Recruiting Forum Football Talk LV

Status
Not open for further replies.
#6,651
#6,651
Chuckie said:
I agree, and that extends to off-season, fall camp and, especially, injury news. I hope Pruitt runs a tight ship and keeps that mess bottled up. It does not good for crap to leak and fans to speculate for days (or weeks!) on end about what all of it.
Click to expand...

Total agreement. We already know waaaaaayyy too much about what goes on with these kids. As recruits and as players.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#6,652
#6,652
TideWarrior said:
Our board according to the sites and those supposedly in the know looks like this.

QB-Walk-On in White or Purdy.
WR-Ross and Waddle (Copeland UT or UF)
OL- Nick Petit-Frere(Trending UF) or P Sewell(Trending Oregon) no back up if we miss on both
DL-Langham or add another to another position
LB-Moody if both Walker(UT/UGA/UA) and Jackson(aTm) both flip
DB- E Smith and hopefully Surtain or ITS

If Walker and Jackson flip as expected we have 7 spots supposedly after factoring in 2 blueshirts and a grayshirt from last year and B Brown who is committed but did not sign in December as staff needed to see academics for the fall.

Palmer, Griffin, and any other you see out there outside of what I listed are not coming to UA.
Click to expand...

Interesting perspective thanks--- media is throwing in guys like Copeland Beal etc..
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#6,653
#6,653
Ron Swanson said:
No I can’t recall a finish quite like this since I’ve been following recruiting.
Click to expand...

We'll finish in the top 10 or very close. There's so much recent good news about Tennessee and so many people saying "Look out for Tennessee" and so many recruits that really like Pruitt and the new coaches and our coaches are such good recruiters. If it looks like a "Boom!" and walks like a "Boom!" and sounds like a "Boom!" than it's probably a "Boom!"
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#6,654
#6,654
Interesting article from 247 with some good quotes from Fulmer talking about Pruitt's recruiting skills.

“He showed he can turn recruiting around in a hurry. We tripled our recruiting board in like two days, with that staff — and not people that we were looking at, but people that were looking at us. That made a big difference. Unfortunately we had the early signing period. I’d like to have had another couple weeks with that, or it could have been really good.

"But we got recruiting turned, and turned quickly, and hopefully we can finish strong here. That’s the foundation of winning, is having the good players here.”

The early signing period was only half of the only potential problem for Pruitt’s first recruiting class at Tennessee. Pruitt opting to finish his tenure as Alabama’s defensive coordinator during the Crimson Tide’s march to another national championship cut at even bigger hole into the time Tennessee’s new coach had to stabilize the recruiting situation in the early signing period.

Pruitt’s ability to navigate that minefield and have success on two fronts was, as Fulmer said, the best possible outcome.

“I wasn’t surprised,” Fulmer said. “I mean, that was part of the selection process. If kids felt the energy from him — the same energy that I felt — then we were going to get in on more good players. He brings it. He brings that energy. He does it every day.”

Fulmer took the unusual-for-an-athletic-director step of getting NCAA-certified to recruit on the road during Pruitt’s two-jobs-in-two-cities period, and he even went on the road with Pruitt a couple of times. And he claimed to love every bit of what he saw.

“I was a knot on the log there,” Fulmer said. “He was the focal point. He handled the room. When he sat in the home, he was great with the mom and dad and the kid.”

Fulmer knew about Pruitt’s reputation as an elite recruiter. He got excited when watching Pruitt get up “on the edge of his chair” with a “nervous twitch in his leg” when the two talked recruiting during the interview process. He was convinced it would work. But the benefit of seeing Pruitt recruit in person gave Fulmer instant gratification about his first hire.

“Peace of mind — yeah, that’s a good way to put it,” Fulmer said. “You’re thinking, ‘Hey, this is good.’ And his staff is very similar.”

Phillip Fulmer: Jeremy Pruitt has already tripled the amount of big prospects looking at Tennessee Vols football
 
  • Like
Reactions: 11 people
#6,658
#6,658
tomq_123 said:
I can't believe it's 2018 and schools are still using a fax machine.
Click to expand...

Most do not use fax machine anymore. Recruits now sign papers, take a photo with phone and then text (message) it to institution. Compliance prints them, approves them and passes them on to coaches.
Many Schools have been doing this for the last two years or so
 
Last edited:
#6,659
#6,659
Really hope scar doesn't end up with a higher ranked recruiting class than us. New staff or not, that's not cool
 
#6,660
#6,660
volinbama256 said:
Interesting perspective thanks--- media is throwing in guys like Copeland Beal etc..
Click to expand...

Copeland is interesting because as mentioned it is Ross and Waddle. CBs coming in for Ross and Waddle we seem to be in the drivers seat but Saban I think is visiting Copeland today in home. So not sure and I really like Copeland.
 
#6,661
#6,661
Waaay off topic and a couple days late, but I'm feeling pretty good about the Titans' coordinator hires. Maybe both of my football teams will finally start to reach their potential.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#6,662
#6,662
highspeed said:
Waaay off topic and a couple days late, but I'm feeling pretty good about the Titans' coordinator hires. Maybe both of my football teams will finally start to reach their potential.
Click to expand...

Seriously...I mean, c'mon man! What do you think this forum is for?
 
#6,665
#6,665
FieldGeneral59 said:
Hot chicken and dog farts.
Click to expand...

source.gif
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#6,673
#6,673
Freak, I have some serious stuff going on at home involving my kids and me trying to get custody. If I start a gofund me page is there anyway I could post it here?
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
New posts
Status
Not open for further replies.

VN Store



Back
Top