They’ve all had more recent success and I think it’s that simple. Also put more guys In the NFL. Until Tn is “relevant” we can all ask why these certain schools get certain types of players and all it boils down to is winning. Garner being here is huge imo and is putting us in big boy battles. Still gotta win some, but it’s hard when you have multiple things going against you
Train, i tell ya, man...for someone who makes a great point from time to time, whenever you choose to crash and burn, you go for the gusto, dude.
As of right now, the kids that are signing at Bama, UGA, Clemson, and Ohio St...the kids playing for championships, year in and year out.
I would agree that there are a small number of highly rated guys that are surefire stars. I would also agree that most of them end up at those particular schools, but it's not that cut and dry. A lot of their success is still dependent on being surrounded by elite talent. Take a guy like Josh Dobbs for example. What do you think he would have done at Alabama or Ohio St.? He may have played behind some of the worst offensive lines in UT history and still broke records. His abilities don't necessarily translate to NFL success though. What might Derek Barnett have been on a Bama or Clemson defense. Both of those guys were record breakers without elite talent or great coaches to complement them. Yet both would qualify as blue chips in hindsight. Short answer is I think this staff could be playoff contenders if they can get 3-4 true blue chippers every class.
Maybe I'm wrong for thinking blue chip = elite. Whenever i look at the top 100, I see 15 to 20 truly can't miss, rare, pure greatness...elite (Eric Berry, Julio Jones, Leonard Fournette, Nick Bosa, Trevor Lawrence, Bryce Young, Will Anderson, ect...), they were great coming out of HS, and of course they were great in college; and, 80 REALLY GOOD prospects.
I don't know if there's a word for a person who is not a fan of the team, but hangs out on that team's board, trying constantly to start fights, continually seeks to find ways to malign the board's team and to praise it's rivals, and obviously takes malicious pleasure in upsetting as many people as possible. Sometimes this is accomplished by glaring backhanded compliments, sometimes by pretended handwringing while expressing "concerns," sometimes by extremely exaggerated and irrational "frustrations," all consonant with continuous desire to make threads and the site itself less usable and unenjoyable by derailing discussions with hostile bickering ad nauseum. All that with frequent appeals to himself as being "objective" as cover, protestations which double as his occassion to mock and deride our fans and the site. Is there a word for this kind of behavior?
