Arian Foster

#51
#51
allvol123 said:
Yea but I don't think many people were understanding about our performance against AF last year. Sure it is human nature, but these coaches get paid a lot of money to correct things like this. A ;ack of preparation is not "understandable" no matter who the opponent is.
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You are confusing the words "understandable" and "acceptable"
 
#52
#52
orangeblooded_2 said:
Ill take that reason anyday. But to say our superior talent means a win over a less talented team is what I am having my problem with.
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I agree, just because we have better talent doesn't mean we will win over a less talented team. But, I think we should expect the coaching staff to coach up our talent therefore we should beat less talented teams.
 
#53
#53
Lexvol said:
No. I don't think either team played particularly inspired football. Penn State just wore UT down. How you might ask. Well UT's run defense collapsed last year after they lost one starter. UT didn't have the talent to compensate late into games.

It didn't take a clever or inspired game plan for coaches to know they could wear UT down. It happened all year.
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So now UT was beat because PSU wore them down. OK, Ill agree with that. But doesnt that boil down to PREPARATION? How does a TALENTED team become prepared unless they are INSPIRED to be prepared?

You can pick whatever gameplan against whatever team you wish...but it needs all 3 of those ingredients, not just talent.
 
#54
#54
Lexvol said:
You are confusing the words "understandable" and "acceptable"
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Not really. I agree with you on the inspiration part that is understandable. But I disagree on the preparation part, that is not acceptable or understandable. Coaches get paid to have them prepared. I don't care who the opponent is, not being prepared is not acceptable or understandable. I am not always inspired by some of my tasks at work but I am prepared for them.
 
#55
#55
Talent is a relative term. You can be the most physically gifted player on the team and not be smart or determined enough to put it to use. I would prefer a player a little less talent and the smarts and detrmination of a Senior player. IE Dane Bradshaw.
 
#56
#56
TennesseeAtlanta24gordon said:
Arkansas does not have equal or superior talent to the Vols. That is ubsurd.
Rivals Recruiting Rankings
From 2002-2007 Florida's are 20, 2, 7, 15, 2, 1
From 2002-2007 LSU's are 15, 1, 2, 22, 7, 4
From 2002-2007 UT's are 2, 18, 11, 4, 23, 3
From 2002-2007 Arky's are 26, 29, 22, 24, 26, 31
Add them all up are here are the rankings based on pure talent: 1.Florida with 47 2.LSU with 51 3.Tennessee with 61 4.Arkansas with 158!
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Um, the 2002 and 2003 classes have MOSTLY graduated.
 
#58
#58
Having talented individuals playing as individuals will earn a big fat "L" nearly every time.
 
#59
#59
CABVOL said:
Having talented individuals playing as individuals will earn a big fat "L" nearly every time.
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Talent is great, but you can't win if you are not smart. the most talented players in the world couldn't win if they run wrong routes, being out of place, miss a block, well you get my point.
 
#60
#60
ruslt said:
Talent is great, but you can't win if you are not smart. the most talented players in the world couldn't win if they run wrong routes, being out of place, miss a block, well you get my point.
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And just how does a talented player know the right routes, be in the right place, and NOT miss a block?


Preperation :)
 
#65
#65
CPF built a heck of a winning percentage putting less than prepared talent on the field.
 
#68
#68
TennesseeAtlanta24gordon said:
YOu cannot say that Arkansas ,Florida, and LSU had far superior talent. That is ridiculous. Tennessee had McBride, Harrell, Wade, Mitchell, Meachem and Sears all who went in the NFL Draft. We had and still have All-America safety Jon Hefney. Jerod MAyo was All-SEC, Erik Ainge set the record for accuracy, Morley was 5 stars, and so forth. That team had talent. We should not have lost to Florida 21-20 because we had a 10 point lead. FUlmer and crew do not know how to close because we were also beating LSU by 10! Arkansas just killed us, and you have to wonder what would happen if EA would have played. We should have been 11-2.
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The most delusional post ever.
 
#70
#70
Sabanocchio said:
Why is that delusional?
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Florida, Arkansas and LSU had far more talent. The Florida game was probably the best job our coaches did all season. The Gators should have destroyed us. If you watched the line of scrimmage, it looked like the Ravens versus a high school team. It's pretty rare that a team can make a game competitive while getting physically dominated like that.

Additionally, an immobile Eric Ainge would have been destroyed by Arkansas' D-Line. Citing Morley as an example of our talent has exactly the opposite effect this guy intended. And Harrell only played about 2.5 games.
 
#71
#71
That's ridiculous. Do you forget who we had playing receiver last year? Meachem is better than Monk or Bubba Caldwell. Yeah, Arkie had a good pair of runningbacks last year, but so did we. Truth be told, the Gators were lucky to escape with a "W" and go on to a MNC.

An immobile Peyton Manning had a pretty good winning percentage, didn't he?
 
#72
#72
Sabanocchio said:
That's ridiculous. Do you forget who we had playing receiver last year? Meachem is better than Monk or Bubba Caldwell. Yeah, Arkie had a good pair of runningbacks last year, but so did we. Truth be told, the Gators were lucky to escape with a "W" and go on to a MNC.

An immobile Peyton Manning had a pretty good winning percentage, didn't he?
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Comparing any player on our team to McFadden is just nonsense. We don't have a back that could carry McFadden's jock. The Gators handed us our butt in the fourth quarter. The LSU game was the only game that I saw live last year, and I thought from the very first play from scrimmage that they made UTs offensive and defensive lineman look like they were standing still.
 
#73
#73
Sabanocchio said:
That's ridiculous. Do you forget who we had playing receiver last year? Meachem is better than Monk or Bubba Caldwell. Yeah, Arkie had a good pair of runningbacks last year, but so did we. Truth be told, the Gators were lucky to escape with a "W" and go on to a MNC.

An immobile Peyton Manning had a pretty good winning percentage, didn't he?
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We had good talent at some positions and were ridiculousy weak at others. Florida, LSU, and Arky either didn't have those weaknesses or were able to compensate for them. We were weak at the most important positions, OL and DL. The aforementioned teams weren't at all. And no, we did not have a good pair of running backs last season. Compared to Arkansas, they were extremely bad.
 
#74
#74
The only team that absolutely whipped us was Arkansas. They came out and just beat our asses man vs man. We LOST the LSU and Florida games more than they WON those games.

The Penn State loss was about 1/2 of Foster's fault and about 1/2 our front 7's fault. They rammed it down our throats all day long, like we were some little girls compared to them or something. I was embarrassed that they did that to us, we looked pretty soft on defense during that bowl game.
 
#75
#75
Mullet said:
The only team that absolutely whipped us was Arkansas. They came out and just beat our asses man vs man. We LOST the LSU and Florida games more than they WON those games.

The Penn State loss was about 1/2 of Foster's fault and about 1/2 our front 7's fault. They rammed it down our throats all day long, like we were some little girls compared to them or something. I was embarrassed that they did that to us, we looked pretty soft on defense during that bowl game.
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I would start with the coaching staff. We did not look prepared for the game. We were pretty soft of D all year. Damn good chance we pull out the Florida and LSU game if we were not "soft on D" as you put it.
 
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