Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#152,579
mr.checkerboards said:
It may make next year a down year, but I'm honestly fine with running an in house option
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I mean they're going to add a 3rd QB. Really can't risk going into the season with just 2.

But I also would make it open competition and best player plays. If that's Jake, GMac or the new addition. The players/team can even vote on who they want starting. This season could be a huge one for cementing the culture you want moving forward.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
I mean they're going to add a 3rd QB. Really can't risk going into the season with just 2.

But I also would make it open competition and best player plays. If that's Jake, GMac or the new addition. The players/team can even vote on who they want starting. This season could be a huge one for cementing the culture you want moving forward.
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Your last sentence is why I think an in house option works.
Great transition year to get everyone in one direction.

I'm as hard as they come on coaches, but I'm OK with 7 or 8 wins with Merk or Mc next year as long as it doesn't become the norm
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
It may make next year a down year, but I'm honestly fine with running an in house option
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Yup - unless you can nail a no-brainer transfer, you go with who you have and let the best man win the job. No reasonable person was expecting a return to the playoffs this season. Let's build the roster for 2026 forward and make sure Brandon arrives on campus ready to go with some talent around him.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Yeah...Heupel doesn't prepare QBs for the NFL.

Yet he's had 2 QBs graduate and both get drafted. Joe got to play for one game and looked amazing, Dallas was quick to trade to pick him up too.

Maybe Nico should've stuck with volleyball...we got a full season of him playing with arguably the best RB in Vol history (for sure the best season by a RB). And a WR group full of talent with an OL that could have 2-3 NFL guys off it. But somehow there wasn't enough talent around him.
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WR group full of talent?? Must have missed that part of the team
 
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Orangeburst said:
Joel Klatt just said it was more than money...Bull..you dont ask for 200% money if it isnt primarily about the money..if it was scheme, one would accept no change if you paid them off? I call bull.
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Lmao.....that loser Klatt doesn't know a thing...he's never known anything. One of the biggest wannabes in the bussiness
 
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Orangeburst said:
Joel Klatt just said it was more than money...Bull..you dont ask for 200% money if it isnt primarily about the money..if it was scheme, one would accept no change if you paid them off? I call bull.
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I just don’t find any of this makes it much better, even if true.
 
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Orangeburst said:
Joel Klatt just said it was more than money...Bull..you dont ask for 200% money if it isnt primarily about the money..if it was scheme, one would accept no change if you paid them off? I call bull.
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Joel klatts an enemy of the program. He isn't allowed within 50 miles of Knoxville
 
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Orangeburst said:
Joel Klatt just said it was more than money...Bull..you dont ask for 200% money if it isnt primarily about the money..if it was scheme, one would accept no change if you paid them off? I call bull.
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Nico's team is in full damage control mode. I have no doubt Nico was wanting more players around him but I believe the $4MM. The scheme or lack thereof was somewhat due to his abilities/capabilities, IMO. This offense just didn't all of a sudden go in the crapper. His offense has worked everywhere he's been. He's done less with more before. He overplayed his hand and now he's paying the price. I fully believe he had no intention of leaving, decided to miss practice to turn up the heat, and it backfired on him.
 
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I have said this before but once again “Praise Mama Mashack” and the many other vol parents that know how to be an advocate and an asset to their child while letting them make their own way. Praise Hendon’s family for sharing his story with us and Milton’s family for sharing the tragedy they went through. There are plenty of others but there are too many out there that aren’t thinking about what’s best for the kid just what’s best for them or their family right now. And in that last bit it’s fine and good if a kid wants to give back to his family but that should come from the heart not from family expecting it.
 
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Orangeburst said:
Joel Klatt just said it was more than money...Bull..you dont ask for 200% money if it isnt primarily about the money..if it was scheme, one would accept no change if you paid them off? I call bull.
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Nico and camp imo had a right to question oline and WR play but here’s the thing. If you don’t like what was added or the plan moving forward, you leave in December. Period. Not now. It was mostly about money for them to leave at this point in time, agreed.
 
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