Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

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Tennessee f'n Vols! LFG! 🍊
Mike f'n Matthews! 💥💥💥💥💥
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This is a night for celebrating the Vols!
 
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Tennessee won the blue-chip recruiting battle for Mike Matthews on Wednesday evening as the Lilburn (Ga.) Parkview five-star chose to play his college football for the Vols over his other finalists in Clemson, Georgia and USC among many others.

Josh Heupel and company are looking for a few more of these recruiting wins as they push for a second-straight Top 10 recruiting class. The verbal from Matthews saw the SEC program rise to No. 11 in the standings.

Matthews may not be the last five-star receiver this cycle to ultimately end up suiting up in Knoxville. Tennessee remains near the top of the list for St. Louis (Mo.) University blue-chipper Ryan Wingo who will return to campus for two days this coming week. There is more momentum right now with Texas and Missouri but the Vols have been a top contender much of Wingo’s process and I’d put them in what’s been a fluid top three to date. Miami and Texas A&M are a couple other players for Wingo.
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Two more five-stars Tennessee has a great shot to land are Birmingham (Ala.) Vestavia Hills edge Jordan Ross and Lake Cormorant defensive lineman Kamarion Franklin. The Vols are at or near the top of the list for both of them with Florida the competition for Ross and Miami and Ole Miss among others in there for Franklin.

Matthews probably won’t be the last bit of good news to go Tennessee’s way this week as Nashville (Tenn.) Lipscomb Academy Top247 linebacker Edwin Spillman will announce his college decision Friday. The Vols are a finalist next to Ohio State and have been considered the program to beat for much of his process. Perhaps the Buckeyes rally here at the end but UT is tough to pick against coming into the decision.

Tennessee’s offensive line haul is starting to come together with recent recruiting wins of Max Anderson and William Satterwhite they’re in the middle of it for Sugar Land (Texas) Fort Bend Christian Academy Top247 offensive tackle Bennett Warren. This has been, according to a source, a back and forth with Michigan where both programs have been in pole position at different times over the last month. Santa Ana (Fla.) Mater Dei’s Brandon Baker and IMG Academy’s Jordan Seaton are two other offensive linemen Tennessee will continue to chop wood on.

Orlando (Fla.) Edgewater Top247 cornerback Cai Bates will commit next week. Tennessee is strong in that one, maybe LSU is a tad stronger, but the Vols are in it for sure. Tulsa (Okla.) NOAH Homeschool edge rusher Danny Okoye is strongly considering Tennessee and is expected on an official visit in latest September. Top247 safety/linebacker Tylen Singleton, Top247 linebacker Chris Cole and tight end Roger Saleapagaare three more the Vols are finalists for.

Bringing this article back to the receiver position, Tennessee is trying to get Chattanooga (Tenn.) Baylor School receiver Amari Jefferson back on campus as they battle Alabama for his signature. The Crimson Tide look like the one to beat right now. Statesboro (Ga.) High Top247 athlete Kamron Mikell is giving Tennessee a good look alongside Georgia and Kentucky among others with Texas A&M getting a visit next weekend.

Matthews is commit No. 17 for Heupel and his staff in the 2024 class with plenty more potential excitement to come this cycle.
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peaygolf said:
On July 18, 1910, Franklin Pierce Adams immortalized the infield trio of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance in a poem titled "Baseball's Sad Lexicon." A week before, Pierce had happily won a bet that the Chicago Cubs would beat the New York Giants. When he turned in his weekly article to the New York Evening Mail, the paper told him he was eight lines short. Remembering a double play he had seen from the game, Pierce added the following:


These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double --
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

Shortstop Tinker, second baseman Evers, and first baseman Chance were all members of the 1907 and 1908 world champion Chicago Cubs. They were also members of the 1906 team that won a record 116 games. Thanks to the poetics of Adams, the double play combination of "Tinker to Evers to Chance" became a household requiem.
In 1946, all three were elected to the Hall of Fame. Lately, this has been a controversial selection because statistically their numbers both offensively and defensively were average at best. All three were legitimate stars back in the day, but to how far the poem influenced the voting is anyone's guess -- some believe that if not for Adams' poem, all three would be on the outside of the Hall of Fame.
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This is the good stuff !!
 
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MarcoVol said:
Asking, not arguing -

Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to measure success on the field and not by how many guys we land who haven’t played a single down of cfb?

We’ve have had a single good season in 15 years. I’m honestly amazed we get any elite recruits.
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Im saying if people are going to complain about anything, that is the only legit thing to complain about. I personally pick to not complain about anything as there are a lot of ways to fix it by the time we need to play these guys, but it’s a legit criticism
 
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KingNico said:
Im saying if people are going to complain about anything, that is the only legit thing to complain about. I personally pick to not complain about anything as there are a lot of ways to fix it by the time we need to play these guys, but it’s a legit criticism
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I’m not sure why people expect OT recruiting to be booming bc we’ve had 1 good year? Mix that in with Heup’s (supposed) approach of recruiting to culture and not overpaying and it seems perfectly normal and ok to me to be where we are. I’m sure we could’ve overpaid for someone by now if it was that much of a concern.

So I don’t see it as a legit criticism but we all have opinions.
 
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