Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[knoxvol52]

Randy, Donde and Danny locked in. Josh, Tony, Rick and Kim locked in. Entertainment district on campus at Neyland locked in. LNS expansion/improvements locked in.

Rocky Top you'll always be, home sweet home to me...

Don't forget Karen Weekly. Softball team is performing every year really well. Just hate that the Oklahoma is in conference, there softball team has won 4 WCWS National Championship in a row.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Any of you ever hunt ginseng? This is in the "mountains of Tennessee". . .

That is what ALL the methheads up here do...they have just about wiped it out as a resource.

 

[knoxvol52]

That is what ALL the methheads up here do...they have just about wiped it out as a resource.

The deeper you go the bigger it is . In the woods that is.

 

[Weezer]

We talked about this at our tailgate after the game…probably one of the smartest, most heads-up plays I’ve ever seen!

You talked about everyone wanting to be my friend?? That is extremely flattering.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I have some behind my house. At least I did have some. Caught my neighbor literally 50 yards behind my house, right in the middle of my property digging it up. I said wtf do you think you are doing? He said I didn't think you would mind. I said is it ok if I go to your property and start taking your ****? He said he'd leave.

Why didn't the dumbbutt just wait till you left?

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

He’s sitting on 57 with 4 games left to play. Love to see him hit 2 tonight vs Baltimore to wrap the East.

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Good lortuhmighty...

How do his numbers compare to Ohtani's?

 

[rikberry31]

You guys always lay an egg, but you also no longer have Brock HOF Bowers or Stetson Gamer Bennet. I will be at the edge of my seat to see how you play Bama. You will beat a lot of teams on talent. That is what pulled you ahead against Clemson. That was a battle until late.

For once in a very long time you face 3 teams with comparable talent.

They are a different team without Bowers. He was an automatic 3rd down conversion.

Question: do you guys want to be in the SEC championship game?

Let’s just say we are 11-1 at end of regular season. Would you rather play another sure playoff team in a SEC championship game, or get the extra week to recover after a 12 game season. I guess you’d get an extra week off compared to teams 5-12 if you won the SEC championship. If you lost, you could theoretically have an extra game than the team you are playing in the first round of the playoffs has to play. I can see a scenario where you lose SEC Championship and play the third place Big 10 team (or even 3rd SEC team) in first round of playoffs.

I can even see a scenario where the SEC champ game is a blowout and the loser drops below the 3rd place SEC team in the playoff seeding

Winning an SEC title is a big deal and in my mind winning the SEC is on the same level as winning the CFP. There’s the SEC and about five teams in the rest of the country that don’t suck.
So yeah, I wanna win the SEC.

 

[JohnnyD1024]

 

[Vol423]

Oakland sucks! As far as the Oakland A's leaving Oakland, who could blame them?

 

[knoxvol52]

IF the city of Oakland would've built the A's a new stadium this speech wouldn't have been needed. Blame it on your city.

 

[JP_UT_O&W]

I ran a quick script to determine each week's spread according to the current SP+ rankings...Spread uses a 2.5pt home adjustment after comparing the overall SP score.

Arkansas W 12.9
Florida W 18.1
Alabama L 2.3
Kentucky W 15.2
Mississippi State W 30.3
Georgia L 6.5
UTEP W 52.4
Vanderbilt W 22.0

According to this, Arkansas is our 3rd toughest remaining game. Behind uga & bama. followed by Kentucky, Florida, Vandy, Ms State, UTEP

 

[hooperj75]

Been stuck in the ATL airport now for 6 hrs. Oh joy.

 

[tnhunter 10]

 

[JP_UT_O&W]

Kiper's final 2025 Big Board: Ranking the top 150 NFL draft prospects, plus best at every position

Mel Kiper Jr. updated his rankings for the 2025 NFL draft one last time. His Big Board stacks 150 prospects and goes deep at every position.

www.espn.com

3. James Pearce Jr., OLB, Tennessee*
Height: 6-5 | Weight: 243 | Prev. rank: 3

2024 stats through four games: 3 tackles, 0.5 sacks, 1 tackle for loss, 1 run stop

Tennessee spent the early part of the season rolling its opponents, limiting Pearce to 56 snaps over the team's first three games. But Pearce -- who is coming off a 10-sack season in 2023 -- saw plenty of action in Week 5, picking up a half-sack. I see a lot of speed off the edge, and he does a nice job mixing up his pass-rush moves to keep offensive tackles on their heels. Pearce could still add weight to his frame. But even at 243 pounds, he shows the ability to win with power. And when asked to help in run defense, he has the quickness to make plays in lateral pursuit.

 

[tnhunter 10]

 

[JP_UT_O&W]

Kiper's final 2025 Big Board: Ranking the top 150 NFL draft prospects, plus best at every position

Mel Kiper Jr. updated his rankings for the 2025 NFL draft one last time. His Big Board stacks 150 prospects and goes deep at every position.

www.espn.com

3. James Pearce Jr., OLB, Tennessee*
Height: 6-5 | Weight: 243 | Prev. rank: 3

2024 stats through four games: 3 tackles, 0.5 sacks, 1 tackle for loss, 1 run stop

Tennessee spent the early part of the season rolling its opponents, limiting Pearce to 56 snaps over the team's first three games. But Pearce -- who is coming off a 10-sack season in 2023 -- saw plenty of action in Week 5, picking up a half-sack. I see a lot of speed off the edge, and he does a nice job mixing up his pass-rush moves to keep offensive tackles on their heels. Pearce could still add weight to his frame. But even at 243 pounds, he shows the ability to win with power. And when asked to help in run defense, he has the quickness to make plays in lateral pursuit.

Bru listed as #7 WR

 

[knoxvol52]

Go Army beat Temple..


My beloved Cowboys play at 8:15 vs Giants on Prime Video.

 

[Visidog]

I didn't mean to erase that on you. Thought maybe I was going on too much about it and had nuked it in time. But you clearly read it right.

What you say now is correct. My point is that Kirby always says the reason he wants home and away is hosting recruits. That's why I think y'all will keep at changing the hosting rule. I hope that fails. If it passes, my read is that Kirby will like the neutral field with home field benefits.

For now, I see it is two more years in Jax, followed likely by neutral site games in Tampa or somewhere else in FL (I forget where) and Atlanta. Neutral site games are not true road games, and that makes a difference in the toughest conference to play on the road. Oregon in Atlanta is not really a neutral site. But I did dig your home-and-away with ND. We've done that before, but not in a while.

This 100%. The sun in Kirby’s solar system is recruiting, so what helps him recruit is good and what hurts recruiting is bad.

Also, don’t underestimate the threat of leaving being a way to make Jacksonville pay more to the schools. But it’s mostly recruiting.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Why didn't the dumbbutt just wait till you left?

You know how people can be. I was sitting here on the couch one Saturday morning in the fall. I was watching GameDay, drinking my coffee just chilling. All of a sudden a huge boom came from my back yard. My back door is literally 100' from the wood line. It was a gun shot. Now keep in mind, my house is right in the middle of our 50 acres. It's a minimum of 1000' to any of our property lines. It scared the out of me. I jumped up an ran to the back door. Some moron was sitting on a log within a stones throw of my back door, squirrel hunting. He was baffled that I was upset about him hunting on our property. People don't respect other's property.

 

[DD4ME]

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Been stuck in the ATL airport now for 6 hrs. Oh joy.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

You know how people can be. I was sitting here on the couch one Saturday morning in the fall. I was watching GameDay, drinking my coffee just chilling. All of a sudden a huge boom came from my back yard. My back door is literally 100' from the wood line. It was a gun shot. Now keep in mind, my house is right in the middle of our 50 acres. It's a minimum of 1000' to any of our property lines. It scared the out of me. I jumped up an ran to the back door. Some moron was sitting on a log within a stones throw of my back door, squirrel hunting. He was baffled that I was upset about him hunting on our property. People don't respect other's property.

I quit throwing cans in your pond.

You're welcome

 

[knoxvol52]

You know how people can be. I was sitting here on the couch one Saturday morning in the fall. I was watching GameDay, drinking my coffee just chilling. All of a sudden a huge boom came from my back yard. My back door is literally 100' from the wood line. It was a gun shot. Now keep in mind, my house is right in the middle of our 50 acres. It's a minimum of 1000' to any of our property lines. It scared the out of me. I jumped up an ran to the back door. Some moron was sitting on a log within a stones throw of my back door, squirrel hunting. He was baffled that I was upset about him hunting on our property. People don't respect other's property.

The big question is, did he kill the squirrel?

 

[Orangeburst]

I quit throwing cans in your pond.

You're welcome

i dump all my old tires there

 

[Type Orange+]

Donde Plowman commits to 5 more years at TENNESSEE..