Orange Carpet Day Visitors Thread - June 17th

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Mays and Martinez working on Carvin and Emerson

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Blake25p said:
I'm ready to boom...
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Sorry if this was already posted, but ...

We re talking to a ton of kids as they leave campus. Don't except any commits today -- and that's not a bad thing. Vols sold weekend as a family hangout, LOTS of guys very impressed. Tennessee definitely made headway with some top targets. More to come.
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-- simonton
 
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I have a feeling a lot of guys are sold on the program and the facilities but want to see us live up to expectations and win games in the Fall.
 
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chargervol said:
Wasn't expecting 8, figured at least one. Doesn't feel like OCD with zero.
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I think tomorrow through Thursday is where we can really judge OCD. These kids will have time to get back home, talk to family about it and make decisions. I think we helped ourselves with probably almost every single recruit that came. Now we have to sit back and wait just like the coaches do, although they might be privy to a silent or two we are not.
 
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ALLVOL24/7/365 said:
I think tomorrow through Thursday is where we can really judge OCD. These kids will have time to get back home, talk to family about it and make decisions. I think we helped ourselves with probably almost every single recruit that came. Now we have to sit back and wait just like the coaches do, although they might be privy to a silent or two we are not.
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I don't worry about recruiting too much in June, just always enjoy a good boom on OCD.
 
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ALLVOL24/7/365 said:
I think tomorrow through Thursday is where we can really judge OCD. These kids will have time to get back home, talk to family about it and make decisions. I think we helped ourselves with probably almost every single recruit that came. Now we have to sit back and wait just like the coaches do, although they might be privy to a silent or two we are not.
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When he first got here, CBJ could sell early playing time. That, combined with the facilities and tradition, maybe produced more on-the-spot decisions. Kids announced here because "here" was the locus of what they were committing to.

Now, CBJ is selling the steak instead of the sizzle: VFL, values and life skills that follow you through adulthood, becoming part of a family that endures beyond your college years... things that aren't flashy but make a deeper impact with time to reflect and after discussion with trusted adults.

I've got no numbers for this, but my impression is we also seem to be recruiting more athletes from stable, two-parent homes. Maybe in that context, kids make slower, more carefully reasoned decisions. Maybe those kids are more focused on what they decide rather than how they announce it.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
I've got no numbers for this, but my impression is we also seem to be recruiting more athletes from stable, two-parent homes. Maybe in that context, kids make slower, more carefully reasoned decisions. Maybe those kids are more focused on what they decide rather than how they announce it.
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I don't do enough digging into recruits to know if that's true or not but that would seem like a very...odd strategy or facet to focus on.
 
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NochNoch said:
I don't do enough digging into recruits to know if that's true or not but that would seem like a very...odd strategy or facet to focus on.
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I don't mean having a two-parent family is a recruiting focus, but just something that tends to follow (well, in truth, precede) athletes with high character or self-discipline off the field. Those athletes definitely are a focus in CBJ's recruiting strategy.

Growing up in a single-parent household remains the greatest statistical predictor of at-risk adolescence, criminality, academic failure, social mobility, and second-generation poverty.

So if you know a single-parent father who's being successful with that task--give that dude extra kudos today! And offer the same to successful fathers who grew up without a father--an incredible accomplishment when you don't have your own experiences to call on for wisdom.
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For my late father:
You were abandoned by your father before your first birthday. The only father-figures you had were your stern, silent grandfather and the USMC. With little to go by, you completed your mission, Dad. You stayed, you provided, you protected, and you offered guidance whenever I was willing to listen. Your legacy would be less tarnished if I hadn't wasted years listening to the "progressive society" around me. But I'm still polishing. :thumbsup:
 
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#174
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Tennessee was (VERY) pleasantly surprised with LSU commit Jamarcus Chapman coming into town Saturday. The Vols also did well to convince DB Kyler McMichael to trip again.

While UT hosted its top 2 RB targets for 2018, Coach G was all over 2019 RB Derrian Brown. Really good looking kid, too.

Not everybody set to attend made it in, though. Wideout Ja'Marr Chase did not come, and neither did 2019 WRs Shamar Nash or Kendrell Scurry. CB Rayshad Williams did not make it either, and I don't think (but still working to confirm) that DEs Tobe Umerah (Stanford commit) or Malik Langham came to town.
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