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murrayvol said...

Bama and LSU have most of them. Their #3 (maybe #4) guys would start for all but a few SEC teams.

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doberVol said...

PLEASE! Re-read my post, which you quoted. Where did I attack Butch Jones? No, he's not had enough time to recruit, and I have every hope he'll get us a great RB in the '14 class, but my point had nothing to do with him. I wanted to discuss long-term RB strike-outs in recruiting.

And I don't need to "GET OVER!" anything. I said that it annoyed me. "Burr under my saddle" is not suicidal. I did NOT say that my life was over; I did NOT say we had no hope for the future; I did NOT say it wasn't all prior coaches' fault rather than Butch's: and I acknowledged that we'd had some great OLs and WRs in the same time frame (do I not get credit for that positive statement), making my (and Coach Matthews') confusion all the greater as to why we haven't been able to do it with RBs. Bad luck accounts for some of it, but it doesn't explain the drought of over a decade.

While I join with many of you in my annoyance at the constant negativity on other Vol forums, it has almost gotten to the opposite extreme here, where someone's post meets with an immediate attack if they post something which is in the slightest negative.

Here, my post was ONLY about recruiting RBs; it was only directed to the past; and it asked the question WHY we've had trouble. That's all, but some peoples were overly defensive, abd immediately reacted as if I had typed, "All is lost; we have no chance; and Coach Jones stinks."

Lots of us who try to keep a balanced approach--never too up, never too down--bleed orange, too, and always want the Vols to GO!, whether or not we put it in every post.

It's really sad if we've gotten to the point on this forum that the only posts which will be tolerated without attack are along the lines of why everything's looking up, Coach Jones is great (he may or may not be; I'm very happy with him so far, but the bottom line is we don't know yet), a particular player is great, why we need to be patient, etc. Even if some of those are very legitimate points, are those the ONLY points we can discuss here?

C'mon, guys. Some of you almost (no, not quite) act as if someone's said something bad about one of your kids when they post anything which isn't blue skies and rainbows.