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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 18 2012, 10:18 AM (480 Views) | |
| LonzoVol | Aug 18 2012, 10:18 AM Post #1 |
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Looks like baby didi had to get home to baby mammy. No matter, if he wasn't going to make the running back rotation this year, hasta lavista baby. Vols need to sign two running backs in this next class. Hopefully one of them will be a difference maker. http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2012/aug/17/davante-bourque-dealing-with-family-issues-to-to/ |
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| *OrangeRev | Aug 18 2012, 11:08 AM Post #2 |
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I don't think we will sign more than one, and hopefully we'll get one ... no one (of SEC caliber) is a lean to UT at the moment. |
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| Tnphil | Aug 18 2012, 11:35 AM Post #3 |
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If I was an elite RB I wouldn't be a lean either until they showed me they can actually run the ball. JMO |
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Aug 18 2012, 11:37 AM Post #4 |
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I doubt that we will land a bulldozer type RB like Green or Henry. We will sign guys who have some wiggle and juke in them and can catch as well as run with the ball in space. Taurean Folsten is a guy I believe we will land. He reminds me a lot of Marshall Faulk in how he moves with and without the ball. |
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| LonzoVol | Aug 18 2012, 02:58 PM Post #5 |
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Pig Howard is big enough to operate at tailback. I still have hopes that one of the bigger, younger backs, Hill or Smith, will emerge as an option running between the tackles. Neal is a junior, Lane is a sophomore, Young a sophomore, Howard a freshman, so between all these guys, shirley they can get some decent production.
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| gallavol | Aug 18 2012, 07:18 PM Post #6 |
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I wonder, should we read anything into Dooley leaving J Smith out of the LB praise? |
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| LonzoVol | Aug 19 2012, 10:10 AM Post #7 |
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I don't thnk that you should worry about Smith. Hell far, don't worry about anything until something happens of the field to cause you to worry. Then you will have something tangible to worry about. Smith is still learning a new position. He has some skills, was second on the team last year in tackles for loss with 7.5. Johnson and Maggitt are excelling thus they get praise. Lathers is the brains of the bunch, so he gets high marks for his leadership and organizational skills. Watch for this: Jason Croom as a split out-- tight end. |
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Aug 19 2012, 07:21 PM Post #8 |
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I had been in this kid's corner until his dad came out and said that Derek Dooley and UT were untruthful with his son. This kid was not there long enough to get a cup of coffee before he left UT. Derek Dooley has a stellar reputation as being a straight-shooter with recruits and their parents. Mr. Landry had better be ready to do some 'splainin'. Sounds like a classic case of a kid who was babied and made to feel like he was the next OJ Simpson/Eric Dickerson/Walter Payton/Jim Brown/Gale Sayers. |
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| *OrangeRev | Aug 19 2012, 07:34 PM Post #9 |
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I can't wait to hear about all the lies that Dooley told Borque ... and I'm sure that they will be so whoppin' that it will prompt Borque to request his release. This should get interesting. |
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Aug 19 2012, 07:48 PM Post #10 |
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This would be one case that if I were Dooley, I would not give him a release..until his father comes clean. |
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| *JollyVolly | Aug 19 2012, 08:01 PM Post #11 |
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I was all for letting it play out...and let Bourque call the shots until now. If Dad had something to say...he needed to say it. What he did was chickensh#t. If he's saying that Dooley told his son that he would walk in as the starter....we all know that's not true. Maybe he promised that: He wouldn't get hit hard in practice His baby momma wouldn't bother him He would actually have some character instead of sneaking out of town He would get to live his life without an overbearing parent getting in the middle of things. I don't care if Bourque never comes back...don't care if I ever hear his name again.....I HATE parents that do crap like this. Reminds of the Locke nonsense several years ago.... |
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| LonzoVol | Aug 19 2012, 08:11 PM Post #12 |
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I personally hope he never comes back, he gets no release and he has to go to McNeese State to play. Or maybe he could get a job and support the child that he spawned and the baby mammy. |
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| BJVOL III | Aug 20 2012, 07:38 AM Post #13 |
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Give him his release--the kid has no sense of responsibility. He'll just screw up somewhere else and blame the coaches. Guys like him are a dime a dozen. So he was a star in high school--big deal. The world is full of them. |
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| *OrangeRev | Aug 20 2012, 08:31 AM Post #14 |
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That's true. But ... ... I don't know that there is anything really to "release". He isn't going to play football this year at any BCS school, simply because it is too late to go through the NCAA appeals process (a school can release a player from its LOI, but the NCAA also has to do it and that would be based on an appeals process for hardship). And, if he has indeed enrolled at a JUCO (and attends classes) then he won't be available until the 2014 season ... at least, I'm pretty sure that this is correct. Really, he needs to go to JUCO to mature and demonstrate that he has some ability to commit to something. Edited by OrangeRev, Aug 20 2012, 08:37 AM.
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| LonzoVol | Aug 20 2012, 09:41 AM Post #15 |
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When you sign 25 or 26 kids a year, you will invariably get one of these types. Last year it was Pat Martin. I would ax Mr. Landry why the boy is not named Devante Landry and also if he, Mr. Landry, is going to raise the grand child that his son has fathered. |
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