Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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GiggerVol said:
I went for a walk at Don Fox park here in Lebanon this morning while our cleaning lady was at the house. The TWRA Fisheries guys were releasing their fourth round of 350 Rainbow trout into the creek on the back side of the park. Before I could even reach my car, there was already 5 or 6 fishermen heading to the bank lol
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I've never understood it. Even as a kid I thought it was weird. I've partaken, sure, but never gone out of my way to do so.

Edit: I understand why the agencies do it. I just never understood the allure of participating.
 
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SoilVol said:
Idea: Vols win out and beat Auburn in the SEC Championship.

Final ranking: 1 Duke, 2 Vols, 3 Auburn, 4 Houston? 👀
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If UT wins out including SEC tourney, they are seeded over Duke. Duke hasn’t played a ranked team since Dec. 2, and in this scenario UT would have a much better record against quad 1 teams than Duke.

It would be Auburn, UT, Duke, Houston if I had to guess
 
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VolGee4 said:
Drake may very well get in even if they don't win their conference tournament although it would be much tougher for them.

But I don't like how we are moving toward how we "feel" about teams. The committee does it in football, too. What's the point in playing games if we are going to just speculate who would win? You use the resume in front of you and decide who is better. Objective facts. While I understand that it may be more difficult for mid-majors to schedule bigger games, Drake played two opponents this year named York College Nebraska and St. Ambrose. They are both NAIA schools. They can and should do better than scheduling teams like that.

OU has a 30 point win over Vandy, the same Q1 win for Drake. Even being in the toughest conference in the country, OU scheduled Providence, Arizona, Louisville, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma State, and Michigan. Won all of them. Drake is 10-3 in Q3 games. You can't just look at 25-3 and 17-12 and determine who is better.
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Well we will just have to agree to disagree. BTW Xavier doesn't play in a Mid Major Conference. The Big East is considered a Power Conference in College Basketball.
 
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VolGee4 said:
While OU hasn't played well within the conference, they have wins over Michigan, Arizona, and Louisville. All top 25 NET teams. That's is what they are hanging their hat on and shows you how strong the SEC is.
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We could be 4-12 right now and still be in lol

No doubt the SEC was incredible in OOC play....but I just wonder how many damn losses can some of these teams absorb? There will be up to 7 BIG10/SEC teams with dbl digit losses that can make the dance. Just another example of how things are trending towards the SEC and BIG10 just dominating everything and phasing out everyone else.

Yay.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Well we will just have to agree to disagree. BTW Xavier doesn't play in a Mid Major Conference. The Big East is considered a Power Conference in College Basketball.
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In today’s standards, the Big East is not a power conference, and I don’t know how you can disagree with facts.
 
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PlanetVolunteer said:
We could be 4-12 right now and still be in lol

No doubt the SEC was incredible in OOC play....but I just wonder how many damn losses can some of these teams absorb? There will be up to 7 BIG10/SEC teams with dbl digit losses that can make the dance. Just another example of how things are trending towards the SEC and BIG10 just dominating everything and phasing out everyone else.

Yay.
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They don’t look at conference standings. You look at schedule and who you beat. Conference standings and affiliation got thrown out the windows when we decided to have 14-18 team conferences with unbalanced schedules.

How is fair if UF beats us by one in the standings when they played UGA and USC twice this year? Blame conference greed for that.
 
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VolGee4 said:
In today’s standards, the Big East is not a power conference.
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So Connecticut which is a Blue Blood in College Basketball is a Mid Major team. Unbelievable...

You know maybe you're right a conference has to have 16-20 teams now.to be considered a "Power Conference".
 
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VolGee4 said:
They don’t look at conference standings. You look at schedule and who you beat. Conference standings and affiliation got thrown out the windows when we decided to have 14-18 team conferences with unbalanced schedules.

How is fair if UF beats us by one in the standings when they played UGA and USC twice this year? Blame conference greed for that.
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Yeah the selection committee looks at your entire body of work for the whole season.

There is still a funneling of power by the P4 teams, especially the SEC and Big Ten that is making everyone else more and more obsolete.

Marquee non conference games are dying in college football and they're talking about guaranteeing multiple bids.

In college basketball they are phasing out the ability for mid major programs to get at large bids because they won't schedule them and the OOC tournaments like the battle 4 Atlantis are becoming history, in favor of these NIL tournaments that will only feature your most dominant schools.

Right now you have Boise State at 21-8 (13-5) in the 6th ranked Mtn West. Wins over Clemson, St Mary's, Utah St and New Mexico. All tournament teams. They played the 73rd hardest OOC. They are currently behind Oklahoma and all these other teams like Arkansas and Ohio State who have been dreadful for months now. Oklahoma with the 291st ranked OOC schedule.

It just sucks. Cinderella's are what makes the NCAA tournament great and they're being replaced by 4-12 SEC teams who want to fire their coach lol.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
My algorithm has moved on from midgets to flat-earth. I watched one video about the planets alignment from someone who apparently thinks the earth is flat, now that's all i'm getting. I'm really kinda surprised at how many people actually believe this. . . i mean fully, all-in believe it with every fiber of their soul.
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If you know about I-75 through Knox County, I'm pretty sure that's why traffic gets stoopid slow between Raccoon Valley and Emory. I'm convinced flat earthers get going uphill, around all those curves, and get confused. Then right before they get to the top of the hill (looking towards Emory Rd), they freak out and slow down to 35 MPH or less. It opens up at that overpass and you're kind of looking skyward. I can kind of see why they panic, they think they're going to fall off.
 
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GiggerVol said:
I went for a walk at Don Fox park here in Lebanon this morning while our cleaning lady was at the house. The TWRA Fisheries guys were releasing their fourth round of 350 Rainbow trout into the creek on the back side of the park. Before I could even reach my car, there was already 5 or 6 fishermen heading to the bank lol
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I watched a YouTube video last week where a guy was filming TWRA release trout I believe it was below Dale Hollow. He panned out from the truck and you could have walked across the mass of fishermen in waders waiting to catch them. It was crazy how many of them were there furiously flinging fly lines. Almost comical.
 
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