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Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

MrShone — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:27:07 -0000

I dont know its a hard decision because some players are college gods and professional mistakes so its really hard to get excited when it comes to expected players because now a days the best predicted picks end up being busted so i would say just play things by ear and see how everything go's down............thats all i can really say, now when it comes to some players that aren't entering the draft earlier i would have to say Tim Tebow but i dont blame em" get your education for FREE...............

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

"BC" — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:41:18 -0000

i'll give the Tigers a 20% chance of winning the SEC next season.
Alabama? probably a 30%
Florida? probably a 40%
Ole Miss? a 10%

yall remember Bama's badass defense last year?
we're only losing 2 players from it. we're adding Dre Kirkpatrick at CB to completely shut down Rueben Randle and AJ Green (all 3 will start in the NFL as rookies)

bama's offense? we'll finally have a QB that is accurate and can make quick decisions. i expect him to make some quick mistakes as well, but Julio Jones will finally get a ball in stride. i know he and i will both enjoy that.
oh yeah, and Trent Richardson. youtube him.
like ya know how our offense in '08 was all possession and game management, etc.?
this year it will be big plays and big mistakes. id say an 8/2 ratio.
it will be just as effective as in '08, but more fun to watch.

i cant wait for 2009.
there isn't really a team to watch for next year.
Florida is probably the pre-season favorite
Georgia, Alabama, and LSU will all have new QBs
Ole Miss, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Tennessee are the dark horses.

Offenses:
Florida
T2 Ole Miss
T2 Alabama
T2 LSU
T5 Georgia
T5 Arkansas
T7 South Carolina
T7 Tennessee
Miss St.
T10 Kentucky
T10 Auburn
T10 Vanderbilt

Defenses:
Alabama
Florida
LSU
Georgia
T5 Ole Miss
T5 South Carolina
Tennessee
Auburn
Kentucky
Arkansas
Miss. St.
Vanderbilt

Final Standings:
T1 Florida
T1 Alabama
LSU
Ole Miss
Georgia
South Carolina
Tennessee
Arkansas
Auburn
Kentucky
Mississippi State
Vanderbilt

Oh, and updated coaching rankings:
Urban Meyer
Nick Saban
Lane Kiffin / Monte Kiffin / Ed Orgeron (this will be interesting...)
Houston Nutt (imagine what this guy could do at a place like ND...)
Mark Richt
Bob Petrino
Steve Spurrier
Les Miles (it's hard to rank les miles because he's a great charlitan (recruiter), is reallllly lucky, but a terrible coach. can you really put the guy over an ex-NFL HC and/or steve spurrier?)
Bobby Johnson (almost put him above Miles. he's got the least ammount of talent in the SEC every year and is starting to get bowl eligible. Les Miles is the exact opposite haha)
Rich Brooks
Dan Mullen (jury is still out. he's new at this but 0-0 is better than 5-19 IMO)
Gene Chizik (only HC in the SEC with a losing career record and no bowl victories)

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

"BC" — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:57:52 -0000

after auburn tanks hard in '09, i don't think yall will have a shot with anyone.

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

"BC" — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:57:08 -0000

haha. you guys believe this clown??

rueben randle IS going to lsu. everyone has known that for a while.
trent richardson?? you wish
dre kirkpatrick?? same
DJ Fluker?? same
Nico Johnson?? same
Rod Woodson?? same

LSU may very well be #1 in recruiting this year, but alabama will still finish top 5, and guess what??
we have Nick Saban. LSU has Les Miles?? that shmuck with the unusual michigan accent???

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

Tommy_Trojan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:27:55 -0000

TE:

What happened? You get mad because you lost more games last year than we have in the last three? Or, is it because your complete flop of a year, proved that you didn't even deserve to be in a MNC game in 07? So, now you've lost seven games in two years, and we haven't lost that many in the last seven years - or are we tied? You couldn't hold our jock, boy!

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

Tommy_Trojan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:15:49 -0000

TE:

Your an A-Hole! And a complete moron. I don't even know what "Tiger Dropping's" are. Never been to the site. Never read the site. And, could care less about the site. You must have gotten me mistaken with somebody else. I don't read about Southern football or any football. I actually watch them play the games. That's the big difference between me and you.

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

OU_Ron — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:35:27 -0000

GT, already cleaned and ready to go....$ 11.99 per lb

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

GeauxTigers0107 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:01:30 -0000

Damn, that sounds good. Definitely gonna give it a go when I get back on terra firma. Maybe if WEA is reading this he can give you my email address. Hell, it may already be public on here....IDK. At any rate, I'll ship you some of Chef Bo's Bodacious BBQ Sauce. It's made completely from scratch. I hope to market it one of these days if I can find the right avenue.

LOL about off-season thread hijacks. Maybe we should take this to the Open Thread before Kev slaps us on the wrist with his proverbial ruler!

Geaux Tigers
Geaux SEC

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

1Tomcat — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:33:31 -0000

GT sounds good man your making me hungry. De-bone a family pack of chicken thighs- stuff the hole were the bone was with deseeded fresh japelenos and thick slices of onion, wrap in bacon-season the outside black pepper-tony's- whatever- smoke real slow over wood - purty easy and gives your bbq chicken a little southwest flavor.
been kinda busy lately put a new transem in my boat- original was 1 inch cedar, replaced with 2 inch pine, I'm going to put some more polyerathane on the wood, might not be perfect, but its better than the old rotten one- heck the fish wont know the difference.
Off season thread hyjacks-
Hookem

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

GeauxTigers0107 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:24:23 -0000

Glad you liked it Ron. Let me know if you need more ideas.

And I was wondering how you were gonna find crawfish tails....lol. Oklahoma isn't exactly known for 'em. How much did you pay for 'em, if you don't mind me asking?

Geaux Tigers
Geaux SEC

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

OU_Ron — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:19:07 -0000

Crawfish and cream sauce was great GT, had a hell of a time finding the crawfish though......it's easier for me to get shrimp and crab meat.....thanks again..

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

GeauxTigers0107 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:01:38 -0000

Never tried that with the chicken thighs but I'm definitely not above it....sounds good. We usually take the jumbo shrimp and devein and butterfly them. Take jalapeno nacho slices and clip one side and open it up. Cut an onion and separate the rings like you're gonna fry onion rings. Cut the rings in half. Lay a jalapeno and onion in the butterflied shrimp, of course wrap it in bacon and put em on the pit with you favorite sauce.

Another good one is to filet a pork tenderloin open until it's flat. Stuff it with damn near anything (I usually use loose fresh cajun sausage), roll it back up and wrap it in bacon. Secure with toothpicks. Drop it on a hot pit and fry the bacon. When the bacon is cooked, take it off and wrap it in foil and put it away from the heat on the pit for about an hour. Once it's cooked, I'll slice it into 1/2 thick pieces (it'll have a nice pin-wheel look to it) and drizzle the crawfish and cream sauce over it. Make you slap yo mama and dare your daddy to get up....lol

Geaux Tigers
Geaux SEC

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

Zac — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:18:56 -0000

I, quite honestly, am appalled that WVU OG, Greg Isdaner, is coming out early. He had a terrible year; he admitted on more than one occasion (actually apologized to fans & the team) that he was having a terrible year. I didn't see what I'd consider a lot of improvement, except maybe against NC (the way he should have been playing all along). This kid seriously needs to return for his SR year.

Isdaner was part of what was touted early on as being one of the best and deepest offensive lines in the country. Other than the Meineke Bowl & perhaps against Auburn, WVU's offensive line didn't look all that good, in my opinion. Consider how WVU consistently had trouble converting on 3rd & short. Not to mention, two of the SR's on the line are eligible for a 5th year. Given how poorly they distinguished themselves this past year, as compared with the last two, I think they should come back for their last year of eligibility. Given they will not, in my opinion, they're in for a lot of disappointment.

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

AUtigerman — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:07:45 -0000

Well i dont think hes going to sign with AU. However it dosent hurt your program when the #1 and #2 players in the country are taking offical visits.

As far as i can remember thats never happened.
I said 1 &2 because it looks like Bryce Brown may visit next week along with Randle.
Also the #2 QB in the country is visiting this week and we actually have a real good shot at him. Tyrik Rollison.

Either way when high profile guys look closly at your school its a step in the right direction.

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

Zac — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:02:08 -0000

I've been following the reasoning here, not to mention I've read the comments below. I'm with RG. I think I'd pass on Stafford, go with Crabtree, and (Don't throw things yet; hear me out.) take a chance on Pat White. If you consider his lifetime stats, especially over the last 3 seasons, he's a very accurate passer, has a decent TD:INT ratio, had barely more than a fair-to-respectable crop of receivers around him, and there's his ability to run.

Imagine what White could do if he had WR's such as Tech's Crabtree; and NC's, Hakeem Nicks. Now, one could refute all this, given reports from practice week at the Sr. Bowl. Well, let me ask you guys this. How long does it take for a QB to get on the same page with WR's, TE's, and RB's, the likes of whom he's never thrown to? I would think you'd need a little more than a week. Besides, there's still game time, and that hasn't happened yet. If he manages to adapt and do well, I think he should be given a shot.

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

Zac — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:37:30 -0000

You stole my thunder, TB, except in that I would have said MOST NOTABLE. In my opinion this guy is a true athlete: He's fit in body, mind, & spirit. God bless him!

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

-TE- — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:26:17 -0000

Do me a favor, and come back when winning your conference gives you a place at the national championship discussion table.

Until then, be happy with those rings that say "7 Straight Pac-10 National Titles" while teams from the SEC keep racking up multiple BCS Championships.

Have a great day, TT...

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

-TE- — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:21:16 -0000

You've got a bad short-term memory. You quoted from a website during a previous discussion on football scheduling. It's the sleaziest one we have. It's called Tiger Droppings.

Appropriate that you'd go and "copy & paste" from a place like dat.

But, regardless, if you don't have the memory and the ability to stay on task, in terms of the discussion, then please stop trying to make it about you.

Egocentrism doesn't suit you.

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

1Tomcat — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:57:18 -0000

Thanks GT for the thread hyjack, it is afterall- offseason and receipes are better than uniform changes-LOL
BTW I happen to have bout 5lbs of jumbo gulf shimp and gonna give it a try-thanks
I was going to peelem-devainem and put on the grill wrapped in bacon etc.
We do alot of cool stuff- cut out the seeds of large fresh Japealenos stuffem with deer sausage or cheese wrapem in bacon etc etc. I like to have some shrimp,japalenos,bell pepper,onion,deer sausage etc etc and just get creative- Yall do stuffed chicken thighs with onion & peppers?sometimes we just stand around snacking and sampling and wash it down with our favoritve beverage- hows that for hyjack-LOL
thanks adios Tomcat

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

1Tomcat — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:21:22 -0000

USC1978 Ya I know, it was in referense to a QB,same goes for Jarret at WR
These boys played for a small school in a mid major conference, so they generally dont get the recognition of players in the B-12 ,ACC or SEC, but they could have started anywhere and that guy Casey is one heck of a player,too bad they couldn't play one more year, they were fun to watch and had the chemistry down pat.

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

Tommy_Trojan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:53:44 -0000

TE:

Must have fallen completely off the map to make this statement: "I think we're an SEC Contender next year...". Not sure? Well, I think you'll be alright. Try a little blind faith. Maybe you should pray about it...

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

Tommy_Trojan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:25:21 -0000

TE:

What are you babbling about now? I don't even read from football websites - let alone post any comments on them. I haven't even mentioned a single southern recruit on here. And, I certainly never mentioned anything about any football websites. Like, I always trip out that you guys are constantly babbling about recruits this and that, and nothin' is gonna be real until they sign. So, who really cares? And, after all of that, half of them are never even gonna play here. So what?

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

-TE- — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:21:03 -0000

What? I think we're an SEC Contender next year...

Our defense is loaded with talent. We had some terrible coaching and schemes last year. We didn't disguise SH!T pre-snap, and we generated zero line pressure. Now, some of that lack of pressure was a result of some injuries, but a lot of it was terrible coaching. I've never seen a team that had less gap control discipline. I've honestly never seen teams run stunts and twists so...undisciplined...

Out of their lanes, not playing responsibility. It was terrible. You couple that with our 4 year starter at LB getting a knee sprain early on, and never recovering, and it hurt us.

It was a perfect storm on defense.

On offense, we had a terrible situation at quarterback. Jarret Lee was bad. Hell, he would've been bad without the 7 pick 6's. But, guys...He gave up 42 points for the defense, without them ever having to set foot on the damn field!

We lost to Georgia 52-38, and Lee threw them 14 points, plus threw another pick backed up in his own territory that they kicked a field goal off of after taking a shot and running it up the gut twice. That's 17 points of turnovers, and that's the game.

The Alabama game was completely winnable, as was Arkansas (Both lost at the end of regulation or in overtime). With TERRIBLE defense and TERRIBLE/inconsistent quarterback play.

If we had more to play for, or a better scheme, perhaps Ole Miss would've been different as well.

But, having said that, we had three games right there that a defense and/or the right break could've won for us. Bad coaching and Ryan Perrilloux was the difference between another 11-2 year for LSU, or the 8-5 that we suffered through.

We're bringing in Chavis to run our defense (ask Bama_Babe...their defense was STOUT this year, and it has been with much less higher quality talent in comparison to Baton Rouge the past few years). He's finished in the Top 3 in the SEC in total defense 9 times in 13 years as DC. Impressive stuff.

We also brought in Ron Cooper from USC. He has Spurrier's secondary playing at a very high level. They were the 2nd ranked pass defense in FBS last year. He put a few players into the League, like Captain Munnerlyn this year, for example.

At the DL spot, Lovie Smith had Brick Haley coaching his Defensive Line. But, when Rod Marinelli of the Detroit Lions got canned, he felt a sense of loyalty to the guy. Marinelli gave Lovie Smith his first job in the NFL, and Marinelli's background is also on the DL. Lovie Smith wanted to make room for both, but when the Riviera guy didn't leave as DC to take a HC job in the NFL, Haley expressed some interest in the LSU job, and Smith personally recommended him.

I'm quite pleased with the teachers we've hired, and Cooper as a recruiter is especially outstanding.

This staff has some top flight recruiters already in Miles, Recruiting Coordinator/TE's Coach Josh Henson, and 2007 Rivals Recruiter of the Year/RB Coach Larry Porter. With Cooper on board, we've brought in another guy to replace what we lost on the recruiting trail and improve the teaching.

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

OU_Ron — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:13:07 -0000

Then I guess the only thing I can hope for is that RR's mother don't like to see a hostess sitting in her son's lap......;-)

Re: Jumping Ship: Who's leaving early for the NFL?

-TE- — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:09:05 -0000

The only reason Auburn is in the running is over Trooper Taylor...and he's already backed out of that visit once before.

He's not making a decision like this based on one position coach.

He's also not going anwyhere without decent QB play.

Sorry, Auburn, but he's not playing college ball in the state of Alabama unless he's on the visiting team.