Recruiting Forum: Football Talk XI

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Speaking of numbers, does anyone have the number of scholarship players we have this fall and the number of seniors? I can't keep up.
 
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#11,904
Ron Swanson said:
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"We're really rich"
"I know, isn't it awesome? Sure beats the hell out of Michigan"
 
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#11,920
#11,920
ChattaTNVol said:
Regarding Jason Carr’s transfer, I want to go on record in opposition to some of the demeaning comments I’m seeing on VolNation, admittedly, mostly in the FF. I think it’s painful to lose a relationship with someone you had high hopes for but sometimes for any number of reasons things just don’t work out. I think parting ways, though as noted not without pain, is sometimes the best thing for all parties. The fact that Jason wasn’t going to be able for whatever reason to be used by our staff to, in their view, the best benefit of our football team does not in my view reflect negatively on Jason or the coaches. It just didn’t work out.

Parting ways now is in the best interest of Jason because I think he still has a bright future in football, just not with us, and I think we’ll be okay without him. The difference between someone like Jason Carr and Allan Carson or Woody Quinn is that we could have used Jason at different positions based on our needs. Some guys don’t offer any versatility.

Jason wanted to play DE and he’s not the first guy , and he’s far from the last, who has balked at a move to another position. I don’t think he was going to play DE for us so I respect the coaches for moving him to where they thought he could contribute in our present schemes and with our present roster. I don’t know that they wanted to force a transfer. I sort of doubt it but the move to offensive line was a significant factor, yet according to Butch yesterday, not the only consideration. I believe and hope we will be fine.

I also believe Jason is a fine young man with tremendous potential who still has a lot of opportunities available to him. He will land somewhere and I expect he’ll be a star. He needs to find the right fit and a team that has a need for what he whole-heartedly can offer. I’ll be cheering for him for the rest of his career no matter where he is, no matter whether he’s up or whether he’s down, because in my book if you’ve ever worn the Orange, I’ll be one of your fans for life. God speed Jason Carr. #GoVols!
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Didn't he ride a greyhound bus from Memphis on his own dime? Hate losing him.
 
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vol2002 said:
I didn't follow it closely back then either but I guess this goes to show why you need to have several highly ranked classes in a row to be consistently good and make up for the busts.

I still am amazed that Carr is one of the first busts in the 2013 class. In a class with few stars he was one of the few safe bets, I thought.
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Does that make 2 with Paul Harris (not counting Quinn yet)?
 
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