'13 TN DE Jason Carr (UT signee)

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I tend to agree with jmoore, but we have to remember these are kids. And they aren't always taught great team values in high school and 7 on 7 traveling teams. I think the best thing to take from this is that he said we ARE recruiting him the hardest. And, if I'm not mistaken, he was only about 60% committed a couple weeks ago. So this visit helped out.
 
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This is mostly a product of Ole Miss doing some negative recruiting. We win this fall, and all this talk goes away.
 
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jmoore_21 said:
He's a man of his word yet he will go to the school that shows him the most attention. If you're a man of your word then you don't even look at other schools. Example, Austin Sanders.
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And if Dooley is a man of his word, when he has accepted a commitment from a recruit, he will not tell him to "look around" just because he has found another recruit he likes better. As it is, we are in no position to complain at all when a recruit changes his mind.

What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

mlsoft
 
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mlsoft said:
And if Dooley is a man of his word, when he has accepted a commitment from a recruit, he will not tell him to "look around" just because he has found another recruit he likes better. As it is, we are in no position to complain at all when a recruit changes his mind.

What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

mlsoft
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How many times you going to say this? Who are you so pissed about us dropping?
 
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volinexile17 said:
It's not that he's pissed about UT dropping anyone. He just doesn't care for hypocrites.
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Assume he mean fans because he has no knowledge around what goes on inside Dooley circle or recruits and the offer conditions. He always tried to act like an insider on vq and failed miserably
 
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knucklehead_vol said:
I think he is saying it works both ways. Neither the school or coach is 100% until signing day. Henderson, who we could have used, was told to look around shortly before signing day.
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Too small for our scheme. He was a linebacker playing at about 195. See Nigel Mitchell-Thornton
 
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jave36 said:
I'm pretty sure every accepted commit comes with conditions and expectations. No coach is going to hold a commitment from someone who doesn't continue to perform and maintain physically and academically.
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Now this may be one of the best posts I've ever seen, you're right, and it's something we often overlook. The commitment is both the player's investment in the school and the school's investment in him, both sides have obligations to uphold. When the commitment happens, you never know how both sides will go on afterward.
 
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Nashvegas31 said:
How many times you going to say this? Who are you so pissed about us dropping?
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Not specifically "pissed" about any one player, it is the principle of the thing. I believe that being a man of your word is a very important character trait -- a man of honor should do certain things just because they are the right and honorable thing to do just as there are things he should refrain from doing just because they are wrong. I suspect that our VFL program teaches our team about being a man of your word, but they are learning the opposite from the HC.

Dooley has already experienced negative backlash for this practice and schools (and media) have used it as part of their negative recruiting against us. I believe it will continue to bite us in the rear in the future until Dooley learns to manage his recruiting better and stops doing it.

It is particularly galling to see so many here denigrate any recruit of ours that waffles on his commitment, yet cheer Dooley on when he dumps a committed recruit to take one he likes better -- that is rank hypocrisy at its best.

mlsoft
 
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