Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[Jackcrevol]

The right call. What Heupel should of done with Boo this offseason.

if we had better depth, i'm sure he would have

 

[volbeast33]

I see what you’re saying but if you like college football and like cheering for your squad then all these games still matter, just in a different way. Bowl game def matters to potentially see some other guys get more experience and carry some momentum into spring next year.

People have lost what it means to be a fan. Go Vols…. Let’s win out.

 

[knoxvol52]

Yes! It's just a barrel of monkeys knowing there's a decent chance you lose to Vandy at home and a FL team that just fired their coach. I'm having a blast just thinking about it.

So your getting Jay Cutler vibes for the Tennessee vs Vanderbilt game in Neyland Stadium?

 

[knoxvol52]

if we had better depth, i'm sure he would have

Sometimes the hard decision is the better decision... Yes, we needed Boo but at what cost on team chemistry?

 

[SKV84]

if we had better depth, i'm sure he would have

I mean ....he didnt play a single defensive snap last night.

 

[Sandman Vol]

I do with better coaches. Our team will be loaded next year with our recruiting class and 10 or so portal players. We will have top end talent to win every game.

Need some staff changes and upgrades. And before everyone cries, I am not saying anything about Heupels job. Assistants only

Maybe heupel should get DW or that consultant group they use involved for his staffing.

 

[OrangeMoundTNVol]

We also need a revamp of special teams. We are no threat in the return game.

With Morris on the bench. How do you not use a guy like that when Lewis and Boo gives you nothing.

 

[thistime]

The right call. What Heupel should of done with Boo this offseason.

Most of the time when you show people where the line is the ones worth keeping won't try to cross it.

 

[dmwvol12]

McElwain and Mullen both went to the SEC championship game which we haven’t been to since 2007.

What are we accepting then?

And they fired both quickly. They fire anyone who doesn’t win quick. They didn’t get the next hires right but they will fire and keep trying until they do. Because they don’t accept not winning. I’m not sure what our record would be if we had Floridas schedule for the last two years.

If you take a step back and analyze the situation instead of reacting out of being emotional you have to ask how Florida's plan of firing coaches at the first sign of adversity has actually performed? I would submit that it has them wondering in the wilderness like we did before Heupel. I personally don't want to use the current Florida model as something that I want UT to follow as it has been an absolute failure. The reality is there are almost no gauranteed home run hires and more often than not firing a coach with the level of success of someone like Heupel leads to negative results the majority of the time. We should strive to achieve a championship but expecting one or else is fools gold. I would say we are accepting the best run in two decades and competing to get into the playoffs which is reasonable.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Sometimes the hard decision is the better decision... Yes, we needed Boo but at what cost on team chemistry?

he did nothing to help special teams and hasn't in a while. i will say he has generated some turnovers this year. and has helped on defense, but he was non existent last night. along with the dl linebackers and entire secondary minus Ty Redmond.

 

[dmwvol12]

Cut Gilbert today. Two massive misses in big winnable games.

And replace him with some Fraternity brother? We all know anybody can kick at 100% in college. It's easy.

 

[LargePairOfVols]

If you take a step back and analyze the situation instead of reacting out of being emotional you have to ask how Florida's plan of firing coaches at the first sign of adversity has actually performed? I would submit that it has them wondering in the wilderness like we did before Heupel. I personally don't want to use the current Florida model as something that I want UT to follow as it has been an absolute failure. The reality is there are almost no gauranteed home run hires and more often than not firing a coach with the level of success of someone like Heupel leads to negative results the majority of the time. We should strive to achieve a championship but expecting one or else is fools gold. I would say we are accepting the best run in two decades and competing to get into the playoffs which is reasonable.

Realistic expectation is probably a floor of 8-4 with some 9 and 10 win years mixed in. Every 4-5 years a playoff appearance. At some point we’ll catch fire and make a deep run.

 

[Mullins2010]

 

[thistime]

Ranked 23rd....Maybe some of these pre-season experts in the SEC knew more about where we ranked than we thought.

 

[Sandman Vol]

That was such a random cameo by Johnny Knoxville last night

The stars are in neyland. He probably made pretty good money to show up.

 

[JCVol00]

•Took overtime to beat a 5-4 team
•Only beat a 2 win team by 3
•gave up 34 to the worst offense in the league
•outgained ou by 100 yards, 9 first downs, and had 25% of the penalties they did.

We just aren’t good this year

 

[Sandman Vol]

Yes. Every team will have some years where they don’t make the playoff. Unless they expand this thing to 24

16 is already in the works. 24 with a play-in game will be here before you know it.

Then the AP poll and CFP committee will merge and college football will have the structural feel of the nfl with the quality of viewership as the nba.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Good move by Coach Kim, I think Ruby is a great player but you can't give some one a second chance with a fine line to walk and then let them abuse that.

 

[Moar Steam]

I’m not wrong it’s just an inconvenient truth.

I’m not happy we lost either but after what we have been through with Dooley, Kiffin, Butch and Pruitt, Heupel has been a marked improvement… that’s the inconvenient truth.

 

[engineerVOL]

Ranked 23rd....Maybe some of these pre-season experts in the SEC knew more about where we ranked than we thought.

Honestly I’m surprised we are even ranked. We put up good offensive numbers but that’s about it.

 

[Vols2DaWall]

Austin Price referencing potential big portal exodus this year on the pod. Doesn’t sound like the locker room is doing too well right now

 

[Sandman Vol]

It's not a down year. This is a successful year compared to what Tennessee has been for more than a decade, spanning 5 different coaches, not including Heupel.

Don’t let 15 years of abuse and negligence by our university and athletic leadership fool you into the thought that we deserve any less than to be a perennial top 10 team in the country.

 

[engineerVOL]

Good move by Coach Kim, I think Ruby is a great player but you can't give some one a second chance with a fine line to walk and then let them abuse that.

That’s the kind of move I’m just not sure Heupel has the stones to make.

 

[TrippieRedd]

can’t believe this dude beat us

 

[Sandman Vol]

Just to change it up…



There’s no way that Saban would slap Bama fans in the face by going back to LSU. Am I right?

Well he did it to lsu in the first place so why wouldn’t he do it to bama?