably isn't a cause for celebration.

But we gotz all these numbers and stats saying we good at the foosball. And the fun.. it has been had.
I'm sure they'll be ups and downs and crap going on in the world but keep bringing all them positive vibes!
Because, for today at least, I'm all


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[SugarCC]

I didn't realize Velus Jones was such a physical receiver.

Elite. Could play anywhere in the country. Alpha of the WR group.

 

[RikidyBones]

At least he has decent taste in music.

 

[Adam2014]

 

[Christian Lowe]

Hopefully The Pride of the Southland pulls out Eric Clapton's "Layla" during the halftime festivities.

Hahah. It’d be pretty hard to mimick that guitar riff on a trumpet

 

[jakez4ut]

Hahah. It’d be pretty hard to mimick that guitar riff on a trumpet

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

We won’t rush the field simply because Tennessee won’t allow it. Students wanted to after UF 2016 but there were yellow jacketed security literally lining the entire wall of the stadium

If we beat #1 UGA on homecoming no amount of yellow jacketed security will keep the field clear.

 

[tennesseefan31]

Win the toss and defer. Let's the crowd get juiced up from the get go and, more importantly, gives you the chance to go score, half, score.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

The closer I watch some of our offensive plays, the more details come out. Heupel is a mad scientist.

I bet most fans didn't see the direct snap to Fant, who handed to Hooker, who handed off to Velus.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

If we beat OM, GA, and KY, I think @Weezer and @utvols88 should have to run around Neyland nude, holding hands.

If you add bama and we beat all 4, we probably would all join them…

 

[you]

I’d like to offer a salute to Vol Fans, especially, the “legion of the miserables”.

In 2016, when we had to go to overtime to beat Appalachian State, fans knew something wasn’t right. When we couldn’t run the football in 2011 against Montana, fans could sense there was an issue. There are countless other examples in recent years.

When our passing game struggled against Bowling Green, fans spouted off about it.

The greatest lie the devil ever told is that a football team improves the most from week 1 to week 2. Ask Missouri how much their defense improved or ask South Carolina how much their offense has improved.

The only way you have improvement from week 1 to week 2 is you change the personnel on the field. Oklahoma brought in their backup QB last week and saw immediate improvement. We now have the highest rated QB for the moment in the SEC because we brought in our backup QB when the starter got injured.

Something else I’ve noticed, and I think it’s by design, is we’re playing less players. We’re limiting playing time in competitive games to the guys who we believe are our best players and are most ready to help us perform. We’re no longer in Mr. Pruitt’s elementary school PE program.

Over the past couple weeks we’ve generated a lot of buzz around the program. It could be a boon to recruiting and last week we had almost a 10k bump in attendance. This week we’re sold out.

What we’ve seen the past couple of weeks is what Vol fans have wanted to see for a long time. They know what they’re looking for – and so does just about every other college football junkie in the world.

Listening to our guys talking about coaching each other and all the effort they’re putting into this team, their team, our team, is a joy to behold. Having coaches that are competent in leading these kids is a sight we have not seen in a long time.

Almost every year most models have us overrated. I usually am overly optimistic. But the models weren’t wrong and I haven’t been wrong. We’ve had a top 20 roster year in and year out and performed like a bottom tier P5 team. That now I think is obviously attributable to our prior coaching, not the kids.

Well, Mr. Pruitt, his staff, and his boys, are now gone. All that remains are Tennessee Volunteers and fans can easily recognize them. All we have to do is look at the way they play. jmo.

Dude, I can’t believe nobody is paying you for your content. You’re better than anybody else in Knoxville media. Thanks for taking your time to write this stuff for us

 

[chargervol]

I’ve been all in since Day 1, and Heupel’s hire motivated me to rejoin this board. Was stoked we got him - he was 10x better than what I thought we’d end up with.

Despite my enthusiasm for Heupel, I’m stunned we’re 4-2 right now with a legit shot to get in the top 25 after this weekend. I felt this was a throw away year where we’d be lucky to get in a bowl. He’s far exceeding my expectations so far. It’s fun!

Yeah, there was a lot of other stuff involved in me being behind and not participating. But feeling like someone at UT might at least be trying, gave me an extra nudge.

Well, that and I totally misunderstood how to pronounce Heupels name. Thought it was HEP - El.
So the thought of endless "Hep is on the way" dad jokes, drew me like a moth to flame.
A sad, sad, moth to an ugly, ugly flame.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

I was so hoping it was us knocking at the door. Maybe next week's episode!

Our version, not knocking,

Two options :
Big Orange Hulk rips the doors off, look in says “puny bama” grabs him by the ankle and throws him out of the ambulance.

An axe rips a hole in the door and CJH sticks his head in with a maniacal grin saying “Here’s Joshy!” (A la Jack Nicholson in The Shining)

13-2

 

[engineerVOL]

I didn't realize Velus Jones was such a physical receiver.

And Tillman, they had a good mentor.

 

[SpringBokVol]

Austin Price has mentioned more than once the tension between Kiffin and his defensive coordinator, DJ Durkin. He hypothesized on the podcast that if UT could get out in front quickly, the Ole Miss coaching divide could manifest itself in a negative way for the Rebels.

You could see it watching the Arkansas game. Kiffin has ZERO faith in that defense.

 

[Vol464]

okay guys I’m gonna try and read all this so don’t panic if I don’t post during the next 8 hours or so.

Tl;s8hr

 

[engineerVOL]

100% expect this coward to fake injuries while we’re on offense.

 

[butchna]

The closer I watch some of our offensive plays, the more details come out. Heupel is a mad scientist.

I bet most fans didn't see the direct snap to Fant, who handed to Hooker, who handed off to Velus.

And this is the basics of what will eventually be implemented. Gabriel looking more and more clueless about the intricacies of the offense he previously ran.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

100% expect this coward to fake injuries while we’re on offense.

No doubt. He’s going to do it every series most likely. He’s a bum and every vol fan who loves him should be ashamed