Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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SoilVol said:
That's a good one. I perceive lawnmower parents are the same ones who invented participation trophies for their kids so their kids wouldn't have to deal with the obstacle of not initially being good at something and having to work for success.

My parents used to give me the "your generation is the participation trophy generation" speech until I hit them back with, "No, your generation invented that for us. That isn't our fault. We didn't ask for them."
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Your generation is also the one that doesn't take personal responsibility, I see.
 
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dcantrell2009 said:
I don’t hate Wes or anything, but it’s insane how he uses 400 words to make every single point. It’s like trying to reach the word count on a high school essay with everything he does.
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His writing style is irritating. His article intros are always overly verbose and meandering.

He always tries to insert some metaphor or folksy saying into them before walking it back and then introducing a caveat to what he just wrote. Like he's covering all his bases lest someone dislike his opinion or analysis.
 
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SSVol said:
More specifically high blood glucose and high insulin. If you aren't genetically at risk and don't have insulin or BG issues, then it's less of a concern. That said, nothing good comes from high levels of processed sugar.
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Does that mean @Weezer has to give up his ding dongs?
 
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InVOLuntary said:
Butter over margarine too.
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This. When the US started pushing vegetable oil spreads, seed oils, etc all in the name of lowering cholesterol, we started seeing an increase in Alzheimer’s also. The brain needs cholesterol to function properly. Our hormonal glands need cholesterol to function properly. How often do you hear about relatively young men having to start on testosterone nowadays because their levels are sh1t? Why did the ADA change that cholesterol levels were completely fine at 300 as the industry/government began pushing the vegetable/seed oils? So they could then prescribe us statins. If you’re on a statin, get off them asap.

The FDA, USDA, etc were bought out by big pharma.
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
Some notes –

Big Orange Hotline –

Pat Ryan and Jeff Francis (who apparently had access to the camp scrimmages) said of the guys we lost in the secondary to the transfer portal – we didn’t want any of those guys back.

Both former Vol QBs also raved about our expected use of the TEs this year and especially Ethan Davis.

Jim Reynolds, in his 45th year as the voice of the Mocs, joined the show. He said the Mocs don’t have any depth and may only hang for the first quarter but those kids will play their hearts out and with a chip on their shoulder because many of them think they should be playing for the Big Orange.

There is a lot of concern about the Mocs DL and its lack of depth. Probably should take the over on UT’s rushing yards. jmo.

Turrentine on the show said just the difference in length and speed were some of the most obvious things that stood out to him with the guys in the secondary this year vs last year.

Rusty Wright –

On Sports talk here in Chattanooga Monday the Mocs head coach said he was more concerned about the talent difference than his depth issues.

He also said that what Jim Mora did to piss us off last year he doesn’t want to do that. lol.

Rusty was asked about Special Teams and the report from Mike Ekeler that in the last 3 years we’ve had 896 punt return yards and only given up 23. Rusty said his punter would be taking a snap for the first time in college against us. He said his biggest worry right now was the guy catching the snap.

He talked about how good we are on ST from the film he’s watched and our punter being ambidextrous or whatever you call it. At that point the show devolved into rolling laughter. Once they composed themselves he went on to say the key to the success of our special teams beyond talent was scheme, which he said we are really good at.

He talked about in his 3rd year they almost beat a 10 win Kentucky team (2021) but in his first year (2019) when they came to Knoxville he had taken his players into Neyland Friday night and the kids were saying this is no big deal. The next day the score was 38-0 against them before they could catch their breath.

He said the one thing on punting you cannot do is kick a line drive to Squirrel (added evidence to my theory that everybody knows who Squirrel is. jmo.)

Bru’s Views –

Bru does a weekly radio show (WGOW FM) here in Chattanooga every Monday (4:45 PM) and he’s really high on our offensive potential for this year, every position group. He said Nico is ready and he also singled out Donte Thornton as being ready to perform at a high level this year.

Bru talked about running through the T and how that will especially affect the first year guys their first time. He said (Monday) that at this point the thing all the players are dealing with is first game of the season anticipation but once the game gets going that recedes pretty fast and you just play.

A couple weeks ago he was asked about growing up as a kid playing football in Cali and if he dreamed about one day playing at the college level. First he said growing up he never dreamed one day he’d have his own radio show then he talked about the ending of the ’22 TSIO. At the time he and Chase McGrath were roommates. They had also been high school teammates. It was really late that night when they finally got home. He said they just looked at each other and said, “nice”.
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Top notch info as usual. That first tidbit about not wanting those DB’s, I had my suspicions that was the case
 
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