2025 Target List

#876
#876
JRVOL11 said:
frustrating sometimes how we can’t land some of these top 5 star targets. would think we could land at least one given how good we’ve been past 5-6 years.
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Very few of those guys are even remotely familiar with the CRB demand on defense. For the most part, the elementary fundamentals they’re taught + their athleticism can equal a 5 star. The ones we’ve gotten probably didn’t fully get it till going through it. Jmo
 
#877
#877
Lefteye said:
Very few of those guys are even remotely familiar with the CRB demand on defense. For the most part, the elementary fundamentals they’re taught + their athleticism can equal a 5 star. The ones we’ve gotten probably didn’t fully get it till going through it. Jmo
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That and the NBA doesn’t really require defense.

A good majority of these 5* guys don’t want to go to college and learn how to play defense, especially for someone that’s going to yank them out after one mistake.

But not all of them, just gotta find the right ones.
 
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TrippieRedd said:
That and the NBA doesn’t really require defense.

A good majority of these 5* guys don’t want to go to college and learn how to play defense, especially for someone that’s going to yank them out after one mistake.

But not all of them, just gotta find the right ones.
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Rarely consider the NBA anymore but great pt
 
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#879
i get that we haven’t had many that panned out, mainly cause of barnes styles and fits but i feel like having a one or couple could really be big x factors to get us over the top. just my opinion on the 5 star topic, think staff just been missing the past few years too much.
 
#881
#881
I’d rather skip the entire 5* hs recruits in favor of portal guys. Seems to me only a few hs guys make an impact each year yet a bunch of portal guys prove to be big contributors. Seems like better college teams are comprised of borderline nba talents who stay 3-4 years in college. JMO
 
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TrippieRedd said:
That and the NBA doesn’t really require defense.

A good majority of these 5* guys don’t want to go to college and learn how to play defense, especially for someone that’s going to yank them out after one mistake.

But not all of them, just gotta find the right ones.
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Yeah, kind of a gut punch that Chris Cenac went to Houston, the team perhaps best known to be defense oriented.
 
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walkenvol said:
I’d rather skip the entire 5* hs recruits in favor of portal guys. Seems to me only a few hs guys make an impact each year yet a bunch of portal guys prove to be big contributors. Seems like better college teams are comprised of borderline nba talents who stay 3-4 years in college. JMO
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I definitely think you are correct. This year and last year seem to prove that grown men, who are also good basketball players, can make a very good basketball team. Those talented freshmen are fun to watch, but you need guys at the end of the game who know how to win, and have the ability to make it happen.
 
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walkenvol said:
I’d rather skip the entire 5* hs recruits in favor of portal guys. Seems to me only a few hs guys make an impact each year yet a bunch of portal guys prove to be big contributors. Seems like better college teams are comprised of borderline nba talents who stay 3-4 years in college. JMO
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Doing that you’re at the very least recruiting guys that haven’t been coddled and exposed to college bball defense. Nothing wrong with that method either as long as you get a Mashack or ZZ in there too.

Doesn’t apply to the 5* discussion really, but those guys are more important. Imo
 
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i2amavol said:
I definitely think you are correct. This year and last year seem to prove that grown men, who are also good basketball players, can make a very good basketball team. Those talented freshmen are fun to watch, but you need guys at the end of the game who know how to win, and have the ability to make it happen.
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Grown ass men, upvote!
 
#887
#887
Lefteye said:
Doing that you’re at the very least recruiting guys that haven’t been coddled and exposed to college bball defense. Nothing wrong with that method either as long as you get a Mashack or ZZ in there too.

Doesn’t apply to the 5* discussion really, but those guys are more important. Imo
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The Deacon seems to have his finger on the balance.
 
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#891
Tennessee hosted four-star 2025 point guard Chance Mallory and his family on an unofficial visit on Thursday.

Mallory, who is from Charlottesville, Va., was originally committed to Virginia, but opened things up after Tony Bennett abruptly retired this fall.

Tennessee had recruited Mallory prior to his commitment, and circled back quickly after Mallory was back on the market and the Vols missed on some other targets.

He and his team are playing at Webb this weekend, so it worked out well for Tennessee to get he and his family on campus unofficially.

Elsewhere as we have said previously Tennessee remains involved with five-stars Caleb Wilson and Nate Ament.

Wilson recently included Tennessee in his final five, but that has been difficult to get a read on and the Vols seem to have some ground to make up.

Ament isn’t going to decide anytime soon, and while there isn’t any hard information out there about him, Tennessee is a player in our opinion.

Ament is in no rush to decide at all and likely won’t do so until after his season. This one will have a lot of twists and turns with schools like Kansas and Kentucky clamoring to get official visits and Duke very much involved.

Ament and his family took an official visit to Tennessee in October and it went well. If the Vols get him back on campus in January or February for an unofficial, that will signal that they’re definitely in the thick of it.

Lastly, some people have asked if there’s a Santiago Vescovi or Freddie Dillone out there that this staff might bring in at midterm to help bolster a roster that has only 10 healthy scholarship players (even after Cam Carr returns).

I guess you could say anything is possible, but based off conversations we’ve had, that’s not something that’s on the radar of this staff barring just a stunning surprise.
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-VQ
 
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#892
#892
On the recruiting front there are no real updates other than five-star guard, and the No. 12 ranked player in the 2025 class, Brayden Burries telling On3’s Jamie Shaw this week that he is trying to set up an official visit to Tennessee.

Burries, whose mother played softball at Tennessee, is from Riverside, Ca. He has taken official visits to Oregon, Arizona and SMU so far.

Tennessee will definitely need to get him on campus for this one to feel serious but the Vols have been in the picture for a good while.
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-VQ
 
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#895
#895
Go for highly ranked 4* that’s a borderline NBA talent who’s likely to stay in college 4-5 years and skip the 1&done types for portal players would be my new strategy. Each season we continue to see numerous portal guys making impacts yet only a handful of true freshmen are highly impactful and those are gone after 1 year.
 
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walkenvol said:
Go for highly ranked 4* that’s a borderline NBA talent who’s likely to stay in college 4-5 years and skip the 1&done types for portal players would be my new strategy. Each season we continue to see numerous portal guys making impacts yet only a handful of true freshmen are highly impactful and those are gone after 1 year.
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I can't say I disagree. It's a proven method that talented experience is the greatest advantage. To be honest, when/who was the last team to win an NCAAT title led primarily by a stud freshman? 10 years ago (2014-15 Duke)?
 
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