Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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jave36 said:
So you're saying Heupel would have gladly traded Nico away for Joey even if Nico didn't want to go? No way.
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And Joey clearly knew where he stood once Nico arrived...

People are trying hard to overthink this.

Folks need to pepper their peaches for a strugglebus season (relative to Heupel's time...would be a great season 2005-2020). Hopefully the defense can repeat their success.
 
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I'll just say it out loud, I think Nico was an overrated/hyped bust.

He's the 2nd QB Heupel has fallen in love with the measurables over the production. It happens, hopefully moving forward we see a better ability to develop these types or a willingness to evaluate them more critically.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
I'll just say it out loud, I think Nico was an overrated/hyped bust.

He's the 2nd QB Heupel has fallen in love with the measurables over the production. It happens, hopefully moving forward we see a better ability to develop these types or a willingness to evaluate them more critically.
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Sorry, but what does this mean?

He should have played...Gaston or Merk over Nico?

He was still 7th out of 16 SEC QBs...as a 1st year starter. He also outlived and outplayed about every one of the other top-10 QB prospects from his same class lol. Manning still has an opportunity, but he hasn't done anything yet either.

I don't get what Heupel was supposed to do differently.
 
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Was involved with a local union for over 30 years. Every contract negotiation started with “nothing in these negotiations can violate federal,state or local laws”
I can’t imagine any contract law attorney allowing his “ clients” to enter into any agreement/negotiations/contracts with a “you obey our rules and regulations and violate your state laws”
 
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Devo182 said:
Sorry, but what does this mean?

He should have played...Gaston or Merk over Nico?

He was still 7th out of 16 SEC QBs...as a 1st year starter. He also outlived and outplayed about every one of the other top-10 QB prospects from his same class lol. Manning still has an opportunity, but he hasn't done anything yet either.

I don't get what Heupel was supposed to do differently.
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It means that neither Joe Milton or Nico reached the same level of production Hendon Hooker or even Dillon Gabriel (at UCF) did despite being higher rated HS prospects.


Edit: I answered the bold in my original post you quoted. Gotta do better to develop them, it's a lot of eggs in one basket if they don't pan out.
 
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MarcoVol said:
The whole point of the switch would be to get our money up. Might not put us in their ballpark but the more we have to spend the better, yes?
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Who’s to say what the money would be for, for all we know it could just go to construction costs and salaries
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
I'll just say it out loud, I think Nico was an overrated/hyped bust.

He's the 2nd QB Heupel has fallen in love with the measurables over the production. It happens, hopefully moving forward we see a better ability to develop these types or a willingness to evaluate them more critically.
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I don’t disagree at all. It was easy to fall in love with him in high school but it didn’t translate
 
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SpringBokVol said:
I don’t disagree at all. It was easy to fall in love with him in high school but it didn’t translate
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Yeah, and he may end up being a great QB...still young and still time

but he's not a Vol and we invested 2+ years and multi-millions of dollars to get middle of the road production in the SEC. So he was a bust for Tennessee at least.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Yeah, and he may end up being a great QB...still young and still time

but he's not a Vol and we invested 2+ years and multi-millions of dollars to get middle of the road production in the SEC. So he was a bust for Tennessee at least.
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I thought he was gonna be a superstar til we hit conference play. . .
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
I thought he was gonna be a superstar til we hit conference play. . .
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143 of 225 at 63.6% for 1671 yards 9 TDs with 3 INTs in conference play, and 4 of those TDs came in 1 game against Vandy

What's really wild is that 3 of his best games were Vandy (x2) and Kentucky...in those 3 games 615 passing yards & 5 TDs
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
Larry Bird is a Ford man.
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All though true, he had his reasons and 1 was because he didn't want to be flashy. So the joke's on you, Larry Bird drove a Ford because he didn't want to show off and you can't get any lower than a 85 ford Escort. 🤣Screenshot_20250520_141906_DuckDuckGo.jpgScreenshot_20250520_142507_DuckDuckGo.jpgScreenshot_20250520_141758_DuckDuckGo.jpg
The Greatest Basketball Player of all Time is Larry Bird

He also had these....Screenshot_20250520_141312_DuckDuckGo.jpg

For when he wanted to show off just a little bit...
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Bird was so much cooler than MJ too.
 
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TN-POSSUM said:
Altough true, he had his reasons and 1 was because he didn't want to be flashy. So the joke's on you, Larry Bird drove a Ford because he didn't want to show off and you can't get any lower than a 85 ford Escort. 🤣View attachment 743246View attachment 743247View attachment 743245
The Greatest Basketball Player of all Time is Larry Bird

He also had these....View attachment 743248

For when wanted to show off just a little bit...
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Bird was so much cooler than MJ too.
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You know he had ' ban one " vanity plates too. Who wouldn't have had a bandit car if he could. You've convinced me possum, Bird is the greatest of all time.
 
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TN-POSSUM said:
Altough true, he had his reasons and 1 was because he didn't want to be flashy. So the joke's on you, Larry Bird drove a Ford because he didn't want to show off and you can't get any lower than a 85 ford Escort. 🤣View attachment 743246View attachment 743247View attachment 743245
The Greatest Basketball Player of all Time is Larry Bird

He also had these....View attachment 743248

For when wanted to show off just a little bit...
View attachment 743249
Bird was so much cooler than MJ too.
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Altough?

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