Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[tnhunter 10]

 

[engineerVOL]

Can we stop with the LED headlights, please.



I’m glad you have 20-mile visibility from your 300,000 candela, 10,000k cool white searchlights but you’re blinding the rest of us, hoss.

 

[Sandman Vol]

I've got you all fooled. I'm a Sewanee fan with a very long-standing grudge against the University of Tennessee and their entitled fans.

Nice try, Andy.

 

[tnhunter 10]

 

[MarcoVol]

Tulane going to get their best coach yet in either baker or nagle

Won’t stand for this Willie Fritz slander

 

[drvenner]

Who you gonna get for no. 3 if it's GMac & JA? Remember you're on a budget.

Harrison Bailey

 

[InVOLuntary]

We have a different opinion on 1 thing, sometimes, related to the Vols. Hardly something to have a problem with another person over! We both like to nag each other on it.

"If I were two-faced would I be wearing this one?" - Abe Lincoln

I have to dislike ATL United because Nashville has a team now, so that's the only thing...

Soccer is for commies.

 

[Sandman Vol]

That might work if that was my name-----I'm Batman

No you’re not. You’re whoever Gotham needs you to be.

 

[Sandman Vol]

You're wrong about the cocaine, but maybe right about the devil and booze.

Memphis dealers are the plug for white in that region and it's snowing all the time.

 

[engineerVOL]

Harrison Bailey

I was thinking Riley Ferguson has probably turned the corner by now and ready for prime time

 

[WesTnVol]

Damnit they’re going to be really good by time they roll into town next year.

The storylines next year:
- Lane Kiffin of LSU returns to Knoxville
- Golesh of Auburn returns to Knoxville
- Arch Manning of UTexas as a junior comes to knoxville
- Tennessee returns to Columbia SC first time since 2022
- Tennessee travels to Vandy to attempt to avenge a most embarrassing loss, potentially against Pavia again.
- Third Saturday of October in Knoxville

These are absolutely fantastic games and I want us rolling into them riding an Abrams tank not a milk wagon!!

 

[engineerVOL]

Soccer is for commies.

 

[volKano]

Soccer is for commies.

Biggest sport in Iran as well.

 

[NMVol]

Harrison Bailey

Nah. If he wins any baseless eligibility appeal he'll be the 7th year starter down in Gainesville.

 

[Type Orange+]

Soccer is for commies.

Third World kickball.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Biggest sport in Iran as well.

So commie Muslims?

 

[NMVol]

Third World kickball.

Given the circumstances the least Director White might do is bleed some of that soccer NIL over toward the football program.

 

[Sandman Vol]

No . You’re acting like they were a top ten team that had a few bad plays go against them.
Wasn’t close to beating Bama or Vandy.
Played bad football about as much as they played good football.

I don’t entirely disagree with you. We played a lot of bad football on defense and offense at crucial times.

But to be devils advocate for a second: Make a field goal and we beat uga. No pick 6 against bama and it’s a one score game in 4th quarter. Don’t let OU run a strip back for a touchdown and we’re up 2 touchdowns going into the second half instead of struggling to keep in it. If we’re undefeated going into last week who knows what the team plays like, maybe doesn’t get shafted by a bogus rtp at the end of first half and plays the second half with a killer instinct instead of an apathetic one.

We literally were a few plays from having an entirely different perspective on the season and could have been saying this team overcame and overachieved instead of saying this team played a lot of inconsistent uncomplementary football and wasted what could have been.

 

[Type Orange+]

Given the circumstances the least Director White might do is bleed some of that soccer NIL over toward the football program.

That'll work!

 

[Dadof2Vols]

I need help, VN. Was Drake Maye, a Vols , until UNC hired Mack Brown ? Or am I wrong, as usual ?

You do realize Maye dad and several kids have played decades of ball at UNC, so I doubt it.

They live in Charlotte area and are diehard tar heels.

Maye is the youngest of four brothers: Luke and Beau played basketball at UNC, with the former shooting a buzzer beater in the Elite Eight en route to winning the 2017 national championship.[47] Another brother, Cole, was a pitcher on the Florida Gators baseball team which won the 2017 College World Series.[1]

Drake grew up family friends with quarterback Mason Rudolph, as their fathers played together at UNC.[48] Drake's father Mark played quarterback at North Carolina (UNC) in the 1980s prior to playing briefly with the Tampa Bay Buccaneersand Raleigh–Durham Skyhawks.[1] Drake Maye is good friends with Sam Howell, who preceded him as starting quarterback at UNC.[49]

 

[swchandler1988]

Hope that DLine is heavy enough to hold their own in the trenches. I question that.

You list 3 LB rotations but we run 2 more often. I don’t know how it shakes out if we play more 3 LB sets or a couple of those guys fade and transfer out or become special teamers. But I am hoping with refortified dline and db groups we can take some pressure off the middle of the defense and they become a strength instead of a weakness. Expecting to see the following featured more than the rest next year: AC (assuming he doesn’t go pro), Spillman, Telander, Perlotte, and some Harmon. Maybe the freshman Rouse too.

That’s just who’s there now. Jaylen Thomas looking likely will help bolster the interior, I’ve got high hopes for Campbell too as we all should

 

[Jackcrevol]

I don’t entirely disagree with you. We played a lot of bad football on defense and offense at crucial times.

But to be devils advocate for a second: Make a field goal and we beat uga. No pick 6 against bama and it’s a one score game in 4th quarter. Don’t let OU run a strip back for a touchdown and we’re up 2 touchdowns going into the second half instead of struggling to keep in it. If we’re undefeated going into last week who knows what the team plays like, maybe doesn’t get shafted by a bogus rtp at the end of first half and plays the second half with a killer instinct instead of an apathetic one.

We literally were a few plays from having an entirely different perspective on the season and could have been saying this team overcame and overachieved instead of saying this team played a lot of inconsistent uncomplementary football and wasted what could have been.

young team. get to the porthole.

 

[knoxvol52]

Soccer is for commies.

 

[Sandman Vol]

Not entirely true my friend..say what you want about Nico but the offense was truly predictable last year and I’m not buying the whole Nico playbook malpractice BS..if you put Nico in the offense we had this year i don’t think we lose some of those games..solely on the fact he’s a better runner than Joey.i truly believe last year Josh gave 100% control responsibilities to Haz and fumbled.fast forward to this year Josh was more involved in calling plays,it was a completely different look in comparison.

I don’t think haz put Nico in the best position to score points.if you go back and look at the comments he made i didn’t take it as him saying we sucked from a depth standpoint I think he was implying our OC playing calling sucked and he wasn’t wrong.

Bro you are so off base. If we had Nico we go 6-6. Heck maybe worse. If you can’t tell JA was a big upgrade as a leader in the locker room, as a technical passer, as a decision maker, and commander of the offense, then I’m inclined to let you die on that hill.

Nico had rare raw athletic talent and that’s about it.

 

[knoxvol52]

Never seen that one before. FG kicker stubbed his foot into ground . Only something the New York Giants could do, or the Jets.