rexvol
The Minister of Defense
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While realizing the importance that solid player evaluations and recruiting in general play in the success of a college football program. Ive never fully understood the zealotry and borderline obsession that seems to be intertwined with the whole recruiting process.
Tennessee fans are no different than anybody else. They hang on every recruiting ranking, yearn for their commitments to be elevated from a three-star prospect to a four-star prospect and worry about where the Vols might finish in the final mythical Top 25 recruiting poll.
Last I checked, they dont award trophies for those. And when it comes to all those cant-miss, five-star prospects, Ive got news for you. As many of them miss as they do hit. Then there are those guys that barely register a blip in the whole recruiting circus that end up being great players.
See Ole Miss Patrick Willis.
This is all a long-winded way of saying that if a kid from this state (Knoxville Catholic safety Harrison Smith) decides to bolt for Notre Dame, let him go. Its his choice, or as some UT fans contend, his fathers choice.
Its not an exact science, and whos to say what kind of player Smith will be at the next level?
And if his father is as meddlesome as some with orange agendas suggest, then maybe its a blessing in disguise. The Vols already have more members than they know what to do with (current and past) in the Big Orange chapter of the Daddies Club.
he makes a great point about the fathers
Tennessee fans are no different than anybody else. They hang on every recruiting ranking, yearn for their commitments to be elevated from a three-star prospect to a four-star prospect and worry about where the Vols might finish in the final mythical Top 25 recruiting poll.
Last I checked, they dont award trophies for those. And when it comes to all those cant-miss, five-star prospects, Ive got news for you. As many of them miss as they do hit. Then there are those guys that barely register a blip in the whole recruiting circus that end up being great players.
See Ole Miss Patrick Willis.
This is all a long-winded way of saying that if a kid from this state (Knoxville Catholic safety Harrison Smith) decides to bolt for Notre Dame, let him go. Its his choice, or as some UT fans contend, his fathers choice.
Its not an exact science, and whos to say what kind of player Smith will be at the next level?
And if his father is as meddlesome as some with orange agendas suggest, then maybe its a blessing in disguise. The Vols already have more members than they know what to do with (current and past) in the Big Orange chapter of the Daddies Club.
he makes a great point about the fathers