Recruiting Forum Football Talk V

Status
Not open for further replies.
#85,001
#85,001
Jimmy Football said:
Two men have given up at least 63 points at Tennessee as defensive playcallers.

One is Tim Banks. The other is Howard Ijams,
who is somewhere in this picture:
1879_early-football_005_2.jpg


For perspective, this picture was taken one year before Robert Neyland was born.

Edit: I have to call fake news on myself. This picture would have had to have been after 1893, as that was the year the football helmet was invented.

The point is, it’s been a long time.
Click to expand...
Dude at least has a nice park named after him.
 
  • Like
Reactions: volbeast33
#85,002
#85,002
volbeast33 said:
The position we need (db)….. there usually aren’t many front line guys available….. hopefully we will get lucky and get one or two.
Click to expand...

Safeties seem to be more prevalent than CBs in the portal, but hopefully we can find both, plus some LBs and DL.
 
#85,005
#85,005
Weezer said:
Safeties seem to be more prevalent than CBs in the portal, but hopefully we can find both, plus some LBs and DL.
Click to expand...
We need some dudes…. I hope we can get some….. I don’t want guys that couldn’t win a job or be heavily in the rotation at other schools( that’s all we have been getting so far)…. I want legit front line guys.
 
  • Like
Reactions: justwatch123
#85,006
#85,006
As the dust settles, it sounds like the team just didn’t respect South Carolina and didn’t come ready to play.

Poor coaching, lack of defensive talent, etc played a role, but fundamentally they just didn’t handle the moment correctly.

If they take the right lessons from that, it could turn into a good thing for the program. Time will tell.
 
  • Like
Reactions: smokeyhuntsgators, UTJoe, KptVFL and 8 others
#85,007
#85,007
BigSteve09 said:



First 10 minutes of this is very sobering.

Sad for Hooker. He won't get to do the bowl season fun stuff with the team. Won't get to go out on his own terms. Won't get to see what his TRUE draft stock was.

Think Vanderbilt is a dangerous game now. Wondering what the team's motivation will be now, if they can get up.

They're trying to figure out if we go to Sugar, Orange, or Cotton. What our pecking order is for bowls now.

We are slated to be in the Cotton Bowl vs Cincinnati or other G5 team (UCF, Tulane)
Click to expand...

Dear god not a g5 team. Snore
 
#85,008
#85,008
Ulysees E. McGill said:
Question...did anybody notice the SC players slipping very much? I wonder if they knew it and wore different cleats because of it.
Click to expand...

Exactly. They were going 100% like they knew they could ok. Our guys looked (rightfully so) like any one sudden movement could end in a slid leg and injury. Absolute insanity what that field was. Trash.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ulysees E. McGill
#85,009
#85,009
Revived2002 said:
As the dust settles, it sounds like the team just didn’t respect South Carolina and didn’t come ready to play.

Poor coaching, lack of defensive talent, etc played a role, but fundamentally they just didn’t handle the moment correctly.

If they take the right lessons from that, it could turn into a good thing for the program. Time will tell.
Click to expand...

To be fair, South Carolina did just about everything they could to make it near impossible to respect them prior to Saturday. This has to be the most shocking Tennessee loss of my lifetime, and it’s not particularly close. In fact, this is probably one of the most shocking outcomes in all of college football in my lifetime.
 
  • Like
Reactions: SmokinBob, VOLSONLY, Ulysees E. McGill and 2 others
#85,015
#85,015
Berry4Heisman14 said:
It’s a public message board nothing I’m saying is violating any terms I know of. This defensive staff could make a backfield of champ Bailey Eric berry earl Thomas and Richard Sherman look bad
Click to expand...
,
For sure everyone is allowed to post nearly anything regardless of it's accuracy or merit and it is even ok to post the same or variants of one's thoughts repetitively in order to try to validate the concept as accurate, whether or not the thoughts are based on real information or just support for one's own analysis of some commonly available real facts.

It does put folks who do not agree with those thoughts or the methods of delivery in a dilemma. Do they just roll their eyes or should they run the risk of additionally cluttering up the board with their alternate analysis on the same or expanded fact sets in order to avoid letting the stack up of these agenda-based series of messages give the perception of some level of common acceptance to those that spend time on the boards or more importantly visitors. Especially those who have friends and family being contacted by our staff. Few of those share their thoughts on the boards, but I cannot imagine them not including this EASILY ACCESSIBLE information in their due diligence. Posts do become part of a fact set for all readers.

Unchecked these posts can make our entire fan base look bad. (Borrowed this super tricky use of the language from the post above).

This is my second call for the Mods to save a lot of space by adding a DON'T LIKE or DON'T AGREE or some other button. Sure would save a lot of space just like the LIKE button does. Would for sure become part of a fact set for people to use to weight the value of individual messages and determine if particular posters are mainstream or out on the fringe with a profile review right next to the like stats. Right now the ability to cyber backslap posts with a LIKE has no offset except to respond to caustic absolutely unprovable EITHER WAY statements like the one in the bolded original post. Need a space saving alternative. This would PROBABLY de-incentivize theme based posting and drive by trolls too.

Sorry for my millionth War an Peace like post. Brevity is obviously not my strength.
 
  • Like
Reactions: therickbol and jlawso21
#85,018
#85,018
Revived2002 said:
As the dust settles, it sounds like the team just didn’t respect South Carolina and didn’t come ready to play.

Poor coaching, lack of defensive talent, etc played a role, but fundamentally they just didn’t handle the moment correctly.

If they take the right lessons from that, it could turn into a good thing for the program. Time will tell.
Click to expand...
Not handling the moment correctly ties right back to coaching.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Outofmyvolcanmind, Volunteer821 and InVOLuntary
#85,019
#85,019
drylo said:
To be fair, South Carolina did just about everything they could to make it near impossible to respect them prior to Saturday. This has to be the most shocking Tennessee loss of my lifetime, and it’s not particularly close. In fact, this is probably one of the most shocking outcomes in all of college football in my lifetime.
Click to expand...
In comes @Ulysees E. McGill with the Manning led Vols loss to Memphis.....
 
  • Like
Reactions: VOLSONLY, Ulysees E. McGill and Christian Lowe
New posts
Status
Not open for further replies.

VN Store



Back
Top