Finebaum says we are better off without Niko

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Ten_Titans said:
Michigan held OSU to 10 points. Just sayin'.

Top to bottom I half agree with you but in the NIL era there is zero daylight between those top tier B10 teams and anyone in the SEC.
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Michigan is one team that had a great senior group as evidenced by NFL draft. The SEC will have more defensive players drafted than the Big Ten even though the B10 has 2 more teams.
 
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Anybody that doesn't want to be here should not be here. Having people like that make your team worse. They will be the preverbal "cancer in the locker room". Nico's gone and the wise have moved on.
 
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Nico/Necco/Neccoh/Nico Suave chatter on VN will subside on a specific upcoming day that we all have circled on our calendars. Until then, many feel the need to bash the little redcoat turd - you know, kind of like being left holding a corsage at the Prom when your date is under the bleachers with Peyton Manning. It's human nature to vent and if we can't do it here on VN, then our wives/husbands/family members are gonna kick our arses out the door, right? So be looking to this wonderfully accommodating and welcoming site on Saturday November 29, just after we whoop Vandy's arse, and then we can all stop guessing and bellyaching about Nico Who's departure. Go Vols.
 
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Sheik Yerbouti said:
What you have realized is a fundamental problem of message boards. Their existence cries out for content, but there is not enough content to justify their existence. You read the board anyway because you are part of a “community,” but you get sick of its repetitive nature, particularly when some noob shows up and starts saying something that everyone already knows. Someone always snaps on the person who posts the same topic yet again even though there are no other “on topic” topics to post about. About 99.9% of the time the discussion changes nothing. The other 00.1% of the time, we prevent the hiring of Greg Schiano, which is kind of like the one good shot you hit on the golf course that keeps you coming back. But in the most general sense, about 1 day after any event, there are no new takes left to spew. And yet people will heed the call of the message board, looking to debate ad nuseum whether Nico’s departure will be good or bad because… well… I’ll leave it to you to answer that one.

In my personal opinion, people MUST fight about “who cares” and other similar pettiness because it is necessary to fill the void and drive engagement, and engagement drives ad revenue, and making money is the point of the site.
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All good points, and I agree.

I jumped in and called out the poster for attacking the OP (rather than the content of the OP's post) because we are a community, and communities require self-discipline and contribution--if we want to be more like Mayberry and less like Philadelphia Where It's Always Sunny.

Apologies to the community if it was done in a way that only ratcheted up the furor.

p.s. Gomer says "Hey!" ;)
 
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Ten_Titans said:
I don't think it is controversial at all to say we are better off than last year's version of Nico.

Nico very well might have a better year than Aguilar this year. I wouldn't be shocked. But Nico was cheeks more often than not last year. That isn't a high bar to clear for a veteran QB.
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If Nico was "cheeks" last year what word would you describe throwing 24 INTs in 2 seasons?
 
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NATHAN05 said:
I have been trying to convince myself since he left that we were better off. Now that I hear Finebaum say it, I can move on without hesitancy....today is a brand new day and I will not let Kneecho control my emotions or haunt my thoughts any longer!!!! Thank you Finebaum for this wonderful gift of freedom again.
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Yeah. If Finebaum say it, it must be true.
 
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dobre_shunka said:
Finebaum thought Pruitt was a great hire so there's that.

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Pruitt was making good personnel decisions. In regards to coaches and talent. Not all the coaches as the DL coach was trash his last season.

But imagine in 2021 we don’t hire Heupel. We don’t have the mass exodus of players.
Pruitt gets one more shot.
Well he brought in Hendon Hooker…
Chaney was still OC but had TRASH QBs.
Well he would have had Hendon Hooker and a team with talent…

He wasn’t the brightest guy, but he was good DC and he needed better support.

Just literally 2 years later NIL comes and Pruitt would have been fine on that front.

He got fired because he was losing, horribly to our big 3 Rivals. 25 ppg points differential against Bama, UGA, and Florida.
 
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I know it's the offseason, but I would not really put much effort into figuring out what he's trying to say about anything ever. Finebaum is primarily a low class call-in show guy, and he really needs to blubber some bad takes to get people to call him and tell him to go to hell. It's part of his job.
 
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SpookyAction said:
We are probably better off without him, honestly, but Nico's potential is very high. I suspect UCLA's offense is simpler than Heupel's, and that may enable him to push his passing stats up.

I think we have one less narcissist, or narcissistic family unit, needing all the oxygen in the program. Makes me wonder how that affected receivers executing last season. Nico's accuracy was not elite last season, but both he and Joe had lots of passes dropped. It seemed like more than normal. His completion percentage was padded by WR screens. Milton's were too.
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His issue is that he can't throw accurately downfield. Simplicity of offense doesn't help that
 
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Voltopia said:
Opening paragraph of this "article."

The quarterback position is often considered the most crucial in all of sports. The quarterback is usually the first to take the snap, and it's his responsibility to make the right decisions in both the passing and running games, especially given the variety of options teams employ today to score points.

Blah. Blah. Blah. Just more stupid AI-assembled trash. "Take this quote from Paul Finebaum and write an article about it." Absolute dreck. Wasting my time and wasting everyone's time.
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I can't stand generated articles.
 
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Probably right.. This offense depends on the deep ball and he didn't hit it enough.. We'll never know because Dad was greedy and the play wasn't worth the pay or a raise for that matter. Someone gave the kid bad advice that will likely cost him a lot of money in the long run. ULCA will be hot garbage this year..
 
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BruisedOrange said:
Any roster move that improves the team is ON TOPIC.

Questioning or assigning emotional motives to an OP whose post links to content about improvement to the roster is what's OFF topic.
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At some point the only humane thing left to do is quit beating the effing horse.
 
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At least we no longer have a quarterback that demanded the head coach change his offensive system from the high flying version to a pistol based system like Nico ran in college. He did not want to put in the work to learn the new system and demanded it be changed or else, and then walked anyway. As long as the QBs in the room work to learn the system, we will definitely be better off. Which is better, have a coach try to learn how to run a completely new system, or a room full of players willing to run the system that works.
 
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