'24 CO OL Gage Ginther (Tennessee commit)

[BigorangeBoy]

Coach Prime hasn't went after this kid?

247 shows Colorado offered.

 

[jakez4ut]

there's so much discussion about needing more "tackle bodies", well, 6'6" approaching 3 hundo....not sure about the wingspan, but that's a tackle body. get him developed the next couple years, keep bringing guys in here like this, or better, and we'll start having some depth again along the entirety of the OL. i think the only way you can be disappointed in any way shape or form about picking up a kid like this is if you, unrealistically, think he needs to be a contributor early.

 

[Batman1948]

Any time you have a chance to snag the 746th ranked player in the nation, you do it!!!

You're just a bundle of joy ain't you

 

[CamSnod1997]

there's so much discussion about needing more "tackle bodies", well, 6'6" approaching 3 hundo....not sure about the wingspan, but that's a tackle body. get him developed the next couple years, keep bringing guys in here like this, or better, and we'll start having some depth again along the entirety of the OL. i think the only way you can be disappointed in any way shape or form about picking up a kid like this is if you, unrealistically, think he needs to be a contributor early.

AP said they measured his arms at 34” which is the length the NFL likes their tackles arms to be no less than.

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

You're just a bundle of joy ain't you

Meh. I’m a homer but I’m not a blind cheerleader. This (and Perry) both feel like underwhelming commitments.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

Meh. I’m a homer but I’m not a blind cheerleader. This (and Perry) both feel like underwhelming commitments.

Based on what?

 

[RiseToTheTop]

Offer list in April has Oregon, Tennessee, USC, Oklahoma and Penn St. but EdEcEko77 says he sucks so that ends all discussion. He knows more than they do.

 

[onevol74]

Offer list in April has Oregon, Tennessee, USC, Oklahoma and Penn St. but EdEcEko77 says he sucks so that ends all discussion. He knows more than they do.

Wasn’t Hyatt a 3 star also? Did he write him off also?

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Offer list in April has Oregon, Tennessee, USC, Oklahoma and Penn St. but EdEcEko77 says he sucks so that ends all discussion. He knows more than they do.

Re-read again. Plus don’t put words in my mouth.

Kthxbai

 

[SweetasSoda]

Meh. I’m a homer but I’m not a blind cheerleader. This (and Perry) both feel like underwhelming commitments.

Apparently you’re a blind cheerleader for rankings.

 

[MiramarVol]

There are always injuries to ankles, knees and shoulders that we need the best 1b OL that we can find to step right in without missing a beat.

 

[MiramarVol]

We should always recruit over those who haven't seen the field in 2-3 years in the program.

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

Based on what?

Based on the pencil pushers at 247 and Rivals that clearly know more about football talent than real Power 5 coaches.

 

[sjt18]

Wasn’t Hyatt a 3 star also? Did he write him off also?

Nah. Hyatt was a 4*.

 

[butchna]

there's so much discussion about needing more "tackle bodies", well, 6'6" approaching 3 hundo....not sure about the wingspan, but that's a tackle body. get him developed the next couple years, keep bringing guys in here like this, or better, and we'll start having some depth again along the entirety of the OL. i think the only way you can be disappointed in any way shape or form about picking up a kid like this is if you, unrealistically, think he needs to be a contributor early.

There’s several of these (finished) types that portal from FCS or lower FBS programs and it never fails that the usual suspects pine over them and decry our “failure” if they go elsewhere…most recently Ajay Cornelius. Those are best case scenarios but hardly outliers in today’s football. Seems to be Ellarbee’s modus operandi and I’m waiting for the first confirmed failure with that approach.

 

[butchna]

Apparently you’re a blind cheerleader for rankings.

He begged for me not to see what you’re responding to…obliged him and the board immediately improved.

 

[SweetasSoda]

He begged for me not to see what you’re responding to…obliged him and the board immediately improved.

Yep

 

[Volfan1000]

Per Boogie Bentley and the Talking Vawls podcast that dropped earlier today, Ryan Callahan of GoVols247 and Steve Wiltfong have dropped crystal ball predictions that Ginther will commit to Tennessee.

 

[Vol8188]

there's so much discussion about needing more "tackle bodies", well, 6'6" approaching 3 hundo....not sure about the wingspan, but that's a tackle body. get him developed the next couple years, keep bringing guys in here like this, or better, and we'll start having some depth again along the entirety of the OL. i think the only way you can be disappointed in any way shape or form about picking up a kid like this is if you, unrealistically, think he needs to be a contributor early.

I love. Continue bringing in mostly 6’5 or taller guys and the ones who can’t pass block on the perimeter get moved inside.

 

[BigorangeBoy]

RC said he projects as an interior lineman.

 

[Ron Swanson]

 

[AresTheVol]

 

[BigSteve09]

Nice!

 

[appvol]

 

[volsagain]

BOOM