247's Highest All Time Rated Vols Recruits

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OHvol40 said:
It’s unreal that we couldn’t get into another NC game 1999-2005. So much wasted talent. Big reason why fulmer’s resume looked not-so-great the year he was fired.
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I didn't realize Casey was a 5 star.. My wife confiscated Bank's ID at Carson Newman because he was letting other students scan it for extra meals lol
 
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If you check out the link and scroll through it’s worth just focusing on the 2000 class. Maybe on paper the best recruiting class in UT history, but so many under-performers. Would be fun to take a top 100 list and rerank them.
 
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OHvol40 said:
If you check out the link and scroll through it’s worth just focusing on the 2000 class. Maybe on paper the best recruiting class in UT history, but so many under-performers. Would be fun to take a top 100 list and rerank them.
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Might be a fun off season group RF project 🤔
 
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I thought Chris Donald was the next great LB at Tennessee. He looked like a monster in his HS film!
 
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RICK0380 said:
Phillips and McKenzie are very disappointing. But they played under a coach who couldn't develop players.
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True...or, have players play where they would be more effective. I think Pruitt excels at recruiting to his scheme...and don't think he only recruits on talent, but tough mindset and football intelligence. It wouldn't have taken Pruitt too long to shift Mac over to OL.

Interestingly enough, I think Phillips having a good start to his NFL career, so, the talent is there...fair enough, he did have some injuries, but also Butch had him playing some interior DL, where he was undersized, but didn't have depth of other options on DL. Quote from NYJ article in November..."It took Kyle Phillips seven months to go from a draft dodger -- he wasn't picked, as it turned out -- to a significant role on the Jets' defensive line. He's second to the recently traded Leonard Williams in snaps played (375 to 338) and leads the unit in total tackles (33), emerging as a bright light in a dark season for the Jets (2-7). "
 
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Just yet another illustration as to how unpredictable recruits are. Imo Derek Barnett was the best player (from the beginning of their career to the end) we’ve signed in the last 15 years. He was just outside the top 100 on 247 if I remember correctly. Four-star recruit but not an all world 5 star type recruit.
 
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VolnJC said:
I didn't realize Casey was a 5 star.. My wife confiscated Bank's ID at Carson Newman because he was letting other students scan it for extra meals lol
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He wasn't a 5 star. 247 wasn't even a company yet until like 2009 or something. So a lot of this list is bs. Easy to go back years later and rate guys based on college production which what looks like happened with a lot of this list.
 
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quadlee21 said:
He wasn't a 5 star. 247 wasn't even a company yet until like 2009 or something. So a lot of this list is bs. Easy to go back years later and rate guys based on college production which what looks like happened with a lot of this list.
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I was thinking this, too. Well at least the part about 247 not being around in 2000. I'm thinking they absorbed Scout's rankings for that time period since they bought Scout a few years back.
 
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I went to High School with Gerald Riggs, crazy I didn't realize that he was the 2nd highest rated RB in Tennessee history. He was the best high school running back I've seen in person though. As a freshman I didn't know who he was, I thought he was a senior transfer student. Guy was 6'0 210lbs at 15 years old, and all muscle lol.
 
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chattavol420 said:
Just get another illustration as to how unpredictable recruits are. Imo Derek Barnett was the best player (from the beginning of their career to the end) we’ve signed in the last 15 years. He was just outside the top 100 on 247 if I remember correctly. Four-star recruit but not an all world 5 star type recruit.
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Derek was like a football version of Grant Williams...high level blue collar guy with intelligence and motor.

Think some of high level recruit busts earlier this past decade had to do with playing too many snaps early in career, where often injuries come because of PT...lack of consistent strength program and type of practice and development program Pruitt runs, as opposed to Butch/Dooley. Lastly, because of high talent defections, every year we churned players, causing Vols to be eternally young, where frosh were asked to carry the load. In 2020, we'll finally start to have veteran type squad, where, for any particular year, I'd rather have a highly developed 3-4 year 3* guy than a higher rated frosh having to play out of the gate (disclaimer...Henry T, Morris, Morris high talent frosh are exceptions to the rule, obviously)
 
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