Clausen: Round 9402048201934492.5

#26
#26
I honestly feel Crompton is going to step right into the Cutcliffe system!
 
#27
#27
Nah, he fits too well with ND. And I honestly liked both Casey and Rick.

All that pomp and circumstance before even stepping foot on the field, announcing his commitment from the Hall of Fame steps with an entourage out of a stretch SUV and a PR rep an all... and a junior in high school.

I'd say I hope Chavis gets a shot at him from the other side of the line, but then again I don't want to see Tennessee play in the Toilet Bowl in two years just to have that shot.

FYI, I have no idea where I stole this picture from....
 

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rexvol said:
he's a ND lock, won't change his mind, for him it's all about the NFL and he believes Weiss has the knowledge to get him there, of course in his eyes his brothers didnt receive the proper coaching to get them in the league. Isnt Rick a grad asst on the Vols?
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I think Coach Cut could help him out seeing he's got a couple QBs to be number 1 draft picks. All be it they were both Mannings, but he is now doing the same thing with Ainge.
 
#29
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As others have said, looks like the Vols are set at QB for the next few years, so no real need or want for Jim... however if he were to de-commit from ND, I hope he stays as far from the SEC as possible to guard against the possibility that he does turn out to be great. :ermm:
 
#30
#30
I'd love to have him but we don't need Clausen, Jr.

Jimmy Clausen has gotten a lot of hype because of the fame his two older brothers got thanks to the help of UT. Is Clausen Jr. really as good as the hype would suggest? Time will tell but I have my doubts.

Jonathan Crompton has great athletic ability but I'm not sold on him. A quarterback needs to have the intangible characteristic called leadership. I'm not saying that Crompton is not a great leader. All I'm saying is that ability alone does not make Crompton a leader.

I myself am 6'-6", can bench press 450 pounds, and can throw the football 80 yards standing flat footed - but couldn't play quarterback worth much of a hoot (this paragraph is intended to be facetious - ha ha ha).

On a more serious note, the Stephenson QB (redshirt freshman this year) from Texas looks pretty good to me. He seems like he's got a nice personality. A successful QB has GOT to be likable or the other players won't play for him.

Wasn't he (Stephenson) the 16th highest rated QB in the nation coming out of high school last year? That's pretty good.

It's going to be a QB derby two years from now even if Clausen Jr. did de-commit from ND and choose the Vols.
 
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It will not happen anyway. Unless CPF retires (doubtful at $2 mil + per year) Cut will be gone at the end of this year or next and no 5* QB is going to want to come play for the next Randy Sanders prototype that Fulmer pulls out of his little black book of people who are insignificant enough that he does not have to worry about them doing unto him as he did unto Coach Majors.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
It will not happen anyway. Unless CPF retires (doubtful at $2 mil + per year) Cut will be gone at the end of this year or next and no 5* QB is going to want to come play for the next Randy Sanders prototype that Fulmer pulls out of his little black book of people who are insignificant enough that he does not have to worry about them doing unto him as he did unto Coach Majors.
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That's the 'Billy we're accustomed to....:shades:
 
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He might think about it, but I doubt it. Im sure he thinks his brothers got a raw deal here, plus you know Casey wanted to play for ND, I'll assume Jimmy does as well. He's been signing autographs at ND stadium.

I rather us grab a dual-threat qb and redshirt him next year, anyways.
 
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TravisHenryCBlockedMe said:
He might think about it, but I doubt it. Im sure he thinks his brothers got a raw deal here, plus you know Casey wanted to play for ND, I'll assume Jimmy does as well. He's been signing autographs at ND stadium.

I rather us grab a dual-threat qb and redshirt him next year, anyways.
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I think Chaisson is the only uncommitted dual threat QB in the 2007 class who has UT on his radar.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
It will not happen anyway. Unless CPF retires (doubtful at $2 mil + per year) Cut will be gone at the end of this year or next and no 5* QB is going to want to come play for the next Randy Sanders prototype that Fulmer pulls out of his little black book of people who are insignificant enough that he does not have to worry about them doing unto him as he did unto Coach Majors.
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I never thought about it that way but you could be right.
 
#37
#37
I'm not convinced that Cut will leave anytime soon, even though the opportunities will probably be there.

Regardless, I'll take my chances with Jon Crompton instead of Clausen.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
It will not happen anyway. Unless CPF retires (doubtful at $2 mil + per year) Cut will be gone at the end of this year or next and no 5* QB is going to want to come play for the next Randy Sanders prototype that Fulmer pulls out of his little black book of people who are insignificant enough that he does not have to worry about them doing unto him as he did unto Coach Majors.
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A pox upon this post!!! :bad:
 
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VolBeef88 said:
I wonder now how many people would choose BS over EA?
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It's too bad for Brent. I think he's talented, but he's got a coaching staff that makes Randy Sanders look like Vince Lombardi. I don't think the Rebels would be doing that much better even if they had Ainge.
 
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kptvol said:
It's too bad for Brent. I think he's talented, but he's got a coaching staff that makes Randy Sanders look like Vince Lombardi. I don't think the Rebels would be doing that much better even if they had Ainge.
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Yeah, Shaeffer just chose hte wrong school. He should have enrolled at top 1-AA school that gets alot of exposure, or a mid-major that gets alot of TV time. He'd have been a better match at UCF or USF and got plenty of looks.
 
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kptvol said:
It's too bad for Brent. I think he's talented, but he's got a coaching staff that makes Randy Sanders look like Vince Lombardi. I don't think the Rebels would be doing that much better even if they had Ainge.
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What amazes me is that the majority of Ole Miss fans are sticking with the idea that firing Cut was the "right move".

Boone blames Cutcliffe - www.scout.com
 
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VOLracerx said:
I think it would be great if he de-commited and we didn't offer him anything...sounds like fun to me.
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How pimp would that be if he was on the market and we didn't even flirt with the idea of picking him up... It'd be like being in high school and turning the girl who will probably be prom queen.

kbutler said:
Nah, he fits too well with ND. And I honestly liked both Casey and Rick.

All that pomp and circumstance before even stepping foot on the field, announcing his commitment from the Hall of Fame steps with an entourage out of a stretch SUV and a PR rep an all... and a junior in high school.
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Welcome to Thousand Oaks, California. It's almost as bad as Huntington Beach kids. You give them an inch of fame and they do all they can to take it a mile. I would expect it from any major recruit around there.

VolunteerHillbilly said:
It will not happen anyway. Unless CPF retires (doubtful at $2 mil + per year) Cut will be gone at the end of this year or next and no 5* QB is going to want to come play for the next Randy Sanders prototype that Fulmer pulls out of his little black book of people who are insignificant enough that he does not have to worry about them doing unto him as he did unto Coach Majors.
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For some reason, I just don't see Cutcliffe going anywhere. Talent is a lot harder to come by in ACC and Big Ten country... Texas and Oklahoma have a monopoly on the recruiting of Big XII country. In the Pac-10, he'd be just another offensive coordinator. Big offense is nothing new. As he found out, the small-time SEC programs are all death traps because most of those fans aren't aware of the time it takes to turn back around. Ole Miss, Miss St., UK, Vandy, South Carolina and to a lesser extent Arkansas and Alabama, are all so far back of the big-time SEC schools it's going to take many years to get a spot in that upper echelon.

So, given that he's already at a top-tier SEC school with a good recruiting base... I don't see him going anywhere.
 
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OrangeSquare said:
Without saying too much, I can guarentee you that as long as this coaching staff is here, Jimmy Clausen will NOT be playing for the Vols.
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I know you said without saying too much, but you've got to give us some more info - this sounds like a good story...


BTW, did anyone see Clausen play the other night on ESPN2? He looked better in high school than Rick or Casey ever looked.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
It will not happen anyway. Unless CPF retires (doubtful at $2 mil + per year) Cut will be gone at the end of this year or next and no 5* QB is going to want to come play for the next Randy Sanders prototype that Fulmer pulls out of his little black book of people who are insignificant enough that he does not have to worry about them doing unto him as he did unto Coach Majors.
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First, let me start this off by saying that Cut is not going anywhere. And, I hate to ruin your doomsday scenario for you Hillbilly.

Now, to the point: Schaeffer, Ainge, Crompton. Each of them signed with Fulmer and Randy Sanders, not Fulmer and Cutcliffe. Schaeffer and Crompton were 5* QBs, Ainge was 5*s in certain scouts minds, 4*s in others.

Oh, and Fulmer did not run Majors out. Majors ran himself out.
 
#47
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therealUT said:
First, let me start this off by saying that Cut is not going anywhere. And, I hate to ruin your doomsday scenario for you Hillbilly.
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So I guess you and Cut are closer than him and Hyams who reported Monday morning that Cut wants to be a head coach again at a program in the south where he thinks he can win some games? I'm sorry that you and the other Fulmerites are not going to get it both ways. Either Cut gets moved up asap or he'll be elsewhere. Personally I do not want to see UT football suffer through another stint of OC by committee with Fulmer calling 90% of the plays while letting some backwoods rube take the blame for poor performance.

As for the recruiting, if the team is winning guys will come. I think last year proved that the well can dry up really fast when the winning stops. On Majors we just disagree.
 
#49
#49
Right or wrong Dickey ran JM off not Fulmer. Fulmer just did what you want Cut to do , stepped up.
 
#50
#50
Everyone has theory on Majors and the relevant actors all have different versions of the story. If you're a Fulmer person then you are not going to fault Fulmer for taking control and making the most of the position he found himself in. If you're a Majors fan, and I make no appologies for being one, then you are probably going to see Fulmer as overly opportunistic at best and a backstabbing, Judas Iscariot at worst.
 
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