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#26
#26
Don't question Patterson's heart, he's one of the few players on this team who welcomes contact and can not only run around you but will lower his shoulder and run through if he has too. If he had no heart he wouldn't do that. Most of the time when Patterson has the ball and the play stops its because he's forced out of bounds by 3+ defenders and he still doesn't go down.
 
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#27
#27
I did like his reply when the media was trying to milk him for dirt on the Dooley goodbye speech.


"man, I don't really wanna talk about that"
 
#28
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Jackson_Harris said:
Kinda mean. We all have special gifts. Perhaps textbooks aren't CP's strength? But he has gone to class, and he has kept his nose clean. ,I would love for my beloved Titans to draft him. He is fun to watch!
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CP has all the talent in the world and I hope he does well in the NFL. It's just hard for me to feel bad for a guy who does not even try off the field. Alot of people have said he does not even try in class. He just shows up. With all the benefits players at UT get(including class wise) there is no excuse for it. I have no doubt they have him in the easiest classes they could. He would have all the help he needs. He just does not try. If it were me....I would not have allowed him to play IF he were not trying in the classsroom. JMO
 
#29
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Donvolson said:
CP goes to class, sits in the back, puts his head phones on and goes to sleep. He would have been academically ineligible if we had made a bowl game
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He didn't come here to learn. He came here to keep from getting rusty and keep his name in the papers while he waited for his 3rd year from high school to expire.
 
#30
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Donvolson said:
CP goes to class, sits in the back, puts his head phones on and goes to sleep. He would have been academically ineligible if we had made a bowl game
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very sad if true. he will have someone cheat him out of his NFL $$$$.
 
#31
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spudvol said:
Josh Ward ‏@Josh_Ward

Patterson is Mel Kiper's No. 1 junior WR. Hunter is No. 3. Tyler Bray is Kiper's No. 2 junior QB. 2013 NFL draft - Mel Kiper's Top 5 junior NFL prospects at every position - ESPN

Vols WR Cordarrelle Patterson is No. 12 on Mel Kiper's Big Board. Justin Hunter isn't on the list. 2013 NFL draft - Anthony Barr of UCLA among new Big Board additions - ESPN
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I think if they both returned for next season then rating CP ahead of JH would make sense. At this point thats crazy talk. Neither of them is a number 1 nfl WR yet both would be a great number 2 and CP will eventually be a number 1. To me JH is like a rich mans Denarius Moore. I think Denarius had better hands and route running skills at this point and JH has height and hops. CP is a beast in the making. Funny story I think Zro will have the earliest impact in the NFL as a slot receiver. He finally got some decent hands this year long term he is not going to any pro bowls but he can have a long career he is the safe bet the other 2 are high upside/talent. Someone can get him with a 4th 5th round pick and have a productive dude out the gate. The other 2 will get overdrafted and put in before they are ready but will be pro bowlers eventually.
 
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#32
#32
The NFL draft is about drafting players with upside and potential. CP has a huge upside and so does JH. Any team that takes CP will be drafting an amazing playmaker that needs polishing but that is what quality coaching and year around training is for. So CP doesn't give a crap about college algebra or history, who cares? He cares about making plays and playing football which is all he'll have to worry about in the NFL.
 
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#33
#33
ncvol17 said:
very sad if true. he will have someone cheat him out of his NFL $$$$.
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One of the UT students that worked for me as a temp over the summer has consistently told me about the head phones deal. I told him to go talk to him about it. he is a big kid and could probably play D line. He said"man are you crazy?" I said, yes. You don't even want to know about J Smith. It's really bad
 
#34
#34
If all 3 leave it's OK with me.

New coaches are coming and we have some good young QB's, WR's and TE's so let the broom sweep things clean and move forward with the Worley/Peterman era.

If we get a true homerun hire at HC that's a good recruiter and he hires good assistants that are also good recruiters then the future is bright 2 or 3 years down the road with some good recruiting.

If we get a middle of the road hire at HC then our program could be doomed for another 5 to 10 years.

I pray for the best.

VFL...GBO!!!
 
#35
#35
Pretty excited to see Carter out there on mult. plays. I like what I've seen thus far of him.
 
#36
#36
A lot of hate for CP because of his grades and academic effort, but Nba bound one and doners are exactly the same. They take joke classes and pass them sometimes with d's if they even pass. Some people aren't meant to be college students. Its a shame there isnt some kind of true minor league system for football. CP is and always was a one and doner
 
#37
#37
It can be argued that baseball is the only sport that got it right from the outset, i.e. through the creation of an extensive minor league system as a proving ground for wouldbe major leaguers. College football, however, predated the advent of pro football by decades and, indeed, was initially rooted in Ivy League schools. Hence, it was philosophically predicated upon the "student-athlete" concept.

Personally, I have great respect for an athlete who struggles mightily just to maintain a 2.0 GPA, but I have no respect whatsoever for athletes who refuse to exert themselves academically. As much as I love Tennessee football, I love the University of Tennessee, my alma mater, more. UT and all of her peer institutions exist, first and foremost, as institutions of higher learning.

Intercollegiate athletics, on the other hand, provide a host of benefits to society. General Douglas MacArthur astutely declared that "On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory," an observation that our own beloved General Neyland would undoubtedly second. In the greater scheme of things, provision of training for a possible career in the NFL, by contrast, is distinctly secondary to a university's primary mission.
 
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#38
#38
I do not disagree, but lets be realistic, the sec is about putting players in the nfl. The student-athletes are in the lower fbs and fcs levels. Sure a fair amount of students are good students, but yhe surefire nfl players have no reason to have th o go to class, imho. CP not foing well academically doesnt mean much to me. I had friends that played basketball that received their degrees yet didnt know their major.
 
#39
#39
I met an agent last night in Knoxville. He used to be the Director of Football operations under Kiffin. He said all of the offensive line is staying, aside from DT graduating.

That will def help our new coach transition, if true.
 
#41
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Blackburn said:
The NFL draft is about drafting players with upside and potential. CP has a huge upside and so does JH. Any team that takes CP will be drafting an amazing playmaker that needs polishing but that is what quality coaching and year around training is for. So CP doesn't give a crap about college algebra or history, who cares? He cares about making plays and playing football which is all he'll have to worry about in the NFL.
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The NFL is full of guys who bullspit through college and go on to make an impact in the league.
 
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