SIAP - 247 Sports Ranks Best Recruiting Jobs

[salutethehill]

You don't have to look that long or hard to see that this list is crap.

 

[jayski]

247 is quit a bit off on this one. 247 is Usually pretty reliable but I'm not sure what decade these numbers are based on. Tn consistently has been ranked 10-14 over the past few years even during our down years.

 

[BlueHalo]

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.

You make some decent points, but this tidbit is completely off. People have different tastes. Tennessee and North Carolina are exceptional states. I realize not all football players share my hobbies, but if I'd love to have the ability to hop over to the smokies and hike, bike, fly fish, and just get away from it all.

Knoxville night life isn't LA or NYC, but it's a hell of a lot better than Ann Arbor, South Bend, or Eugene. Have you been to those places? They're nothing great/good. And Portland, hah! Hipster central.

As far as our weather, we have relatively mild winters. Much more mild than Michigan, Indiana, and inland Oregon.

Also just short day trip from the beach here in East TN, which isn't offered at any of those places you mentioned. And while the Oregon coast might be beautiful...it's laughable to think an 18 y/o male wants to go for the views. That water is frigid and beaches are ultimately rocky as hell.

 

[onevol74]

I would put Georgia and Florida above Ohio State any day, just for geographic reasons alone. And then you consider weather.

 

[LWSVOL]

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.

In the last 12 signing periods, Oregon signed 281 players, 75 four stars and 8 five stars. 140 of them came from California. 35 of the four stars and 3 of the five stars came from California. I would say California is very good recruiting base for them..

during those same cycles, Tennessee signed 295 players with 116 of them being four stars and 18 being five stars. Only 77 signees came from Tennessee with 29 being four stars and 4 being five stars.