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#76
#76
QuickSmurf said:
Let me just say this that CJP has an edge about him. His staff will too. The players also will. Get used to it. I personally like having an edge and think it is needed in football.
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Absolutely!! Reminiscing about the years with Little, Wilson, Price, Kent, Haynesworth, Witten....etc. Thise players had edge to them. I'm ready to see that again!! Bring it Coach Pruitt
 
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#78
#78
Longsufferingvol said:
Meh... Niedermeyer is a Bammer. As if him and Pruitt care about UT lmao. We are just a stepping stone for them.
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hate to break it to you Skippy, but that's the way it is for virtually every coach. The lack of common sense on this board is frighting lately...
 
#79
#79
sameolvol said:
I've been trying to find merit to your reasoning, JGA: to be as objective as possible regarding a player's proclaiming such devotion, etc. to an institution which is literally rooted deeply into his own family's blood, sweat, and tears. I can't. Neither, then, can I rectify your view. I See a "Me-Me Me-Me First" individual, thus I share the potential schadenfreude with my fellow VFLs in hoping he, sooner-or-later, rues the day he broke ties with his supposed orange blood, and became a dirty dawg. May Cade Mays, et al, ride the pine in Athens. GBO!
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Lemme simplify it.

B**ching about Mays decision on VN or the staff sending out snippy tweets regarding it isn't changing said decision.

Neither you nor I can do anything about it.

Niedermeyer however has the opportunity to help bring in players that could potentially spend the next 4 years or so kicking Mays ass on the field where it matters.

Spend more time tweeting about those players than throwing out platitudes that ring hollow from a guy that has been a Vol for less than 3 weeks.

Make Mays regret his decision and make it hurt every time he sets foot on the field against the Vols. More interested in that than winning Twitter or another godforsaken press conference.
 
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#80
#80
tennrich1 said:
There’s no one who believes more strongly that me that this is only football but for a kid like Mays it truly will affect his entire life for the rest of his life. I’m sure he gave a lot of consideration for the decision and is well aware all the things you stated above. But you are taking a huge risk in situation like this not only picking another school but going to a hated rival like Georgia. He has been around UT football enough to know that his decision was not only going to create a tremendous amount of backlash but also put his parents in a very awkward situation moving forward. Having said all that ...I think it is time to move on and allow him to do whatever he needs to do to be successful ....just not at UTs expense...I hope we beat the doors off of Georgia every year but it’s certainly not because Cade Mays is playing football there. I feel sorry for his family and let NO ONE harass them...it’s not their fault!
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I hope everyone remembers he has a brother that's supposed to be pretty good too. This has to make his recruitment to UT a little awkward now. How do you think the family, specifically his father, is treated around the program in the coming months?
 
#81
#81
JohnD13 said:
hate to break it to you Skippy, but that's the way it is for virtually every coach. The lack of common sense on this board is frighting lately...
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I couldn't agree with you more. I understand this is a forum, but good grief some of these adults do not have a lick of common sense. Heck...I know more about lacrosse, which I have never even seen a lacrosse game, than most of these people on here know about football.
 
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#83
#83
lawgator1 said:
Yes, high school kids owe the University of Tennessee their loyalty. Screw them doing what they think is best for them, right?
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Completely agree. Our head coach is completely unproven and his predecessor is now very well known for not developing talent. The prospects that ‘love UT’ but are going elsewhere may be sincere. No offense but if I had a good shot to play in the NFL, I would be extremely hesitant to go to UT right now.
 
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tennrich1 said:
There’s no one who believes more strongly that me that this is only football but for a kid like Mays it truly will affect his entire life for the rest of his life. I’m sure he gave a lot of consideration for the decision and is well aware all the things you stated above. But you are taking a huge risk in situation like this not only picking another school but going to a hated rival like Georgia. He has been around UT football enough to know that his decision was not only going to create a tremendous amount of backlash but also put his parents in a very awkward situation moving forward. Having said all that ...I think it is time to move on and allow him to do whatever he needs to do to be successful ....just not at UTs expense...I hope we beat the doors off of Georgia every year but it’s certainly not because Cade Mays is playing football there. I feel sorry for his family and let NO ONE harass them...it’s not their fault!
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Good post. In a few years, he and everyone else will know if he made the right decision but he put his family in a difficult position. Did you notice there was very little applause when he announced GA? KM acted excited but acted is the key word. His parents are there to support their son but it has got to be awkward for them.
 
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#86
#86
tennrich1 said:
This is just common sense you can’t say you love the Vols and then wind up signing with Georgia.... that just doesn’t make sense... not mad at Cade ....wish him the best ...but this whole thing has been odd at best... you say you sign with Georgia to win national championships yet you were committed to Tennessee for over a year.... that just doesn’t make any sense....
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I agree with you, i wish Cade the best at Georgia. I just don't understand why he would play for Butch and not Pruitt. And i do think our O-line will be alot better next year simply because we are going to run the pro style offense like we should of been running all alone. Now we will get some top WRs and QBs back to Tennessee finally. Your top WRS and QBs are not going to that read option crap. You only get those top QBs like Cam Newton, Deshawn Watson, Tim Tebow every now and then. I like my chances with the pro style offense better.
 
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#88
#88
VolArmy74 said:
Heard an interview with Brent Lawless today. He's what it means to be All-Vol. Said he never even considered another school during all the coaching mess because he loved Tennessee and didn't care about the coaches. He said that Pruitt tried to recruit him to Alabama during the season and he wouldn't even take Pruitt's phone calls, because he doesn't like Alabama and was a Tennessee guy from day one.

If only certain others were as honorable as Brent, who will be my favorite Vol from this class because of that. The other "legacy" guys who want to be a legacy somewhere else are not worthy of mention any longer. Just another bunch of sellouts.
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Lawless and Emerson really stuck together. I hope both have great careers and make boat loads of money in the NFL.
 
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#89
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rickyyrs said:
I agree with you, i wish Cade the best at Georgia. I just don't understand why he would play for Butch and not Pruitt. And i do think our O-line will be alot better next year simply because we are going to run the pro style offense like we should of been running all alone. Now we will get some top WRs and QBs back to Tennessee finally. Your top WRS and QBs are not going to that read option crap. You only get those top QBs like Cam Newton, Deshawn Watson, Tim Tebow every now and then. I like my chances with the pro style offense better.
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I'd love to see the wishbone or veer again just for novelty sake. Just a few plays in a game we have won. Or maybe something we run at the 1.
 
#91
#91
82_VOL_83 said:
I'd love to see the wishbone or veer again just for novelty sake. Just a few plays in a game we have won. Or maybe something we run at the 1.
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Careful. You're just one fullback away from being told the game has passed you by.
 
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#92
#92
rickyyrs said:
I agree with you, i wish Cade the best at Georgia. I just don't understand why he would play for Butch and not Pruitt. And i do think our O-line will be alot better next year simply because we are going to run the pro style offense like we should of been running all alone. Now we will get some top WRs and QBs back to Tennessee finally. Your top WRS and QBs are not going to that read option crap. You only get those top QBs like Cam Newton, Deshawn Watson, Tim Tebow every now and then. I like my chances with the pro style offense better.
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Wish he had come on back, but it didn't happen. I can't say I wish the best for anyone that signs with Georgia. I hope they lose every game except when they play Florida. This is the same as I felt before the punk signed there. So we move on and await the news 5 years from now that he was a bust who got blown by on many plays by the next Derek Barnett.
 
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#98
#98
Wish someone would delete the old commitment list on the opening page of Volnation.
The first commitment makes me sick every time I come to the site.
 
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#99
#99
So does this "if you ain't with us" crap imply that even those Tennessee high school football players who were not offered scholarships to UT and thus choose to go to schools like Carson Newman, ETSU, TTU, UTC, MTSU, where they were offered a free ride et al are the enemy too even though they may love the Vols??

I mean if they love the Vols, shouldn't they walk on and pay their own way?

Regardless it is in bad taste for a coach to slam a recruit. Players saying this is a different story. But a coach should respect the decisions of the young men they are trying to recruit and influence.
 
#100
#100
volfan102455 said:
So does this "if you ain't with us" crap imply that even those Tennessee high school football players who were not offered scholarships to UT and thus choose to go to schools like Carson Newman, ETSU, TTU, UTC, MTSU, where they were offered a free ride et al are the enemy too even though they may love the Vols??

I mean if they love the Vols, shouldn't they walk on and pay their own way?

Regardless it is in bad taste for a coach to slam a recruit. Players saying this is a different story. But a coach should respect the decisions of the young men they are trying to recruit and influence.
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If you consider that a "slam" then maybe you're just a little too sensitive?
 
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