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

[Freak]

Pruitt's strategy seemed to be to get a bunch of really highly rated 4-5 star guys on campus at the last minute, swing for the fences and hope for the best. It didn't work out as well as Pruitt probably would have liked.

It would have been nice to get a couple big surprises today, but it just didn't happen.

 

[Freak]

Brandon Davis signed.

 

[volcrazi]

We have to keep things into perspective and look at what Pruitt stepped into, a big mess. To ask him to pull elite players away from the top teams on short notice might be a bit much.

Willie Taggert did it with just a little time as Pruitt, Mario Cristobal at Oregon as well did the same.

 

[TnRiverRat]

Looks like Copeland's trolling us

 

[BigpapaBleedsOrange]

Looks like Copeland's trolling us

Yep.... Have a feeling a big troll job coming. Family members sitting there with TN hats already on...smh

 

[PowerT.]

on the show on Espn 2, 2 people on Copeland’s table had on Tennessee’s hats

Hopefully not trolling

 

[easleychuck]

Jordan Young just chose FSU.

Jordan who ???

 

[PEPPERJAX]

after coaching zero games at UT and having mere weeks to recruit to UT????

Get a CLUE

Oh my!

 

[maotai]

Yep.... Have a feeling a big troll job coming. Family members sitting there with TN hats already on...smh

And a Bama shirt.

 

[knoxville7]

And a Bama shirt.

so hes going to florida

 

[Adam Sandler]

Copeland has been all about the twitter trolling. Gotta be a troll signing.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

And a Bama shirt.

Which means hes going to UF and Mullen..where recrivers go to die

 

[TnRiverRat]

so hes going to florida

If I was betting it would be Florida IMO

 

[vegasvolfan]

Willie Taggert did it with just a little time as Pruitt, Mario Cristobal at Oregon as well did the same.

It’s FSU, coastal school, better education, with also deep tradition and they didn’t go 4-8. He also didn’t have to juggle jobs and has HC experience.

 

[wesleydmartin]

If I was betting it would be Florida IMO

yea fla all the way

 

[Vol737]

We’re a pretty easy troll target today it appears. Kids are gonna have their fun. Let it roll off.

 

[Volle]

Quick question for some older vols, what signing day was the worst on record based on your recall?

Probably the worst were Battle’s last two years in 75 and 76. Johnny had a great class in 77, but still it took him about 7 years to get competitive.

More recently, Fulmer’s ‘99 class was very bad coming off a NC year.... losing Gardner and Cutcliff had a lot to do with that.

Then Fulmer’s 08 class was his worst... that started the big decline we are on now.

Now in 2018, we’re still digging out.... but today was not the worst I remember... considering we were 0-8, it’s a good class.

 

[Freak]

Pretty easy to see this is a troll job.

 

[RollerVol]

well hell...his Mom ain't happy...think she wanted him to go somewhere else...lol:lol:

 

[VOLifornia]

Copeland to Florida!

 

[PowerT.]

Copeland to Florida 😞

 

[TnRiverRat]

That looked uncomfortably dysfunctional

 

[LakeMaryFLVol]

Momma nooooot happy

 

[KCVolLaw]

That looked uncomfortably dysfunctional

Tough to watch and not even bc of him picking UF

 

[Freak]

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