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Talking Points: STILL More on Recruiting Edition

Your talking points for the day:

  • Bryce Brown Bryce Brown Bryce Brown.  So, Bryce said he was very impressed with UT on his weekend visit, even referring to Lane as "one of the best offensive minds in football".  Honest praise or smooth-tongued tact?  Who knows, but we'll find out the real answers to the real questions next month.
  • Kwame Geathers Kwamer Geathers Kwame Geathers.  The Georgia native said he plans to announce his decision on Friday.  Tennessee is in the running; how does he feel about playing in a Monte D under Orgeron's tenacious D-line tutelage?
  • The federal guv'mint push for playoffs hangs around.  Ok, without opening up a partisan discussion, do you really want the people who brought you the wonderful entity we call the modern federal government to be the ones dictating the college football postseasonReally?
  • Kevin Stallings:  Good Guy for one night.  So yeah, the funky court of Vanderbilt was too much for Kentucky, again.  Vandy did what many others (including us) didn't; contain Meeks.  (Yes, holding him to 26 was containment; he was so silent for half the game that Lexington Police were filing paperwork to begin the search.)  Between that and Patterson's absence, we are now tied with South Carolina for the lead.  A win against Ole Miss would mean a lot right now.
  • Vicki Baugh's surgery is scheduled for next week.  This injury makes the score Right ACL 2 : Health 0.  It cannot be overstressed how much the Lady Vols miss her right now.  Best wishes, gal.
  • Swimming is meeting for their championships.  I don't know much about the swim team other than, like all UT sports, they're very competitive.
  • Learn more about Brown's Butler.  Props to samhitch for finding the CBSSports article on Bryce's handler.  He's a new dimension in the recruiting game; I really do hope that this is a positive trend to hit the recruiting game.

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Bleh

Keep the government outttttttttttttttttttttttttt of football.

by rblakeh on Feb 18, 2009 9:20 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

And how.

There are much more serious, pressing things in this world for the government to tackle and worrying if your state’s team is going to have a fair chance to make the national championship is not one of them.

now with less meyton panning.

by Pride of the Southland on Feb 18, 2009 10:23 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

An old Arabic proverb says something along the lines of

if you let the camel stick his nose in the tent, expect the whole camel. College football may be a large tent, metaphorically speaking, but the federal government is a much, much larger camel.

by Hooper on Feb 18, 2009 10:54 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I think

the camel may be lost wandering in the desert for water.

Maybe I stretched that metaphor a biiit too much.

now with less meyton panning.

by Pride of the Southland on Feb 18, 2009 11:27 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

And that with full water humps.

Historically speaking, the best and brightest of our country did not make their mark in politics. That’s by design of the government, which allows private industry to give greater rewards than public service. It has its pros and cons.

by Hooper on Feb 18, 2009 12:04 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I was a Poli Sci major

it took a lot of effort to keep my first reply as short as it was. I almost wrote a dissertation here.

now with less meyton panning.

by Pride of the Southland on Feb 18, 2009 12:13 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I think they've slowed down on their updates.

Most people step away from the current recruiting class after NSD, so they probably switch gears to getting ready for the next one.

by Hooper on Feb 18, 2009 12:19 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

He is an OT

But will play DT.

He will sign on Friday around noon, I think.

by rblakeh on Feb 18, 2009 1:27 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Well at 6'6 320..

I wouldn’t want to make him angry

by samhitch on Feb 18, 2009 2:02 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Geathers will sign UT I think...

Its a good sign when he talks about what position he would play as. "Tennessee wants me to play on defense and so does Georgia and Central Florida," he said. "Nobody has said anything to me about playing offense."

Notice he says Tennessee first and by themselves and the list Georgia and Central Florida together. Its not certain of course but little things like this are telling about what is most pressing on a mind when making choices.

by BigBeefe on Feb 18, 2009 4:25 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Here's hoping.

He would go a loooong way towards shoring up the thinness on the D-line. If my count is right, we have 7 (including 2 other incoming freshmen), which isn’t critical, but 3 of them will be seniors. That’s cutting things really close.

by Hooper on Feb 18, 2009 4:36 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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