2014 recruiting class

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oregonvol said:
I will say, this may be the best job of recruiting any staff at UT has ever done, given what they have to sell.
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That left-coast living must have dampened your brain. Nobody has more to sell than Tennessee. Not many wins lately, but that's all we lack.
 
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oregonvol said:
I will say, this may be the best job of recruiting any staff at UT has ever done, given what they have to sell.
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This should get1000 likes IF he keeps the core together,i.e., those needs positions, and I think he will.:good!:
 
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Butch has done a great job recruiting but it's still our product that he's selling. 106,000 and a chance to be on TV every week in the SEC goes a long way. I know one would say why couldn't Dooley recruit this well. I think at the end the recruits knew Dools days were numbered and they know Butch will have at least 3 more years, also they won't have to ride the pine at Alabama.
 
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The best thing that this class will bring to our coaching is, that they will go from "Ok, we have to start this guy here cause he is the ONLY viable option" to a much better "OK, who is our BEST option at this position"! :rock:

It is impossible to underestimate recruiting in this meat grinder that is the SEC!



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oregonvol said:
Why don't you worry about yourself instead of trying to read something in to every word I write?

I grew up cheering for the Vols. They are pretty much the only team I care about (even though my alma mater is #1 in the country right now). Of course following them has been tortuous for the past several years. I would question the sanity of any Vol fan who hasn't been tortured by the absolute buffoonery that has run the program into the ground or the mismanagement that keeps it there.

Some days I wish I could be like the most of the posters here. I wish I could lower my standards with every loss. I wish I could believe all the excuses you guys come up with. I wish I could pretend that the exceptions are the rule, that warning signs don't matter, that records don't matter, and that teams just go from miserable to good based on nothing more than how much time a coach has.

The recruiting class is really the one thing that gives me hope that Butch Jones can make it here. I can't think of a single coach (in any era recent enough to be relevant or at any level of competition comparable to the SEC) who has had such an underwhelming performance in his first year at a school (that is, 5-7 with several blowout losses and a loss at home to Vanderbilt level underwhelming) to go on and lead them to championships. But, on the other hand, I can't think of anyone who had such an underwhelming first year and brought in such an impressive recruiting class either. So, it gives me hope (and I am trying to ignore the little voice in the back of my head that keeps telling me that we've gone down this road before of signing great talent and trying to use it to cover obvious coaching deficiencies and that it doesn't work so well in the long run...)
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Gotta buy in.....could careless if you do....but as long as these top level recruits and their families do....as long as these current players do...as long as the seniors believe we have finally got the right man at the helm here and right vision here....Butch has a proven system of success and his record speaks for itself. That is what TRULY matters!

You learn from mistakes...been hearing it all my life....quit putting the man under a microscope after his first season here. Every coach makes them...it happens. All season long at every program at some point in a game...or even a few games....when they work they are geniuses when they don't they don't know what they are doing...like Miles and Richt come to mind.

This staff also had so many obstacles to overcome from the get go...the loser quitter mentality Dooley installed...lack of experience on the roster...installing a new offensive scheme and defensive scheme/3 DC's in as many years....lack of quality back up depth...plus the toughest schedule in the country. Those are not excuses but the facts....the Tennessee team CBJ inherited.
 
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What an awesome looking class from top to bottom! I love what Butch is doing in recruiting.

Can't wait to see some of these guys over the next few years, not just the 4 and 5 star studs that could play anywhere, but think about how great it is to see some of those three star guys that surprise and turn heads, maybe even get a shot to play on Sundays.
 
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treecejc said:
Why does 247 have us down for no 5 star recruits when we have 2...Malone and Hurd are both 5 star. It has Bama down for 4, and Texas A&M for 2 but it dont have us down for any???

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Because the rankings are subjective with each service creating their own criteria.

Does it really matter? The players' high school careers are over and they've committed to UT. They're the same players coming whether they're rated a 4 or 5 *
 
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Boca Vol said:
Because the rankings are subjective with each service creating their own criteria.

Does it really matter? The players' high school careers are over and they've committed to UT. They're the same players coming whether they're rated a 4 or 5 *
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No it doesn't matter I just was curious as to what the difference was between 247 and rivals. Thanks!
 
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By far Butch has put one of the best classes together since the early Fulmer days
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jayski said:
Butch has done a great job recruiting but it's still our product that he's selling. 106,000 and a chance to be on TV every week in the SEC goes a long way. I know one would say why couldn't Dooley recruit this well. I think at the end the recruits knew Dools days were numbered and they know Butch will have at least 3 more years, also they won't have to ride the pine at Alabama.
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one of Dooleys problems on the recruiting trail was that from day one,there were a ton of Vol fans saying what the hell,fire him,he will never do anything and it was used against him

He didn't have any good support from the AD either,Hart wouldn't give Wilcox and company any extensions and surprise a buddy from Bama was hired as DC,didn't that hire work out good ?
 
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governmentmule said:
one of Dooleys problems on the recruiting trail was that from day one,there were a ton of Vol fans saying what the hell,fire him,he will never do anything and it was used against him

He didn't have any good support from the AD either,Hart wouldn't give Wilcox and company any extensions and surprise a buddy from Bama was hired as DC,didn't that hire work out good ?
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Are you serious? Vol fans wanted to fire him from day one? I'll call BS on that and the whole Dooley was given a fair shake stuff. Following the worst loss in recent history to a UK team that was starting a Receiver at QB , Dooley lost his support from the AD. Wilcox wasn't going to stay here anyway. He wanted to be back out west.Sunseri turned out to be a horrible hire but who is to say that any other DC would have done better , while working under Dooley? Dools was responsible for his demise both on the field and on the recruiting trail.Do you remember after Dooley was fired, he was on the ESPNs Signing Day Show and he said he had never seen Vonn Bell play? That told you everything you needed to know about his recruiting effort.
 
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3rd_and_Jancek said:
Are you serious? Vol fans wanted to fire him from day one? I'll call BS on that and the whole Dooley was given a fair shake stuff. Following the worst loss in recent history to a UK team that was starting a Receiver at QB , Dooley lost his support from the AD. Wilcox wasn't going to stay here anyway. He wanted to be back out west.Sunseri turned out to be a horrible hire but who is to say that any other DC would have done better , while working under
Dooley? Dools was responsible for his
demise both on the field and on the recruiting trail.Do you remember after Dooley was fired, he was on the ESPNs Signing Day Show and he said he had never seen Vonn Bell play? That told you everything you needed to know about his recruiting effort.
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Agree. The dude was a failure, and completely gave up. For that, I hate him. He is a loser
 
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3rd_and_Jancek said:
ADo you remember after Dooley was fired, he was on the ESPNs Signing Day Show and he said he had never seen Vonn Bell play? That told you everything you needed to know about his recruiting effort.
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Yup when he said that I about fell out of my chair. He was the biggest Joke of a coach we ever had and thank God we are now rid of him.
 
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i believe he will keep at least 97% of this recruiting class together, i have read all the articles on how he will be able to do this but not knowing what is actually going on in side the program really makes all of this very interesting and exciting to watch....
 
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At this point, our final ranking doesn't mean sh*t!

It is a top class and thats all that matters! :rock:

Kudos to CBJ & Co.!!! :dance2:



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I temper my recruitment excitement knowing that Fulmer wasted way too much excellent talent during his tenure. CBJ, up to you to use the talent accordingly.
 
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I just looked at a list of all the 2014 recruits. Where are all the 2 star recruits we used to get? Oh yeah, my bad, Dooly isn't here anymore! Butch gets it!! Go Vols!
 
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