Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[VolsDoc81TX]

True but if you switched out our offense for Ohio States then we would have won that game. I didn’t mean that defense isn’t important but you are more likely to win with an electric offense and poor defense than with a dominant defense and poor offense. It use to be the opposite.

Sal Sunseri says hold my beer

 

[Orange_Crush]

Peay, am I remembering right in that you hung out with Poison at one time? For some reason I seem to think that was the case. Ever hang with Guns, or any other bands? Can't imagine being able to be at this show. Had to be amazing for sure.

He was CC's drug dealer. It put him through PGA school. True story.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Looking back to look ahead

I just pray that it doesn’t include the adidas cleats. Had more foot injuries than should be possible. The issue disappeared very quickly when Tennessee switched to Nike.

 

[knoxvol52]

@knoxvol52

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[knoxvol52]

Showing he has learned absolutely nothing.

 

[A.Vol70]

He was CC's drug dealer. It put him through PGA school. True story.

Peay out there making bank back in the day with CC!

 

[Leeleesteeth]

FIL passed this morning at around 3 am. He is at peace. Grateful he didn't linger but terribly sad to have lost him. Thank you all for your prayers. Still a long way to go in this valley of grief and loss but our heavenly Father will sustain and comfort us.

Continuing to pray for you as well @UTProf.

Prayers for you and your family.

 

[jordan4vols]

I just pray that it doesn’t include the adidas cleats. Had more foot injuries than should be possible. The issue disappeared very quickly when Tennessee switched to Nike.

The account has to be a burner account for someone in the know. He posts silly things of course but he’s had some spot on stuff months in advance.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

I don't think we've ever won a Natty wearing Nike. . .

What was the’98 uniform manufacturer?
Don’t think we have won a championship with Adidas either.
When does it start?
Is that why Nike put out the crappy gray uniforms?

 

[knoxvol52]

Lady Vols beat Loyola Marymount 3-0 ...move to 4-0 this season with a shot at #1 when new Rankings come out...

 

[peaygolf]

Peay, am I remembering right in that you hung out with Poison at one time? For some reason I seem to think that was the case. Ever hang with Guns, or any other bands? Can't imagine being able to be at this show. Had to be amazing for sure.

Poison, yes......
Guns, no.......Probably wouldn't be here.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

@VolsDoc81TX curious to get your opinion on this: Function Health | Live 100 Healthy Years

I’m for living to the century mark in a healthy fashion. for me that will be 38 more football seasons. So of course that means:

646-0

Could be a record?


Honestly, the essential ones should be drawn at your annual physical.

If you can sign up for 1 year then maybe you should try it.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

We don't need the stupid dang black outline

We are ORANGE AND WHITE. It looks DUMB with the black outline. It only existed so we could see the numbers on crappy tv's.

This is the 4k era (whenever they feel like using it) We have beautiful white with JUST ORANGE numbers and letters.

 

[Orangeburst]

Game thread time…

such a quandary.



nevermind..its up

 

[peaygolf]

AUG. 24, 1919,

Caldwell hit by lightning, and finishes game

Ray Caldwell puts on a Cleveland uniform for the first time. The weather is brutally hot but clear -- for now -- and none of the 20,000 or so fans at League Park has any idea that they're about to see something that defies belief. A story of desperation, terror, survival and redemption, all channeling through Caldwell over the next two hours.

Five years earlier, he'd had been regarded as a transcendent talent, perhaps one of the greatest pitchers ever, before drinking problems moved him to the outskirts of baseball. Cleveland player/manager Tris Speaker, in a push for the playoffs, wanted to give Caldwell another chance, which looks like a genius move this afternoon. Cleveland offered him a deal historians now say ranks among the most bizarre in baseball history.

The deal said that on game days, Caldwell was to pitch and then go get plastered. According to historian Franklin Lewis in his book "The Cleveland Indians," Caldwell was perplexed looking at the contract.

"You left out one word, Tris," Caldwell said as he looked at the document. "Where it says I've got to get drunk after every game, the word not has been left out. It should read that I'm not to get drunk."

Speaker smiled. "No, it says that you are to get drunk."

Speaker then explained a very specific regimen Caldwell was to adhere to every week. On game days, he'd pitch and then perform his mandated drinking duties. He was then free to skip coming to the ballpark the next day and sleep off his hangover. But two days later, Speaker wanted him at the ballpark early to run as many wind sprints as the manager thought he needed. Three days after every start, Caldwell was to throw batting practice. Pitch, drink, sleep, run, BP, rinse and repeat.

Historians believe Speaker, a true innovator as a player/manager, thought Caldwell's talent was worth the strange risk, and that by giving him a free pass day of unrestrained drinking, Caldwell might be able to stay on track the other three days of a pitching cycle.

Players call Caldwell "Slim" because of his 6-foot-2, 190-pound frame and how he leverages every ounce of it to produce an above-average fastball and elite curve. But he mostly falls back on his devastating out pitch: one of baseball's best spitballs. The pitch is still legal, and Caldwell has incredible command on this day against the Philadelphia Athletics; the A's are flummoxed for two hours, managing four hits and a walk through eight innings.

But then the clouds roll in -- fast -- off Lake Erie. So he hurriedly toes the rubber as the rain picks up. He gets two easy infield popouts to open the inning. One more to go. Now the wind howls, the storm fully upon the field.

Just as he gets set, a flash from the sky explodes down into the middle of the field. Five seconds after the bolt hits the ground, everybody looks around. The eight Indians position players are OK, but their newest teammate is not. Caldwell is on his back, arms spread wide, out cold on the mound. The lightning strike had hit him directly.

Players rush to Caldwell, but the first man who touches him leaps in the air, saying he'd been zapped by Caldwell's prone body.

So everybody steps back and just stares. Caldwell's chest is smoldering from where the bolt burned it. They're terrified to touch him, and nobody does.

All of them wonder: Is Ray Caldwell dead?
The answer was, NO.
Ray Caldwell, not only survived............He got up and recorded the final out. Three weeks after getting hit by lightning and somehow finishing the win, Caldwell adds to his lore by throwing a no-hitter against the Yankees.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

I really think that ass kicking we got showed guys we need another level and the team has the mentality of working harder putting in the extra effort

Yup just like the Nebraska game in 1997.
Embarrassing loss motivated the coaches, the team and the fans.


Unfortunately, that was Tom Osborne’s last game as HC. No way were they going to lose.

The results of that bowl game resulted in an undefeated season for Tennessee the next season.

I love it when history repeats itself (this time)

17-0

 

[peaygolf]

He was CC's drug dealer. It put him through PGA school. True story.

 

[JohnnyD1024]

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Sylvester Stallone says he wants to make a movie about classical music.





He says, "I will be Beethoven."





Jean Claude Van Damme says, "I'll be Mozart."





Arnold Schwarzenegger said, "C'mon guys, don't make me..."

 

[Orangeburst]

just hit me..I think JA play will be like Andy Kelly

 

[jave36]

I've actually been meaning to try to be more..uhmm...nice and not so volatile and harsh, but it seems like I'm not doing to good at that the last few days..

Oh well...I'm going to try again.....eventually I will get there..

Good on you for the effort.

Years ago I started making myself wait 30 seconds after typing out a post before hitting submit. Every post, even when I'm in a good mood, not arguing, every single one. Now I delete over half of my typed out posts and (I hope) am a much more pleasant online person.

I was truly ruining my witness with how I talked to people, so I had to take extreme measures to curb my vitriolic reflexes.

 

[SmyrnaATLVolisback]

7-5 book it.

If we go 7-5 with this schedule, we better be making major changes to this staff. I predict 9-3.

 

[MarcoVol]

7-5 book it.

Would eagerly wager with you that we go better than 7-5

 

[OptimusPrimerib]

Our high school tailback was like that. He looked like he was so tired he could barely walk to the huddle, then took the handoff or pitch like he was shot out of a canon. Every down. He was always like that. He was like that in little league.

That’s what Jim Brown used to do. Slow to get up every play, gimp back to the huddle. Then brutalize the defense.

 

[mrMet]

It would suck so bad to be an A&M fan. Not only do you underachieve in everything but you have to constantly see clips that show just exactly how strange and bizarre your school is.

How’d your fantasy football team shake out?