59 new players takes time to gel and just about every team that had 40+ new players struggled in week 1. With that said, Ole Miss is gonna rip us in half. Furman made the FCS playoffs last year and we saw what went down.

jakeboldenbrp said:

Another quick update for everybody on recent 2025 news in the last month

Lauren Hurst still shopping with an official visit to Tennessee at the end of August. Don't have much of a gauge of her recruiting at the moment but my crystal ball would say she's leaning heavily to the Lady Vols or Clemson.

Harmonie Ware secures her first P4 offer (Kentucky offer dropped after Elzy firing) to California and takes an official visit to James Madison. I'd think MT would still be in the hunt, but I'd assume forward/centers are a priority.

TaTianna Stovall took an unofficial visit to Belmont recently. Stovall is one I think Insell and staff really want to secure before the season kicks off. Being in a battle with in-state rival Belmont would typically suit well for MTSU, but some recruits aren't always hunting championships, more so playing time.

Liv Blomkvist was the most recent offering from MTSU. I do not know the legitmacy of that reporting as Liv, herself has not made a public post about the offer whereas she did publicly announce her offers to Wyoming and UAB.

Lastly, highly targeted 6'8" Center Emily Hunter is off the board with a verbal commit to TCU. I'd still keep an eye on her in the future with family ties to Murfreesboro. Who knows.

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That's disappointing news, but excellent reporting. Any news on Jenna McClendon out of Alabama?

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jakeboldenbrp said:

Offers:

• Chelby Jordan, 5'8" PG (Dyersburg HS, Tennessee Flight) Dyersburg, TN
  • Currently Ranked #5 in TN
  • Recent Offers: Austin Peay, UT-Arlington, Lipscomb, Louisiana, Dayton

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Not much has changed on the 2026 front other than dual-sport athlete Chelby Jordan received 6 offers since the conclusion of the AAU season: Austin Peay, UT-Arlington, Lipscomb, Louisiana, Dayton, and Arkansas State. She also took an unofficial visit to Belmont before the start of school.

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Offers:

• Lauren Hurst, 6'3" PF from Cleveland HS (Cleveland, TN)
  • #1 in TN, #31 Nationally, 2024 (Volleyball) TN Gatorade Player of the Year
  • Most Recent Offers: Florida, Tennessee (re-offer), Clemson, North Carolina, NC State

• Harmonie Ware, 5'9" SG from Bradley Central HS (Cleveland, TN)
  • #5 in TN, #96 nationally
  • Most Recent Offers: California, Kennesaw State, Southern Miss, FAU, James Madison

• Tatianna Stovall, 6'1" SF from Bradley Central (Cleveland, TN)
  • #6 in TN
  • Most Recent Offers: James Madison, Rice, UAB, Kennesaw State, Tennessee Tech

• Liv Blomkvist, 6'4" C from RIG Lulea (Sweden)
  • unranked
  • Most Recent Offers: Wyoming, UAB

Off the Board:

• Emily Hunter, 6'8" C from TPLS Christian Academy (Woodlake, VA)
  • #12 in VA, verbal commit to TCU

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Another quick update for everybody on recent 2025 news in the last month

Lauren Hurst still shopping with an official visit to Tennessee at the end of August. Don't have much of a gauge of her recruiting at the moment but my crystal ball would say she's leaning heavily to the Lady Vols or Clemson.

Harmonie Ware secures her first P4 offer (Kentucky offer dropped after Elzy firing) to California and takes an official visit to James Madison. I'd think MT would still be in the hunt, but I'd assume forward/centers are a priority.

TaTianna Stovall took an unofficial visit to Belmont recently. Stovall is one I think Insell and staff really want to secure before the season kicks off. Being in a battle with in-state rival Belmont would typically suit well for MTSU, but some recruits aren't always hunting championships, more so playing time.

Liv Blomkvist was the most recent offering from MTSU. I do not know the legitmacy of that reporting as Liv, herself has not made a public post about the offer whereas she did publicly announce her offers to Wyoming and UAB.

Lastly, highly targeted 6'8" Center Emily Hunter is off the board with a verbal commit to TCU. I'd still keep an eye on her in the future with family ties to Murfreesboro. Who knows.

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Really disappointed after last Saturday. I know it’s game one but damn.

I don’t think we score at all. Lane is gonna lay 60 on us.

Levis likes to put mayo in his coffee. I don't think Helmans wants to suggest doing that.

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I think if you allow smoking, the bar can only allow 21 and up to enter. Pretty sure someone told me that a few years ago.

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I think if you allow smoking, the bar can only allow 21 and up to enter. Pretty sure someone told me that a few years ago.

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The more I go back and watch this game the more I chalk this up to 1st game jitters on staff or CDM & OC was just playing a hard game of chess with play calling/personnel leading up to Ole Miss or even WKU. OL play & defense needs to step it up big time, but that offense looked very vanilla with the weapons. Not to mention the revolving door of WRs & TEs the entire game. How does any rhythm get going? Hard on a QB too.

Men's non-conference schedule has also been released.

Depends on the portal. There isn’t much to lose and there’s no guarantee Nic comes back next year.

I have a hunch the staff is just about done recruiting HS players and we’re going to see a huge influx of portal additions next year.

The bottom line is we have the same problem we had under CRS for the past decade.

The OL blocks about as good as intramural rules. Can’t run when you need to run except for the QB who is doing all the running. For his life that is when it’s a pass play.

This is not an indictment on DM. It’s a reality of how bad a shape the OL was with poor recruiting, zero development over the past few years of returning players, and decimation from the damn portal.

This does not tell us what DMs tenure is going to be like but it gives us a really good preview of how much this team is going to struggle in ‘24.

DM has two choices. One is to stick with his philosophy to instill what he wants it to be going forward even if it means 1-11. Or two try to win as many games as you can this year with what he has. And that second option is going to mean he’s going to have to modify philosophy to fit the roster that he has. In my opinion the best coaches do the latter because you’re not always going to have all the exact pieces of the puzzle you want in each year.

What this means offensively is it’s going to need to look a lot like it looked under the Stockstill tenure with spread formation, WR screens, bubbles screens, quick hitters on the hashes, and throwing to the RB out of the backfield. If he tries to establish the run game between the tackles every week this team is going to get destroyed more often than not this season. The short passing game is going to have to compliment what little we run the ball.

On defense it’s going to have to be soft in the secondary, bend and don’t break and hopefully shorten the games. This is the only way we get close to .500 this year. Or like I said he can try to instill Derek ball now, win one or two games, and hope that decision pays off in the out years.

Concern was our supposed larger more athletic offensive line had about the same push into the defense as our line from last year. In other words the defense was in our backfield way too often, & that was only a fcs front. If rushing was 118 yards last week we may be lucky to get 50 this week. Better step up with passing game. Holden needs at least half a dozen touches. Proved his YAC ability all year long in 2023.

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We were under 118 yds in 8 of 12 games. With most of those being substantially less. Obviously we need to do better but that was a huge mountain to climb.

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Yeah but last year Nick threw for over 3000 yards. How many passing yards did we have against a Tech?

Not sure what your point is with this comparison but whatever the analogy is it’s a bad one.