Recruiting Football Talk VII

[Brillovol]

I need this.

 

[gordonr24]

James took three shots this game? Still want more offensive aggressiveness from him. But wow, go Gainey.

Josiah is lethal in the pull up mid range. He’s got to utilize that more. He was nearly unstoppable at times in March two years ago.

I know he’s super unselfish and he’s giving more shots to Knecht but when he’s being guarded one on one, drive and pull up under 10 feet.

 

[DD4ME]

I am happy. Hornets can only get better with a guy like Grant.

 

[knoxvol52]

I am happy. Hornets can only get better with a guy like Grant.

Grant got traded to a ****** team, actual feel bad for him this will be first year of missing playoffs.

 

[WesTnVol]

He did. What I found perhaps most eye opening was his quote that the NCAA needs to "make adjustments around the outcomes of court cases".

This is a white hot branding of the NCAA. They keep losing in court on the same grounds, with the same tired arguments, while being told they'll lose again without new arguments. And then, not only do the NCAA refuse to change, they make their frying pan harder by tripling down on NIL power-move allegations.

I think it's also a hint at what direction the SEC/BIG will want to move toward. Perhaps athlete pay with collective bargaining. Sounds like they know that the amateurism argument is beaten and there has to be a new framework going forward of there is to be anything at all.

It’s funny that the B1G is now shoulder to shoulder with the SEC. They refused to play the SEC in regular season games as they considered scholarships as a forum of “pay for play”.
Sankey doesn’t want a federal judge upending his private/good ole boys club. The NCAA exposing itself to so many lawsuits could invite others to jump in and grab some power and influence. I think the news the other day about all these different sports streaming services joining together is just a start of things to come.

 

[Ttucke11]

Yes bc they NCAA is trying to enforce recruiting rules that weren’t rules during Nico’s recruitment. But they’ll lose anyway.

UGA’s QB is a current player. Nothing to do with recruiting. Nothing in rules says a current player can’t sign an NIL deal with a car dealership.

Im talking about the optics. Post season ban for a plane ride while other QBs have Lambos exudes NCAA having LOIC themselves. Whether or not there is a bias against us and for Bama and UGA (there is), it's pretty clear there appears to be a bias in this case. It's a circus, and they're the clown.

 

[screenthis]

Josiah is lethal in the pull up mid range. He’s got to utilize that more. He was nearly unstoppable at times in March two years ago.

I know he’s super unselfish and he’s giving more shots to Knecht but when he’s being guarded one on one, drive and pull up under 10 feet.

Absolutely, I just dream of a team desperately trying to cover Dalton with JJJ going off on that midrange jumper.

 

[Glitch]

Thanks for the updates.

We don't need live streaming, we've got @knoxvol52.

 

[volinbama256]

Absolutely, I just dream of a team desperately trying to cover Dalton with JJJ going off on that midrange jumper.

JJJ has proven to have the talent, he just can't seem to put it together for more than one to two games at a time... Hopefully with his recent play, we are seeing that he understands this is his last year, last chance, and will make the most of it in the home stretch!

 

[TheRain]

That lawsuit came on the heels of the NCAA doing its job - investigating a Tennessee collective allegedly using a private jet to fly heralded five-star quarterback prospect Nico Iamaleava to campus during his recruitment, which is a violation of NCAA rules.

And Tennessee is an obvious recent repeat offender. The NCAA penalized Tennessee's football program (while under coach Jeremy Pruitt from 2018-20 before his firing) last summer for more than 200 rules violations, calling it "one of the worst the Committee On Infranctions has seen." There were 18 Level I violations that included around $60,000 in impermissible inducements and benefits for recruits. More major offenses now on the heels of so many major offenses could seriously damage the future of Tennessee football, and lawyers from Tennessee who love the Vols are trying to do something about it by going after the NCAA.


I find it very ironic that the sum total of all of these major Level I violations is a smaller amount of money than the MSRP for many models of Dodge Chargers.

Well done.

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

 

[05_never_again]

Just Sankey being Sankey. You're right that he should stand up for member institutions-- and UT is a founding member of the conference-- but he is who he is. I don't know anybody who thinks he's a great guy.

"Great guy" meaning personal ethics, personality, "nice?" Or meaning not good at his job?

 

[TheRain]

 

[Jimmy Football]

I hate that UT is having to go through another stupid investigation and potentially a bunch of lawsuits, but I’m proud my university and home state are now spearheading the downfall of that scumbag institution.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

I read it. And I stand by what I said. His response should have been, "TN has every right to be upset. They're doing/have done nothing more than any major, P5 program. It's obvious they're picking and choosing which schools that they want to apply the rules to. TN just got through self investigating and turned over all that info. They didn't have to do that. Now the NCAA is rewarding their honesty by coming after them for rules that aren't even rules. They very well could have met with institutions and tried to co.e up with reasonable guidelines for everyone to adhere to as Chancellor Plowman tried to do, but instead they choose the confrontaional attack. I don't think this ends well for the NCAA, that's why we're meeting to determine where we go from here."

Well put!!



BTW..... This should be your new avi

 

[TheRain]

This is outstanding. If you feel any anxiety over this NCAA crap, just watch this. Watch the whole thing.

 

[DD4ME]

Grant got traded to a ****** team, actual feel bad for him this will be first year of missing playoffs.

It's my **** team. I grew up watching. Maybe we make the playoffs with him.

 

[knoxvol52]

It's my **** team. I grew up watching. Maybe we make the playoffs with him.

Charlotte needs a whole lot more than Grant to make playoffs.

What's so bad for Charlotte as soon as LaMelo Ball becomes a UFA he gone to Los Angeles Lakers.

Don't feel bad though the team I pull for in NBA is crappy as well

 

[Lloyd_Christmas]

I am not sure how I missed this song a year ago, but if I did maybe someone else did too...



Really enjoying some of Conner Smith's new stuff.

That and "I Hate Alabama" are great. I think Morgan Wallen's Tennessee themed song last year basically ripped off Conner Smith's ideas...not to mention, Conner's songs just sound better and are written better than Wallen's song. I say that more to credit the work Conner Smith has done.

 

[DD4ME]

 

[DD4ME]

TN responding to all future NCAA inquiries.

 

[LA Vol]

I read it. And I stand by what I said. His response should have been, "TN has every right to be upset. They're doing/have done nothing more than any major, P5 program. It's obvious they're picking and choosing which schools that they want to apply the rules to. TN just got through self investigating and turned over all that info. They didn't have to do that. Now the NCAA is rewarding their honesty by coming after them for rules that aren't even rules. They very well could have met with institutions and tried to co.e up with reasonable guidelines for everyone to adhere to as Chancellor Plowman tried to do, but instead they choose the confrontaional attack. I don't think this ends well for the NCAA, that's why we're meeting to determine where we go from here."

I agree that he should be more supportive, especially when he has worked with the chancellor and knows how committed she is to competing with character and integrity and how much work has gone into establishing a culture with the personnel to create and maintain that. If nothing else, he could show a little public respect for her and the rest of UT's leadership.

But he's just not that kind of commissioner. He's all about power and money, and like the NCAA, he does not treat programs equally. He'll stay on UT's side as long as he sees benefit, but he's not going to put himself out there. The way he's playing this isn't surprising.

 

[Devo182]

Sounds like he is just stating what most of us feel. What is the magical answer?

Contracts...CBAs...what the pro and minor leagues figured out decades ago...

"everything becomes crabs"

 

[tnhunter 10]

Sounds like communism.