Tennessee/In-State Talent Better Than The Previous 20 Years?

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Rasputin_Vol

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Looks like Metro Nashville is starting to produce a lot more in-state talent that we can grab on to. The last 4 classes and the next 3-4 years looks like evidence of this.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Looks like Metro Nashville is starting to produce a lot more in-state talent that we can grab on to. The last 4 classes and the next 3-4 years looks like evidence of this.
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As a fan of 49 years and watching high school ball back to the late 60s we are producing more talent than every before i remember when there was only 5 or 6 recruits that could play in the SEC now there is 25 to 30 or more and top talent if we could get 12 of the top 15 each year our class will be around the top 10 every year we need home cooking.:)Look at the 18 class it is full of TENNESSEE talent and we are in the top 10 in recruiting.
 
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If you live in Nashville, you know whats up. The greater Nashville area, 5 Counties plus Clarksville and And Columbia ( which both border the 5 county Nashville area) and you are easily in the 1.5 million population.. That would have been over 70% of the states entire population 25 years ago. Add to that some really great coaches in the area now, with a lot of ex NFL and College players now coaching..
 
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And that Kentucky idiot subbing for PF last week in the PFS said that there is not enough talent for Tennessee to be a viable national power ever again! What an idiot, and then in the same breath he was talking about how Kentucky was rising to elite level in the SEC and could win the East next year...SMH I hate Kentucky, Alabama, Florida, and every other team in the SEC!!!
 
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Nocleats said:
If you live in Nashville, you know whats up. The greater Nashville area, 5 Counties plus Clarksville and And Columbia ( which both border the 5 county Nashville area) and you are easily in the 1.5 million population.. That would have been over 70% of the states entire population 25 years ago. Add to that some really great coaches in the area now, with a lot of ex NFL and College players now coaching..
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Pretty well explains it except the population in 1990 was around 5 million.
 
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TNinSC said:
Stay away dabo
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Agree. My mothers family is only 20 minutes from Clemson. Use to pull for them other than peach Bowl when we stunk it up in 03. I can't stand the way Dabo has made Tennessee his home away from home recruiting base. Would not feel bad if he went 0-12 for next few seasons but wishful thinking.
 
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In another post, somebody did the math and if we got the top 23 players, in-state, with our 2 QBs, Martinez and Penix, we would have had a top 10 class in 2016. That kind of gives u an idea, how much talent the state of Tennessee has this year
 
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1725gatorhater said:
Agree. My mothers family is only 20 minutes from Clemson. Use to pull for them other than peach Bowl when we stunk it up in 03. I can't stand the way Dabo has made Tennessee his home away from home recruiting base. Would not feel bad if he went 0-12 for next few seasons but wishful thinking.
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Really, other than Higgins, Rogers and the center from Maryville, I can't think of another player, Dabo has pulled from Tennessee. It looks worse, because all 3 guys, were in the shadow of Neyland Stadium
 
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The Dog said:
Really, other than Higgins, Rogers and the center from Maryville, I can't think of another player, Dabo has pulled from Tennessee. It looks worse, because all 3 guys, were in the shadow of Neyland Stadium
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And two of them haven't proven anything in college yet.
 
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Gotta beat Vandy though...last things those guys want to do is to leave the mid-state only to come back home and get whooped.
 
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LA vol7 said:
And that Kentucky idiot subbing for PF last week in the PFS said that there is not enough talent for Tennessee to be a viable national power ever again! What an idiot, and then in the same breath he was talking about how Kentucky was rising to elite level in the SEC and could win the East next year...SMH I hate Kentucky, Alabama, Florida, and every other team in the SEC!!!
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Another feather in my "hatred for KY hat".
 
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Talent level is getting better all over the state because of population growth. TN is a low tax state which has business thriving so we have to remember that some of these great Athletes will go to other schools because they move here as fans of another team. Jacoby Stevens was this last year as he was from Louisiana. Also for some kids they just want to leave the State. Look how many Stars we have gotten to leave their State to play for us.
 
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Great for talent, awful for traffic. Got to where I dread going through the Boro. Life's about trade offs.
 
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Nashville has supplanted Memphis as Tennessee's largest city and Murfreesboro is the 15th fastest growing city in America. kensucky homers should stick to basketball.
 
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Recruiting obviously never stops in this day and age of college football, but things do change. One thing that’s changed for Butch Jones and Tennessee in recent years is exactly where the Vols have to go to locate and land talent. More and more lately, the journey to find SEC caliber talent doesn’t take Jones and his staff outside the borders of the state.

That’s a fundamental and remarkable shift for a program that historically has had to make a living from raiding the backyards of many of its SEC brethren. Tennessee, more often than not, has been able to make a living doing just that over the years, but doing heavy lifting against the ‘home team’ can be a tough task. Recent developments in the amount of SEC talent the state of Tennessee has been able to produce suggest that the Vols’ program may be entering a new era in recruiting.
In-state talent explosion changing the landscape for Vols
 
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orangeluvr said:
Nashville has supplanted Memphis as Tennessee's largest city and Murfreesboro is the 15th fastest growing city in America. kensucky homers should stick to basketball.
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This plus Nashville metro was the 12th fastest growing metropolitan area in the US. Some of the others are west coast and Utah where they could give less a damn than they do in the south about football.
 
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Nashville is growing like a Atlanta was in the 90s. Talent is being brought in from all over and NPA is helping develop these guys at a high level. It's crazy the amount of talent that's coming in and it will continue to come in with the city growing.
 
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