Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[engineerVOL]

FWIW I want to give a shout out and strong endorsement to a couple of guys in the HVAC business here in Wilson County and surrounding area. I just had to replace the HVAC unit for my upstairs and was referred to a couple of brothers who started their own business less than a year ago. Their business same is KS Heating and Air. They are well spoken, respectful, knowledgeable and honest. They did a terrific job and saved us money. So if any of you in the mid. tn area will be needing any work done soon, I highly reccommend you let them give you a quote. Some of the more well-known companies in the area that have lots of cute little vans running around will steal you blind!

We use a couple of brothers here in Smyrna/Boro area… Parkers. Something about brothers I guess run an honest business. There’s a set of contractors too that are brothers in Boro that are really trustworthy… Wright.

 

[engineerVOL]

I had an experience like this 5 years ago. Guy told me the whole thing needed replacing.sales manager comes out and puts the full press on me. Had a second guy I trust fix it for $200. Other company doubled down, said my guy was an idiot and it was going out any day. That was 5 years ago….and nothing has gone wrong so far.

Most companies have a maintenance department and install department. Well only one of those runs higher margins. Think about the time they spend with you if all they do is repair and rebuild the thing over several years versus replacing the whole thing in one day. I was sold an oversized unit myself. Parker’s came out and advised me and hearing/cooking loads and now my unit was great… just not for my house.

 

[butchna]

if he did, he still didn't make cooperstown.

He did (officially as opposed to Bonds) and he didn’t.

 

[peaygolf]

Just happy

 

[drvenner]

that chick his ridden her way to millions. once she tells her story

You are assuming a lot with zero foundation in fact.

 

[gainesvol82]

Bonds was amazing

Was my favorite player as a kid. Don't care that he was an a-hole or started juicing when everyone else was too. He was amazing at every aspect of the game from the time the Pirates drafted him and would have been in HOF without the HR records.

Baseball is the most hypocritical sport there is. Rife with cheating for over 120 years but old men sports writers want to harp on the integrity of the game...please.

 

[drvenner]

Lindsey Jacobellis. Another great sports redemption story.

Nah, man. Winter Olympics are in China. We should totally ignore all the athletes there because Chinese politics are contrary to what we believe.

 

[butchna]

Was my favorite player as a kid. Don't care that he was an a-hole or started juicing when everyone else was too. He was amazing at every aspect of the game from the time the Pirates drafted him and would have been in HOF without the HR records.

Baseball is the most hypocritical sport there is. Rife with cheating for over 120 years but old men sports writers want to harp on the integrity of the game...please.

Cheating for hallowed records you don’t sniff without the juice is a trade he unconsciously made. I’m good with it. Clemens also a sure fire first balloter…traded for a few more years of greatness.

 

[KptVFL]

Btw, with Yellowstone, mind the weather. It was the last week of Sept/first of Oct for us and we went from mid 60's and sunny at 2pm to being chased out of the park by a snowstorm that deposited more than 5" before we could get back toward Jackson. Not to mention it was dark and the gas gauge had been on E for a while. I wasn't sure who wanted to kill me more, the wife, kids or my mom.

^^^^ This!

My buddy and I went in the early 90s after I graduated high school. Snowed on us while watching Old Faithful on the 4th of July! No accumulation but this DA 17yr old was not prepared for it.

 

[gainesvol82]

Does anybody listen to Theo Von on This Past Weekend or King and the Sting podcasts? He’s been missing a lot lately and came out with an episode today with an explanation. He sounds like he has some pretty serious mental health problems and I’m worried about him doing something like this one day

Theo is a gem but you can tell he has some demons. YouTube his standup set he did tripping on mushrooms....classic.

 

[govols24]

Nah, man. Winter Olympics are in China. We should totally ignore all the athletes there because Chinese politics are contrary to what we believe.

I would say it has more to do with the genocide and slave labor, but I get your point.

Oh and also unleashing a pandemic on the entire world so that they could bolster their economy.

 

[ACvol3]

Theo is a gem but you can tell he has some demons. YouTube his standup set he did tripping on mushrooms....classic.

Yeah I’ve seen that too.. the dude is definitely one of a kind. Hope he gets better soon

 

[butchna]

I would say it has more to do with the genocide and slave labor, but I get your point.

Oh and also unleashing a pandemic on the entire world so that they could bolster their economy.

And they eat dogs and horses…**** em!

 

[Ten_Titans]

I would say it has more to do with the genocide and slave labor, but I get your point.

Oh and also unleashing a pandemic on the entire world so that they could bolster their economy.

That's just politics man. We have voter ID laws.. They have concentration camps... It's all just politics.

 

[Rishvol]

That's just politics man. We have voter ID laws.. They have concentration camps... It's all just politics.

We're definitely the worse of the 2 with voter ID laws

 

[volbeast33]

Arod didnt get caught and played for the Yankees.

He also smiles a lot. Some of it is political.

edit: and he didn't make it either

That’s wasn’t about the Hall of Fame….. just about how much better he was than everyone else….. Bonds never failed a drug test and isn’t in the Hall of Fame….. David Ortiz failed a drug test and is in the Hall of Fame….. make it make sense.

 

[SSVol]

You are assuming a lot with zero foundation in fact.

Kinda surprising that a lefty would assign motive to the girl and not the old white guy, but even if true the story isn't worth much. "Old white dude chases pretty young girl. Details at 11. In other news, water is still wet."

 

[Jackcrevol]

Kinda surprising that a lefty would assign motive to the girl and not the old white guy, but even if true the story isn't worth much. "Old white dude chases pretty young girl. Details at 11. In other news, water is still wet."

whole thing was strange for sure

 

[nicksjuzunk]

I think you can all share in my shock in the recent documentary that Hugh Hefner in fact was NOT running a school of feminine virtues all of those years in the mansion. I mean… I’m stunned. I don’t think anyone saw this coming

They say that they were known to toke the refer and even have the sex.

 

[volbeast33]

Cheating for hallowed records you don’t sniff without the juice is a trade he unconsciously made. I’m good with it. Clemens also a sure fire first balloter…traded for a few more years of greatness.

There are no hallowed records…. Baseball players for years have done everything they can to get ahead… illegal bats….. illegal substances on the baseball…. Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays among others used greenies as performance enhancing drugs.

 

[volbeast33]

Was my favorite player as a kid. Don't care that he was an a-hole or started juicing when everyone else was too. He was amazing at every aspect of the game from the time the Pirates drafted him and would have been in HOF without the HR records.

Baseball is the most hypocritical sport there is. Rife with cheating for over 120 years but old men sports writers want to harp on the integrity of the game...please.

I absolutely hate Bonds bc I am a Dodger fan…. I respect his talent and feel it is BS how hypocritical Major League Baseball is.

 

["It's Time"]

That’s wasn’t about the Hall of Fame….. just about how much better he was than everyone else….. Bonds never failed a drug test and isn’t in the Hall of Fame….. David Ortiz failed a drug test and is in the Hall of Fame….. make it make sense.

Ortiz was loved by the media, Bonds wasn’t. Bonds also broken THE record in baseball while juicing.

There’s things you can do and things you can’t, breaking records that nobody wants broken, is one of those things.

 

[BigSteve09]

Excerpts from the Cover 3 Podcast where they had Bill Connelly on to review his SP+ rankings. If you remember, he put us at #9.

Chip Patterson

If you want to talk about teams that are hilariously good or hilariously bad - they will not be hilariously bad but I do think there's the potential for hilarious results with the Tennessee Volunteers. A team that ranks #3 in offensive SP+ preseason and number 42 in the defense SP+, and 9 overall. Top 35 in terms of returning production. [laughing] Where are you at with the Vols?

Bill

[laughing] The problem with Tennessee... and I could go any number of directions with that... [laughing] I could go a countless number of directions with that. Um, I mean, I know why they're there. Their offense leapt to 7th last year, their defense was good and then late in the year kinda fell apart, but they still finished in the top 50. They improved on the field. They bowled which was a bit of a surprise from the beginning of the year, but you know, they lost by 7, 5, 3 in the bowl game. They were close to being a lot better than 7-6.

The biggest issue is that - well we know the Josh Heupel offense by now, like Bud (Elliott) and I talk about this a lot. How some teams will play better than average against the good teams, worse than average against the bad teams. And then some will do the opposite and play better than average against the bad and worse than average against the good. Tennessee is very much the latter, or Josh Heupel's offense is very much the latter. It is built to exploit whatever advantages it has, and if they have an advantage they will score 48 points on you easily. If they don't have an advantage, it's not so sophisticated that they're gonna find their way forward against Alabama or Georgia, or teams with top 10 defenses. That makes them kind of hard to figure out.

They only play two top 10 projected teams, and they play Pitt who is projected at 13th. You know, they have Kentucky at 21st. It's not an easy schedule, but you could easily see them - like they're gonna beat Ball State, they're gonna beat Akron, I don't know about Florida, they'll be favored against LSU, favored against Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Vanderbilt. They could easily get to 8 or 9 wins, even if they don't move the ball against Alabama very well. It's just, can you play at a top 10 level? Or a top 7 level? Or 8 or 9, or wherever they ended up? What's your ceiling when you can't really move the ball against top 10 defenses? Not that many can.

But for all their prolific points against like a Missouri and what not, they're still gonna struggle against Alabama and Georgia.

Sometimes I wish these guys would just not put us in their top 10 or top 25 if they really didn't believe that we were top 10 or top 25. Just come out and say you ranked us high because it drives clicks and visibility.

Either way, I can't wait to come out and pick up where we left off next year, shifting into a higher gear.

 

[UTSuave’]

Fulky is basically the UT version of two NBA players who had their careers altered by injuries. Derrick Rose & Grant Hill


No he's not on their level, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is John Fulkerson's career at UT will always be a "what-if" like those two NBA players. Because of all the injuries and then COVID twice. So saying "he was never that good" is just a bit too harsh, one reason guys like Grant, Admiral, Bone, and even Kyle were able to develop like they did was how healthy they were able to remain.

People forget how good John was playing before he dislocated his right elbow and fractured his right wrist as a freshmen. In 10 games he was averaging 16 mpg, 4.7 ppg, 4.6 rbpg, 1.0 apg, 1.1 spg, 0.9 bpg. That set him back a good bit and his next two seasons he didn't average more than 15 mpg.

All I’m saying is…he isn’t good enough for the offense to be ran through him..Grant was that’s the difference..when he isn’t producing points in the paint our offense becomes stagnant.Rick Barnes loves old school basketball involving a dominant paint presence.

 

[OrangenSC]

Was my favorite player as a kid. Don't care that he was an a-hole or started juicing when everyone else was too. He was amazing at every aspect of the game from the time the Pirates drafted him and would have been in HOF without the HR records.

Baseball is the most hypocritical sport there is. Rife with cheating for over 120 years but old men sports writers want to harp on the integrity of the game...please.

I'm just ticked about the whole thing because I have dozens of his rookie baseball cards and was set to make a lot of money from them. Alas....