Arthur Jeffery commits

#26
#26
General Jack said:
3* guy and #55 DT per Rivals... Scout likes him quite a bit more. Looks like he was leaning to S Florida until recently... I wonder if this is the Monte Kiffin effect at play?
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Yes. When Monte signed on, it was the final factor.

According to what I read on Rivals about what was posted at scout, this guy was offered all over the place but a lot of big time schools abandoned after he got hurt. The only two that saw it through was Tennessee and South Florida...hence why we were the last two left.
 
#28
#28
Good pickup assuming he doesn't have any lasting effects from the injury. Welcome aboard.
 
#29
#29
how come rivals says we are the only team to offer him? im guessing rivals is wrong..?
 
#30
#30
if he didnt have his knee injury this year, this would be one of our biggest commits so far..

he woulda been a HUGGEE pickup for kiffin if not for that injury. he still is a big pickup, its just that alot of schools like FLorida, Georgia, Miami, and Clemson cooled off of him because of That injury. which can be understandable...

i hope he heals soon, and plays at the level he is capable of playing at when healthy..
 
#33
#33
**ORANGEBLOOD** said:
Why are we competing with South Florida for recruits? We should be stealing recruits from Florida, not South Florida.
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Difficult for us to compete head to head with Florida right now. I have no problem sniping 4 and 5 stars from other schools like USF. As much as I like their coach, he won't be building a dynasty there. We'll rebuild ours at his expense.
 
#34
#34
dyer_maker said:
Difficult for us to compete head to head with Florida right now. I have no problem sniping 4 and 5 stars from other schools like USF. As much as I like their coach, he won't be building a dynasty there. We'll rebuild ours at his expense.
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We were competing with more than South Florida, we were just the only two that kept in touch after the injury.
 
#35
#35
Stevorino said:
We were competing with more than South Florida, we were just the only two that kept in touch after the injury.
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That's not much competition though. If it were us and Florida we might not be having this conversation. I just haven't seen us pull a serious recruit from Florida in... well I can't remember the last one really. Somebody help me out here.
 
#36
#36
dyer_maker said:
That's not much competition though. If it were us and Florida we might not be having this conversation. I just haven't seen us pull a serious recruit from Florida in... well I can't remember the last one really. Somebody help me out here.
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2005 was the last time we had a 4 star or better from Florida

In that year we had 5 star Morley and 4 star Gerald Williams
 
#38
#38
Good pickup. Hopefully that knee won't have any lingering effects. I know how valuable those knees are to the big boys.
 
#42
#42
19th ranked DT. Great pickup. Wasn't recruited by major programs because of knee injury his senior year. Lessens blow of losing Herbert. I hope he is the first of many recruits that change their minds.
 
#43
#43
I like his size. It says his weaknesses are strength(which can be fixed) and moves/techniques(which can be fixed). Happy we got another DT. We are gonna need them.
 
#49
#49
The first thing that I thought when I heard it was either UT or USF was that he might have trouble qualifying academically in the SEC.
 
#50
#50
General Jack said:
S Florida was more or less the hometown school. The interest of other big time players apparently fell off after his injury. It could end up being somewhat of a sleeper pick. All the same, rankings of 16 per scout and 55 from rivals aren't bad. He's good enough to be well regarded by the better recruiting services... with some coaching and development he should be solid.
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Why is everyone so hung up on stars?? The more you look at recruiting, the more you realize the stars don't mean JACK...........look at our 2005 class, biggest BUST ever, no true superstars in that class......the best player is Dan Williams, who could be a star if he comes back next year, I believe.......he was only a three-star recruit.......see what I mean???

5 star recruits by TN in 2007 included:

*Kenny O'neil - biggest bust ever
*Brent Vinson - one big problem after another
*Chris Donald - nowhere to be found
*Ben Martin - going to be good with better technique
*Eric Berry - the real deal

For every EB, there's 4-5 guys (if not more) who are busts, overrated, slow to develop, problem-childs, lazy, etc.......So le'ts not get hung up on the stars.......Let's get excited about the upside that these kids have, and after they become superstars, and get drafted to the NFL, then we can judge their careers, not before hand.......

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