Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[JCP201]

With VOLS finally seeming to turn a major corner, I wonder what is your most enjoyable sport at this time? Right now, College football would come in first (not pro) but men/women college basketball is neck and neck with it, for sure. There are very few teams in all sports that I have loved like Rick Barnes VOLS basketball team this year. Baseball right now with the VOLS is amazing. Number one team, a hilarious, young (good looking) coach who is a character. He has brought a team that brings in fans, with a new baseball stadium coming. Meanwhile Atlanta Braves are world series champs, so I am loving some baseball and I'm looking forward to watching games this spring/summer.

 

[peaygolf]

Just a quick morning observation. I don't understand how people will brag about not seeing a classic film. It's two hours of your life to watch art. Especially films from the 70s where the director first broke out and held control of their vision for the first time in history. So much to experience even if you didn't enjoy what you saw you can then at least be better informed and that always helps form your taste. It's like going through a museum and not looking at the Goya exhibit because you don't have time as you have to rake leaves later. Take the time. Film is one of the purest expressions of emotion our culture possesses. Treasure it.

Especially some from the 30's and 40's.

 

[jakez4ut]

With VOLS finally seeming to turn a major corner, I wonder what is your most enjoyable sport at this time? Right now, College football would come in first (not pro) but men/women college basketball is neck and neck with it, for sure. There are very few teams in all sports that I have loved like Rick Barnes VOLS basketball team this year. Baseball right now with the VOLS is amazing. Number one team, a hilarious, young (good looking) coach who is a character. He has brought a team that brings in fans, with a new baseball stadium coming. Meanwhile Atlanta Braves are world series champs, so I am loving some baseball and I'm looking forward to watching games this spring/summer.

whatever TN is good at. #we're'that'school

 

[Ericvol2096]

So what do we think for numbers in this class?
QB - 1
RB - 2
WR -4/5
TE - 1
OL - 5
DL - 4
LB - 2/3
DB - 5/6
Seem about right?

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Just a quick morning observation. I don't understand how people will brag about not seeing a classic film. It's two hours of your life to watch art. Especially films from the 70s where the director first broke out and held control of their vision for the first time in history. So much to experience even if you didn't enjoy what you saw you can then at least be better informed and that always helps form your taste. It's like going through a museum and not looking at the Goya exhibit because you don't have time as you have to rake leaves later. Take the time. Film is one of the purest expressions of emotion our culture possesses. Treasure it.

I'll also add, no one is saying you have to like classic films, but if you're a fan of movies at least seeing them and understanding what they did to move either the industry or genre forward are important to at least expose yourself to. Some of what the "experts" consider the greatest films of all time aren't my personal favorites, but when you look at what they did at the time they did it they were major accomplishments.

The Godfather isn't my favorite mob/gangster film...but without it I don't know if that genre really becomes what it has become and the modern films I do love may never have been made.

 

[jakez4ut]

i watch movies to be entertained. sue me. (i liked GF btw...gf2 was good, gf3 sucked).

 

[MoCo_Vol]

With VOLS finally seeming to turn a major corner, I wonder what is your most enjoyable sport at this time? Right now, College football would come in first (not pro) but men/women college basketball is neck and neck with it, for sure. There are very few teams in all sports that I have loved like Rick Barnes VOLS basketball team this year. Baseball right now with the VOLS is amazing. Number one team, a hilarious, young (good looking) coach who is a character. He has brought a team that brings in fans, with a new baseball stadium coming. Meanwhile Atlanta Braves are world series champs, so I am loving some baseball and I'm looking forward to watching games this spring/summer.

For me:
1. College Football ESPECIALLY now that we have a fun offense
2. Men's College Basketball
3. College Baseball
4. Women's College Basketball, honestly the Lady Vols are hard to watch...but then watching some of March Madness the entire women's game is going through some growing pains. I thought the men's game was badly officiated but good lord. The officials let the women just mug each other, then call jump balls when it's clearly a foul. I don't like the way it's officiated and because of how it's officiated it's changed the game to a sloppier version of what it was. No real defense is played, and if you drive the chances you (the offensive player) get the call are pretty slim. Which is disappointing because the current athletes want to dribble drive more. Less passing and less good shooters so now the style of play is forcing contact that's rarely called and thus a sloppy game with high turnovers and lazy defense.
5. Women's college softball (love watching Lady Vols, but don't bother watching many other games)

 

[bignewt]

i watch movies to be entertained. sue me. (i liked GF btw...gf2 was good, gf3 sucked).

Nothing wrong with that but you never really know if you will be entertained or not until you watch...there have been many movies I have dodged for years then I finally said "screw it, Im gonna watch it" then I was blown away by it. Others I've done the same and didn't dig it but you never know.

 

[jakez4ut]

Nothing wrong with that but you never really know if you will be entertained or not until you watch...

true. and there are a lot of 'classics' i really do like.

what pisses me off is when i find out someone from my demographic hasn't seen a movie that they really should have seen....probably a couple hundred times by now.

for example...if you're over 40 and you haven't seen the Big Lebowski or dazed and confused, we can't hang out. sorry, not sorry.

 

[Tri-CitiesVol]

Sheesh I went to go tweet at him and he’s already blocked me from his new account. What a little bitch.

 

[Ttucke11]

So what do we think for numbers in this class?
QB - 1
RB - 2
WR -4/5
TE - 1
OL - 5
DL - 4
LB - 2/3
DB - 5/6
Seem about right?

I've been bouncing those numbers around as well. Seems about right to me. Really wish we had another spot or two. We could use 2 true edges out of that 4 DL. But we also need some big bodies.

 

[Orange_Crush]

true. and there are a lot of 'classics' i really do like.

what pisses me off is when i find out someone from my demographic hasn't seen a movie that they really should have seen....probably a couple hundred times by now.

for example...if you're over 40 and you haven't seen the Big Lebowski or dazed and confused, we can't hang out. sorry, not sorry.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Just a quick morning observation. I don't understand how people will brag about not seeing a classic film. It's two hours of your life to watch art. Especially films from the 70s where the director first broke out and held control of their vision for the first time in history. So much to experience even if you didn't enjoy what you saw you can then at least be better informed and that always helps form your taste. It's like going through a museum and not looking at the Goya exhibit because you don't have time as you have to rake leaves later. Take the time. Film is one of the purest expressions of emotion our culture possesses. Treasure it.

Totally agree. It’s like, you’re gonna tell me you can’t block out a couple of hours on a weeknight to watch Porky’s or Kentucky Fried Movie?

F’ing ridiculous.

 

[jakez4ut]

see, that's the wrong scene. you're out.

 

[WarMachine]

So what do we think for numbers in this class?
QB - 1
RB - 2
WR -4/5
TE - 1
OL - 5
DL - 4
LB - 2/3
DB - 5/6
Seem about right?

You think 1 qb is enough these days?



I kid. I kid.

 

[bignewt]

true. and there are a lot of 'classics' i really do like.

what pisses me off is when i find out someone from my demographic hasn't seen a movie that they really should have seen....probably a couple hundred times by now.

for example...if you're over 40 and you haven't seen the Big Lebowski or dazed and confused, we can't hang out. sorry, not sorry.

and even that, while it makes me shake my head, is ok, it can be remedied easily enough. Its when people brag about it like its some point of pride, 'never seen it, never will' it just comes off as ignorant.

 

[WarMachine]

Sheesh I went to go tweet at him and he’s already blocked me from his new account. What a little bitch.

Is it new, or did he just rename it?

 

[MoCo_Vol]

true. and there are a lot of 'classics' i really do like.

what pisses me off is when i find out someone from my demographic hasn't seen a movie that they really should have seen....probably a couple hundred times by now.

for example...if you're over 40 and you haven't seen the Big Lebowski or dazed and confused, we can't hang out. sorry, not sorry.

That doesn't bug me so much, what bugs me is when someone says something like "I love baseball movies" and then they haven't seen Bull Durham or A League of Their Own or Major League or The Natural...and they seem to only have really seen Moneyball or The Rookie.

Like if you're going to tell me you LOVE a very niche genre of film then you better have seen the classics in it!

Don't tell me what the greatest horror movie is if you've never watched anything done in the 70s/80s, if you're trying to explain to me what the greatest sci-fi movie is without having watched the original Alien or Third Encounters or The Thing...then calm down with the GOAT talk about only the small sample size of films you've seen.

 

[Tri-CitiesVol]

Is it new, or did he just rename it?

His rivalsmike account also pulled up for me.

 

[WarMachine]

His rivalsmike account also pulled up for me.

Cool. He just has you on the list.

 

[Jimmy Football]

and even that, while it makes me shake my head, is ok, it can be remedied easily enough. Its when people brag about it like its some point of pride, 'never seen it, never will' it just comes off as ignorant.

“You’ve never seen 12 Angry Men?”

“I don’t watch black-and-white movies.”

 

[OrangenSC]

I seem to remember somebody here lives in or near Wears Valley. With the wildfires raging there I'm wondering if you're ok?

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Now...if someone doesn't want to re-watch all the crappy TV Shows that came out in the 90s then I get that.

That's one area where the streaming boom has really set a new standard. Back in the 90s so many bad TV shows though...and I love quite a few of them, but I realize it's really nostalgia more than anything. Cause staying up late and Coach or Wings being all that was on is really the only reason I watched them.

 

[StoVol]

They can still be recruited and still have officials. The rule says you can’t take an official visit then show up and be put on scholarship. These kids wouldn’t. The NIL
Pays it. You can come visit 500 times and still be a preferred walkon.

I'm not sure, we went over this ad nauseum few years back, @butchna May be able to clarify

The way I understood, once officially recruited, schools could not get around through assistance, walking on, blue and gray shirt, ... complicated but ncaa had seen abuse and squashed it if I remember correctly

 

[jakez4ut]

That doesn't bug me so much, what bugs me is when someone says something like "I love baseball movies" and then they haven't seen Bull Durham or A League of Their Own or Major League or The Natural...and they seem to only have really seen Moneyball or The Rookie.

Like if you're going to tell me you LOVE a very niche genre of film then you better have seen the classics in it!

Don't tell me what the greatest horror movie is if you've never watched anything done in the 70s/80s, if you're trying to explain to me what the greatest sci-fi movie is without having watched the original Alien or Third Encounters or The Thing...then calm down with the GOAT talk about only the small sample size of films you've seen.

sounds like a riveting reincarnation of the MJ/Lebron debate...that should be starting up again here in a month or so......