Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[engineerVOL]

Joey's former head coach at App State has died

Sad.

What was the reason JA6 left? The head coach leaving to UCF? Portal shop for NIL money?

 

[VolsnCards5]

Wow

Things seem to be going well there.

 

[ConwayFitty]

Don't worry our other 6 conference games will be...UGA, Texas, LSU, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, and Texas A&M. They're not gonna let us slide this easily.

For 2 years and that means the 2 years after would be S Carolina, Mizz, Auburn, Ark, Miss St, Florida

 

[05_never_again]

Sad.

What was the reason JA6 left? The head coach leaving to UCF? Portal shop for NIL money?

I think a combo of all of the above. That entire team (not just Joey) regressed last season after having a pretty good 2023 and they came into 2024 the favorite to win the Sun Belt East - not sure what happened but they didn't have a great season, Clark was fired, and a lot of the guys transferred.

 

[RandomUTfan]

For 2 years and that means the 2 years after would be S Carolina, Mizz, Auburn, Ark, Miss St, Florida

Which we all know is not how it will pan out. Geez, we'd breeze through the latter 2 years.

 

[JohnnyD1024]

Sad.

What was the reason JA6 left? The head coach leaving to UCF? Portal shop for NIL money?

Possibly a combination of coach being fired, NIL money and wanting to prove himself in a power 4 conference. Then there's him originally transferred to UCLA, so he being closer to family could have been another factor originally.

 

[volinbama256]

Based on permanent opponents and who we played this year/who we last played at home/away, 2026 gonna be

Away games:
Vandy
A&M
Ole Miss
South Carolina
Georgia Tech

Home games:
Bama
UK
Auburn
Missouri
Texas
Furman
Kennesaw State

Missouri may get subbed out with LSU since we haven't played LSU since 2022 but played Mizzou in 2023.

Subject to change, of course, but this makes sense for the Vols at least.

VERY tough schedule--- when was the last time we went a season without playing FL?

 

[Dadof2Vols]

Nobody really gets a cakewalk. Honestly I'd take ours over most of the others.

Georgia?

 

[csprig9]

VERY tough schedule--- when was the last time we went a season without playing FL?

8 preseason ranked teams probably
Should be fun

 

[05_never_again]

VERY tough schedule--- when was the last time we went a season without playing FL?

1989

 

[csprig9]

Georgia?

They dodge us next year

 

[Aesius]

VERY tough schedule--- when was the last time we went a season without playing FL?

It's going to be at the point where 9-3 SEC teams should probably make the playoff.

 

[Dadof2Vols]

It's going to be at the point where 9-3 SEC teams should probably make the playoff.

Not with 90% of Big 10 being cupcakes and the writers being B10 biased…

 

[VolsnCards5]

So who ended up with the most difficult regular opponents? Texas Schools?

Auburn got it rough assuming Bama doesn’t fade into mediocrity.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Can't wait til freak makes a VN top25 for us to vote on every week. It will be a great poll, some say it will be the greatest poll ever.

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

All of those preseason Heisman frontrunners having a hard time scoring points.

 

[UTvol1fn]

All of those preseason Heisman frontrunners having a hard time scoring points.

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Then they'll all get drafted and the NFL still doesn't understand why Offense's in the league blow.

 

[rockytop25]

It's going to be at the point where 9-3 SEC teams should probably make the playoff.

I think we are going to move to a 16 team playoff

 

[vol4eva]

Whew, daddy did Ole Miss get a tough draw.

We might have gotten the easiest, which I am 100% Ok with.

It’s not like we don’t deserve it after having to play Bama and UGA yearly at their peak.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

I think August & September traded weather.

 

[Jack Burton]

Once we abandoned divisional play in the SEC it created opportunity for Tennessee’s schedule to get easier. We’ve been brutalized for so long that 2024-2025 have been a reprieve. As we move forward some years will be difficult because of the draw, but other schools will also face similar difficulty. Other teams won’t be able to hide like they have in the past.

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

They dodge us next year

Please let us play them again at the end of this year! I want to end this streak asap!

 

[85SugarVol]

It’s not like we don’t deserve it after having to play Bama and UGA yearly at their peak.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Aguilar is on pace to throw 12ints. The number seems very insignificant when you consider how the ints happened. I don't mind 12 ints if they are all as meaningless as they have been.

 

[05_never_again]

Aguilar is on pace to throw 12ints. The number seems very insignificant when you consider how the ints happened. I don't mind 12 ints if they are all as meaningless as they have been.

And 2 of the 3 haven't even really been his fault.