'22 Recruiting Forum: Official South Carolina Pregame/Game Thread

[Orange.]

If we can win next week and win a big bowl it will equal one of Fulmer's best years. We could finish 11-2. And Heup didn't start with peak Majors. Let's don't overreact, although this is painful.

 

[Aesius]

I subscribe to this theory. It's strange, but seems to be true.

Happened to the Titans last year in the playoffs vs the Bengals. Foreman had been running great, then Henry came back and the offense sputtered.

 

[csprig9]

I just saw that in the RF..... Supposedly over NIL deals.

Exciting rumors lol

 

[Ten_Titans]

Well. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say somebody should probably be fired over this one.

I think Banks made the most sense considering the entire defense outside of the D-line has been suspect all year.

But his replacement will probably also be a DIE hire... so who knows if they want to go down that road.

Willie might be dunzo if somebody gets scape goated for this one.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Exciting rumors lol

Said it came from TOS, idk just passing info along.

 

[tnhunter 10]

I subscribe to this theory. It's strange, but seems to be true.

I understand the theory and I do believe some of it. But, d was the issue tonight.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

I just saw that in the RF..... Supposedly over NIL deals.

So the rumors about discipline with Heupel are true? How do you not get banks in line for two more damn games? You cost yourself the playoff and maybe the team the way they looked tonight.

 

[Ten_Titans]

Our defense has plenty of weaknesses and over the season we had overcome those weaknesses. Tonight was a perfect storm similar to Florida game. Richardson played a near perfect game, but it was not perfect. Tonight Rattler was perfect. Even when we had coverage, he threw perfect passes. He played the game of his life, hewill never play a better game.
We may have been overconfident, I think that was part of the problem even last week versus Missouri. Hadden is a problem. Too much mouth and nothing to back it up.
Heupel’s greatest challenge will not be offense, but defense. Will he recruit a better staff?

It was embarrassing how much talking our DBs were doing on the road to giving up 60. We were basically Akron tonight.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

It happens when you are 2-3 yrs ahead of schedule.

You know what sucks? I have been holding on all year to being pessimistic because of that very reason....thinking every week that this will be the week when the house of cards falls..

Just when I FINALLY believed this team was for real....this awful nightmare happened. If it is a horrible joke on anyone, it is on me.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

 

[Vols2DaWall]

Imagine being 22pt favorites and fighting for a playoff spot and then losing by 30+ to an unranked team.

Absolute trash.

Huge red flag for JH. Enormous

 

[sammyjoey]

We peaked in October. The team that showed up against UGA/Mizzou/USC isn't the same as the team that showed up against LSU/Bama/UK. Now we need to beat Vandy and get into a NY6 bowl. At the beginning of the year I would've been thrilled with 10-2 and NY6 bowl, so hopefully we can achieve that, even if it seems like a disappointing result tonight.

Now we'll start to learn a lot about Heupel...
- Can he motivate the team and beat Vandy? Or will he pull a Butch '16 and let one disappointment lead to total season collapse?
- Will he be stubborn and stand by members of his staff who aren't cutting it? Or acknowledge now that he needs to make changes to get where we want to get?
- Can he close out a recruiting class and pull key players from the transfer portal to get the pieces we'll need to win next year?

 

[IhateGA]

Any recruiting momentum just got eliminated

We just took 7 steps backward.

Probably lose some commits from defense.

 

[SouthKnoxVOL]

So the rumors about discipline with Heupel are true? How do you not get banks in line for two more damn games? You cost yourself the playoff and maybe the team the way they looked tonight.

Butch 2.0

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I mean we’ll beat Vandy next week and play in a good bowl game after. I will be checking out, in two games time. Follow recruiting some. We’ll be fine, but geezus Christ this was really really bad. Tim banks needs to be gone and our next DC needs to be bigtime.

I meant the thread...not the team...I'm going to check out of here in a bit and calm down and think.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

So the rumors about discipline with Heupel are true? How do you not get banks in line for two more damn games? You cost yourself the playoff and maybe the team the way they looked tonight.

Idk, the discipline thing I remember I4Jay talking about it. Early on it seemed to be true with a ton of penalties. Then you have things like tonight where the team just doesnt com prepared. I understand Heupel wants to be the family friendly fun guy, but sometimes you gotta be the ******* and chew on someone when they need it. If the players respect him enough theyll take it to heart and come around.

 

[tnhunter 10]

I bet SC won't get bad press for storming the field because TN is the villain. I bet other fanbases are loving it and loving that TN got beat.

 

[volfaninpa]

Something internal happened with this team this week.

Refs sucked out loud.
Field was horrendous.

But, the body language of this team, the constant chirpping, this team was just off tonight.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I'm not the one starting that ....but I know it will. Read better jackass..

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

You certainly do and have been preaching it. We will have a segment of our fan base go nuts and call for everyone’s head. It’s coming.

Exactly...

 

[Govolsman98]

Nah, Milton can get us 7

Maybe

 

[InVOLuntary]

I have to finally agree...this was absolutely inexcusable incompetence from the defensive staff. I am now firmly on board with keel hauling Banks and Martinez....post haste. They shouldn't get paid for this garbage.

Banks, evidently was the only one that would take the job. If so, I get. I probably would have went with an up and comer from a lower level before I would have paid Banks $2mil. I would have went and found the next Josh Heupel on the defensive side. It was evident to me Banks was way put of his league last year. There's got to be a change during the off season.

 

[theutvolunteers]

If we can win next week and win a big bowl it will equal one of Fulmer's best years. We could finish 11-2. And Heup didn't start with peak Majors. Let's don't overreact, although this is painful.

I agree, but lord that was some of the worst defense I’ve ever seen.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Kirby showed the way you defend this offense, you keep everything in front of you, make sure tackles, make Tennessee March the field in time consuming drives. That's exactly what SC did and we didn't handle UT well. We scored enough for most teams but when you're defense is DIV II level that's not good enough.

We scored f'n 38 points...do you understand that?

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Banks, evidently was the only one that would take the job. If so, I get. I probably would have went with an up and comer from a lower level before I would have paid Banks $2mil. I would have went and found the next Josh Heupel on the defensive side. It was evident to me Banks was way put of his league last year. There's got to be a change during the off season.

I was shocked when I heard $2mil for him.