*****Freak's National Signing Day Thread, Live as the commits sign, Feb. 7th, 2018

#276
#276
sky isn't falling but Pruitt sure isn't pulling any suprises... yet atleast.

Still a few left on the table. Here's to a strong finish.

Go Vols!
 
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#278
#278
Yea, we had a very bad day. Can't blame Pruitt though. Hopefully he can get it done in 2019.
 
#279
#279
maotai said:
Just logged in and I see recruiting must be bad since all I see are excuses and coach worship comments.
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Actually what you see is facts. Worst season in history followed by a coach search debacle does not equal an amazing recruiting class. Face the facts.
 
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vol_in_ga said:
So we've swung for the fences and missed on literally everyone? Griffin we led for and is gone, quay we should have had in the bag is gone, Eddie smith we led for is gone, young was committed and gone, reports Peterson may flip?, I'm sure I'm missing a few. With 9 spots left we signed 2 baseball players, one unheard of Juco, one unheard of Chattanooga kid, and a former Arkansas commit. Great.
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I live in GA, too so I feel your pain. UGA is hot right now. Played for the natty, got tons of 5 stars falling their way. They're the hot brand right now. These top players want to play in big games. They see a bunch of HS stars going somewhere and it's easy to see why they'd want to be a part of that. UT is seen in a far different light right now. Pruitt is finding out that it's a little more difficult to sell UT than Bama and UGA at the moment. He's going to have to do more with less and hope more time to develop real relationships will lead to signatures. Pretty clear he's going to come up empty on this second signing day. Might be lucky and get a few diamonds in the rough, but it's going to be a long hard row to hoe for UT. Hey, at least the basketball team is doing well. Got one sport to enjoy. Hang in there.....got no choice unless we're gonna move.
 
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EastTNVol6240 said:
Not sure if you know where are recruiting class fell to at one point. You may wanna look it up. If we end up top 20ish after all of our shenanigans I think it’s a win. Once Pruitt wins some games people think he shouldn’t and changes the UT football attitude, the recruits will come.
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I hope and pray you are right and he is the savior.
 
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#286
TnRiverRat said:
It's not as bad as it could be we did sweep the Cats last night GBO !!!
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at least that was fun to watch, the way we turned the ball over towards the end i was sure we wouldnt pull it out...these guys are playing tough though, good to see
 
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#287
UT's#1Fan said:
sky isn't falling but Pruitt sure isn't pulling any suprises out of anywhere... yet atleast.

Still a few left on the table. Here's to a strong finish.

Go Vols!
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the only L i would say we took was Walker. that sucked...no real way to spin that.

but with the way this off season started, by the time CJP got here, and the way this staff started swinging for the fences, it is a tad foolish that believe they'd all be home runs.

had a couple hits with Mincey over USCe, Flowers over UK and clemson. Norwood strikes all the right chords, and could be a sleeper at safety (recently upgraded to 4*). Tillman is another diamond in the rough type...so we'll see.

would be a nice feather in the cap though to land copeland and ITS or OG. less confident on landing Beal, but also would be a shot in the arm to land him over aTm and Bama. need Peterson to ink too....that one would hurt way worse than walker at this point.
 
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hog88 said:
I hope and pray you are right and he is the savior.
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He may not be a savior but people gotta see he was threw into a turd of a situation at a very late point in the recruiting process. All I’m saying it’s lets wait and see what the play on the field looks like. That’s where it matters. I’ll be behind the new staff until they show they can’t get it done there.
 
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#296
#296
I understand that prove it only had roughly a month to put this recruiting class together but I'm still disappointed. The scary part to me is how well Georgia did. Considering the Pruitt inherited a basket case, and was not able to add immediate help to the team through this recruiting class, and that Georgia is on a serious upswing, I don't know how Pruitt is supposed to deliver the wins that are going to get him the reputation he needs for future recruiting classes. He's going to need W's to prove to these kids that he is a legitimate head coach and not just a top shelf assistant coach. Muschamp is holding his own in South Carolina, Kentucky and Vanderbilt are both on the upswing in their own right. Florida just hired a solid coach who is probably not going to be the savior of their program but will probably create fits for Tennessee. I'm just not sure how Pruitt digs us out of a ditch with what I'm seeing. That's not a knock on Pruitt. That's just what I see as a perfect storm of crap in our future. not trying to be Debbie Downer, just trying to be realistic about the next two to three years.
 
#297
#297
This is what happens when you hire a POS Dooley and then turn around and hire a used car salesman Butch and they all but destroyed this program with the permission from UT. I don't hold today against Pruitt this is all on the University for the past 10 years. Too cheap to spend the money to get a real coach and if it wasn't from the fans we would of ended up with another stupid hire. Not saying Pruitt is a home run hire but he has won as a assistant and is better than what they were trying to shove down our throats. But every bit of this is on the University. At least Pruitt came in swinging for the fences.
 
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#299
Not watching the NSD shows........who wants to watch ga, ala, clem. fsu, and nd clean up while we get the scraps! Maybe if CJP plays an 'O' and a 'D' players want to play in the recruiting will rise from good to much better.
 
#300
#300
xpsyclonex2002 said:
I understand that prove it only had roughly a month to put this recruiting class together but I'm still disappointed. The scary part to me is how well Georgia did. Considering the Pruitt inherited a basket case, and was not able to add immediate help to the team through this recruiting class, and that Georgia is on a serious upswing, I don't know how Pruitt is supposed to deliver the wins they're going to get him the reputation he needs for future recruiting classes. He's going to need W's to prove to these kids that he is a legitimate head coach and not just a top shelf assistant coach. Muschamp is holding his own in South Carolina, Kentucky and Vanderbilt are both on the upswing in their own right. Florida just hired a solid coach who is probably not going to be the savior of their program but will probably create fits for Tennessee. I'm just not sure how Pruitt digs us out of a ditch with what I'm seeing. That's not a knock on Pruitt. That's just what I see as a perfect storm of crap in our future. not trying to be Debbie Downer, just trying to be realistic about the next two to three years.
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Could definitely be a few years with pains. But if we just land a bowl game next year it’s a huge upswing and kids will see it’s headed the right way.
 
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