Recruiting Forum: Football Talk XII

[Ace]

I don't think it can be overstated how important it was that Butch involved football alums within 3 days of taking the job. It was the perfect move to show the legacy class he was serious about UT football, not trying to be USC or Bama

Also sheds light on how absolutely clueless Dooley was concerning recruiting.

 

[OldVol49vfl]

Also sheds light on how absolutely clueless Dooley was.

fyp

 

[Outofmyvolcanmind]

I don't think it can be overstated how important it was that Butch involved football alums within 3 days of taking the job. It was the perfect move to show the legacy class he was serious about UT football, not trying to be USC or Bama

This was the same thing Meyer did at Florida. I'm friends with a former Florida player and he said Meyer personally called, emailed and invited all former players back for practices, games and clinics. Huge aspect in building a winner. He said Muschamp is nowhere near the worker that Meyer was.

 

[Ace]

fyp

Agreed

 

[VolBalla2014]

Cool story bro time:
I work at a BBQ place in Powell and a family of five came in. All three sons had Tennessee hats, and the dad had a cincy hat on. When the wife paid, she had an ohio ID so I asked why they're in Knoxville. Well it turns out that the wife/ mother worked in Cincinnati before Butch was coach there and they became good family friends. They said they had only been to neyland twice: once for a game, and once for a private tour of the stadium when Butch was hired. We talked a while and they said that Butch truly wants to stay here and that this place was one of his dream jobs before he became a head coach, and it became a fantasy when he coached cincy in neyland. I let them know that everyone in orange is behind Butch, and they said that everyone in Cincy is too. After being cast aside by Kiffin, this kind of loyalty is something I, as a vol fan, can really appreciate. Here's to the good years. They're on the way

 

[Vols4us]

I don't think it can be overstated how important it was that Butch involved football alums within 3 days of taking the job. It was the perfect move to show the legacy class he was serious about UT football, not trying to be USC or Bama

Besides the usual answer of Mike Hamilton - how did it all get to that point that a flake like Kiffin could come in and try to abandon UT program history with junk other schools did? Where were the money guys, Booger, BOT et al when that stuff was going on? How is it possible that they let Hamilton panic and hire a bad attorney masquerading as a football coach that was even related to the legendary leader of a major competitor? Were they all just stupid? Had the leaders of UT gone insane - or has it been infiltrated with posers that could care less about the school's traditions and history?

I mean Butch knows more about how it should work as a newcomer coming in as a native Michigander with no SEC coaching experience. Why can't the leaders of the school understand the value of it all? The only thing they understood was the fans staying home and saving our bucks. They started scurrying around to fix things then.

Rant over.

 

[UTProf]

Agreed

x2

And to put an exclamation point on how much Dooley was disliked by former players and how clueless he was: I found out he was fired when a former player sent me a text message in the middle of the night - this isn't a young guy (he's more like an uncle to me) but he's sending out a text and jumping for joy at ~12-1 AM because he got the word Dooley was out.

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

A little boomage in the mail when I got home from vacation today… Tickets to the Utah State, Florida, and Missouri games. Boom! Beyond stoked!!

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

A little boomage in the mail when I got home from vacation today… Tickets to the Utah State, Florida, and Missouri games. Boom! Beyond stoked!!

Just ordered my tickets for the Utah State game. Opening game, at night, on a Sunday after boomsday! Beyond pumped!

 

[Sin City Vol]

This was the same thing Meyer did at Florida. I'm friends with a former Florida player and he said Meyer personally called, emailed and invited all former players back for practices, games and clinics. Huge aspect in building a winner. He said Muschamp is nowhere near the worker that Meyer was.

How did he reach them when they're only allowed 1 phone call? The former players must have had a huge influence in Aaron Hernandez

 

[volinexile17]

Besides the usual answer of Mike Hamilton - how did it all get to that point that a flake like Kiffin could come in and try to abandon UT program history with junk other schools did? Where were the money guys, Booger, BOT et al when that stuff was going on? How is it possible that they let Hamilton panic and hire a bad attorney masquerading as a football coach that was even related to the legendary leader of a major competitor? Were they all just stupid? Had the leaders of UT gone insane - or has it been infiltrated with posers that could care less about the school's traditions and history?

I mean Butch knows more about how it should work as a newcomer coming in as a native Michigander with no SEC coaching experience. Why can't the leaders of the school understand the value of it all? The only thing they understood was the fans staying home and saving our bucks. They started scurrying around to fix things then.

Rant over.

CPF is as true of a VFL as there is, but he deserves as much of the blame as MH, LK, DD, the administration, and the boosters, IMO.

When things go as wrong as they have at UT in the past near decade, there's no single cause - just a series of accidents caused by inattention and knee-jerk reactions.

 

[TriCitiesVol]

I think we pull 3 commits this weekend.

1. Quarte Sapp
2. Darrell Miller
3. '16 Ryan Johnson

If we do indeed pull Sapp and Miller, that will move us up 3 spots in 247's team rankings... And put us right behind Clemson at #4. And that should move us up 1 spot ahead of Clemson at #4 on Rivals.

Bump... Come on Sapp make it happen

 

[delfonic]

Bump... Come on Sapp make it happen

If you get the trifecta I will be very impressed.

 

[StoVol]

Damn boyz, on fire today, Johnson,miller, and ford , nice orange carpet weekend!

 

[SmokinBob]

My inside source says Cam Ordway, Bryce Love, Drew Richmond, Josh Sweat, Montavious Atkinson, Rasool Clemons, Shy Tuttle, Darrell Miller, Marques Ford, DJ Jones, Van Jefferson, Jonathan Ledbetter, and Torrance Gibson are all committing to UT tomorrow.

umm Catbone - your Butch avi - kinda wierd ---

 

[VolFromNashville]

All these commits got me like

 

[delfonic]

It looks we're going to have another case of "get them committed and let the numbers sort themselves out later" again this year.

 

[Catbone]

It looks we're going to have another case of "get them committed and let the numbers sort themselves out later" again this year.

It worked alright for us last year didn't it?

 

[delfonic]

It worked alright for us last year didn't it?

I am not complaining. Let's go ahead and get 25 kids committed for 2016 while we're at it.

 

[TriCitiesVol]

"As we have said, the commitment board may change between now and signing day. Remember last year Tennessee's receiver commitments were Vic Wharton, Kameel Jackson, Eric Lauderdale and Dominique Booth."

-Fortenberry

 

[you]

so, with today's commitments does that mean we're out on Ordway and Sweat?

 

[TriCitiesVol]

@John_BriceVQ: This @UTCoachJones guy apparently decided he'd open a brick factory today. 4 new #Vols commits from 3 diff states. All can be impactful.

 

[StoVol]

This is getting out of hand.

 

[37L1]

This is getting out of hand.

And ain't it grand?

 

[StoVol]

And ain't it grand?

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