Poll: Is this Technically a Rebuilding Year?

Poll: Is this Technically a Rebuilding Year?

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#26
#26
GVF said:
Considering we are a missed field goal away from winning in Athens, and a bad day coaching in Tuscaloosa, we've done quite well. Three distinct drives Saturday, and that game is literally a probable win for us. Bama did not beat us outright by any stretch of the imagination. That was not a whooping. We tossed that game, and it still took them till about 6 minutes to put it away for sure. As bad as we played, we were still in that game the whole way. The emergence of Simpson is the only reason Bama is not a 3 loss team at this point. But SEC football is weird. They could replay that game in Athens for the next 6 weeks and lose all of them.

IMO, yes we are overachieving. I for one was predicting 10-2, but knew 9-3 was very possible and still be a successful season. But, our shortfalls do rear up. And we are thin at WR which is why I think Matthews is still getting the nod. We moved the ball quite easily Saturday in totality. Our discipline and stone hands killed a solid 3-4 potential scoring drives. Plus the pick 6, and a 3 penatly defensive effort gave them an extra 14. Just those two and it's a 3 point game to overcome ot tied because that was a 17 point swing. Passing on 3 to give them 7, and 3 15 yard penalties to keep them alive and score. And a botched 15 yard loss for a 25 yard 1st down run and eventual score. That's 21-24 points right there before you critique the rest of the offensive misses on positive drives. That's the hard pill for that loss. We didn't lose from being outmanned, even with all our injuries. We didn't give up. We lost on attention to dtail, and tackling, which is attention to detail.

I shudder to think what we'd be if we still had a QB that can't throw for more than 180.
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Too bad that wasn't in Athens.
 
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#27
#27
With our NIL budget and our last 3 years, we should be reloading, not rebuilding in Y5....

One issue is we have yet to develop high end HS OL recruits. That group requires continuity and having to pay (overpay) to fill that lack of development means we have holes elsewhere.

Two guys that we have spent a good bit of money on (Matthews and Carter) have been wildly inconsistent this year and Sanders has given us little to nothing yet....
 
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#29
#29
BigOrangeMojo said:
With our NIL budget and our last 3 years, we should be reloading, not rebuilding in Y5....

One issue is we have yet to develop high end HS OL recruits. That group requires continuity and having to pay (overpay) to fill that lack of development means we have holes elsewhere.

Two guys that we have spent a good bit of money on (Matthews and Carter) have been wildly inconsistent this year and Sanders has given us little to nothing yet....
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True, and having said that I personally think it's still our best O-line year in a bit.
 
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#30
#30
GVF said:
True, and having said that I personally think it's still our best O-line year in a bit.
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It's better than last yrs OL. We have a couple of weaknesses there that have been exploited pretty heavily the past two games...

Sanders played well Saturday so hopefully that changes a few things going forward
 
#31
#31
GVF said:
Not that simple. In Saban's own words you better do your due diligence if your gonna recruit the portal cause most guys are there for a reason, and bad choices will kill your team and lockerroom.
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The top teams are still those that recruit and develop players. OSU, Bama, UGA are all top dogs because they pull in talent. They have transfers for sure, but they don't just take mercenaries for fun.
 
#32
#32
BigOrangeMojo said:
It's better than last yrs OL. We have a couple of weaknesses there that have been exploited pretty heavily the past two games...
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Not up to speed on it, but curious if we've had some injured personnel on the O-line of late that has limited rotations. Seems were stronger a few games ago. Even if so, we still had plays with lots of time to pass Saturday.

From what I can recall week to week, OL, and DL has been more solid than the past. LB is not horrible. DB and discipline are pretty rough, and the likley culprit to an undefeated season. And some ill-timed bad coaching calls. Passing on the 3 points was a game killer and was suspect even without the pick 6. The announcers were all over that due to the play before being the call that set up the obvious call on that play and being in position for a pick 6.
 
#33
#33
Nico ee-ah-MAH-LAY-ah-va said:
The top teams are still those that recruit and develop players. OSU, Bama, UGA are all top dogs because they pull in talent. They have transfers for sure, but they don't just take mercenaries for fun.
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That may change over time with Deboer, but Saban was hugely diligent in who he took from the portal. And he may come around down there. Right now I think every game he plays is 50/50. Because of the rest of the B10, tOSU recruits itself, so all Day has to do is not screw a game up in real time. Kirby seems to handle his picks from the potal pretty decent. You also have an annual allotment of HS recruits in GA that only plan on being Dawgs no matter what or who. Stockton is one. Bobo's father began being Stockton's QB coach/mentor at 6 years old. Richt still stays active with the program in general and still lives in the area. There's a good backbone to UGA's program and success that goes well beyond Kirby.

As for recruiting, UGA is in prime location, but UT still pulls well from there. TN itself is an odd duck, the western half is do far removed from Knoxville, a good portion of instate D1 talent goes to Bama or Ole Miss. And it's just been recent years that available instate talent has emerged in decent numbers. It's not as easy to recruit to UT imo unless you can live successfully in GA, SC, NC.
 
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#37
#37
madbamahater said:
Seems like UT is overachieving in what should be viewed as a rebuilding year. Less than 2 months ago, most people had no clue who the QB was going to be. Tennessee's returning QB left them high and dry a few shorts months before the upcoming season. Had to replace Sampson and wasn't sure how that'd work out. WR corps was questionable at best and they have been better than most thought. The defensive line is the biggest issue with lack of depth and size at the dtackle positions. The secondary is young and thin and the Vols are suffering from critical injuries in the secondary.

Despite some very bad coaching with time management (mostly) and some very bad play calling, Heupel has done a remarkable job for the most part to this point in the season. An overtime loss to UGA and a bad performance on the road in Tuscaloosa. Crazy to think he is just a few plays executed or better time management/play calls away from being ranked arguably #1 in the country, or top 5.
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So you don't think Merk could have gone 5-2 or 8-4? Not so sure about that. He would have lost the same games.
We have not beaten a team that would be considered good. Better coaching (JH and the assts) could have won both games that we have lost, and JA
has to take most of the blame for the 99 yd idiotic decision to pass in that situation. He should have thrown the ball away.
 
#40
#40
volbound1700 said:
Hard to say we are necessarily "Overachieving" as we have beaten 2 bottom feeders in tighter than they should be games and lost to 2 heavy favorites. I guess the "almost" win over Georgia is overachieving.

The remaining schedule is going to be HUGE on how we view this season. I think we really need to beat Florida to feel like we have accomplished something as 0-3 against Bama, Fla, Georgia isn't good.
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Agree, we will find out soon but every yr should be reloading moving forward imo, esp. w/ the portal. Expectations increased once we saw what we had with Joey, so I’d say No.
 
#42
#42
Every year will be a rebuilding year until we can afford player retention. Losing Thomas to the spring portal probably hurt as much as anything.
 
#43
#43
This is the youngest team in the SEC. Common sense should have told you with NCAA issues hanging over the program in 2021-2023 recruiting was gonna be tough. It was.
 
#45
#45
Losing our QB1 like we did, I would call it a salvage year. I came into the season expecting at least 4 losses and have been pleasently surpried with the offensive side of the ball. Defense has potential but they just can't seem to get everything to click. It's like:

good play
good play
what the heck
 
#48
#48
TikiVol said:
Sadly, that’s one position that improved YoY. What is killing me is the continued dropped passes, horrible tackling, and penalties. We can’t blame Nico for that.
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No one is. The point to my poll question is about this being a rebuilding year and just several weeks ago with UTs QB bailing out and no one really knew who was going to be the starting QB means it is a rebuilding situation.
 
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