Recruiting Football Talk VIII

I specifically remember sitting in my hotel room in New Orleans when it was announced. Think I had about 10 hurricanes from Pat O’Brians that night after my work appointments.

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POB hurricanes are the only time I've ever been blacked out. Came to in the middle of a club dancing like a wild man having no idea how I got there or who all these people were I was with.
 
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The Athletic- Tennessee has leaned on Dylan Sampson all season. Can RB lead Vols to victory at Ohio State?
Dylan Sampson didn’t want to go to Tennessee. At least not at first.

“They were my second offer when I was a sophomore in high school, but they were off my list. I didn’t feel like it was a place I could grow and develop,” he said. “There was too much stuff going on.”

What stuff, exactly?


“You can look it up,” the running back from Geismar, La., said with a laugh. “We’re still dealing with the stuff from the last staff. It’s no disrespect or hate. We just never built a relationship after I got offered and I didn’t feel like they wanted me for real.”

When Tennessee elected to fire Jeremy Pruitt after a tip ignited an internal investigation that uncovered multiple Level I NCAA violations, Sampson’s view of the Vols changed. Tennessee hired Josh Heupel and in Sampson’s eyes, he gained another possible landing spot in the SEC.

He was still weighing his options on a visit in June 2021, when his host, then-sophomore Vols running back Jabari Small, got a FaceTime call from his mom. They’d only been talking a few moments when Heupel walked by.

“Trina Small!” he said, addressing Small’s mom and talking for a few moments.

“That was small, but it showed to me how much he was valuing trying to build relationships. And they valued me, too,” Sampson said in an interview with The Athletic this week.

When Tennessee was at its lowest point, fresh off hiring a coach some were hesitant to believe in, Sampson believed. He bought in when Heupel had only a vision.

Three seasons, 30 wins later and with a College Football Playoff game at Ohio State set for Saturday night, Sampson has proven integral in making that vision a reality. He enters the game owning five single-season school records and as the SEC Offensive Player of the Year.
 
It blows my mind that people do not go back to see exactly what was going on. There are many plays when literally every UGA OL is holding egregiously right in front of a zebra with zero calls the whole game.

Kirby tells his players to cheat as hard as they want and see what they can get away with, he has admitted as much.. and the SECorrupt officials let them get away with murder when they play us...I really would like to beat the piss out of the crooks.
ex-fricking-xactly
 
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