Jabari Davis Sez Pruitt's Top Priority Should be Improving Conditioning

#26
#26
volfan8 said:
Everyone is hiring their version of Scott Cohran. Go look at Georgia Oregon and Florida etc.. watch those guys. Maybe Fitz has something different. I know Georgia has something in S&C now just look at them.
Click to expand...

Equine Steroids
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#30
#30
Grudenator said:
That’s why the rams drastically improved whenever he left.
Click to expand...

Yeah, finally having a Qb come thru with a great offensive minded head coach had nothing to do with their improvement. It was all about improved conditioning.

I would disagree with somewhat Davis and say mental toughness is the biggest area to change. I can think of several games in the past couple of years where Tennessee was the much better conditioned team at the end of the game (last two Florida games and AM game are three examples that come immediately to mind) but the team often has the tendency to let down if the game gets real physical. Last two Vandy games are examples, as was LY Ga game, and the Bama games in recent yrs. I think Pruitt identified the reason for the injuries, "we are small", pretty quick.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#33
#33
peaygolf said:
Lots of English majors on VN.
Click to expand...

Nah, knowing English is not the same as majoring in English.

English majors do oddly fascinating things like quote entire 128-line poems, and argue the finer points of William Butler Yeats versus John Keats.

The stuff in this thread, that's just folks who understand idomatic English correcting people who don't (or didn't, prior to the discussion). :eek:k:
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#36
#36
VFL-82-JP said:
Nah, knowing English is not the same as majoring in English.

English majors do oddly fascinating things like quote entire 128-line poems, and argue the finer points of William Butler Yeats versus John Keats.

The stuff in this thread, that's just folks who understand idomatic English correcting people who don't (or didn't, prior to the discussion). :eek:k:
Click to expand...

I've been corrected a few times. I'll be very careful.:good!:
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#37
#37
KBVol said:
Quantum, by definition, cannot mean “very large” no matter the context.

quantum definition per Cambridge Dictionary....
(physics)the smallest amount of energy that can be measured

Quantum definition per Merriam-Webster....
one of the very small increments or parcels into which many forms of energy are subdivided
Click to expand...
Ease up on the kid, bro. OK? We get the message and, to millenials (due to their common vernacular), such a reconfiguration of an existing overall dynamic is, indeed, considered (although SIC) a quantum leap. We know the true definition, but who's all that concerned? Semantics getting in your way? This is just common slang for the youngsters. Anyways...I'd call it a paradigm leap. Look it up professor. Changing from Cincinnati to SEC football conditioning...no matter how you put it...was apparently too big an apple for poor ol' Butch to peel.

BTW OP. I agree.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#39
#39
peaygolf said:
Lots of English majors on VN.
Click to expand...

I doubt that. However, in the 35 years I listened to John Ward. I never heard him misuse the the principals of the English language. I shudder when I hear TV and Radio announcers, talk show hosts and most others who have children listing to them murder our English. I guess this all started when they a Tv network hired Dizzy Dean to broadcast Major League Baseball.
during the latter years of my work, one of the most difficult task was hiring new/young employees was their inability to use correct English, both in their oral and written presentations.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#41
#41
VOLINVONORE said:
I doubt that. However, in the 35 years I listened to John Ward. I never heard him misuse the the principals of the English language. I shudder when I hear TV and Radio announcers, talk show hosts and most others who have children listing to them murder our English. I guess this all started when they a Tv network hired Dizzy Dean to broadcast Major League Baseball.
during the latter years of my work, one of the most difficult task was hiring new/young employees was their inability to use correct English, both in their oral and written presentations.
Click to expand...

It it embarrassing. I am not college educated, but am an avid reader and speak clearly compared to most. The grammar used here, allegedly by graduates of our beloved UT and other universities is horrid.

I have always told both of my kids "fair or not, the 1st impression anyone will get of your intelligence will be the way that you speak when meeting them. Don't sell yourself short by speaking like a fool."

That's the way it works, whether folks like it or not. When my kids apply for an academic program or honors club, or eventually a job, etc...I want them to present themselves well. In this age, if they can just speak clearly they will set themselves apart from 90% of their peers. Sad. Bigly.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 5 people
#42
#42
VFL-82-JP said:
It absolutely can, and often does, mean "very large." Or, more precisely, "very significant, dramatic change."

A quantum jump, or quantum leap is, in physics, "an abrupt transition of an electron, atom, or molecule from one quantum state to another, with the absorption or emission of a quantum."

The emphasis is on abrupt transition ... sudden, dramatic change.

That doesn't necessarily mean "large," but in a non-physics, idiomatic, context it can certainly imply it. In spite of quantum mechanics being the world of the very small, the idiom really has nothing to do with the idea of "small."


p.s. KB, you were right about "quantum," but wrong about the phrase "quantum leap" or "quantum jump." Totally separate ideas, especially when applied idiomatically.
Click to expand...

Then there is quantum entanglement. You know, etheric body manipulations, etc. :whistling:
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#46
#46
VOLINVONORE said:
I doubt that. However, in the 35 years I listened to John Ward. I never heard him misuse the the principals of the English language. I shudder when I hear TV and Radio announcers, talk show hosts and most others who have children listing to them murder our English. I guess this all started when they a Tv network hired Dizzy Dean to broadcast Major League Baseball.
during the latter years of my work, one of the most difficult task was hiring new/young employees was their inability to use correct English, both in their oral and written presentations.
Click to expand...

Yeah but a group of teachers got together and ran dizzy out of the booth. So if it started then, it ended abruptly.
 
#48
#48
VOLINVONORE said:
I doubt that. However, in the 35 years I listened to John Ward. I never heard him misuse the the principals of the English language. I shudder when I hear TV and Radio announcers, talk show hosts and most others who have children listing to them murder our English. I guess this all started when they a Tv network hired Dizzy Dean to broadcast Major League Baseball.
during the latter years of my work, one of the most difficult task was hiring new/young employees was their inability to use correct English, both in their oral and written presentations.[/QUOTE

many schools don't teach cursive anymore, much less grammar...:)

GO VOLS!
Click to expand...
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.
Advertisement



Back
Top