Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Midas]

lol wut? Big Nic is really doubling down on the Heel role

Is it satire? No way this is serious lmao

 

[Butch Jones]

Wtf

The Big Ten has a playoff?

 

[screenthis]

My prediction. Nico will have some 'flash' out at UCLA but will prove that he is not a top notch field general. On the other hand, not right away, the QB at Tennessee will show what a true field general can accomplish. That likely starts with GMAC.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

@TN-POSSUM started watching College GameDay again when he found out Nicky poo was going to be onset...

 

[Midas]

they couldnt afford to hire movers? lol

It’s like 10k now to do that move but they should definitely have the bread to do so.

 

[Adam Sandler]

lol

“I made a mistake. Can I come back?”

 

[rikberry31]

I’m not saying he went to a better situation lmao. Im saying what his issues about the receivers and OL was definitely true most of the season last year. Many MANY posters had issues with it all year. Obvious.

Listen, Nico was there all spring and saw exactly what we had. He saw the improvements on offense. An objective comparison of Tennessee's and UCLA's offensive situations would conclude that Tennessee is a far better situation. The decision was made purely a matter of money and a distorted sense of one's value to the program. The whole situation is the inflated self worth of Nico meeting the nagging reality of a mediocre spring performance. People do funny things when reality confronts their delusional self view.

 

[screenthis]

Listen, Nico was there all spring and saw exactly what we had. He saw the improvements on offense. An objective comparison of Tennessee's and UCLA's offensive situations would conclude that Tennessee is a far better situation. The decision was made purely a matter of money and a distorted sense of one's value to the program. The whole situation is the inflated self worth of Nico meeting the nagging reality of a mediocre spring performance. People do funny things when reality confronts their delusional self view.

Agreed and I believe that is exactly what Heupel saw. He likely felt the team was better off with Nico starting from a pure talent standpoint. But, all the 'circus' that comes with Nico wasn't worth it and Nico wasn't as good as Nico thought he was. On balnace, Tennessee is better without him (if I could get in Heupel's head).

 

[TechnoVol]

Basilio said today that we’ve had conversations with three different QBs by representatives not directly related to the football program or administration. One immediately said they weren’t interested and the other two have concerns about our lack of proven playmakers. This appears to be an obstacle for us.

 

[jpope9]

 

[Christian Lowe]

Basilio said today that we’ve had conversations with three different QBs by representatives not directly related to the football program or administration. One immediately said they weren’t interested and the other two have concerns about our lack of proven playmakers. This appears to be an obstacle for us.

I said it a few days ago in QB thread but it’s asking a lot to have a proven starter in a draft year leave his already good situation to learn a brand new system and gel with new teammates in 4 months.

 

[rockytop25]

Basilio said today that we’ve had conversations with three different QBs by representatives not directly related to the football program or administration. One immediately said they weren’t interested and the other two have concerns about our lack of proven playmakers. This appears to be an obstacle for us.

Nico really screwed us over.

Had he stayed, we could've gotten some playmakers around him in this spring window.

Now, it will be hard to get a QB and WRs because they won't know who will be throwing/catching the ball

 

[RiseToTheTop]

Nico really screwed us over.

Had he stayed, we could've gotten some playmakers around him in this spring window.

Now, it will be hard to get a QB and WRs because they won't know who will be throwing/catching the ball

The playmaker thing also falls on the coaching staff.


They chose not to be very aggressive

 

[Christian Lowe]

Thinking about small c(ash) and not the long term value of the power T.

Volnation is a long term investment not a short term con. Best move he could have made given this persona that is now leaking out. Think Arian Foster vs Al Wilson.

Arian Foster wasn’t and still isn’t a bad dude. The taco story wasn’t mean to hurt us or make us look bad. It was all aimed at the NCAA. Maybe I’m misremembering but that’s what I took away from it

 

[rockytop25]

The playmaker thing also falls on the coaching staff.


They chose not to be very aggressive

Agents/players talk, we very well could have been trying but WRs in the December window knew Nico was shopping himself around

 

[rikberry31]

Every time I warm up a little to the idea of cutting Nico himself some slack (because I've always liked him), he does something else nut-less and stupid. Why didn't he tell his brainless, asinine father: "Enough is enough, Pops. We landed, I've got this. I don't want you to bad mouth Coach Heupel, or Tennessee, or my former teammates. Just let me handle it from here."

This whole situation requires that Nico himself buy into the delusional view of the situation, or he would have gone to meetings and practice. Nico has played enough ball to understand what skipping those means. I mean Tennessee has two highly touted prospects behind him, another on the way, and a situation that most qbs would die to be a part of. On top of that he has a lackluster spring which put him under more pressure. Pressure does funny things to people. Bottom line, the Nico camp seriously misjudged both Nico's value and Tennessee's situation. NIco was over the barrel not Tennessee.

 

[DD4ME]

I said it a few days ago in QB thread but it’s asking a lot to have a proven starter in a draft year leave his already good situation to learn a brand new system and gel with new teammates in 4 months.

Don't disagree so worst case grab Gaston and let's roll. Build toward Faizon.

 

[Christian Lowe]

For those that like to study or stay in tune with changes.

he meant he was teaching Matthews the UCLA offense as a “new scheme” since they’re both leaving together

 

[VolGee4]

We have playmakers. We have them every year even if they haven't been given a shot yet.

 

[DD4ME]

Arian Foster wasn’t and still isn’t a bad dude. The taco story wasn’t mean to hurt us or make us look bad. It was all aimed at the NCAA. Maybe I’m misremembering but that’s what I took away from it

I just meant Arian is worried about Arian more than other things. He never worried about optics for us with his comments. He's not about the T nearly as much as many of your other VFL. He's still a VFL. Nico ain't and never will be.

 

[LaagerVol]

Some of y’all really don’t do sarcasm and satire do you?

 

[rjd970]

This for real?

The third bullet - I thought that was already a rule? It costed us field position per the ref in the ‘23 Bama game because a frontline return team player made some movement with his arms.

 

[rikberry31]

not sure what to make here. but

a) our safety evals miss
b) need to get a starter

recruited over.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

UCLA's schedule

vs Utah
at UNLV
vs New Mexico
at Northwestern
vs Penn State
at Michigan State
vs Maryland
at Indiana
vs Nebraska
at Ohio State
vs Washington
at USC

Probably gonna lose at least 4-6 games

 

[DD4ME]

I don't think we want - right?