Recruiting Forum Football Talk XXVI

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#4,926
#4,926
Dont see how anybody could be disappointed in the freshman year of a player, especially one who didn't even play his senior year of HS but you go girl.
 
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Wickman said:
John Brice just said he was told by someone on campus that Tyler Byrd is talented enough to start on either side of the ball right now
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The need to wait until the pads come on...... If he can start in THAT secondary then he should play right now. He's an All-American right now first year.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
"As for the current team, there are daily questions about Shy Tuttle. There are daily glowing reviews about Jonathan Kongbo, but the player who may have come the farthest over the last 18 months or so?

Kahlil McKenzie.

A couple of years ago, McKenzie was at 350 pounds. He surprised many when he arrived last summer in that he wasn't as heavy as feared, but he was too big and wasn't in shape. Today, McKenzie is under 320 pounds. In fact he's near 315 pounds and looks like a million dollars. He's moving better than he has in the past and is stronger than he has been since arriving at Tennessee.

Now, that doesn't mean the hype is slowing on Kongbo in any way, but McKenzie has just been grinding. His commitment to managing his weight really ramped up a notch during spring practice and coming out of spring. He has put himself where he has long wanted to be with fall camp basically a week away."

- VQ
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Thanks for posting the updates again. They've been missed.

Now, if we can get POA in line and get the weekly recaps back...
 
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Ron Swanson said:
"As for the current team, there are daily questions about Shy Tuttle. There are daily glowing reviews about Jonathan Kongbo, but the player who may have come the farthest over the last 18 months or so?

Kahlil McKenzie.

A couple of years ago, McKenzie was at 350 pounds. He surprised many when he arrived last summer in that he wasn't as heavy as feared, but he was too big and wasn't in shape. Today, McKenzie is under 320 pounds. In fact he's near 315 pounds and looks like a million dollars. He's moving better than he has in the past and is stronger than he has been since arriving at Tennessee.

Now, that doesn't mean the hype is slowing on Kongbo in any way, but McKenzie has just been grinding. His commitment to managing his weight really ramped up a notch during spring practice and coming out of spring. He has put himself where he has long wanted to be with fall camp basically a week away."

- VQ
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Awesome thanks! So the questions about Tuttle are just how far along he is? I thought I saw where Butch said he was farther along than most expected and some think he may be able to work into the rotation by the second game?
 
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CroKev said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6_WxFx4CAI



Watch #6 for Florida on that play. He appears to be gaining ground on Dobbs until our QB makes a couple of moves that so befuddles that guy that he looks like he just decided to fall down! :thud:
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Dobbs has an uncanny ability to juke people that are behind him. The first couple of times he did it I thought it was luck but it's happened often enough I think he just knows where everybody is.
 
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The Breakerboy said:
The need to wait until the pads come on...... If he can start in THAT secondary then he should play right now. He's an All-American right now first year.
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Agree on secondary part if he is that good now he should play there now. I also trust Shoop and Martinez more with a talent like that than I do Z.
 
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IDK about Tuttle. CBJ said he was 50-75% back and they hoped to have him on the field by mid-August. Said they would take it slow. We need him, so it would be great to have him 100% by the UF game. Might be a bit optimistic, though.
 
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triadvolfan said:
Dobbs has an uncanny ability to juke people that are behind him. The first couple of times he did it I thought it was luck but it's happened often enough I think he just knows where everybody is.
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Yeah that spin move on in the pocket on the td pass to Pearson. Old Verne is like "Apparently YES... uh uh apparently NO... Oh my goodness"
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Hopefully he lives up to the hype.

I was most disappointed in his freshmen year.
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Any realist knew KMAC would have rust. You don't miss an entire year at his age in a critical development year and expect to walk into this division and be all SEC fighting through double teams. Trent Thompson didn't do it at UGA and played his Sr year.
 
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Catbone said:
Leb. You and I both know what this means. Gitshirts coming soon.
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Leb gon be all like:
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CrunchingTheVolz said:
Lewis(RB just added) is "in" the 2016 class but counts to 2017. I'd imagine McDaniel if taken would be the same.

Taking 21 last year was because of all the blue shirts previously. I don't think there is room to backcount anyone.
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I'm going off memory, so this may be wrong. If I remember right, the start of fall camp is when the roster has to be officially set. Transfers from your program free up scholarships in which you can use in a class (correct me if I'm wrong), and since two players recently transferred or stopped playing due to medical problems (Young and Raulerson) that should have opened up two more spots for the 16 class.

That's my assumption, and is the reason why they had to also tell Newsome (I know he would be a transfer and not a 16 recruit) that they didn't have room since the two open scholarships were now taken.
 
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LA Vol said:
IDK about Tuttle. CBJ said he was 50-75% back and they hoped to have him on the field by mid-August. Said they would take it slow. We need him, so it would be great to have him 100% by the UF game. Might be a bit optimistic, though.
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I may be wrong, think CBJ meant he is 50-75% on conditioning. Reason why I believe this, Was stated that Shy was to start running at about this time. Leads me to believe it's all conditioning work now.
 
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