Recruiting Central

#253
#253
(WP99ND06 @ Jan 15 said:
The article came out yesterday in the South Bend Tribune - check it out yourself.
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I'm not doubting you at all. Just pointing out that recruiting has a lot to do with timing and need. Notre Dame obviously has their QB situation taken care of, so it's convenient for them and Mustain to suddenly not be interested in each other no matter how much they may or may not have been courting.
 
#254
#254
Scout reports, Nick Stephens had a great weekend visit. He's still commited to Miss but added it was no longer 100%.
Being from Dallas he liked Knoxville alot and really enjoyed hanging out with the team. Coach Cut and Coach Luke may be able to get this kid from his Miss commit :dunno: . Stephens will also take a Michigan visit.
 
#255
#255
Mustain will be a VOL - mark it down.

FYI for GAVol

Weis keeps his word in the recruiting process
January 16, 2006


The recruiting game has become more and more about who you can trust and who you can't. Can you trust 17-year-old kids who give you a verbal commitment six months before Signing Day? Will you stop recruiting a certain position because a hotshot stud has told you for weeks that he's heading your way? On the flip side, can recruits trust coaches who tell them they won't recruit any other players at their position? Is it safe for either side to stop entertaining interest from other parties? In the case of Springdale, Ark. quarterback Mitch Mustain, trust hasn't been much more than a word thrown about by both player and coaches.

Mustain, the nation's No. 2 quarterback and arguably the most heavily recruited player ever out of his home state, wanted to get the recruiting process over with before his season started. The 6-3, 208-pounder wanted to focus on his senior year and a state title. So when push came to shove in August as the season loomed, Mustain told Arkansas head coach Houston Nutt he was coming to Fayetteville, seemingly to save Nutt's job and the program. A bond of trust had been formed.

It would soon be broken.

After a 4-7 season, the second straight losing campaign under Nutt, the head coach decided some changes needed to be made. Nutt fired quarterbacks coach Roy Wittke, the man responsible for developing Matt Jones into an SEC standout and the QB guru Mustain was looking forward to working under -- the quarterback guru who Mustain was told he'd be working with at Arkansas. The Mustain family heard about the firing from newspaper reporters well before it was announced and well before Nutt told his future star. At least that's how the story goes.

So Mustain decided to abandon his word -- as he felt Nutt had -- and de-commit from Arkansas and open his recruitment back up in early December. A few weeks later, Mustain's head coach at Springdale, Gus Malzahn, was hired as the new offensive coordinator for Arkansas. Still, Mustain didn't budge. By this time he had his eyes and heart set on another coach and program -- the one Charlie Weis runs in that little town of South Bend, Ind. Now it was time to test Weis' level of trust.

Weis had taken verbal commitments from two top quarterbacks during the summer, Pennsylvania slinger Zach Frazer and Chicago star Demetrius Jones. He told both that two was his maximum at quarterback and he wouldn't take a third. Weis was also assuring super recruit Jimmy Clausen, the top quarterback in the 2007 class and one of the most hyped signal-callers in years, that Frazer and Jones would be his competition at Notre Dame should he decide to come. At the time of all these promises, Weis had no idea the Springdale soap opera would unfold.

To his credit, Weis never offered Mustain again, standing by his word not only to his two quarterback commitments but also to Clausen, who just so happened to be on campus Saturday for a Notre Dame junior day. But you know it had to be tempting. Great quarterbacks to Weis are like dates with Pamela Anderson, they don't come along often at all, but if you get one, tremendous things could happen. Passing up on Mustain had to go against every fiber of his offensive coordinator being, but it was the right thing to do and Weis knows it.

In this little game of recruiting where trust is such a big deal and is betrayed as often as Terrell Owens says something stupid, chalk one up on the good side for Weis. And maybe, just maybe, Mustain will sign with Arkansas and keep his commitment as well.
 
#256
#256
Like I said earlier, I fully believe you. Notre Dame obviously has their QB needs taken care of, and the timing is just not right for them to sign Mustain. All I ever said was "Funny how that works" meaning that Mustain is suddenly not considering Notre Dame, and then we hear that ND was never really recruiting him.

I do think the "Weis walks on water" talk is just a little overblown though, but that's just me.
 
#257
#257
so do we assume if we scholarship Mustain thats a Vols staff confession that Ainge's stock is worthless? And they bring him to tandem with Crompton? Intresting how this will turn out, can't be too deep at QB tho.
 
#258
#258
(dan4vols @ Jan 16 said:
so do we assume if we scholarship Mustain thats a Vols staff confession that Ainge's stock is worthless?
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I really don't think so. Like you said, you can't be too deep at QB. Chances are, if we do sign Mustain, he wouldn't ideally see significant action for at least two years anyway.
 
#261
#261
(deaknasty74 @ Jan 17 said:
do you think Clausen is out of the picture at ut now
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He's pretty much been out of the picture for quite a while now. Then again, nobody except him knows for sure.
 
#262
#262
Are we going to get Raines? Rivals tends to think so.

Expect Dalton, Ga., wide receiver Stephaun Raines to pick Tennessee when all is said and done.

There was speculation in the Dalton Daily Citizen that Raines would not make his scheduled visit to South Carolina this weekend and would commit to the Vols.

A few nuggets in favor of the Vols: The speedy prospect's head football coach, Ronnie McClurg is a big-time Vols fan and Dalton is only around 110 miles from Knoxville.

Also, the Vols coaches did a good job of painting their program in a positive light while shedding some negative on others.

"The Tennessee coaches asked me how I liked it and gave me the pros and cons of the other schools," Raines told the newspaper. "They told what I could gain by going to school up there and things I would miss by going somewhere else.

"I told coach Fulmer that I need a little time to think about it. I want to get away, get away from all the glamour."
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#263
#263
6'-4 175 5.0 QB Arvell Nelson will announce Iowa or UT later today. IMO, he's more attracted to Iowa.. where they sold him on starting once Tate leaves. It would be a good opportunity for Vell to commit Orange today since Stephens decided to take a visit to Ann Arbor.

Nick Stephens, is on the fence with Orgeron at OM and loved his Tennessee visit and weekend in Knoxville.




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#264
#264
(IBleedOrange24/7 @ Jan 18 said:
6'-4 175 5.0 QB Arvell Nelson will announce Iowa or UT later today. IMO, he's more attracted to Iowa..
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Nelson's already said that he plans to go to Iowa and will commit today for good.
 
#266
#266
any updates? i know shaw and stephens are commiting early next week, but not sure we r getting them........
 
#267
#267
(IBleedOrange24/7 @ Jan 18 said:
6'-4 175 5.0 QB Arvell Nelson will announce Iowa or UT later today. IMO, he's more attracted to Iowa.. where they sold him on starting once Tate leaves. It would be a good opportunity for Vell to commit Orange today since Stephens decided to take a visit to Ann Arbor.

Nick Stephens, is on the fence with Orgeron at OM and loved his Tennessee visit and weekend in Knoxville.
Advertisements brought to you in part by.... Orgeron fence company of Memphis "Where we demonstrate what the So-Cal offense would look like ran by an idiot". also by....Mississippi tourist info, That reminds you...just a hair north and to the east...life is good.
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Don't laugh. Couch O is having a top 10 recruiting class.
 
#270
#270
(checkerboard_charly @ Jan 22 said:
we will be lucky to stay in the top 25 in recruiting this year.
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have you been paying attention at all? we are going to end up with about 4 or 5 more 4* recruits. how are we going to be lucky? everyone else is almost done...
 
#272
#272
I wonder if Schaeffer made him mad? Wonder if it made him mad enough to stay in the SEC?
 
#273
#273
(vols2345 @ Jan 22 said:
have you been paying attention at all? we are going to end up with about 4 or 5 more 4* recruits. how are we going to be lucky? everyone else is almost done...
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i dont see it chong. i hope to hell i am wrong though.
 
#274
#274
listening to brent hubbs on the radio and this is what he had to say about the recruiting

whitehead- long ways from making a choice

shaw- will be surprised if he doesnt pick vols

stephens- will pick in the next 48 hours between michigan and UT

warren- his whole family went down to fsu this weekend.. will be at tennessee this weekend... hopefully we can pull him

 
#275
#275
(checkerboard_charly @ Jan 22 said:
i dont see it chong. i hope to hell i am wrong though.
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I'm with you CC. Looks like UT is really mopping up after the big boys have gotten their picks. I will be satisfied with a top 20 class, anything less and UT will have some holes to fill.
 
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