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Welp, guess Jones needs to get that memo.

Also Penn State? Are they even average a Top 30 class over the last 5 years?

I get JC is a good evaluator at 247, but this reads like more of a B/R article. Analysis is completely inconsistent.
 
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This, however, is very good news: "The Volunteer State now tracks to produce 25-30 major prospects (high FBS level) annually whereas previously that number was in the 10-15 range. They aren’t all in Memphis anymore, either. Nashville, Chattanooga and eastern Tennessee all have high-level prospects on the horizon."
 
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OSU #2? How they heck does Oklahoma State or Oregon State rank that high? Maybe the Cowboys with the natural gas money. This can't be Ohio State, heck anyone seen temps there this past coupla weeks? Take a recruit there and most anywhere else it's not freezing and you've won them over ... just sayin'
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
This, however, is very good news: "The Volunteer State now tracks to produce 25-30 major prospects (high FBS level) annually whereas previously that number was in the 10-15 range. They aren’t all in Memphis anymore, either. Nashville, Chattanooga and eastern Tennessee all have high-level prospects on the horizon."
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To add to this.... Atlanta is a scant 20 miles further away from Knoxville than Nashville is.

Proximity matters, license plates on cars don't.
 
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Remy said:
OSU #2? How they heck does Oklahoma State or Oregon State rank that high? Maybe the Cowboys with the natural gas money. This can't be Ohio State, heck anyone seen temps there this past coupla weeks? Take a recruit there and most anywhere else it's not freezing and you've won them over ... just sayin'
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Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State all had their program history considered. Cold weather doesn't matter, apparently.

UT didn't have any of it's paltry tradition, to include track record of NFL players, considered.

Good to see consistency here.
 
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uscW and ucla are in gutter city. Stanford should be ahead of duckies too. Columbus ohio... America's vacation spot. lol

I take it one um is mich and one is Miami?
 
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This list is horrible. ND? Their recruiting is so overrated. They have had about 5 classes below 35 in the last 10 years.
 
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Remy said:
OSU #2? How they heck does Oklahoma State or Oregon State rank that high? Maybe the Cowboys with the natural gas money. This can't be Ohio State, heck anyone seen temps there this past coupla weeks? Take a recruit there and most anywhere else it's not freezing and you've won them over ... just sayin'
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Um...it is Ohio State...:huh:
 
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DC Vol said:
To add to this.... Atlanta is a scant 20 miles further away from Knoxville than Nashville is.

Proximity matters, license plates on cars don't.
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True on both counts, but the greater Atlanta area has been a recruiting hotbed for some time. The positive change in the quantity and quality of instate talent, on the other hand, is a recent phenomenon, one beneficial to our cause.
 
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By this measurement, Team Butch are recruiting way over expectations. I think the reason UT is lower on this list than some others is because of our historically low in-state talent that is now coming up and surrounded by other programs. As we start getting a winning program back, UT will be the one sucking up any in-state talent and being able to vie for surrounding states. OSU and such programs rank high here because they are the only thing out there - so they are more often than not able to keep the great talent that comes from anyone fairly near. Just remember, kids sign up not just to play football but often they may not want to go to school too far away from family and friends.
 
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vol4life2012 said:
Hard to believe that Michigan Oregon ND and Penn state are ahead of us.
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Think Tennessee now has more instate talent than all of those, with the possible exception of PSU.
Play in a tougher conference.
Might be a little easier to get qualified, exception possibly oregon.
Notre Dame lack of real conference and tough academics might always plague them
I wonder if Aubie was having the seasons they were having if they would be ahead of us.
I would argue we should be ahead of those 4.
 
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Any list that has Oregon ahead of us in regards to recruiting is invalid. We should be right where Auburn is on any of these lists. They have better in state talent, but are definitely little brother. We have less in state talent (though it is growing) but much less in state competition too. Plus we're within a 6 hour drive of so many great recruits.
 
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#13 UM? University of Maryland? Umass? I may be over thinking this one, either way I don't think they belong that freaking far ahead of us.
 
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vol4life2012 said:
Hard to believe that Michigan Oregon ND and Penn state are ahead of us.
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Not sure if serious.

Penn State is about the only one who I agree with that shouldn't be ahead of us because Paterno is gone.

Michigan is one of the top programs of all-time.

Notre Dame... one of the top programs of all-time. Not to mention, they have their own contract with NBC and are coming off a national title loss.

Oregon... Nike. They started winning and they have the CEO of Nike giving them whatever they want. Oregon is about attractive as Tennessee. Unless you add in a Nike sponsor who can offer you more. Not to mention, Oregon is lenient on weed. I don't know about the school, but the state is. If you're a player that tokes, the state of Oregon is an obvious choice over the state of Tennessee.

Notre Dame and Oregon today top Tennessee and Michigan for me. And Tennessee and Michigan top Penn State. Notre Dame will always be a top notch brand. Oregon, they're new age. They're selling what kids want and believe it or not, sit between the state of California and city of Seattle. That's on top of Portland. If Memphis is one of your attractions as a state, you're not attracting much. Then you're surrounded by garbage states like Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina... they offer little.

Tennessee is great for players who are all about the sport and being a college student on campus. It's not some big great place for weather, beaches, cities etc. Wasn't it Markeith Ambles who banged a coach's wife and then showed up to USC in a limo? That's a Georgia kid. And yeah, there are many kids like that. They want to live the life(beaches/weather/partying), wear the colors(oregon) and Tennessee doesn't offer a lot of that. If your top draw is beer bonging from the roof... it's easy to see why Oregon with Nike and Notre Dame with NBC are easier to recruit to. "Come to Tennessee... we're bored, the only fun is getting messed up. It's why we buttchug. Get f'ed up brah!". I'm not saying there is anything wrong with wanting to get as messed up as possible in college but if that's one of the best things you can offer for fun, you can get that at any school. Tennessee offers so much when it comes to athletic facilities but nightlife and weather/location? Not all that great.
 
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TOP said:
Not sure if serious.

Penn State is about the only one who I agree with that shouldn't be ahead of us because Paterno is gone.

Michigan is one of the top programs of all-time.

Notre Dame... one of the top programs of all-time. Not to mention, they have their own contract with NBC and are coming off a national title loss.

Oregon... Nike. They started winning and they have the CEO of Nike giving them whatever they want. Oregon is about attractive as Tennessee. Unless you add in a Nike sponsor who can offer you more. Not to mention, Oregon is lenient on weed. I don't know about the school, but the state is. If you're a player that tokes, the state of Oregon is an obvious choice over the state of Tennessee.

Notre Dame and Oregon today top Tennessee and Michigan for me. And Tennessee and Michigan top Penn State. Notre Dame will always be a top notch brand. Oregon, they're new age. They're selling what kids want and believe it or not, sit between the state of California and city of Seattle. That's on top of Portland. If Memphis is one of your attractions as a state, you're not attracting much. Then you're surrounded by garbage states like Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina... they offer little.

Tennessee is great for players who are all about the sport and being a college student on campus. It's not some big great place for weather, beaches, cities etc. Wasn't it Markeith Ambles who banged a coach's wife and then showed up to USC in a limo? That's a Georgia kid. And yeah, there are many kids like that. They want to live the life(beaches/weather/partying), wear the colors(oregon) and Tennessee doesn't offer a lot of that. If your top draw is beer bonging from the roof... it's easy to see why Oregon with Nike and Notre Dame with NBC are easier to recruit to. "Come to Tennessee... we're bored, the only fun is getting messed up. It's why we buttchug. Get f'ed up brah!". I'm not saying there is anything wrong with wanting to get as messed up as possible in college but if that's one of the best things you can offer for fun, you can get that at any school. Tennessee offers so much when it comes to athletic facilities but nightlife and weather/location? Not all that great.
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You are about to get railroaded by those trailer park alumni by bringing facts into a discussion.
 
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TOP said:
Not sure if serious.

Penn State is about the only one who I agree with that shouldn't be ahead of us because Paterno is gone.

Michigan is one of the top programs of all-time.

Notre Dame... one of the top programs of all-time. Not to mention, they have their own contract with NBC and are coming off a national title loss.

Oregon... Nike. They started winning and they have the CEO of Nike giving them whatever they want. Oregon is about attractive as Tennessee. Unless you add in a Nike sponsor who can offer you more. Not to mention, Oregon is lenient on weed. I don't know about the school, but the state is. If you're a player that tokes, the state of Oregon is an obvious choice over the state of Tennessee.

Notre Dame and Oregon today top Tennessee and Michigan for me. And Tennessee and Michigan top Penn State. Notre Dame will always be a top notch brand. Oregon, they're new age. They're selling what kids want and believe it or not, sit between the state of California and city of Seattle. That's on top of Portland. If Memphis is one of your attractions as a state, you're not attracting much. Then you're surrounded by garbage states like Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina... they offer little.

Tennessee is great for players who are all about the sport and being a college student on campus. It's not some big great place for weather, beaches, cities etc. Wasn't it Markeith Ambles who banged a coach's wife and then showed up to USC in a limo? That's a Georgia kid. And yeah, there are many kids like that. They want to live the life(beaches/weather/partying), wear the colors(oregon) and Tennessee doesn't offer a lot of that. If your top draw is beer bonging from the roof... it's easy to see why Oregon with Nike and Notre Dame with NBC are easier to recruit to. "Come to Tennessee... we're bored, the only fun is getting messed up. It's why we buttchug. Get f'ed up brah!". I'm not saying there is anything wrong with wanting to get as messed up as possible in college but if that's one of the best things you can offer for fun, you can get that at any school. Tennessee offers so much when it comes to athletic facilities but nightlife and weather/location? Not all that great.
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This has to be the dumbest arguments I've seen. And being this is VN, that's really saying something. Eugene is 110 miles from Portland, almost 300 miles from Seattle and 530 miles from San Francisco. I don't think that any of those places are really viable selling points when trying to convince someone to come to Eugene.

Additionally, even with Dooley's awful 3 years, UT is out-recruiting Oregon over the last 5 years and is stomping them over the last 10. So where are the results you're claiming are there? Looks like most kids don't really care about wearing a different highlighter color every week. Unless I'm missing something here.

For the most part, outside of the Dooley years, UT was a consistent Top 10 class and Top 5 class every couple of years under Fulmer, then Kiffin and now Jones' 1st year. Oregon's best class in the last 10 years is #12 even with the amount of success they've had. They've failed pretty miserably to pull anyone that isn't a CA/WA resident to their school.

Where UT has been able to.

Oh, wait. Nevermind this. I'm a trailer park fan and I only have shill opinions. In spite of all of their success and Nike money, kids these days simply don't know what you know, apparently.

We can ignore things that commits in UT's current #2 class have said were major draws to UT. Those don't count. And parroting their comments makes you a trailer park fan. Disregard.

UT is a backwater school. Knoxville is a backwater town compared to Eugene and South Bend. Atlanta (200 miles away) is a horrible place to visit.

Oh, and Knoxville is only 10 miles further from Chicago than Eugene is from anything worthwhile in California so logic clearly isn't a strong suit of yours. As if that actually needed to be said.
 
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