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OGbabyaviVol said:
And this is exactly why we need to shut our pie holes on a message board when things aren’t going well. Just think if Mauer was in JG‘s shoes and how much crap we gave him over the past couple years… He would’ve probably taken his life for sure. I know we might say it’s just message board posters, but it’s real life and real comments to these kids.
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Well said! While JG, Maurer, etc may not be the second coming of Peyton, they are clearly giving their all for this team. When someone works for something as hard as these kids do, then they see that it’s not only not appreciated, they are vilified.

I typically keep my mouth shut when I see it because its so frequent, but nothing irks me more than seeing fans openly berate our current players (18-22 year old kids) on a public platform.
 
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Orange Studs said:
Just not sure what's not to understand here. SMH. LOL You get the best athletes period no matter what state they are from. If TN happens to have some of them then heck yeah go get'em make them priority but they aren't out there this class.
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What the heck man?...I feel the same way 🤔
 
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Blake25p said:
On the VQ podcast AP took the over at 4.5 of commits the next 10 days.
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Rival schools are still in their normal mode of denial.

“This won’t last. They’ve always recruited like this. Those guys will flip. It’s because of so many 3 stars etc.”

If we land 4 or 5 more blue chip players then they will really begin their meltdowns.
 
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volatil said:
After watching HBO documentary on basketball scandal, no one should be fussing about another school.

Creighton... EFFING CREIGHTON was paying $100,000 for 2-3 star players.
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Jesus Shuttlesworth was getting stacks and cars thrown at him just to go to the Governor's alma mater, Big State...wherever that is.
 
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VolQuest - A week to remember for Vols

Great free article by Hubbs



The week of April 26, 2020 will be remembered as the moment that Vol Football became cool again. Right now, it feels like everyone everywhere wants to be involved with Tennessee. The Big Orange buzz is phenomenal.

The proof of that comes from what Jeremy Pruitt and his staff did on the recruiting front this past week, followed by the reaction of the new commitments themselves, other prospects, current Tennessee players, VFLs and the national media.

Tennessee’s recruiting five-day haul of Dylan Brooks, Kamar Wilcoxson, Julian Nixon, Tyion Evans, and Terrence Lewis is unlike anything I have seen in covering UT's recruiting for over a quarter of a century.

My closest comparison is the Vols landing Jamal Lewis, Fred Weary, Cosey Coleman, and Deon Grant. But those four future NFL players didn’t chose Tennessee in the same week.

I have seen recruiting go all wrong at once (see "Black Monday" 1995), but have never, ever seen Tennessee recruiting go all right at once like what has happened this week. What Pruitt and his staff have done — especially without the ability to visit with prospects face to face — is dumbfounding. Awe-inspiring.

Making this run more remarkable: Going into Alabama, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina and beating out the home-state schools, as well as other SEC powers and college football playoff teams for four-star and five-star players.

And the chatter after the fact has featured an electric mix of talk that has taken each commitment's significance and vaulted it to a higher and higher level.

Everyone associated with Tennessee — whether they be currently part of the football program or not — continues to take the volume up to 11 with the building talk that Tennessee Football is not a program, but a movement that will not be stopped. People around the Vol program get it: To take down Alabama, Georgia and LSU, they must appeal to a player's sense that Big Orange will be the college football's color of the next decade. In speaking as one for two-plus years, Pruitt's staff has now perfectly crafted the message, delivered it consistently and have now broken through.

Big Orange is cool again. Big Orange is hot.

And Pruitt and company likely ain't done. April showers of commitments have given the Vols such a recruiting buzz that will likely carry them to another handful of commitments in the next month. Being at 20 commitments to start the month of June is not unrealistic at all.

I kid you not.
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volatil said:
Tennessee is a sleeping giant and the rest of college football world knows it
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It’s no secret that Kirby and a few other coaches around the conference upped their recruiting game when we hired JP, AV has alluded to it several times. They know that we hired the right man for the job...and they’re concerned, as they should be.

I expect to challenge the SEC elite this year, though I don’t think we’re quite there YET. That being said, I think our ceiling this year is 10 wins, floor being 8. We’re to the point now that I expect to gut out a win or two with quality coaching, not unlike the Bama game last season (JP out-coached Saban, they won by talent and a gut wrenching momentum swing that was too late for us to overcome).

I’m just trying not to get overly excited right now. I LOVE the commits. LOVE the attention. LOVE the subtweets by our rivals. Love that we have everyone concerned. However, recruiting battles in May are still fought in December and February. Can’t take our foot off the pedal for a second...
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
And this is exactly why we need to shut our pie holes on a message board when things aren’t going well. Just think if Mauer was in JG‘s shoes and how much crap we gave him over the past couple years… He would’ve probably taken his life for sure. I know we might say it’s just message board posters, but it’s real life and real comments to these kids.
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It is a message board..if some kids can't take criticism, then they should never read anything from here.

I hate that Maurer has this problem, and I hope he gets better.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
It is a message board..if some kids can't take criticism, then they should never read anything from here.

I hate that Maurer has this problem, and I hope he gets better.
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If they don’t want me to shove them off that bridge they shouldn’t cross it? I smell you.
 
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Blake25p said:
On the VQ podcast AP took the over at 4.5 of commits the next 10 days.
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BaldBiker said:
Wow. I was doing some drunk posting last night. It's kind of weird waking up the next day and seeing things you don't even remember posting.

Sorry @HoleInTheRoof. Don't even know what set me off on that tangent.
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I couldn’t figure it out either. But then again I can never understand why anyone takes issue with me. 😂
 
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