DD4ME
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If Heup can get the offense top 5 again and keep the defense as a rushers dream then we can be top and offset some of this stuff. Our issue this year is we stepped back and lost a little shine. We beat no one we should not have and lost to a really bad UF.Tennessee seems to have a glass ceiling in recruiting, and has for a quite some time across years and coaches. Best I can tell, the coaches put a ton of energy in it and get lots of good players on campus (Georgia weekend, etc.). Sounds like we have a competitive NIL group, although clearly not Texas A&M elite (suggesting we probably don’t have access to their kind of money).
When the dust settles, I still say it is lack of in-state talent. We are going after guys from out of state and therefore competing against our equals in almost every area. We don’t get that extra edge of selling the instate school that is close to home, etc.
That’s been my theory for a while.
Still - we are very solid in recruiting and should be a competitive bunch that are fun to watch for years to come.