'24 GA TE Jonathan Echols (USF commit)

[JRVOL11]

dude should’ve never moved to tight end anyways, but this still hurts though

 

[lukeneyland]

This doesn’t bother me quite as bad as losing Baron to the portal. We need offensive linemen and defensive quality bad. TE Is not a problem right now

 

[EastTNVol95]

Isn’t Holden Staes visiting us today? Wonder if that plays in here.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Optics wise this isnt good. Esp combined with our recent misses.

We will be fine but...we need to start getting some commits. Good luck Echols.

 

[KPT_VFL]

It didn’t even change our recruiting ranking.

 

[Glitch]

Oh noooo!!!! The program is cancelled!

 

[therickbol]

Wait....so posters on here think our coaches fight hard to keep his commitment but he CHOSE to go to USF instead of UT?!?! He is set on playing TE and did not appear to be a bough caliber player at TE. USF will allow him to keep that TE dream alive.

 

[GetEmVols]

So we are losing recruits to USF now? lol

 

[C-town Vol]

Let the dust settle and the roster get set before commencing a freak out. This will likely amount to a bunch of nothing once all moves are made.

With the portal, more than ever, you gotta resist the temptation of living and dying with every recruit.

 

[dascoop]

Did he say that was his reason?

Correct.

 

[Jimmy Football]

So we are losing recruits to USF now? lol

I wonder why we didn’t lose him to Florida State, Miami, or Florida?

 

[joevols89]

Everybody panic.

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

So we are losing recruits to USF now? lol

Freaking Golesh….. ugh. Blue font.

If Heupel is trying to take care of a guy he can’t keep why wouldn’t he send him over to one of his good friends who is also a head coach?

 

[Vol_sanity]

So we are losing recruits to USF now? lol

If that is how you choose to view this situation, then yes, we are

 

[Ttucke11]

legit, he had 14 catches in 9 games his senior year

That's fine, but we've all been under the impression we are getting 2 HS TEs now we have 0. And told Jolly to kick rocks. Just weird few days.

 

[LWSVOL]

This doesn’t bother me quite as bad as losing Baron to the portal. We need offensive linemen and defensive quality bad. TE Is not a problem right now

Scuttlebutt is Baron to Bama.

 

[cncchris33]

Or reality.

Or an alternate universe.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Everybody panic.

no thanks.

 

[butchna]

I wonder why we didn’t lose him to Florida State, Miami, or Florida?

 

[keckjm]

JH and this staff have slow played the portal up to this year. What this staff does the next 2-4 weeks is going to be critical for us. You’re already all chips in on Nico, so you better find a way to keep the playmakers we have/and find some others in the portal. TE room is very weak. OL has little quality depth. Sampson has been underutilized so far and will likely have people calling for his services. Our best WR that’s healthy right now is 5’9”. Our defense can’t get any consistent pressure, especially in the 2nd half of the year, and we refused to play any of our young DBs. Our defensive recruiting has not been SEC level at times (outside DL), and even then we are weak at DT this recruiting class. We likely need 2-3 more DBs that can play right away. Additionally, we could have used 2-3 more highly regarded high school prospects at DT/DB. Unfortunately, we struck out on a ton of players in those areas. I’m not saying the world is on fire here, but we can’t pretend like we are just killing it either.

 

[joevols89]

no thanks.

Your loss

 

[TheMookieMonster]

People can criticize me for saying this but our recruiting right now is one giant red flag. We should not be struggling this badly.

 

[butchna]

Or an alternate universe.

Like VN? Where the fans have all the answers?

 

[butchna]

People can criticize me for saying this but our recruiting right now is one giant red flag. We should not be struggling this badly.

We gave it a good run. Time to drop down to intramural.

 

[volinbama256]

And we still don't want Joly?

Dumb.

We do now... but too late