Recruiting Forum Football Talk XXV

[nicksjuzunk]

Hello Volnation friends.. Sorry to interrupt the discussion, but my Papaw that had a heart attack and spent time in the hospital, passed away this evening in the common area of his nursing home. He had a fainting spell and passed shortly thereafter. He didn't suffer and wasn't in any pain. I went to visit him today in his room and he was almost his old self. As I was leaving, I told him that I loved him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The last person he saw before his passing other than the nurses was me. That's the way God wanted it because he was like a father to me and did a heck of a job raising me. He will be reunited with his wife whom he was to for 50 years when she passed away in 2004.

Thank you, Volnation.. I feel like you are my family and wanted to share this with you.

Love you all and I do mean that. You all are more than just posters on a message board to me. :hi:

Peace of Christ to you.

 

[butchna]

Hello Volnation friends.. Sorry to interrupt the discussion, but my Papaw that had a heart attack and spent time in the hospital, passed away this evening in the common area of his nursing home. He had a fainting spell and passed shortly thereafter. He didn't suffer and wasn't in any pain. I went to visit him today in his room and he was almost his old self. As I was leaving, I told him that I loved him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The last person he saw before his passing other than the nurses was me. That's the way God wanted it because he was like a father to me and did a heck of a job raising me. He will be reunited with his wife whom he was to for 50 years when she passed away in 2004.

Thank you, Volnation.. I feel like you are my family and wanted to share this with you.

Love you all and I do mean that. You all are more than just posters on a message board to me. :hi:

Sorry for your loss...happy you got that moment.

 

[tn4elvis]

Smokey so sorry for your loss. I had the same type relationship with my grandmother.You are right also.We are all family on this site. It's been proven time after time.We argue and fuss some but still care about each other. Most of us will never meet each other but still pour our lives out on here day after day.It's really an amazing thing.PraYing for you and your family to have peace.

 

[chargervol]

Hello Volnation friends.. Sorry to interrupt the discussion, but my Papaw that had a heart attack and spent time in the hospital, passed away this evening in the common area of his nursing home. He had a fainting spell and passed shortly thereafter. He didn't suffer and wasn't in any pain. I went to visit him today in his room and he was almost his old self. As I was leaving, I told him that I loved him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The last person he saw before his passing other than the nurses was me. That's the way God wanted it because he was like a father to me and did a heck of a job raising me. He will be reunited with his wife whom he was to for 50 years when she passed away in 2004.

Thank you, Volnation.. I feel like you are my family and wanted to share this with you.

Love you all and I do mean that. You all are more than just posters on a message board to me. :hi:

What an amazing outlook and gesture towards a significant influence in your life.
Personally humbled that you chose to share.
Just glad that he was able to share one of his last interactions with a wonderful person that he helped define. You seem such a great person and he for being such a great influence :hi:

 

[Catbone]

Smoke

Weed

 

[smokeyhuntsgators]

He was also one of the biggest UT fans that ever lived. He had season tickets for years and years, Section Q Row 4. Every time I attend a game, I think about the many games he took me to when I was a kid. A lot of great memories.

Now come on Vols! Let's go out and win an SEC championship for my Papaw. National Championship would be nice as well.

 

[85SugarVol]

Hello Volnation friends.. Sorry to interrupt the discussion, but my Papaw that had a heart attack and spent time in the hospital, passed away this evening in the common area of his nursing home. He had a fainting spell and passed shortly thereafter. He didn't suffer and wasn't in any pain. I went to visit him today in his room and he was almost his old self. As I was leaving, I told him that I loved him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The last person he saw before his passing other than the nurses was me and that's the way God wanted it. He was like a father to me and did a heck of a job raising me because no telling where I would be right now. He will be reunited with his wife whom he was married to for 50 years when she passed away in 2004.

Thank you, Volnation.. I feel like you are my family and wanted to share this with you.

Love you all and I do mean that. You all are more than just posters on a message board to me. :hi:

Glad to hear you got to see him

 

[tn4elvis]

Weed

We've had that convo Cat.No weed just powder.Been missing you.So who let the the cat out of the damn bag again.

 

[InVOLuntary]

From the other perspective, it becomes a $2 million loser the minute he fires her.

If it's $2 million I seriously doubt he fires her. Also, I would guess that Holly still has Pat's support.

I'm not sure having Pat's support means that much right now. That's from someone who's mother suffers from Alzhiemers.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Hello Volnation friends.. Sorry to interrupt the discussion, but my Papaw that had a heart attack and spent time in the hospital, passed away this evening in the common area of his nursing home. He had a fainting spell and passed shortly thereafter. He didn't suffer and wasn't in any pain. I went to visit him today in his room and he was almost his old self. As I was leaving, I told him that I loved him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The last person he saw before his passing other than the nurses was me and that's the way God wanted it. He was like a father to me and did a heck of a job raising me because no telling where I would be right now. He will be reunited with his wife whom he was married to for 50 years when she passed away in 2004.

Thank you, Volnation.. I feel like you are my family and wanted to share this with you.

Love you all and I do mean that. You all are more than just posters on a message board to me. :hi:

That's very tough Smokey. Glad you're handling it so well with such a great outlook. I'll definitely say a little prayer for you before I go to sleep.

 

[JacketVol]

Hello Volnation friends.. Sorry to interrupt the discussion, but my Papaw that had a heart attack and spent time in the hospital, passed away this evening in the common area of his nursing home. He had a fainting spell and passed shortly thereafter. He didn't suffer and wasn't in any pain. I went to visit him today in his room and he was almost his old self. As I was leaving, I told him that I loved him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The last person he saw before his passing other than the nurses was me and that's the way God wanted it. He was like a father to me and did a heck of a job raising me because no telling where I would be right now. He will be reunited with his wife whom he was married to for 50 years when she passed away in 2004.

Thank you, Volnation.. I feel like you are my family and wanted to share this with you.

Love you all and I do mean that. You all are more than just posters on a message board to me. :hi:

Great last memory for you. Prayers for tonight and in the coming days.

 

[Catbone]

We've had that convo Cat.No weed just powder.Been missing you.So who let the the cat out of the damn bag again.

Heh... let's just say I'm KILLING it on tinder 😎 I've had no time for VN, I've been messaging babes for days.


Boys...The key is, make a fake account with a good looking guy and act like you're him!!! #pro

 

[Dooby15]

Hello Volnation friends.. Sorry to interrupt the discussion, but my Papaw that had a heart attack and spent time in the hospital, passed away this evening in the common area of his nursing home. He had a fainting spell and passed shortly thereafter. He didn't suffer and wasn't in any pain. I went to visit him today in his room and he was almost his old self. As I was leaving, I told him that I loved him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The last person he saw before his passing other than the nurses was me and that's the way God wanted it. He was like a father to me and did a heck of a job raising me because no telling where I would be right now. He will be reunited with his wife whom he was married to for 50 years when she passed away in 2004.

Thank you, Volnation.. I feel like you are my family and wanted to share this with you.

Love you all and I do mean that. You all are more than just posters on a message board to me. :hi:

Praying for you and your family. The Gospel gives us an eternal hope and perspective.

 

[tn4elvis]

Heh... let's just say I'm KILLING it on tinder 😎 I've had no time for VN, I've been messaging babes for days.


Boys...The key is, make a fake account with a good looking guy and act like you're him!!! #pro

That's hilarious.Better be careful.You could get named in the lawsuit.I can see it now Peyton, LilJohn, and Vol Nations own Cat Bone.

 

[StoVol]

Hello Volnation friends.. Sorry to interrupt the discussion, but my Papaw that had a heart attack and spent time in the hospital, passed away this evening in the common area of his nursing home. He had a fainting spell and passed shortly thereafter. He didn't suffer and wasn't in any pain. I went to visit him today in his room and he was almost his old self. As I was leaving, I told him that I loved him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The last person he saw before his passing other than the nurses was me and that's the way God wanted it. He was like a father to me and did a heck of a job raising me because no telling where I would be right now. He will be reunited with his wife whom he was married to for 50 years when she passed away in 2004.

Thank you, Volnation.. I feel like you are my family and wanted to share this with you.

Love you all and I do mean that. You all are more than just posters on a message board to me. :hi:

Nobody or Nothing on this earth I miss more than my Grandfather

 

[StoVol]

That's very tough Smokey. Glad you're handling it so well with such a great outlook. I'll definitely say a little prayer for you before I go to sleep.

Good man

 

[Dobbs 4 Heisman]

Except in the past, Shoop's Star has been more of a hybrid safety/olb. JRM might end up being the guy there, but we might also play a different guy there in addition to JRM and Kirkland. If JRM does play star, then he'll have to slide to another position when we go into the nickel because Shoop's star doesn't play in the nickel. It's not just a WLB like you've implied in the past.

If you look at his defenses at Vandy and PSU, he's played guys who seem more like big safeties there as well as guys who are basically just OLBs. We're not really sure who he'll pick here.

Edit: I re-wrote a badly worded sentence.

SMH.

You do know what you're describing is JRM. A guy who is an undersized LB that was recruited as a safety. This is who the modern NFL weakside linebacker is now. Look no further than Darron Lee of Ohio State. He's projected to go in the 1st round and was recruited as a 3 star safety that converted to OLB. And Ohio State doesn't have a "star" position. They just call it weakside linebacker.

As I stated earlier, teams have fancy names for positions that everyone has. Florida State for example calls their nickel position "STAR". The Seahawks famously called their weakside DE position the "LEO". And so on.

None of these are unique or new positions. They're just fancy names.

 

[Catbone]

That's hilarious.Better be careful.You could get named in the lawsuit.I can see it now Peyton, LilJohn, and Vol Nations own Cat Bone.

Hahaha! We will share a cell

 

[SmokinBob]

Hello Volnation friends.. Sorry to interrupt the discussion, but my Papaw that had a heart attack and spent time in the hospital, passed away this evening in the common area of his nursing home. He had a fainting spell and passed shortly thereafter. He didn't suffer and wasn't in any pain. I went to visit him today in his room and he was almost his old self. As I was leaving, I told him that I loved him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The last person he saw before his passing other than the nurses was me and that's the way God wanted it. He was like a father to me and did a heck of a job raising me because no telling where I would be right now. He will be reunited with his wife whom he was married to for 50 years when she passed away in 2004.

Thank you, Volnation.. I feel like you are my family and wanted to share this with you.

Love you all and I do mean that. You all are more than just posters on a message board to me. :hi:

Hugs smokey - he will always be a part of you.

 

[Catbone]

Oh man.. sorry to hear that smokey. Prayers to you and family

 

[Darth_Shiveman]

SMH.

You do know what you're describing is JRM. A guy who is an undersized LB that was recruited as a safety. This is who the modern NFL weakside linebacker is now. Look no further than Darron Lee of Ohio State. He's projected to go in the 1st round and was recruited as a 3 star safety that converted to OLB. And Ohio State doesn't have a "star" position. They just call it weakside linebacker.

As I stated earlier, teams have fancy names for positions that everyone has. Florida State for example calls their nickel position "STAR". The Seahawks famously called their weakside DE position the "LEO". And so on.

None of these are unique or new positions. They're just fancy names.

I agree with you about JRM. That's why I said I could see him playing Star. I also agree about NFL weakside backers basically having a safety type skillset nowadays.

And yes, teams do use fancy names for many of their positions (especially ones that require a player to have a bit of a hybrid skillset) USCe called their S/OLB hybrid a Spur a few years back with Ellis Johnson. At Auburn, he called it a Star.

But you're wrong about the Star position being a name for WLB in our system. The Star position in Shoop's defense takes the place of a SLB, not a WLB. In the nickel, he leaves the field. The MLB and WLB stay in when we go to a nickel package. JRM will be on the field every down that he can go. I agree that he could play Star, but then again he could probably play every LB position on our defense in a crunch. I'm not really sure how it will play out, but I'd imagine JRM and Kirkland keep playing WLB and MLB respectively.

Yes, the "Star" isn't a new position for us. We used a SLB last year. But Shoop in the past has preferred a slightly different skillset at SLB than Jancek did. This is partly due to the fact that Shoop uses a 4-3 over look more than Jancek, who prefered a 4-3 under look in base 4-3.

I'm surprised you don't already know all of this since you watch so much football...

Edit: FTR, I want to admit that I could be wrong about this. I'm basing most of this off of this article stating Brandon Bell was PSU's "Star" LB in 2015 along with the defensive highlights I watched shortly after Shoop was hired. Belle is what we would have called the SAM in our system. Against power teams, he was used much like we saw Austin Smith being used in 2015. Against spread teams, he was used out in space much more than we saw SLBs used under Jancek.

 

[Gruuden]

sooo ., what's new? We gonna get Higgins back? He retweeted me on a comment I made on TKJ Twitter telling Higgins to be a VFL. I guess TKJ(Todd Kelly junior) was his host That made my week. He also retweeted me on me being grateful for his 1st retweet

 

[Wickman]

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[PainDocVol]

sooo ., what's new? We gonna get Higgins back? He retweeted me on a comment I made on TKJ Twitter telling Higgins to be a VFL. I guess TKJ(Todd Kelly junior) was his host That made my week. He also retweeted me on me being grateful for his 1st retweet

Where was that Twitter recommended guidelines in regard to recruits? Not that this was over the top especially if you are relatively close to the recruits age but we should prob sticky that at the beginning of the recruiting season.

 

[Outofmyvolcanmind]

sooo ., what's new? We gonna get Higgins back? He retweeted me on a comment I made on TKJ Twitter telling Higgins to be a VFL. I guess TKJ(Todd Kelly junior) was his host That made my week. He also retweeted me on me being grateful for his 1st retweet

Not sure if serious meme needed.