Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[Dadof2Vols]

Earlier this week Basilio shared info about SEC scheduling. The league office tries to grant one special request for each school regarding their schedules. UGA and Alabama both requested a bye week before their game. Tennessee requested that the Florida game occur late in the season.

I wonder what we’ll request for next year.

I would ask for good referees every game if you can find them

 

[rocktopper16]

A lot of it just has to do with preseason rankings, which messes up the rankings for the first few weeks. And then sometimes they overreact to one game (fsu getting all the way to 7) Tennessee is definitely better than 15 but it’s hard to move them up after a loss. But we shouldn’t have been ranked 23 to start the season

Agreed. AP voters are clueless and it needs to change.

 

[Nuctech777]

@Freak, I made a bye week thread this morning and it disappeared shortly afterwards. Do you know what happened to it?

I think I saw it in this thread like it got merged

Edit: looks like they fixed it

 

[JCVol00]

I hope after the bye week we finally unleash Boo and stop with the punishment. We need him full time at punt returner and starting at star. That hit he laid in the second quarter was a monster. If you really want McMurray on the field, then move boo to safety. But he is one of your best DBs and needs to be on the field.

Id personally would rather see boo start at nickel and mcmurray take redmond’s spot until mccoy comes back

 

[therickbol]

Coaches have to be willing to play them and live with some busts but better athleticism and more plays.

I hear this parroted a decent amount. Obviously the goal is for the more athletic players to grasp the mental aspects and not have bursts in alignment and run fits. But if the option is one or the other; more athletic with busts is not necessarily the best option. Giving up 5 yards multiple times means more plays being run. That means more opportunities for negative yardage plays, offensive penalties, strip sacks, etc. Busts that give up 50 yard plays is unrecoverable.

 

[Nuctech777]

will be interesting to see the OL lineup play out..Sanders better be the dude at RT to replace Perry, and Sham has been solid.

Volquest guys mentioned the original plan was Sanders at RT and Perry at RG. Not sure if they will go back to that.

 

[JCVol00]

Sam tittman fired, hopefully a very deflated and demoralized arky team when they come to town

 

[JCVol00]

Vols- 45
Bye week- 7

 

[Smokey123]

 

[Ace]

I think it's funny that UGA is still above Bama, both with 1 loss. I bet the gumps are fuming.

There are not 5 1-loss teams better than us.

Final poll is only poll that matters. Just win baby!!!

 

[Aesius]

There’s basically zero chance Cam Ward makes it to the end of the season healthy. Titans are almost certainly going 0-17. Callahan is worse than Whisenhunt.

 

[therickbol]

Nah, every damn player earns their snaps. You are assuming Boo is doing everything like everyone else and it's a vacuum where he's getting petty punishment. It's not. Boo's participation has actually decreased which tells me he's still not doing things right outside of gametime. He doesn't deserve special treatment. If he's showing up late, walking through drills, not paying attention in the film room, not showing up to class, etc then he doesn't get preferred snaps. This is not a staff that has ever wavered on holding everyone accountable and to the same standard.

 

[TheBigOne10]

Lol we will f*** Arkansas up. Y’all chill.

 

[#Vol4Life1991]

Pittman may be fired on sunday (today). Wish they would wait until we play them

Damn lol

 

[tnvols72]

 

[KB5252]

There’s basically zero chance Cam Ward makes it to the end of the season healthy. Titans are almost certainly going 0-17. Callahan is worse than Whisenhunt.

Probably not, the offense doesn't have one elite player, no separation from receivers. O line is better but not good by any means.

 

[DeepPurpleFloyd]

@you will have to figure that out on his own. . .

Is "you" referring to me and/or potentially every entity on VN? Or specifically to the entity which goes my the moniker @you?
Or is @you some default, catch-all, username which @Freak made up for anyone that could not come up with a unique username or was simply too lazy to do so? If so, I would like to propose that he also add the default, catch-all, usernames "us" and "them". Because, after all, we're only ordinary men.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

@TN-POSSUM

I got called a racist for saying that.

 

[knoxvol52]

I think it's funny that UGA is still above Bama, both with 1 loss. I bet the gumps are fuming.

There are not 5 1-loss teams better than us.

AP Poll has Alabama ahead of Georgia..

 

[therickbol]

As someone who played in college, I disagree that all snaps are earned. Coaches have favorites. Coaches do lean more toward older players many times even when others are better or more talented. Happens all the time. I do agree that it may be his own fault and not doing what he should. And that could be the case.

Teams with good culture do not have coaches with "favorites" unless by favorites you mean the players that consistently give the team the best chance to win. In that case, yes coaches do in fact have favorites. A team where players that do not earn it still see lots of playing time is a team that has a cap on its ceiling. You can beat teams that are not good. But you don't win the games that bring you championships.

 

[Smokey123]

Volquest guys mentioned the original plan was Sanders at RT and Perry at RG. Not sure if they will go back to that.

Do you mean Perry at LG? Or would they move Moe to LG?

 

[therickbol]

Volquest guys mentioned the original plan was Sanders at RT and Perry at RG. Not sure if they will go back to that.

I think Perry moves to LG.

 

[#Vol4Life1991]

15 in the ap poll as well

 

[TN-POSSUM]

And we all know their former QB will be calling our game in Tuscaloosa.

David Smith won't be able to ref that game because he is a Gump alumni, former team captain, and the Sun Bowl MVP. It'll probably be the supervisor for Alabama Power, Steve Marlowe. He's from Birmingham and hates the VOLS too.
*he officiated our Georgia game and his crew didn't threw a single flag on the dawgs the whole 2nd half.





******* it shouldn't be Steve Marlowe either. He is also alabama alumni.


*Whoever broadcasts the games need to start putting the whole referee crew on the screen during the 1st quarter or pregame. It'd be very interesting to see who lives where and what college they attended. It's past ridiculous the amount of hostiles refereeing in our conference

 

[engineerVOL]

I feel like the broadcast did a poor job of showing how much orange was in the stadium. I’m seeing more of it in the post game videos than TV showed. It’s like they didn’t want to show wide shots of all the orange, but we got wide shots of the white out. Maybe I overlooked it while live

Broadcast was bad.

Audio was soft, no sideline mics, never heard a whistle or pads popping, and too much dead air.