Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[GiggerVol]

NBA full blown joke....never mind the push off with forearm

The NBA is a joke. The officiating or lack thereof is udderly pathetic. I remember when walking/traveling was called multiple times per game and now, even in Jr. High, HS and college it's rarely called. James Naismith would not recognize the sport today.

 

[jmacvols1]

The NBA is a joke. The officiating or lack thereof is udderly pathetic. I remember when walking/traveling was called multiple times per game and now, even in Jr. High, HS and college it's rarely called. James Naismith would not recognize the sport today.

dribbling will become optional...carry the basketball like a football up and down the court.

 

[KB5252]

The NBA is a joke. The officiating or lack thereof is udderly pathetic. I remember when walking/traveling was called multiple times per game and now, even in Jr. High, HS and college it's rarely called. James Naismith would not recognize the sport today.

5 steps, i love watching basketball with well coached, fundamentally sound athletes.

Is the NBA the only professional league where poor fundamentals are rewarded?

 

[Lloyd_Christmas]

Boley took took over for the Texas A&M transfer and has been pretty good. He struggled his first game on the road versus SC. He was pretty decent against Georgia and really good against Texas. Against Texas, he completed 31-39 for 259 yds. He does tend to make mistakes like young qbs tend to do.

The funny thing is that Stoops probably has the first really good young QB he could build around but his seat is getting hot. You also have to wonder if he would be willing to move away from his pound the rock and slow the game down strategy and lean on his talented QB. There were times late in the game where they were still running the ball and eating clock instead of letting Boley throw the ball to at least try to stay in the game. They're lucky that Boley is really big on being a Kentucky kid playing at Kentucky...they'll have to really screw things up for him to transfer. You know he's got to be hearing from a lot of other teams already.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

Boley took took over for the Texas A&M transfer and has been pretty good. He struggled his first game on the road versus SC. He was pretty decent against Georgia and really good against Texas. Against Texas, he completed 31-39 for 259 yds. He does tend to make mistakes like young qbs tend to do.

needs to transfer this winter and go play at a real program with weapons around him.

 

[DD4ME]

Happy Wednesday

October 29, 2025: You are in a time of discovery when you can begin to understand things that have been beyond your comprehension. God will open your eyes to see what you have not seen. And, you will begin to solve difficult problems that have plagued you for some time. These are days of breakthrough and enlightenment. Go with the flow, the Lord will lead you every step of the way. Luke 8:17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.

 

[VolInDayton]

Im starting to wonder if Halze will get a group of 5 job with how many jobs will probably be open.

 

[Mullins2010]

Im starting to wonder if Halze will get a group of 5 job with how many jobs will probably be open.

If so..Littrell will be OC

 

[Dadof2Vols]

So much nonsense that league needs to clean up.

They want the sensational play and don’t care about playing by the rules.

NBA is the most fixed league there is, refs regularly decide whether to make the calls or not based on feeling.

To me the NBA is no more pure Basketball then Savanah Bananas is pure Baseball.

 

[Dadof2Vols]

I was curious about Indiana's roster and how they've assembled a winning team. They have 53 portal players from the past 2 years!!!!! 53! What a different world we live in. Recruiting rankings are overrated if you have the funds to pluck out of the portal. Scouting the portal might be more important than scouting high school anymore.

QB - Portal
RB - Top three portal
WR - Only 1 of top 4 not from portal
TE - 1st and 2nd are both portal (shout out to Holden Staes a Tennessee legend)

Their entire starting defense minus 3 guys are portal guys.

Weirder is that JMU is their farm system and someone should probably look into that. They have 8-10 starters from JMU. They also raid Maryland's best players.

Deion has that many…Just saying

 

[DD4ME]

Anyone familiar with good stores to get Tennessee gear between, say, Dandridge and the stadium?

We’re driving from Fort Mill SC so it’s already a 4 hour drive and I don’t want to make the drive even longer by heading further west into Knoxville to Alumni Hall etc.

Just need to get some new dark mode gear for the game and I don’t want to deal with the vol
Shop mess at the stadium.

Would Vol Shop at University Commons work? It only adds a couple minutes i think.

 

[JohnnyD1024]

 

[DD4ME]

So literally beat their ass? I'll allow it.

 

[InVOLuntary]

I like her but she seems to be struggling as a head coach

 

[Orangeburst]

Hood ran around some this morning. Yesterday McCoy continued to run/do drills. This afternoon is contact. Assume Hood will be held out today/tomorrow, but trending positive. Cross fingers that McCoy can go today.

SF..hope you dont mind..wanted the RF to see your post.

 

[OH-Vol]

Transfer DL Josh Schell - This guy turned about to be a valuable use of Scholarship and NIL $

 

[Vols410]

I've been diving into defensive numbers again this morning. I've been struggling a ton with the discrepancy between what I've been seeing versus what the predictive numbers are saying about the quality of our defense. Watching the games it feels like our defense is in the lower half of the SEC and the traditional stats (points + total yards) agree.

I'm seeing three major factors that play into this.
1. Our ability to create turnovers and generate points is wildly underrated.
2. Our SOS to-date has been really good. (We've played 9th hardest schedule in terms of offenses faced.)
3. A lot of the stuff that looks bad in stats has been in garbage time.

Points allowed doesn't tell the whole story, particularly with Heupel's philosophy. Many (falsely) claim Banks of being overly conservative because they see him allow a lot of dink and dunk down the field, but that's not at all true. Heupel's / Banks' entire philosophy is built around creating havoc: negative plays and turnovers. To do that, they're content to let drives stretch on for a bit to allow more opportunities to create big negative plays, and it's actually working quite well.

To help account for this, I've taken points allowed per drive, and I've done two things to it:
1. Remove garbage time
2. Adjust for turnovers. (-3.5 points for a turnover, -7 points for a defensive touchdown).

When you do this for all teams, we go from #113 in the nation in points allowed per game to #56, because the defense is generating 10 points per game above the average FBS team.

When you account for our schedule, the defense gets bumped up into the top 25-30 range, and in the upper half of the SEC.

We've also held every P5 opponent under their season average by this metric.

Syracuse: (Adjusted Points-per-Drive) 1.14 -> (Against Tennessee) 0.95
Georgia: 3.18 -> 2.21
Miss St: 2.04 -> 1.43
Arkansas: 2.49 -> 1.86
Alabama: 3.05 -> 2.72
Kentucky: 1.44 -> 1.17

TLDR: The defense is a lot better than the traditional stats show, because we're creating more points off of turnovers than anyone in the country. They need to start getting credit for generating 20% of the points of the #2 scoring offense in the country.

 

[SmyrnaATLVolisback]

Transfer DL Josh Schell​

This guy turned about to be a valuable use of Scholarship and NIL $

He’s on the Moi path and play more next year

 

[screenthis]

That's not the reason you're a communist.

Dah!

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Yes. Believe it or not, good teams will lose to good teams on the road at times. He did make a mistake of not taking 3 when 4th and goal from the 3. That would've sent it to overtime. He also beat Florida in the swamp, hammered Boise State, hammered North Texas (who might have the most valuable portal QB next year) and plays Bama tough everytime.

People forget that USF won a whopping 4 games from 2020-2022.

2020 - 1-8
2021 - 2-10
2022 - 1-11
2023 - 7-6
2024 - 7-6
2025 - 6-2

I live in Tampa. He has brought the program back. They recruit better. Alumni are investing. He works in the community. They secured funds and new stadium opens next year on campus. Alex Golesh is a monster! But if you would like to argue otherwise, let me hear your case.

I think Alex should stay there and finish building the monster that Leavitt and Lee Roy had started creating before all the stupid stuff happened and curtailed it for the last 15 years....USF definitely the resources to be a monster...most people that have never been around TBay don't understand that.

The Bulls are the only other college program I've ever supported.

 

[screenthis]

I think Alex should stay there and finish building the monster that Leavitt and Lee Roy had started creating before all the stupid stuff happened and curtailed it for the last 15 years....USF definitely the resources to be a monster...most people that have never been around TBay don't understand that.

The Bulls are the only other college program I've ever supported.

ah, my Grad School. Loved living in Tampa. Go Bulls!

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I woudln't be mad about it.

I also feel like DW would make a good hire.

Coaches will come and go. It's how it works.

If you have good leadership and administration you can keep it going.

Coaches don't have to come and go like the sun and moon....I hate that stupid merry-go-round from hell and I DO NOT EVER want back on that freaking thing. I don't care who the AD is...you get the wrong guy and you are screwed, and there is no magic 8 ball, nobody has one..anybody can make a bad hire..hell..they can make a absolutely great hire that everyone applauds and it will just go wrong for a million reasons.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

ah, my Grad School. Loved living in Tampa. Go Bulls!

It is home to me now, I will probably never get to live there again, but I feel like I'm back home everytime we cross the Howard Franklin. I love east Tennessee, but I don't feel that way about it anymore.

 

[screenthis]

It is home to me now, I will probably never get to live there again, but I feel like I'm back home everytime we cross the Howard Franklin. I love east Tennessee, but I don't feel that way about it anymore.

I'm enjoying Huntsville now. But, we don't have the miles of wide sandy beaches, YBOR, and fantastic bike trails. Heck, you can bike for 50 miles including across the bay.

 

[SmyrnaATLVolisback]

If so..Littrell will be OC

Yes please. And let him take over calling plays.