Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[mr.checkerboards]

Malik Murphy would be fun

 

[UTLEGEND]

The Iamaleava family is the new Ball family but in football

 

[VolNash17]

He could’ve at least had a parting call/meeting with Heupel. That’s all I needed to hear to confirm how ridiculous and shady their crew is.

 

[SSVol]

Hell hath no fury like scorned hillbillies. I'm totally here for it.

 

[Orangeburst]

Didn’t even call his Head Coach? Are you kidding me?

that actually bothers me most in all of this..so immature.

 

[VolNash17]

Parting call/meeting embrace and let everything out. No media no interns no office staff had to know about it. Ridiculous he leaves and doesn’t even call the Head Coach

 

[DD4ME]

Nothing but respect for CH! Words were NOT minced by this staff. This will be a stain Nico will never be able to remove, no matter what he does or doesn’t do moving forward. He’ll have suitors just because someone will make an offer, but character is forever damaged.

Glad to hear it.

 

[MockingVol]

Bust is expectations vs results.

Expectations were INSANELY high for HB15. Peyton 2.0 level. Maybe some have forgotten, but it was out of control. Then he went on to do NOTHING of note outside of beating lowly Vandy.

JJ Peterson, the hype wasn't quite as high as HB, but he somehow did even less lol.

Nico's expectations were on par with HB and he did 1000% more. I'm glad we had him for when we did, otherwise we don't skate past Bama, UF, etc with Gaston or make the playoffs. Only HH 2022 had a team as high by the end of the regular season and in-place to make the 12-team playoff, had there been one.

If he was a legit bust then he wouldn't be the one guy we could least use to lose at this point. If you polled this place a month ago who we could not have injured during Spring practice and out for the season, 99% would have said Nico. That isn't what you'd say if he was a bust. He would've been a 3rd stringer like HB at UNLV haha.

HB15 had high expectations, but let’s be real, there was a world of difference between his expectations and Nico’s.

 

[Checker_the_Shire]

See again, he’s not hinting at anything. He’s just saying he wouldn’t be shocked if it happened. And right before that, this isn’t the entire episode, they were talking about Nico potentially leaving and what that means for TN. I say all this to just provide caution that I don’t think there’s any done deal with another QB at this exact moment.

 

[DD4ME]

There is a full video too.

 

[Orangeburst]

Never seen brigdes burned so quickly..

 

[DD4ME]

#$00N

 

[DD4ME]

 

[Leeleesteeth]

What I'm hearing from sources around the program is that UT will announce after the O and W game that JON GRUDEN will be the next starting QB.

 

[NMVol]

What an opportunity the coming season would have been. Not having confidence in his supporting cast to pull together and bring the fight says alot especially where last season was a collective effort.

 

[DD4ME]

Now sadly us taking a QB would be likely to make someone on another team a Nico. That is facts. I am inclined to poach a backup that has minutes and roll with Merc, but I don't run a multimillion dollar program.

 

[gunner]

UT is too cheap to go buy a proven QB from another team.

Vol fans are going to be stuck with a Freshman QB that has some talent but no experience. That’s not good when you consider they are rebuilding the WR, OL, and RB’s positions. It could get really ugly next season.

 

[Volnut]

I think there's a good chance this brings the team closer together.

I hope so. The Ethan Davis hugging Merk X post that's in this thread is comforting.

 

[Jpcisco]

See again, he’s not hinting at anything. He’s just saying he wouldn’t be shocked if it happened. And right before that, this isn’t the entire episode, they were talking about Nico potentially leaving and what that means for TN. I say all this to just provide caution that I don’t think there’s any done deal with another QB at this exact moment.

We can interpret differently. He said he will talk about it next week, not we may be discussing this scenario next week potentially. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, to me we appear to have something lined up. Obviously you don't feel the same way which is cool. Will find out next week.

 

[Checker_the_Shire]

What I'm hearing from sources around the program is that UT will announce after the O and W game that JON GRUDEN will be the next starting QB.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Will our next QB be able to hit wide open receivers?

 

[Christian Lowe]

UT is too cheap to go buy a proven QB from another team.

Vol fans are going to be stuck with a Freshman QB that has some talent but no experience. That’s not good when you consider they are rebuilding the WR, OL, and RB’s positions. It could get really ugly next season.

If this were true, we would be bad at everything

 

[SKV84]

I hope Merk gets a huge ovation today at the spring game.

 

[JCVol00]

Aka we are tampering tf out of someone

 

[DarthVol1]

For those not aware. Even though OW game is not being streamed, the game is being broadcasted by the Vol Network with the debut of Mike Keith, Ramon Foster, and Jason Swain. I am sure they will relay the reaction of Nico leaving, etc. I plan on tuning in.