'24 GA EDGE Kameryn Fountain (USC commit)

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Franklin_Vol09 said:
If you think a USC football player has to do the same type of “academic” work as a regular student, you are sorely mistaken. I am friends with some former players from there. Just like anything else, they make it really easy for the athletes.
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I may not have made it clear but that was kind of my premise. They probably sold mom on USC's US News and World Report ranking vs UT's. Smart for them to do that if they saw it as an opportunity to win her over.

But unless he's a Dobbs type of student then he's not going to get much if anything from a USC education that he wouldn't get from most P-5 schools. Even still, the average student at USC has an SAT about 300 points higher than the average UT student. Their acceptance rate is 13%... I believe UT's is well over 50%. Unless they have "special" classes for players which I'm pretty sure is a violation then the competition just from the students themselves will put pressure on him.

I guess my bottom line is that unless he is an elite student in addition to being an elite recruit... he's not going to get any more advantage from a USC degree as a UT degree. I think that's where your head is. It could possibly even be less. I believe there is a pretty solid network of boosters who help UT athletes get good positions or starts in business after they graduate. My guess is that UT's network just based on fan commitment and interest offers more opportunities than USC's. Kind of the size of the fish, size of the pond thing.
 
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Volsdeep4 said:
Not about “winning” or “losing”. It’s about ignorant comments that are made about people being ignorant.
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Oh so she gets to makes comments about the university being bottom of the barrel academically in broken English but no one gets to comment on it?

That makes perfect sense.

I get your point here though. We can’t assume anything about someone’s intelligence based on their background or dialect at least not with perfect accuracy. I still question her intelligence on the handling of the situation more than her ability to slaughter the written word.
 
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DaddyChad said:
Oh so she gets to makes comments about the university being bottom of the barrel academically in broken English but no one gets to comment on it?

That makes perfect sense.

I get your point here though. We can’t assume anything about someone’s intelligence based on their background or dialect at least not with perfect accuracy. I still question her intelligence on the handling of the situation more than her ability to slaughter the written word.
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What does her education have to do with his? That’s my point. We clearly (according to the only one with true inside knowledge) didn’t give the info about academics that she needed/wanted. Idk about you guys but I know people of her generation. They all didn’t get to finish high school before they went to work.
 
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Volsdeep4 said:
What does her education have to do with his? That’s my point. We clearly (according to the only one with true inside knowledge) didn’t give the info about academics that she needed/wanted. Idk about you guys but I know people of her generation. They all didn’t get to finish high school before they went to work.
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Do you actually believe this though? That a competent staff wouldn't have something as basic as the school's academic information ready for a highly recruited prospect? There is essentially zero chance that Tennessee failed to provide her with detailed academic information. What she/they did with that information is another discussion. If Tennessee couldn't provide this basic information, that would be a HUGE red flag on the competence of this staff.
 
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BigOrange15 said:
Do you actually believe this though? That a competent staff wouldn't have something as basic as the school's academic information ready for a highly recruited prospect? There is essentially zero chance that Tennessee failed to provide her with detailed academic information. What she/they did with that information is another discussion. If Tennessee couldn't provide this basic information, that would be a HUGE red flag on the competence of this staff.
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I agree man who knows
 
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Volsdeep4 said:
What does her education have to do with his? That’s my point. We clearly (according to the only one with true inside knowledge) didn’t give the info about academics that she needed/wanted. Idk about you guys but I know people of her generation. They all didn’t get to finish high school before they went to work.
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Her education doesn’t really have much to do with anything, her being completely and totally FOS does. Do you legitimately believe academics weren’t discussed, any questions to do with them answered? Have you not heard kids in the past talk about what the engineering program is like or a tour of a specific academic program? There is zero way the ball got dropped on this one for a kid that’s high on our board. Does it strike you that Heupel or White are the type of guys that overlook things like that?
 
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If they told the UT staff they were coming to UT and then made a surprise commit to USC……mama has to try and save face and blame it on “academics” and “the coaching staff didn’t get back to me about academics.” All of which are complete and total BS but she has to create a narrative.
Let this one go.
 
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You know the ironic things about all of this? We have a regular pipeline of disaffected players transferring from USC to UT. My memory is failing me but I think we have had what, a couple of receivers (Velus and Bru), a defensive lineman and a kicker transfer in from there in the past few years? I always thought it was odd that we would get so many players from one particular school which is so far away. And I can't think of anyone who transferred from here to USC lately.

As far as education goes, the Haslam Business school was ranked 11th and USC's business school was 15th in the last rankings I saw. So a lot depends on what a person wants to major in. But I don't see any reason our coaches would shy away from providing whatever numbers someone wanted to see if they were available. There is nothing to be ashamed of there.
 
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Kameryn Fountain's decision to choose USC did come as a surprise. He had been trending to Tennessee for months and was set to go public with a commitment in August. In talking with folks, the family and the kid fell in love with the trip and hospitality and did not want to wait to commit. He is saying right now that he is not taking any more trips; however, we will be surprised if that holds up. There is reason to believe Tennessee will get another shot here later in the process.
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-VQ
 
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I guess that Fanatics and those 14k names are really paying off.

found a well and are taking every sip of water from it.
 
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