Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

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#70,651
Outofmyvolcanmind said:
Just thinking about next year’s offense:

Joey
Matthews
Stayley
Stud 3rd receiver and great depth
Ethan freaking Davis
Bishop
Most OL returns

I mean, not even fair
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Wouldn't count the Joey chickens before they hatch. No guarantee the courts side with him. RB and WR should be good. TE, it depends on if anyone decides to portal. OL is still a question mark. Heard has quietly had a solid season. So has Moe, IMO. Both could decide to go to the draft, or both could decide to stay. It's really up in the air.
 
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Weezer said:
When I lived in Mayport, which is right outside of Jacksonville, it was split. It was not all gators. BUT, that was in the 80's. No idea what it's like now. Ask @RikidyBones , if you can pry him away from Applebee's.
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You're lucky you weren't in Mayport in the late '70's. Took a concerted police dragnet & aggressive municipal ordinance to clean up the clubs on the Jax Beach beachfront.
 
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Weezer said:
Wouldn't count the Joey chickens before they hatch. No guarantee the courts side with him. RB and WR should be good. TE, it depends on if anyone decides to portal. OL is still a question mark. Heard has quietly had a solid season. So has Moe, IMO. Both could decide to go to the draft, or both could decide to stay. It's really up in the air.
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He'll be back if he wants it. The NCAA doesn't want to so much as see a picture of the inside of a courtroom. If they watched a trial on court TV, the defendants in that trial would lose because of it.

www.espn.com

Appeals panel upholds Vandy QB Pavia's eligibility

A federal appeals panel dismissed the NCAA's eligibility case against Vanderbilt's Diego Pavia, noting that the NCAA granted Pavia a waiver that "guaranteed he could play for Vanderbilt in 2025."
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Watching some of the game again and realized that Heupel tuned the offense down to a spring game level of simplicity in the second half. We all wish the offense would've poured it on them, but we did get the luxury of not putting anything else on tape for Vanderbilt...and you know Heupel spent the last few weeks dialing up a lot of new looks to make sure we won this game.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
He'll be back if he wants it. The NCAA doesn't want to so much as see a picture of the inside of a courtroom. If they watched a trial on court TV, the defendants in that trial would lose because of it.

www.espn.com

Appeals panel upholds Vandy QB Pavia's eligibility

A federal appeals panel dismissed the NCAA's eligibility case against Vanderbilt's Diego Pavia, noting that the NCAA granted Pavia a waiver that "guaranteed he could play for Vanderbilt in 2025."
www.espn.com www.espn.com
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Pavia was granted an injunction that was based on the liklihood of his argument winning in court that allowed him to play this year. I think that, and more joining this lawsuit, telegraphs that the NCAA is likely going to lose.
 
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Outofmyvolcanmind said:
This is exactly why Oklahoma could beat us and Florida couldn’t. Oklahoma has some of the best defensive tackles in college football. They kept their safeties back and we still couldn’t run the ball on them.
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27 vs 31 points.

If Sanders makes a basic block in Q1 vs OU we're up 14-0 rather than 7-7. And score 34.


But to your point - what killed me that game was how stubborn we were. We were averaging almost 9 YPA through the air and only 1.8 YPC. Just wish we had leaned on what was working rather than banging our heads against the wall.

We need more backup plans when rushing is struggling - more crossing routes and screens, comebacks, whatever works vs deep safeties.

Also wild how patient our RBs were yesterday. Lots of outer runs...we just aren't quite able to run right up the gut like we did with Cooper. Hopefully that changes, because it's critical and when you run into elite DTs, those patient runs don't work so well. Gotta fly by them.
 
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#70,670
It's funny that the NIL that's been reported to go along with the contract schools are offering Kiffin offer an increased NIL investment that Tennessee has been seeing naturally with no coaching change needed to stimulate the investment. Look at our recruiting this year vs. just last year for instance. And the class is going to get better. We were the #2 team in the bidding for Hiter and it sounds like we're going to spend big in 2027 on a couple of positions we typically don't like RB and CB.

Pretty obvious that indicates more investment into the roster. I have a feeling this year's portal will reflect that investment too.

Callahan said the other day, when someone on 247 asked him how what Kiffin was being promised compared to what we were investing, basically that same level of investment is already there in Knoxville.
 
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Devo182 said:
27 vs 31 points.

If Sanders makes a basic block in Q1 vs OU we're up 14-0 rather than 7-7. And score 34.


But to your point - what killed me that game was how stubborn we were. We were averaging almost 9 YPA through the air and only 1.8 YPC. Just wish we had leaned on what was working rather than banging our heads against the wall.

We need more backup plans when rushing is struggling - more crossing routes and screens, comebacks, whatever works vs deep safeties.

Also wild how patient our RBs were yesterday. Lots of outer runs...we just aren't quite able to run right up the gut like we did with Cooper. Hopefully that changes, because it's critical and when you run into elite DTs, those patient runs don't work so well. Gotta fly by them.
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I agree, what I hope Joey knows is that we can still have offensive prodding pass game even without deep balls. Especially with long crossers and middle screens
 
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