'10 TN DB Lonnie Ballentine (Announcing 3/29)

#278
#278
GoVols2003 said:
Reportedly seen at school today with an airbrushed shirt that has the Memphis tiger mascot in a Tiger Football uniform airbrushed on it with all the other schools in contention named on the shirt but crossed out.

-- Read this on a Memphis board so TIFWIW......there were two similar accounts of the shirt.... Who knows....
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In other news, I wore my airbrushed Panama City Beach Spring Break '05 shirt to class today. Wore it well.
 
#285
#285
The NCAA better look into this...the HS is an alum and was recruting that kid. Isn't that ilegal?
Second, all those offers to go to places with HIGHER ACADEMIC standards to settle for Memphis?

Someone made it rain in his neck of the woods...hundreds and hundreds...
 
#286
#286
I guess I just don't understand why there was any hype AT ALL about this kid. He had 45 tackles, and 6 int's against a pass-happy Memphis region (where he should have excelled had he been good). His team went 2-8, and the only good offensive teams they faced all year (Brentwood Academy & Germantown) scored a combined 103 points on them. His size/speed may help him eventually become a player, but he is a 16 year old with less than impressive stats in a below-average region, in a below-average state when it comes to HS football. Memphis can have him.
 
#288
#288
Probably_in_Class said:
^^^
Everyone is just looking for the small victory a commit brings...
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I guess so. I get that we need to lock up the best of our in-state talent, and we did that by getting Stone and Smith. Save the recruiting in Memphis for Bruce, because the football down there isn't all that good.
 
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#289
Squoshua17 said:
I guess so. I get that we need to lock up the best of our in-state talent, and we did that by getting Stone and Smith. Save the recruiting in Memphis for Bruce, because the football down there isn't all that good.
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Half the D1 talent in the state comes from that area.
 
#290
#290
chavisut said:
Half the D1 talent in the state comes from that area.
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Maybe more than half. But Memphis might as well be its own state, because finding a kid there that likes UT is like finding the proverbial "needle in a haystack". Knoxville is actually almost exactly the same distance away from Memphis as the University of Missouri... We're much better off focusing on places like Atlanta and Charlotte. There are some obtainable kids in South Carolina too.
 
#291
#291
Squoshua17 said:
Maybe more than half. But Memphis might as well be its own state, because finding a kid there that likes UT is like finding the proverbial "needle in a haystack". Knoxville is actually almost exactly the same distance away from Memphis as the University of Missouri... We're much better off focusing on places like Atlanta and Charlotte. There are some obtainable kids in South Carolina too.
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Exactly, but at the same time, Memphis football isn't sub-par. I think it's the best in the state. It's not Miami or LA or any major city like that, but it produces a good group of athletes. Especially in basketball.
 
#292
#292
Maybe you should size up middle and east Tennessee talent before claiming that. There are many good players in Tennessee, but Memphis trails in having the best.
 
#293
#293
FirstAndGoal said:
Maybe you should size up middle and east Tennessee talent before claiming that. There are many good players in Tennessee, but Memphis trails in having the best.
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I'm talking football. I concur that Memphis has exceptional talent in basketball (and best in state).
 
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