'15 TN WR Van Jefferson

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A poster on VQ that was at the announcement said that his mother followed his announcement by lecturing the crowd on using social media to correspond with recruits lol
 
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SigNu_VolFan said:
A poster on VQ that was at the announcement said that his mother followed his announcement by lecturing the crowd on using social media to correspond with recruits lol
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I would have stood up and yelled, "I commit to listening to you ma'am".

5 seconds later.

"Ya know what, I've decommitted".

And walk out laughing like crazy.
 
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SigNu_VolFan said:
A poster on VQ that was at the announcement said that his mother followed his announcement by lecturing the crowd on using social media to correspond with recruits lol
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I know that parents obviously should help guide their child through this process but it blows my mind that she's had this much input when her husband/Van's father has been through all of this and coaches at the highest level of football. Good lord, woman.
 
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SSVol said:
Thig may well be right about momma, but our society would be far better off if more young men respected their parents enough to seek their counsel in decisions of this significance. With all due to respect to my fellow VNer who think it is somehow a character fault to seek guidance from others, y'all are full of crap. The risk center of the male brain is not completely formed until we are well into our 20s. For those that didn't follow that, it means that we make stupid decisions sometimes. I'd wager that many of you giving him the worst grief are closer to his age than mine...and that should tell you all you need to know about the problem.
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Amen! I wished I'd listened to my parents more when I was in my 20's than I did. I also wish my 20 somethings would listen to me more than they do. The amount of listening is directly proportional to their age. It increases every year. Life lessons typically hit you right in the mouth at that age and you learn from it and move on for better or worse.

That being said I'd never coerce my child into doing anything, but I would try to get them to map out pros and cons and be analytical about their decision. You know, what Archie did.
 
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ksgovols said:
Amen! I wished I'd listened to my parents more when I was in my 20's than I did. I also wish my 20 somethings would listen to me more than they do. The amount of listening is directly proportional to their age. It increases every year. Life lessons typically hit you right in the mouth at that age and you learn from it and move on for better or worse.

That being said I'd never coerce my child into doing anything, but I would try to get them to map out pros and cons and be analytical about their decision. You know, what Archie did.
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This
 
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ksgovols said:
Amen! I wished I'd listened to my parents more when I was in my 20's than I did. I also wish my 20 somethings would listen to me more than they do. The amount of listening is directly proportional to their age. It increases every year. Life lessons typically hit you right in the mouth at that age and you learn from it and move on for better or worse.

That being said I'd never coerce my child into doing anything, but I would try to get them to map out pros and cons and be analytical about their decision. You know, what Archie did.
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I don't believe that my parents ever pressured me into doing anything, and I think I learned from them how to make a good decision.

I know everyone has different opinions about this subject, but I really find it hard to believe that it got this way with Van with a father who is a professional coach. However, you do have to consider that both Michigan and Georgia made coaching changes during the last couple of months. Van just seemed lost and confused so many times, and that just seems strange when your father is in that profession. Oh well- good luck to him.
 
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I agree. I wasn't really referring to pressure, just listening. I wished I'd solicited advice and listened to that advice more than I did, for the most part. Some of it I got right on my own and some of it I didn't.

Kids follow their friends more than their parents advice at that age. I followed a bunch of buddies to UT. I didn't visit Cookeville, Chattanooga or Martin much less Gainesville, Athens, Lexington or Oxford. It would have been a much tougher decision had I taken OV's to some other SEC schools. :)

Good luck to the kid. In a year or two, he'll know whether he made the right decision or not.
 
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ksgovols said:
I agree. I wasn't really referring to pressure, just listening. I wished I'd solicited advice and listened to that advice more than I did, for the most part. Some of it I got right on my own and some of it I didn't.

Kids follow their friends more than their parents advice at that age. I followed a bunch of buddies to UT. I didn't visit Cookeville, Chattanooga or Martin much less Gainesville, Athens, Lexington or Oxford. It would have been a much tougher decision had I taken OV's to some other SEC schools. :)

Good luck to the kid. In a year or two, he'll know whether he made the right decision or not.
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You didn't miss anything with Cookeville, Martin, or Gainesvile. I took some trips but not really to many SEC schools. I saw those later when I was a student at UT when we were rolling through wins every year.
 
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My senior year at UT we went to an ASCE convention in Gainesville around Spring Break and stayed a week with other civil engineering students engaged in some friendly competition.

I liked the Florida girls. And the Georgia Tech ones as well. I could have easily been flipped if I'd been a year or two younger.....
 
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SigNu_VolFan said:
A poster on VQ that was at the announcement said that his mother followed his announcement by lecturing the crowd on using social media to correspond with recruits lol
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Oh boy... Should've been his day but she steals it by getting up and doing a post announcement lecture.. I bet Van wanted to crawl in a hole and hide from mommy dearest...
 
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