2010 Recruiting Map

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Tennessee Jack

Tennessee Jack

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I made this on Big Huge Labs.

I apologize if the orange looks off on your monitor, but it appears fine on mine.

Using Eric's list, the list is up to 33 states where Tennessee has tendered verbal or written scholarship offers for the 2010 football recruiting class.

If Tennessee extends an offer to a Nevada prospect, the staff will essentially have gone coast-to-coast with an unbroken chain.

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EricFreakingBerry said:
If Tennessee as a state were a whole helluva lot better then this map wouldn't be nearly as orange.
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Not really, we're going national to get the best of the best. Let's look at two other programs for comparison's sake, who have won BCS titles and are in talent-rich states---USC and Florida.

Florida has 27 by my count using the Rivals database of offers. This is not conclusive and is surely missing some offers. You'll notice there's not a single offer listed for Mississippi according to the current updates at GatorBait.net's offer page. You can see Florida's gone to such unlikely places as Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Iowa.

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USC has one of the most talent-rich hubs in America---Los Angeles and the state of California. Even they have extended offers to 18 other states.

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Tennessee Jack said:
Not really, we're going national to get the best of the best. Let's look at two other programs for comparison's sake, who have won BCS titles and are in talent-rich states---USC and Florida.

Florida has 27 by my count using the Rivals database of offers. This is not conclusive and is surely missing some offers. You'll notice there's not a single offer listed for Mississippi according to the current updates at GatorBait.net's offer page. You can see Florida's gone to such unlikely places as Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Iowa.

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USC has one of the most talent-rich hubs in America---Los Angeles and the state of California. Even they have extended offers to 18 other states.

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I actually agree, my intention was not to disprove national recruiting vs. in-state recruiting as much as to simply indicate that TN isn't just light years ahead of KY in football talent level(s).

I think the national model is the best way to go regardless of how talent-rich your state is. Restricting yourself to your own state/region leaves you incredibly limited and dependent on the same few schools piping players into your program. Nationally, you can still build some pipelines but you still grant yourself opportunities to spotlight gems and surprises.

When you:

a.) have a truly dedicated staff in place with connections
b.) win football games

It seriously does open up the entire country.

I would imagine the actual map would not look that different if Tennessee high schools were a recruiting hotbed. Just that the whole building a fence argument would be a little more important than it is now with as grand of a scale we utilize.
 
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EricFreakingBerry, I'm with you now and those are good points. My intention obviously wasn't to show you up. I just wanted to compare programs and their mutual ambitions. :hi:
 
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wildberry14 said:
i wanna see one for texas
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This link only shows Texas, Louisiana, Ohio and Oklahoma. That is not accurate and the list desperately needs updating.

There is no way they haven't extended a single offer between California, Florida and Georgia.

As is, that would look like the following, but I'll go through some national targets and gather up some new names.

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If you think about it, our basketball team has gone global since the addition of Negedu from Nigeria. Lane Kiffin's reach must exceed his grasp if he's to keep pace with Bruce Almighty. :pilot:

Go Vols!
 
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