'20 GA OL Tate Ratledge (UGA commit)

[butchna]

And the guy who started the thread refuted Price and said both were there. It’s a mystery...

When Atlanta Vol said Darnell Wright was in Knoxville once, Austin was vociferous on that one. I think it was proven that he was.

 

[secking]

Austin Price refuted that. Said it was Sherrer looking at a LB prospect.

I can confirm Sherrer was there, not sure on Friend.

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

I’m going to blame you for this since you mentioned Berry and field together.
BUT, anyone on here that likes to hunt, Berry is among the best anywhere. The WMA is 15,000 acres of deer, bear, turkey, dove, etc. they do a draw for the gun hunts (or used to).

I graduated from Berry 6 years ago. Would routinely see coyotes tracking down deer in amongst the dorms. You could walk right up and pet the deer and they wouldn’t flinch. Cool place.

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

SIAP- Per VQ podcast when Tate announces it’s done. He’ll shut it down.

And they all but conceded it’s UGA. Even outright stating that “this one hurts” but one of them argued that it doesn’t hurt as bad since we got WM and DW. It’d hurt more if we miss out on a stud WR or DL guys.

 

[UTMVol76]

I don’t mind a kid making a choice he thinks best for him. I mind grown ass adult Vol fans acting like petulant children.

Go Vols!

 

[SD189]

When Atlanta Vol said Darnell Wright was in Knoxville once, Austin was vociferous on that one. I think it was proven that he was.

I gave you a like for the solid use of vocabulary.

 

[AaronUT]

Anyone else see it as Tater Atledge on first glance?

Gets me every time.

 

[JacketVol]

When Atlanta Vol said Darnell Wright was in Knoxville once, Austin was vociferous on that one. I think it was proven that he was.

Yep.

 

[FirstAndGoal]

Any hints on who might be our next stud commit?

 

[Big Gucci Sosa]

Any hints on who might be our next stud commit?

None

 

[SD189]

Any hints on who might be our next stud commit?

Stefan Djordjevic

 

[I_Bleed_Orange77]

Any hints on who might be our next stud commit?

The way it's been going? Nobody

 

[valoisvol]

None

Ratledge all vol

 

[CAVPUT]

Ratledge all vol

Dawg

 

[Jackcrevol]

Anyone else see it as Tater Atledge on first glance?

Gets me every time.

I think 'Rutledge', then i see 'Rat'. draw your own conclusion there.

 

[SweetasSoda]

I think 'Rutledge', then i see 'Rat'. draw your own conclusion there.

So a tater rat?

 

[DaddyChad]

maybe. and i think the draft hurt. i'm sure that's being brought up a lot....as a brand, going 0fer in three of the last 4 or 5 drafts is not good, and being the only SEC team to not have a draft pick this year...well....i'm sure kids are being reminded of that.


but i do agree, i think there a lot of prospects that are seriously considering us that do want to see how the season goes. i don't necessarily think any one game sways a kid one way or the other, but i do think that it's important we win more than we lose, and we pass the eyeball test.

Absolutely it’s being brought up. We have a terrible recent history as a team getting kids drafted. Hell look at Kamara, even the kids we do get drafted we didn’t use properly. Hurd went somewhere else because he wasn’t being used properly then gets drafted. Then being the only SEC team that doesn’t have a player drafted as well drives home the point.

Pruitt must drive the point home that this staff has developed and gotten players drafted everywhere they’ve been. But that’s kind of watered down as a point if we don’t some results soon.

 

[CAVPUT]

Absolutely it’s being brought up. We have a terrible recent history as a team getting kids drafted. Hell look at Kamara, even the kids we do get drafted we didn’t use properly. Hurd went somewhere else because he wasn’t being used properly then gets drafted. Then being the only SEC team that doesn’t have a player drafted as well drives home the point.

Pruitt must drive the point home that this staff has developed and gotten players drafted everywhere they’ve been. But that’s kind of watered down as a point if we don’t some results soon.

This was always going to be at least a 3 year process. If we can manage 7 wins this year, I think that qualifies as "results". I don't think we can realistically expect to be in the mix for the east until we flip this entire roster and develop some depth. Problem is that, despite our best efforts, we seem to be falling further behind the Bama, UGA, Clemson type programs. They're just recruiting at an unreal level right now. Nothing against Pruitt and his staff, but I'm just not seeing them being capable of that caliber of recruiting...at least not at UT.

 

[GroverCleveland]

This was always going to be at least a 3 year process. If we can manage 7 wins this year, I think that qualifies as "results". I don't think we can realistically expect to be in the mix for the east until we flip this entire roster and develop some depth. Problem is that, despite our best efforts, we seem to be falling further behind the Bama, UGA, Clemson type programs. They're just recruiting at an unreal level right now. Nothing against Pruitt and his staff, but I'm just not seeing them being capable of that caliber of recruiting...at least not YET at UT.

FYP.

It's coming. Not as fast as we would like, but it's coming.

 

[CAVPUT]

FYP.

It's coming. Not as fast as we would like, but it's coming.

Guess I took Pruitt and his comments after that first recruiting class when he was scrambling for bodies literally. Paraphrasing, but didn't he say we'd be right at the top in recruiting after that first one? Seem to recall last year as being in the 12-15 range. Maybe he's going to blow us away with the finish to this coming class, but at this point, I think we're 8th in the SEC in recruiting?

Current 2020 rankings

 

[jakez4ut]

This was always going to be at least a 3 year process. If we can manage 7 wins this year, I think that qualifies as "results". I don't think we can realistically expect to be in the mix for the east until we flip this entire roster and develop some depth. Problem is that, despite our best efforts, we seem to be falling further behind the Bama, UGA, Clemson type programs. They're just recruiting at an unreal level right now. Nothing against Pruitt and his staff, but I'm just not seeing them being capable of that caliber of recruiting...at least not at UT.

We don't have to catch up to bama and Clemson.

Our sights have to be on Uf and UGA.

 

[AngryButchJones]

Guess I took Pruitt and his comments after that first recruiting class when he was scrambling for bodies literally. Paraphrasing, but didn't he say we'd be right at the top in recruiting after that first one? Seem to recall last year as being in the 12-15 range. Maybe he's going to blow us away with the finish to this coming class, but at this point, I think we're 8th in the SEC in recruiting?

Current 2020 rankings

It's May 11th of 2019. Check back with me in February when talking about rankings.

 

[TennMan101]

Agreed, I believe Tate will unfortunately end up at UGA

Prepare/Expect the worst and hope for the best. That's pretty much the best you can do when it comes to recruiting. It's just too fluid and times have changed too much.

 

[TennMan101]

This was always going to be at least a 3 year process. If we can manage 7 wins this year, I think that qualifies as "results". I don't think we can realistically expect to be in the mix for the east until we flip this entire roster and develop some depth. Problem is that, despite our best efforts, we seem to be falling further behind the Bama, UGA, Clemson type programs. They're just recruiting at an unreal level right now. Nothing against Pruitt and his staff, but I'm just not seeing them being capable of that caliber of recruiting...at least not at UT.

Football-wise, UT is a better school than two of the 3 schools you just mentioned. It hasn't shown in the past decade, but we are and always will be a blue blood football program. Clemson has just started coming around and Bama / Georgia has had their ups and downs just like us. JMO

 

[DaddyChad]

It’s sad as hell that our administration allowed us to sink this low. Kids like Cade Mays, Lawrence, Higgins, Ratledge, etc all would’ve been locks as Vols if not for the level of absolute incompetence.