'22 GA EDGE Darren Agu (Vandy commit)

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Nashvegas31 said:
Actually impressive if he really is that loyal to Lea. Hard to find kids like that these days. I’m sure Lea put on him the guilt trip and the man your all we got in this class type stuff. I don’t count Garner out until signature if he wants something bad enough. I don’t know if this is that type of instance but we have seen first hand the stuff he pulled on us in this 3 day window where we thought we had a kid
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This, don't be upset, sounds like he's a good kid.

Now, let's WTMFA for the next 4 years. HAHA
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
How could you POSSIBLY watch that product Lea put on the field this season and think to yourself “Yeah this is what I want to be a part of.”

LOL. Was it the loss to FCS ETSU that excited him? Or was it getting beat like a drum by every SEC team they played?
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For real. If you want that fancy degree, go get a masters somewhere after your football career’s over.
 
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I can understand wanting to play for a certain coach, because this guy clearly wants that. What I don’t get, is wanting to play at a school that is by far the worst in the league, will lose the majority of their games and the administration doesn’t care at all about athletics.
 
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Vol in Buckeye Land said:
For real. If you want that fancy degree, go get a masters somewhere after your football career’s over.
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Masters are a dime a dozen, certificates, online (pvt vs for profit), mini-MBA, no GMAT required, Stanford, Harvard, Colgate (who prob required GMAT), throw their names around all over business world with MBA's.

The undergraduate education, private education to me is the most imp.
 
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Jackcrevol said:
Masters are a dime a dozen, certificates, online (pvt vs for profit), mini-MBA, no GMAT required, Stanford, Harvard, Colgate (who prob required GMAT), throw their names around all over business world with MBA's.

The undergraduate education, private education to me is the most imp.
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Depends on the field for sure. Law is one example where the “brand” of the school matters. Similarly to how you can make it into the NFL from almost anywhere provided you work hard enough, academics are similar. Obviously professors are important, but in the end it’s how hungry you are.
 
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Vol in Buckeye Land said:
Depends on the field for sure. Law is one example where the “brand” of the school matters. Similarly to how you can make it into the NFL from almost anywhere provided you work hard enough, academics are similar. Obviously professors are important, but in the end it’s how hungry you are.
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had a guy from Vandy Law teach my Kaplan LSAT course. Guy was over inflated 'didnt study for LSAT' guy. First guy from Vandy ive met that didnt like.

Honestly, law school is law school. Unless you are in Corporate world. Just my .02 having grown up around it.
 
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SDV said:
I can understand wanting to play for a certain coach, because this guy clearly wants that. What I don’t get, is wanting to play at a school that is by far the worst in the league, will lose the majority of their games and the administration doesn’t care at all about athletics.
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Vanderbilt is a great school. Maybe the kid is going to college to actually go to school. Good for him. Vandy is one of the toughest schools in the country to get accepted into, so if he plans to take advantage of it, then I'm happy for him.

Vandy is our instate rival, but I would suspect that most of the kids who play there probably realize that getting the NFL is possible from there, the odds aren't likely and they will have a degree from a great university.
 
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Jackcrevol said:
had a guy from Vandy Law teach my Kaplan LSAT course. Guy was over inflated 'didnt study for LSAT' guy. First guy from Vandy ive met that didnt like.

Honestly, law school is law school. Unless you are in Corporate world. Just my .02 having grown up around it.
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I think a lot depends on where you want to practice. If you want to practice in Tennessee or Ohio, going to UT Law or OSU Moritz, respectively, will probably get you as good a job as going to Stanford or an Ivy. Those top 10-20 schools can benefit you if you are aiming at Federal government work, the judicial bench, or want the flexibility to work at a firm anywhere in the country.
 
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barrylee said:
Has he definitively said he's sticking with Vandy or is this premature hand wringing?
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No, he has not said that. It's a lot of tea-leaf reading. He just came off a final visit to Nashville and the feeling from that side is he will likely stick with his commitment to Vandy.
 
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Forget the fact you’re going to take an annual ass whipping at the hands of Tennessee and every other SEC team. You’re going to lose to the likes of ETSU year in and out. And about the loyalty to Lea, that dude will be lucky to be employed after next year.
 
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Vol in Buckeye Land said:
I think a lot depends on where you want to practice. If you want to practice in Tennessee or Ohio, going to UT Law or OSU Moritz, respectively, will probably get you as good a job as going to Stanford or an Ivy. Those top 10-20 schools can benefit you if you are aiming at Federal government work, the judicial bench, or want the flexibility to work at a firm anywhere in the country.
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May agree with you there. But, internships, political hob knobbing (ATLA, TTLA), and good ol' boy network help in that regard. Also, military can get you a leg up, depends on how hard you want to work.
 
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SDV said:
I can understand wanting to play for a certain coach, because this guy clearly wants that. What I don’t get, is wanting to play at a school that is by far the worst in the league, will lose the majority of their games and the administration doesn’t care at all about athletics.
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I wonder if the transfer portal can help them it situations like this. Could tell the kid you have wide open opportunity to play here as freshman and change program since he obviously trust Lea as a DC. Lea may be telling him come here and if it doesn’t go the way we planned then you can transfer there later. Lame but it happens. He would be better off here with less risk.
 
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Volinnooga said:
Quit giving the kid such a hard time. He stuck by his commitment and gets a degree from Vandy. Good for him. I wish we would have gotten him but I appreciate that his commitment means something to him.
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Was it really much of a commitment, though, if he was flirting with Tennessee? If commitment "meant something", then he'd have shut down the process, completely, once he made that commitment. And let's not forget, he's already decommitted once (from Notre Dame) to follow Lea to Vandy.

I don't think anyone legitimately wishes ill will on the kid except one Saturday a year. They just think he made a poor career choice. Time will tell.
 
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VOLUNTEERSZN said:
Jared Verse? I don’t get this meltdown at all.. we’re signing 20-21 guys Wednesday plus a transfer or 2 that’ll be here in January. There’ll be quite a few guys that don’t sign and we’ll have spots for them in February for the actual NSD. Not to mention the transfer portal is gonna be wide open up until late spring. Step away from the ledge man. Did you expect them to fill the class before the new year?
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The coaches also turned away a 4 star TE saying we have no room. They obviously know who we got and want....
 
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VANDERBILT COMMIT DECIDING BETWEEN COMMODORES, VOLS

Tennessee was believed to have some momentum with Class of 2022 edge rusher Darren Agu, a Vanderbilt commitment from Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in Rabun Gap, Ga., going into his official visit with the Commodores over the weekend. But his latest trip to Nashville, Tenn., offered Vanderbilt a final opportunity to try to convince him to stick with the Commodores, and the initial feedback following the visit suggests that Vanderbilt now feels good about its chances of holding onto the 6-foot-6, 233-pound Agu.

One of his teammates, Class of 2022 defensive lineman Linus Zunk, is committed to the Commodores. Agu, who’s a former Notre Dame commitment, also has developed strong relationships with Vanderbilt’s coaches over the past several months. Tennessee isn’t conceding anything just yet and is likely to continue battling for Agu over the next couple days, but right now it appears that the momentum has shifted back toward the Commodores.
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-Callahan
 
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