'24 AR LB Wyatt Simmons (Arkansas commit)

[Gannon Goodson]

Wyatt Simmons - Harding Academy - LB

What took so long here. I watched a bunch of his film; he's 6'3", 215 lbs. and flies around like an absolute monster. Shame if he's a UT fan and goes elsewhere.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

What took so long here. I watched a bunch of his film; he's 6'3", 215 lbs. and flies around like an absolute monster. Shame if he's a UT fan and goes elsewhere.

Hair color, imo

 

[Jackcrevol]

I'm not sure what happened and we should handle all kids with respect particularly in the world of the transfer portal, but we were not going to be prioritizing taking another linebacker so it's kind of a moot issue.

And there it is

 

[Orange.]

What took so long here. I watched a bunch of his film; he's 6'3", 215 lbs. and flies around like an absolute monster. Shame if he's a UT fan and goes elsewhere.

You sound like you've been drinking heavily. (Your tagline)

Nothing is wrong. Somebody rabble-roused up a fake emergency in a different thread, which had no business in this forum, to begin with.

I see this is your first post in the recruiting forum. Please know you didn't watch any (or "a bunch") of his film. (Film comprises entire games and only coaches have access to it). You may have watched his highlights on Hudl. Just stay calm. You can safely ignore that other thread, which seems to have you overwrought and to have brought you here. Everything is fine.

 

[Jackcrevol]

In all honesty I love our LB depth. Grab a grad transfer our of the portal.

Need a tackle in portal, and couple DL in this class.

Really need to close the BC guys. Need a WR and then everything else is cake.

 

[SweetasSoda]

What took so long here. I watched a bunch of his film; he's 6'3", 215 lbs. and flies around like an absolute monster. Shame if he's a UT fan and goes elsewhere.

You haven’t posted since 2021 and come back for this???

 

[avolation]

Its embarrassing I'll just say. After he commits to a school ill say what happened

I understand there may be a connection with Auburn lb coach. What’s your feel for the communication with them right now?

 

[Go Fight Win]

You haven’t posted since 2021 and come back for this???

he's been drinking, heavily

 

[WeeohdeeWood]

You haven’t posted since 2021 and come back for this???

It's fair weather fan season. They're everywhere. We start winning and freak has to reset a ton of forgotten pass words.

 

[Vol423]

Someone said offered PWO. But you’re a big TN fan that is under the radar, finally get your film to them after they are filled at LB and the staff messed up by offering a PWO? Was he expecting them to drop one of the other LBs? Or tell Cole no thanks?

We should change it to a NPWO.

 

[Volfan1000]

Wyatt Simmons - Harding Academy - LB

You can never have enough linebacker depth.

 

[DaddyChad]

he's been drinking, heavily

Is this like when you drink and text your ex after years?

 

[allvolrecruiting]

You can never have enough linebacker depth.

We brought in 4 in 2023. One will graduate but you got 2 in 2022 and 2 in 2024. We will have 7 talented LBs for the future for a scheme that plays 2 LBs. We’ll be fine

 

[Jackcrevol]

We brought in 4 in 2023. One will graduate but you got 2 in 2022 and 2 in 2024. We will have 8 talented LBs for a scheme that plays 2 LBs. We’ll be fine

not worried

 

[SweetasSoda]

You can never have enough linebacker depth.

You can if you’re limited on the number of players you can have. Then those are limited even more.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

You can never have enough linebacker depth.

But you can have a limited number of scholarships. You might allocate an extra for a 5 star.

I will wish him a healthy career no matter where he ends up, but wishing him success is location dependent.

 

[SSVol]

For the moment he's a 3* on 3 sites and unranked on the 4th. Huge amount of daylight between that and 5*.

 

[Mose Phillip's Watch]

It’s not making any sense as to who “screwed up”. Was it the kid and his parents? Was it UT? Either way it would be stupid to let something trivial stop you from going to the school you’ve always wanted to go to.

UT screwed up for sure

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

UT screwed up for sure

It’s okay. Simmons will be fine. Tennessee will be fine. Life happens.

Time to let it go.

 

[BigOrange15]

Short of deliberately insulting him, Im not sure what they even had time to do to piss him off that bad.

 

[Mose Phillip's Watch]

It’s okay. Simmons will be fine. Tennessee will be fine. Life happens.

Time to let it go.

Yep but as a Tennessee fan & alum I sure was disappointed at our attempt. Has to be a fluke & for sure misunderstanding on our part

 

[Mose Phillip's Watch]

Short of deliberately insulting him, Im not sure what they even had time to do to piss him off thay bad.

You wouldn't be happy if it was your son

 

[TrippieRedd]

Don’t need another LB anyways

 

[SoilVol]

You wouldn't be happy if it was your son

Being honest, you should probably go ahead and explain what happened so we can all stop speculating and move on. Saying it now vs after he commits doesn't change anything, so might as well say it and get it over with.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Being honest, you should probably go ahead and explain what happened so we can all stop speculating and move on. Saying it now vs after he commits doesn't change anything, so might as well say it and get it over with.

It’s easier for him to trash our staff and act like we acted unprofessionally rather than just say what happened. The fact that he’s not saying what happened just further proves that it really wasn’t that big of a deal and was probably just a late eval and offer and the family felt disrespected, which okay fine feel that way but that is a very normal thing in recruiting. I refuse to believe this staff that’s entire thing is “culture” is out there treating kids poorly. Nothing we’ve seen the past 3 years would indicate they would ever do something like that so why start now?