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I could see us landing Tate and Burley, both who could end up as 5*s. Nico is a 5*. It's not out of the realm of possibility we land a couple of more. So it's possible we could go over 5. But like I said, I'd be a happy with a class of mostly 4*'s. Rankings are so inconsistent. I trust our staff's evaluations, so even the 3*'s they sign could be special. Quite a few Tennessee greats were rated 3*s coming out of HS.
 
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I actually hope JT Daniels lights it up at West Virginia, and UGA has a year of horrible QB play. The tears of UGA fans would taste so sweet.

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BigSteve09 said:
I couldn't believe that they let him go free back to Long Island after he got convicted in PA. Negligence.
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And then paroled him after serving the minimum. The fact he was STILL eligible for parole AFTER murdering someone is the nail in the coffin that poses as our justice system.
 
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The thing that does give me pause about the latest stretch from the baseball team is that Missouri (not an elite SEC team by any means) and TN Tech really silenced the Vols bats except for a couple of innings against Missouri.

Is this the start of a trend or just a couple of less than stellar outings? We shall see.
 
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butchna said:
And then paroled him after serving the minimum. The fact he was STILL eligible for parole AFTER murdering someone is the nail in the coffin that poses as our justice system.
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So many rapes with a knife and a murder, but he is eligible for parole? How? And the total lack of media coverage. His daughter thought all he had done was end up killing someone for a bad drug deal.
 
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So many rapes with a knife and a murder, but he is eligible for parole? How? And the total lack of media coverage. His daughter thought all he had done was end up killing someone for a bad drug deal.
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It’s maddening. I’m glad the poster shared the article, but it makes one sadder from the awareness.
 
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On the JT Daniels news and its impact on Tennessee –

Missouri just lost their starting QB for 2022. Drink has been chasing a QB in the portal all offseason and the Tigers were hoping to land JT Daniels. Today, as reported, JT committed to the Mountaineers.

Pitt opens their season this year at home against the Mountaineers. The game on Pitt’s side will feature a former starting USC Trojan QB in Kedon Slovis going against his predecessor at USC in JT Daniels. Neal Brown hired the former USC offensive coordinator, Graham Harrell, in January. Harrell was at USC for 3 years, 2019-2021. JT was the freshman sensation at USC in 2018 then got hurt in his first outing as Harrell’s guy in 2019. In comes Slovis and JT eventually transfers to Georgia. AtlantaVol, I think thought there was at the time a good chance that we were going to get him. I think I remember him saying the guy would be a day one starter for us. Anyway, this should make for some interesting stories in the Pittsburgh media as the two teams approach the season opener at Heinz Field. jmo.

West Virginia is almost bottom of the world in returning production and Pittsburgh, minus Pickett, is the opposite. Brown’s staff reportedly told JT that he would instantly take the team from 6 wins to 10 wins and put the Mountaineers in position to compete for the Big-12 championship. I think it may be harder than that but at least Pitt isn’t going to be focused on us until they get past West Virginia. Before this announcement, using SP+, I had Pitt as an 18 point favorite over West Virginia. I’m skeptical JT can close that big of a gap all by himself but it still should be interesting. jmo.

Meanwhile, I suspect there are likely at least 3 opponents on our schedule this year that are overrated, Florida, Kentucky, and Georgia. Georgia has lost almost 30 players from last year’s team, either to the NFL (15) or the portal. Everybody thinks, well, they’re just going to reload. I don’t know. Did LSU reload after their big run in 2019? In 2019 LSU was the 5th most talented team in the country. In 2020 they were 6th. Last year they were back at 5th. Did Clemson reload after the departure of key contributions in their 2018-2020 run? I think Georgia will still be good but owing to the way analytics work they get sort of the benefit of the doubt owing to past performance. It’s true they still have a lot of talent, but they don’t have anywhere near the experience level of last year’s team. Shave a couple or three points on each side of the ball for them and our game becomes a toss-up which some of their fans have already recognized. jmo.

Florida opens with a visit from Utah. Connelly has us as the 9th best team in the nation in his preseason SP+, Utah is at #14, and Florida is at #18, making the Utah Florida game a toss-up in the swamp. We’re 26th in returning production, Utah is #55, and Florida is #59. These numbers could further change as the portal turns. In any event we won’t have to wait long to find out how long it’s going to take Napier to get Florida up and running. jmo.

Kentucky? Kentucky is always overrated. The simple reason is because Kentucky is only ever compared to Kentucky. jmo.

Are we overrated this year? I don’t want to get into that except to say hats off to our baseball team for the sweep against Ole Miss a few weeks ago. In football last year we didn’t get the job done but one thing we did do last year in football, we beat Tennessee Tech. lol
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
On the JT Daniels news and its impact on Tennessee –

Missouri just lost their starting QB for 2022. Drink has been chasing a QB in the portal all offseason and the Tigers were hoping to land JT Daniels. Today, as reported, JT committed to the Mountaineers.

Pitt opens their season this year at home against the Mountaineers. The game on Pitt’s side will feature a former starting USC Trojan QB in Kedon Slovis going against his predecessor at USC in JT Daniels. Neal Brown hired the former USC offensive coordinator, Graham Harrell, in January. Harrell was at USC for 3 years, 2019-2021. JT was the freshman sensation at USC in 2018 then got hurt in his first outing as Harrell’s guy in 2019. In comes Slovis and JT eventually transfers to Georgia. AtlantaVol, I think thought there was at the time a good chance that we were going to get him. I think I remember him saying the guy would be a day one starter for us. Anyway, this should make for some interesting stories in the Pittsburgh media as the two teams approach the season opener at Heinz Field. jmo.

West Virginia is almost bottom of the world in returning production and Pittsburgh, minus Pickett, is the opposite. Brown’s staff reportedly told JT that he would instantly take the team from 6 wins to 10 wins and put the Mountaineers in position to compete for the Big-12 championship. I think it may be harder than that but at least Pitt isn’t going to be focused on us until they get past West Virginia. Before this announcement, using SP+, I had Pitt as an 18 point favorite over West Virginia. I’m skeptical JT can close that big of a gap all by himself but it still should be interesting. jmo.

Meanwhile, I suspect there are likely at least 3 opponents on our schedule this year that are overrated, Florida, Kentucky, and Georgia. Georgia has lost almost 30 players from last year’s team, either to the NFL (15) or the portal. Everybody thinks, well, they’re just going to reload. I don’t know. Did LSU reload after their big run in 2019? In 2019 LSU was the 5th most talented team in the country. In 2020 they were 6th. Last year they were back at 5th. Did Clemson reload after the departure of key contributions in their 2018-2020 run? I think Georgia will still be good but owing to the way analytics work they get sort of the benefit of the doubt owing to past performance. It’s true they still have a lot of talent, but they don’t have anywhere near the experience level of last year’s team. Shave a couple or three points on each side of the ball for them and our game becomes a toss-up which some of their fans have already recognized. jmo.

Florida opens with a visit from Utah. Connelly has us as the 9th best team in the nation in his preseason SP+, Utah is at #14, and Florida is at #18, making the Utah Florida game a toss-up in the swamp. We’re 26th in returning production, Utah is #55, and Florida is #59. These numbers could further change as the portal turns. In any event we won’t have to wait long to find out how long it’s going to take Napier to get Florida up and running. jmo.

Kentucky? Kentucky is always overrated. The simple reason is because Kentucky is only ever compared to Kentucky. jmo.

Are we overrated this year? I don’t want to get into that except to say hats off to our baseball team for the sweep against Ole Miss a few weeks ago. In football last year we didn’t get the job done but one thing we did do last year in football, we beat Tennessee Tech. lol
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Good stuff. Thx
 
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