Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[GVol1966]

Buddy it was and is my job to figure out what makes people and coaches tick. That's how you develop strategery. Go and examine his actions and tendencies in the past and the present, ignore a coaches words. It ain't rocket surgery.

So UT should hire you? Right

 

[SugarCC]

I'm sorry, I do not believe that Tony V and Danny White have a "strained" relationship. I especially don't believe it's because White is short-changing the baseball program. I believe anyone saying and listening to such bullsh!t, cartwheel and honk for a living.

 

[JohnnyD1024]

Napier is the 3rd coach in the last five years to be fired after beating Mississippi State.

Jimbo Fisher 2003
Guz Malzahn 2000

 

[Theshag]

We were extremely competitive in the Bama game. Whether fans want to admit it or are too blind to see it, that pick 6 was the difference. Idk if we win or not, but it's a 1 possession game coming down to the last drive.

Not making excuses, just pointing out that no one has taken a stick and beaten us to death with it yet. We are a very good team and likely win out. . . if we stop firing missiles at our toes during live action.

This. The score sucked, but the game was competitive. The breaks just went to Bama. On the other hand, the breaks went to us vs. Ark, and they aren't good. I just don't think anyone knows how good this team is. The Vols could finish 4-0 or 1-3 in the SEC.

 

[jave36]

Napier is the 3rd coach in the last five years to be fired after beating Mississippi State.

Jimbo Fisher 2003
Guz Malzahn 2000

The film is out there now, look for MSU to go undefeated the rest of the year.

 

[GVol1966]

Telander and others have talked about lacking confidence in spots. Kitselman caught everything last year. Now all the sudden he can’t catch well? And most of the time with catching it’s confidence or not fully engaging. Less than great hands doesn’t get you starting on offense at Tennessee right now and large NiL deals.

I will 100% disagree with that last statement.
Kitselman had drops last year too.
Mathew’s was recruited for defense by a lot of teams because he didn’t have great hands and he has too many drops at UT to consider his hands great.

 

[tnhunter 10]

The atmosphere in Neyland would be incredible if the playoffs were on the line.

 

[GVol1966]

We were extremely competitive in the Bama game. Whether fans want to admit it or are too blind to see it, that pick 6 was the difference. Idk if we win or not, but it's a 1 possession game coming down to the last drive.

Not making excuses, just pointing out that no one has taken a stick and beaten us to death with it yet. We are a very good team and likely win out. . . if we stop firing missiles at our toes during live action.

The stats say we were equal to them.
The score says otherwise.

13 missed tackles I think was the number I heard, multiple drops, the usual # of pre snap penalties.

I don’t care how equal the stats say we are if we can’t get better at several things it isn’t going to matter.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

Weird take? How?

Right now, Tennessee’s only SEC wins are against teams that are winless in conference, and we play winless Kentucky next. So we are sort of being propped up by an easier schedule.

Trying to sell a 2–5 Arkansas team as “maybe the best 2–5 team in the country” doesn’t really help the case. They’re 0–4 in the SEC, haven’t beaten a Power 5 team, and being close in losses doesn’t change the fact that they’re losing consistently. There’s no trophy for "almost."

Arkansas had the Aggies on the ropes too. Same with Ole Miss

That offense is as good as any in the country

 

[Jackcrevol]

I'm sorry, I do not believe that Tony V and Danny White have a "strained" relationship. I especially don't believe it's because White is short-changing the baseball program. I believe anyone saying and listening to such bullsh!t, cartwheel and honk for a living.

Permission to borrow 'cartwheel and honk?'

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Napier is the 3rd coach in the last five years to be fired after beating Mississippi State.

Jimbo Fisher 2003
Guz Malzahn 2000

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Permission to borrow 'cartwheel and honk?'

You've been borrowing it for a while now,

 

[Jackcrevol]

You've been borrowing it for a while now,

 

[BigSteve09]

someone shouldn't run an account like this if they want to post wah wah opinions like that

 

[knoxvol52]

I'm sorry, I do not believe that Tony V and Danny White have a "strained" relationship. I especially don't believe it's because White is short-changing the baseball program. I believe anyone saying and listening to such bullsh!t, cartwheel and honk for a living.

I don't know whether to believe it or not but the truth is somewhere in the middle just like every dilemma..

I will say trying to be an "Everything" school probably causes some strain somewhere , don't think it's possible to keep every coach happy when they all are needing money for NIL purposes....

 

[Revived2002]

Is this even a discussion? I had hopes that JA could figure it out enough to contend for the playoffs. He made a mistake against Bama, but he wasn't the issue against UGA. It's pretty remarkable that we are here with him coming in June. It's even more remarkable that Heupel had Nico lead us to the playoffs last year.

Let's take a step back and look at the big picture:
- Heupel is 42-17 overall.
- He has gotten to a NY6 bowl and the playoffs.
- We go into every game now thinking that we can win.
- He is about to get a 5 star QB and a 5 star WR to add to this roster with more talent in the defensive front 7.
- We just need a few tweaks and to add some talent to the defensive backend.

Agree 100%

And my post was unclear - I wasn’t saying the University would fire him after the season. I was speaking to the fanbase - the fanbase needs to keep supporting him at a high level whatever happens the rest of this year. I don’t think we can measure his true impact for another 2-4 years.

If we are still losing these big games and peaking at 8-9 wins in 2028, I get starting to think maybe we should move on. But not right now.

 

[UpstateVol613]

 

[Devo182]

The path is to win 5 in a row. I don’t see us doing that either, but the path is there. We’ll likely be favored in all of them, except maybe Vanderbilt (strange as it sounds).

My guess is all but @UF maybe.

Imo:

-8.5 @UK
-1.5 OU
+1.5 @UF
-2.0 Vandy

Of course those last 3 are basically coinflips, so call it whatever.

 

[SugarCC]

I don't know whether to believe it or not but the truth is somewhere in the middle just like every dilemma..

I will say trying to be an "Everything" school probably causes some strain somewhere , don't think it's possible to keep every coach happy when they all are needing money for NIL purposes....

If our recruiting/portal work had fallen off in the last couple of years, just in the slightest, I'd entertain it a bit more.

 

[BigSteve09]

Additionally, I think Vegas had this team at 8.5 wins. We are fine….stay the course.

Correct.

Until the first game, we didn't know whether to pray for 7-5 or strive for 11-1. Joey was (much) better than expected initially so everyone cranked Rocky Top back up to 10 and dusted off their 11-1 and 12-0 predictions.

The season still trends well above disaster. 10-2 is still very much on the table.

 

[peaygolf]

Another great day in Knoxville……

 

[BigSteve09]

he's right and I hope the entire team feels this way

if we just got even a little better at controlling what we could control we'd be lethal

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Exactly, if Heup is not the guy who would you replace him with? Your going to really see it this season, most these teams canning their coaches are going to end up downgrading. You don't trade a car that is 90% great for one that has the 10% great of what your car lacks and the other 90% is garbage. Heup may have a tail light out but he's still a hot rod, and the only time the tail light is noticed is when he is blowing by you.

 

[RandomUTfan]

He doesn't sound at all confident he's going to be there next year.

 

[Orangeburst]

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