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#428
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Big Gucci Sosa said:
Kinda makes you feel like it’s a make or break year on the field in regards to recruiting.
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I get why one might think so. But that really is only gonna be the case if we really flame out again.

I've been saying it for the last year... This is gonna be a slow rebuild.... Lots of holes in the roster. Not enough depth, not enough speed...

It'll take 3 cycles, cause they're gonna have to develop a lot of the kids they bring in with blue chips.

Just depends on how patient we really are willing to be. Understanding that impatience requires starting over.. Again.

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Big Gucci Sosa said:
Kinda makes you feel like it’s a make or break year on the field in regards to recruiting.
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And it's really not fair to this staff for it to be coming so soon. Most staffs, including CBJ's, got a few full classes in under the "new staff bump" but our foes have really stepped up their negacruiting game. Probably because they are actually worried about CJP.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
AP said that Spraggins is more coveted and that Mordecai who is set to commit next month is a higher priority for TN than AJ
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Johnson was out of the blue so as surprised as we all were then, do not be surprised with this one. Really did all of us think it was going to stick? 8-4 or 9-3 and they will be looking back and saying they missed the boat. Spraggins is a whole more important right now.
 
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RyanWalkerPGH said:
This whole winning will fix everything on the recruiting trail is great. But will you admit that we are totally screwed if things go sideways this season then?
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By then we'll know about how the class will shakeout, so we'll see. If we are 5-7 and #31, then yeah. But if we're 6-7 after a bowl and top-15, I'll chill 1 more year.
 
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We're not screwed. It just isn't going to happen as fast as everyone wants without a couple top 5 classes with a plethora of instant impact players.

I mean this staff just doesn't suck. It doesn't. This has way more to do with the brand that had been TN football the last decade.
 
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Again y’all are killing me just shut up already. This staff is fine. Lol.

Literally went 0-8 in the conference and pulled the #21 class on the first ever early signing period before Pruitt even finished his staff.

Then we went 5-7 last year and pulled the #12 class in the nation.

Y’all freaking kill me. 😂😂😂 For guys that follow recruiting so much y’all freak out a lot. We will be in the Top 15 when February comes around.
 
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cHiZzLeVOL said:
Again y’all are killing me just shut up already. This staff is fine. Lol.

Literally went 0-8 in the conference and pulled the #21 class on the first ever early signing period before Pruitt even finished his staff.

Then we went 5-7 last year and pulled the #12 class in the nation.

Y’all freaking kill me. 😂😂😂 For guys that follow recruiting so much y’all freak out a lot. We will be in the Top 15 when February comes around.
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We need to be top 10
 
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I get highly annoyed when people think all of recruiting comes down to “bagmen.” That said, in this case...AJ more than likely just got paid $10k-$20k this weekend in College Station.
 
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#443
cHiZzLeVOL said:
Why do we need to be Top 10? 😂 explain this to me. Plus being Top 10 with the Long Snapper is going to be hard to obtain period.
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Being top 15 is like being 8th in the SEC and far behind UGA, Bama, and also would be behind Fl. Three teams we need to be competing with. Further, it has been shown that championship teams recruit in the top 10. Only one team has made the playoff that hasn’t and that’s Oregon and they didn’t win.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
Being top 15 is like being 8th in the SEC and far behind UGA, Bama, and also would be behind Fl. Three teams we need to be competing with. Further, it has been shown that championship teams recruit in the top 10. Only one team has made the playoff that hasn’t and that’s Oregon and they didn’t win.
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If we are in the Top 15 and btw I didn’t say we would finish 15th that leaves room for us to be anywhere from 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14, or 15 in recruiting class.

We could very well finish in the Top 10 but I’m not going to make such a bold prediction. That being said this staff can recruit and has proved it. You guys do this every single year. Oh god we are ranked low this staff has got to recruit better. Then they do and you doubt them still?

Come the F on. They pulled two 5 star offensive tackles last year. 😂 How about you just have some faith in these coaches and stop acting like the sky is falling all the time.

Edit: Also our average right now without the LS is a .8931

With the LS our average is an .8815 which is a big difference.

2nd Edit: Btw we only have 12 guys committed.
 
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What is the difference in the 9th ranked class and the 13th ranked class? In one thread, everyone complains about how these recruiting sites rank the players based on 40 times and 7 on 7. Then, the same people act like where we land based on those same recruiting rankings will dictate how many games we win. That makes no sense.
 
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#447
thunderduck17 said:
What is the difference in the 9th ranked class and the 13th ranked class? In one thread, everyone complains about how these recruiting sites rank the players based on 40 times and 7 on 7. Then, the same people act like where we land based on those same recruiting rankings will dictate how many games we win. That makes no sense.
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Perception matters and recruits in the following classes also takes notice.
 
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lilesrt said:
One thing is for certain.. if we don’t win we won’t get the players. And if we don’t get the players, we won’t win. Chicken or Egg?
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Evolution. At some point a non-chicken (or ancestor of a chicken) birthed a mutated chicken. Let's become chickens!
 
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