Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[CAVPUT]

umm, what's the opposite of Genius...

CAVPUT?

 

[OrangeMoundTNVol]

 

[chavisut]

This is the first time in 25 years that UT has finished the season ranked inside the AP top-10.
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2 years ago?

 

[VolNash17]

I also want to say they spent more than anybody in the country on player retention. Seems like Heupel's a believer in that approach as well.

Player retention strategy works great when you recruit top 5 every year like the Buckeyes do. They aren’t paying 20 million a year to keep squirrel whites, Telander and Jalen Smiths of the world. They certainly pay both coordinators elite money. Both over 2 million a year. Entirely different model being used in Columbus. It’s ran like an NFL factory.

 

[VolNash17]

Player retention strategy works great when you recruit top 5 every year like the Buckeyes do. They aren’t paying 20 million a year to keep squirrel whites, Telander and Jalen Smiths of the world. They certainly pay both coordinators elite money. Both over 2 million a year. Entirely different model being used in Columbus. It’s ran like an NFL factory.

Not to mention they pushed out a few position coaches over their recruiting abilities lacking. That definitely isn’t going to happen at Tennessee, clearly.

 

[Orange.]

WTF with Allar on "Heistman Watch"?

Penn State offense only scored 6 points on Ohio Taint. And Allar had his starting RB.

"They should quit football."

 

[peaygolf]

 

[VolNash17]

Heupel has his model, we’ll see if it produces a championship. Hopefully it does. It’s been way too long.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

If I'm not mistaken, this was the first season we spent ranked in the AP top 25 every week since 2006 (last year we stayed ranked in the CFP poll but dropped out of the AP after the win over Vanderbilt).

 

[VolNash17]

 

[Smokey123]

 

[VolNash17]

This type of recruiting and selective portal combo with great coordinators and a great HC

 

[engineerVOL]

umm, what's the opposite of Genius...

Well if you have to ask.


Moran

 

[engineerVOL]

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Wow. Where are you in FL? That’s crazy

 

[csprig9]

This type of recruiting and selective portal combo with great coordinators and a great HC

Wait a minute
Bunch of people on here tell me stars don’t matter

 

[Orange.]

The "B1G dominance of the SEC" narrative of the day is peculiar.**

B1G total playoff wins over SEC teams:
Oregon 0
Penn State 0
Indiana 0
Ohio Taint 2
Ohio Taint wins over B1G teams: also 2

Total B1G playoff wins over non-SEC teams (excluding OSU):
Penn State: 2 (SMU, Boise )
Oregon: 0
Indiana: 0

Just say Ohio Taint beat hell outta erbody. That would be honest.

**Of course when Finebaum hopped on the train, you knew something dumb was afoot.

 

[Smokey123]

Wow. Where are you in FL? That’s crazy

A little north of Pensacola. And we got about 4 more hours of constant snow coming. They got snow plows out plowing the roads

 

[Orange.]

I'm there. Not bashful. No BVS.

 

[Orange.]

 

[Vols410]

Player retention strategy works great when you recruit top 5 every year like the Buckeyes do. They aren’t paying 20 million a year to keep squirrel whites, Telander and Jalen Smiths of the world. They certainly pay both coordinators elite money. Both over 2 million a year. Entirely different model being used in Columbus. It’s ran like an NFL factory.

And neither are we. Those guys are all gone. But we spent the money to keep guys like Nico, Matthews, Josephs, Sampson/Pearce (last year) and the list goes on. I still think it's a wise strategy to take retention seriously and to not get to into the expensive shiny objects in the portal.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

#8 in final Coaches Poll.

 

[Orange.]

Jackie absolutely loves it. She is running circles all over the yard and laps around the house.

 

[smokeyhuntsgators]

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I'm there. Not bashful. No BVS.

 

[screenthis]

January 21, 1979

Steelers - 35
Cowboys - 31

17 players and both Head Coaches would be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame

This was more than just the first rematch in Super Bowl history: It re-staged what many still consider the most enjoyable and dramatic Super Bowl battle to that point. Opportunity—recognizing it and capitalizing on it—was the theme. Failure to embrace it would play a hand too. It was the Steelers, though, who managed a 35-31 victory.

Dallas had its chances. The Cowboys took a 14-7 lead in the second quarter when linebacker Mike Hegman simply took the ball away from Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw and ran 37 yards to score. But Bradshaw countered immediately with a 75-yard touchdown strike to John Stallworth.

In the third quarter, trailing 21-14, Dallas marched from its 42 to the Steelers' 10. On third-and-three, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach saw tight end Jackie Smith alone in the end zone. Smith slipped and fell reaching for Staubach's pass and Dallas settled for a 27-yard field goal.

Pittsburgh scored two touchdowns early in the fourth quarter—a 22-yard run by Franco Harris and an 18-yard pass from Bradshaw to Swann. Harris' score followed a pass-interference call against Dallas cornerback Benny Barnes, who was covering Swann. The mistake cost the Cowboys 33 yards. Dallas did score touchdowns with 2:27 and 22 seconds to play, on passes from Staubach to tight end Billy Joe Dupree and Butch Johnson, but Pittsburgh held on to win, 35-31.

With the victory, the Steelers became the first team to win three Super Bowls. The two teams set a Super Bowl record for points scored.

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Boooo. And I remember that dropped pass in the endzone so vividly.

 

[screenthis]

Wife is in Beaumont TX. Crazy out there.