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This is not another LPE thread, this is about the staff being able to understand friendships enough to build comfort in for top players.
When we loved Fulton and I found out that his father was good friends with the Prater family I was hoping we would end up with Kyle but that did not work out.
It worked out incredibly that Brandon Willis and Corey Miller both are coming. FSU was falling apart, but the opportunity to play together and room together was very attractive to them.
5 star stud or not, you have a fragile ego as a young man heading off to college. You may be a hero in your hometown, but at UT you are just an athletic member of a massive body of students. I remember Jamal getting hazed a little and getting frustrated and our friendship started because I told him I knew who he was and that I thought he was going to be a star.
Now we have possibly Stephenson and Ahmad Dixon. The staff also recruited the Glenville secondary duo Christian Bryant and Latwan Anderson who would only think about us instead of Ohio State because of Mike Edwards loving his time so far as a Vol.
Calvin Smith and Corey Lemonier...
Dyer may end up here instead of Auburn because Dakota Mosley is coming here. It is a big factor to at least have 1 real friend going where you are going to go.
J Smith, Corey Miller and Brandon Willis and Markeith Ambles have all been important in recruiting guys and making sure they get up to Knoxville and keep recruiting guys.
When we have the all star games in January, the closest family of recruits is going to be the group headed to Knoxville and the very few undecided studs are going to notice.
It is remarkable how many great players know each other, and friendships are important and this staff knows it and uses it to their advantage so very well. They also do not have thugs driving around smoking pot with recruits and getting pulled over...Thank God for the changes Lane Kiffin has brought to our program!
The final important thing is that this staff knows how to leverage existing relationships and create the right key new ones. We all know that California and Texas and Florida are key states for talent. The staff understands how important Georgia is as well. It is remarkable and a testament to great coaching that so much talent ends up concentrated in so few schools. Even on guys we miss, if we do the right thing during recruiting and are respectful of the kids family etc, those coaches will let their players know as they have new great ones that they like Coach Wilson, or Coach Reaves, or Coach Gran, or even Coach Kiffin.
This is the finest recruiting staff I have ever seen in college football. It is also a staff that is great at coaching. Once some of these guys see their prize player doing well in college and staying out of trouble, succeeding academically and then heading to the NFL as a high pick, the recruiting at UT will be almost automatic like it is at USC, where HS coaches trust the coaches and the program to take care of their guys.
When we loved Fulton and I found out that his father was good friends with the Prater family I was hoping we would end up with Kyle but that did not work out.
It worked out incredibly that Brandon Willis and Corey Miller both are coming. FSU was falling apart, but the opportunity to play together and room together was very attractive to them.
5 star stud or not, you have a fragile ego as a young man heading off to college. You may be a hero in your hometown, but at UT you are just an athletic member of a massive body of students. I remember Jamal getting hazed a little and getting frustrated and our friendship started because I told him I knew who he was and that I thought he was going to be a star.
Now we have possibly Stephenson and Ahmad Dixon. The staff also recruited the Glenville secondary duo Christian Bryant and Latwan Anderson who would only think about us instead of Ohio State because of Mike Edwards loving his time so far as a Vol.
Calvin Smith and Corey Lemonier...
Dyer may end up here instead of Auburn because Dakota Mosley is coming here. It is a big factor to at least have 1 real friend going where you are going to go.
J Smith, Corey Miller and Brandon Willis and Markeith Ambles have all been important in recruiting guys and making sure they get up to Knoxville and keep recruiting guys.
When we have the all star games in January, the closest family of recruits is going to be the group headed to Knoxville and the very few undecided studs are going to notice.
It is remarkable how many great players know each other, and friendships are important and this staff knows it and uses it to their advantage so very well. They also do not have thugs driving around smoking pot with recruits and getting pulled over...Thank God for the changes Lane Kiffin has brought to our program!
The final important thing is that this staff knows how to leverage existing relationships and create the right key new ones. We all know that California and Texas and Florida are key states for talent. The staff understands how important Georgia is as well. It is remarkable and a testament to great coaching that so much talent ends up concentrated in so few schools. Even on guys we miss, if we do the right thing during recruiting and are respectful of the kids family etc, those coaches will let their players know as they have new great ones that they like Coach Wilson, or Coach Reaves, or Coach Gran, or even Coach Kiffin.
This is the finest recruiting staff I have ever seen in college football. It is also a staff that is great at coaching. Once some of these guys see their prize player doing well in college and staying out of trouble, succeeding academically and then heading to the NFL as a high pick, the recruiting at UT will be almost automatic like it is at USC, where HS coaches trust the coaches and the program to take care of their guys.
