Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[Fun coupon VOL]

Why did litrell not sign today?

 

[GoBigOrange86]

Beat Pitt for one...

If we'd beaten Pitt and Ole Miss, we're in the Sugar Bowl. That's A+.

It was a great year. A- is a great grade, especially given what they had to work with. I'm excited for the future.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

Why did litrell not sign today?

2023

 

[drvenner]

Thank the Lord the WN and TS threads will die now.

Probably not, actually

 

[Jackcrevol]

Just watched eVoution 22 on UTK website.
- Banks is impressive
- Tyre West is a farging monster

 

[BigSteve09]

Some notes from the Oregon hiring process...

- everyone knows that they tried everything that they could to keep Cristobal. Basically begged. He turned down everything.

- they did interview Chip Kelly but he didn't want the job so it didn't go far

- they tried hard to get Wilcox from Cal. It made a lot of sense for a lot of reasons, but he turned the job down. Big time head scratcher.

- in the middle of all of this, a bunch of former Oregon players wrote an open letter to the AD essentially, saying that Oregon is in danger of losing its identity and they wanted to make sure Oregon stayed Oregon. I'm assuming this meant "stop hiring SEC boys." They all but demanded Wilcox but obviously it fell through. I don't know the timing of the letter vs Wilcox interviewing

- they did eventually get Lanning, and it looks like recruiting won't take a nosedive after Cristobal, which apparently was a big worry there

The lasting question is what does this all say about this job when one of their own (Wilcox) and their legendary coach (Kelly) didn't even take the interview process deep? Very interesting.

Anyway, just some interesting notes from the coaching search post mortem. I find it funny that all of this drama and misses were happening at Oregon, but the national media doesn't do the whole point-and-laugh treatment with them. If we went through all of that again we'd still be hearing about it.

 

[Glitch]

Was in meetings all day....


Yes, all of my Booms were while I was in a meeting. Got a lot of strange looks, because I was on my phone so much.

But, hey...I'm the boss...I do what I want.

Anywho...here's a boom for the ones I missed out on...
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If you wore pants you would get fewer weird looks but you are the boss so...

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Unicorns?

Lol

 

[Jimmy Football]

Thank the Lord the WN and TS threads will die now.

 

[butchna]

Assuming this is photoshopped…hand looks weird.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

If we'd beaten Pitt and Ole Miss, we're in the Sugar Bowl. That's A+.

It was a great year. A- is a great grade, especially given what they had to work with. I'm excited for the future.

We beat Old Piss and the Pitts...we didn't beat the officials.

 

[ugg]

Trent Dilfer: Josh Heupel, Tennessee football handling recruiting process better than anyone. ... 31 recruiting class for the 2022 class, according to the 247Sports Composite. "You're not just going to end up with three-, four-, five-star kids. You're going to end up with character kids," Dilfer said.Oct 4, 2021

I have bought in. I think we will improve in recruiting each year going forward.

 

[butchna]

If you wore pants you would get fewer weird looks but you are the boss so...

He’s got employees for pants.

 

[Orange Studs]

What an awesome day!! For once in while we won some battles for some big time recruits!!! Just feels soooooo good to have a really fun recruiting day! Been so long!

 

[rekinhavoc]

Ruh ro raggy! Heupel can 'cruit!

 

[drvenner]

fixed your post

6 hours ago

 

[SmokinBob]

Kinda envious of you being over 30 pages behind.
You still have so much good news coming!

I followed Tennessee Football on Twitter! Woot! Woot!

 

[AF_VOL]

Still have some work to do. I'd like to see us ahead of Mizzou and UK, but CJH has definitely over achieved with what he inherited.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

An A+ grade looking back at the season seems a lot different than what most would've considered an A+ before the season.

 

[UTMVol76]

Just watched eVoution 22 on UTK website.
- Banks is impressive
- Tyre West is a farging monster

Watching right now and I’m real impressed with Banks. Haven’t got to West yet.

 

[Jimmy Football]

The worst thing about Eli Ricks going to Alabama: it’s so predictable and boring.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Watching right now and I’m real impressed with Banks. Haven’t got to West yet.

I'm honestly afraid he may really hurt someone. Not kidding.

 

[Devo182]

I think the negative recruiting stuff is largely overblown. The NCAA investigation had very little to do with Tennessee’s in-state troubles this year.

You have to make Tennessee seem cool again to in-state kids, and you have to recruit them harder than anybody else. Do those two things and the results will be better.

Ryan What are your thoughts on this? Excuses or legit issue?
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A lot of it is legit. Tennessee encounters more in-state resistance than people might realize, and the Vols not having been a great program over the past 14 years is at least a big part of that. They’ve made it easy for some in-state kids to view Tennessee as just another SEC school.
In a couple cases, I think the Vols hurt themselves this year by being a little too indecisive on evaluations. But the bigger problem was just not being able to get guys on campus. Ty Simpson, Jordan James, Jaylen Lewis, Patrick Kutas, Barion Brown, D’Arco Perkins-McAllister, Fisher Anderson and others never made it to Tennessee after Heupel’s hiring. The Wade twins’ only visit was in March during the dead period, so they couldn’t meet the staff.
So, as with a lot of things in recruiting, there’s not one simple answer. Tennessee needs to do some things better across the board. But the Vols also just had to deal with a coaching change and an unprecedented dead period at the worst possible time.

 

[ionaVOL]

Saw this on Reddit, SIAP…I know Bass already handled business!

 

[theutvolunteers]

I love him repping us!

Definitely