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Grateful Vol

Grateful Vol

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The big game is 9 days away. It will also be a huge weekend for official visits from the nation's top recruits. Let's start a thread listing who all is suppose to be visiting UT that weekend. Keep it credible, relevant, and recent please.

Clemson Committ 4* Safety Devonte Holloman and close friend Stephon Gilmore will be there. Both from Rock Hill, SC.

ESPN - Southeast Recruiting Blog
 
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How sweet would it be to take these two from Clemson! Especially after last year when Page & Mclain spurned UT for Clemson.
 
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Shankle and Mitchell Thorton..as well as ASKEW will be here for the UAB game..not FL

The FL is huge...tons of talent coming in from all over. There is a list by NYCVOL somewhere.
 
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Notre Dame will be hosting Nyshier Oliver and Chris Bonds this weekend vs Michigan. What's the word on Marlon Brown? He's going to UGA/Bama game I know.
 
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Rivals has a official visitor list for this weekend, anybody a subscriber?

DE Jason Ankrah tried committing to Penn State but they told him they were looking else where. He is looking at UT, Michigan, and VT. ESPN says he is taking an official for the UT/UF game.
 
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5* prospects Dre Kirkpatrick and Kendall Kelly will be in town. Unfortunately they are both Bama locks. Damn that Saban!!!
 
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you know what's the worst part of this for the recruiting? It's not the loss; it's that every recruit there today saw most of 100 000 fans leave after the 1st half of a 20-0 game. That's just terrible. No recruit is going to go to any school when they see that happen
 
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SAM1171 said:
5* prospects Dre Kirkpatrick and Kendall Kelly will be in town. Unfortunately they are both Bama locks. Damn that Saban!!!
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I was talking to a Bama friend of mine a couple of days ago. I commented to him that it looks like Bama is on the rise. He said that he was cautiously optimistic but he did like the fact that other SEC coaches have commented on how Bama has gotten back their "Smash Mouth" attitude rather than the finness(SP?) game plan. We had that in 98, and it disappeared in 2001.:shakehead:
 
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damn yeah, crowd became hopeless by halftime, most left, the ones that stayed had no energy and most left by 4th quarter
 
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TrueOrange said:
you know what's the worst part of this for the recruiting? It's not the loss; it's that every recruit there today saw most of 100 000 fans leave after the 1st half of a 20-0 game. That's just terrible. No recruit is going to go to any school when they see that happen
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Yeah? I wasn't about to waste the rest of my day seeing my team get demolished and then thinking about it while sitting in traffic for hours.
 
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TNVol92 said:
yeah,I left at half time,so. What was the use in staying?
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I'm not blaming anyone; i understand when people leave because they dont want to see a bad loss

but when your fans are leaving at half-time, when your team is only down 2-3 touchdowns...it looks bad. Especially now when the media pics it up and points it out and the other outlets too. It looks bad and it sticks in the recruits minds...in the same way that those UT fans with the bags on their heads in 05 wont go away.

When a majority of your fans leave that early in a game where it's still reasonable to win even just time wise, it looks bad. it looks like your fanbase doesnt care about your team unless they're winning, and any recruit there visiting will have picked up and be more dismayed with the team for that than for the loss; no one wants to play for a school where they think the fans dont care about them

it's like UK trying to sell there school before last year: any recruit that brooks told that UK really cares about it's football program above all else would probably say "yeah right" in their heads


Again, you guys were free to do whatever you wanted, but that halftime leave looked very bad, and the recruits visiting there aren't going to be considering UT for that reason more than the 30-6 loss.
 
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TrueOrange said:
I'm not blaming anyone; i understand when people leave because they dont want to see a bad loss

but when your fans are leaving at half-time, when your team is only down 2-3 touchdowns...it looks bad. Especially now when the media pics it up and points it out and the other outlets too. It looks bad and it sticks in the recruits minds...in the same way that those UT fans with the bags on their heads in 05 wont go away.

When a majority of your fans leave that early in a game where it's still reasonable to win even just time wise, it looks bad. it looks like your fanbase doesnt care about your team unless they're winning, and any recruit there visiting will have picked up and be more dismayed with the team for that than for the loss; no one wants to play for a school where they think the fans dont care about them

it's like UK trying to sell there school before last year: any recruit that brooks told that UK really cares about it's football program above all else would probably say "yeah right" in their heads


Again, you guys were free to do whatever you wanted, but that halftime leave looked very bad, and the recruits visiting there aren't going to be considering UT for that reason more than the 30-6 loss.
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WAKE UP everyone left in protest of FULMER and his Follies, not because of the kids. (Tho "those" kids SUCKAZZ and are 2nd rate players not even worthy of standing on the checkered grass!)

Contract schmontract, FULMER IS ON HIS WAY OUT!!! The fans are voting with their support and more importantly THEIR POCKETBOOKS. :cray:

ANYONE who wants to make excuses for Fulmer is only rearranging chairs on the deck of a sinking ship. HE's ON HIS WAY OUT.

GOODBYE and GOOD RIDANCE FATBOY! :good!:
RA
 
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FulmerSuxxx said:
WAKE UP everyone left in protest of FULMER and his Follies, not because of the kids. (Tho "those" kids SUCKAZZ and are 2nd rate players not even worthy of standing on the checkered grass!)

Contract schmontract, FULMER IS ON HIS WAY OUT!!! The fans are voting with their support and more importantly THEIR POCKETBOOKS. :cray:

ANYONE who wants to make excuses for Fulmer is only rearranging chairs on the deck of a sinking ship. HE's ON HIS WAY OUT.

GOODBYE and GOOD RIDANCE FATBOY! :good!:
RA
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it's to bad that Fumer will be here until he feels like retiring, this program will be nothing once he's gone.
 
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FulmerSuxxx said:
WAKE UP everyone left in protest of FULMER and his Follies, not because of the kids. (Tho "those" kids SUCKAZZ and are 2nd rate players not even worthy of standing on the checkered grass!)

Contract schmontract, FULMER IS ON HIS WAY OUT!!! The fans are voting with their support and more importantly THEIR POCKETBOOKS. :cray:

ANYONE who wants to make excuses for Fulmer is only rearranging chairs on the deck of a sinking ship. HE's ON HIS WAY OUT.

GOODBYE and GOOD RIDANCE FATBOY! :good!:
RA
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um....ok....i dont think i was defending fulmer at all in that statement...not at all.

They could boo all they wanted that game and id been fine with that.

But most leaving at halftime, that looks worse than anything any vandy, ole miss, or even bammer fans have done.

And what stops it there; odds are your next coach will be bad; we lost to florida by being totally outplayed on the field this time talent wise; this new coach is going to have to recruit some players to even out the level.

But you cant recruit those players if the fan treats the program like that period. If they want to protest, they can not go to the next games, that's works and looks ok. But leaving at halftime just looks poor (and it's not a protest of hamilton by closing their wallets to him b/c he already has their money from the tickets they already bought).

They need some more recruits to close the gap and this method just makes it harder: imagine if bruce had to explain to his recruit why all the ut fans left tba after the team was down 18 to south carolina at half...

I know everyone's still upset about the loss; i'm very upset too. But the whole leaving at halftime down by 20 (and it's not like UF was scoring every drive) just looks bad for the program period.

It's the kinda thing espn would look at later and laugh at
 
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All of this is true, but there is an old saying about breaking eggs and omlettes that might find application in all of this.

You can't leave the coaching staff out of it either. They are responsible for recruiting. They are also responsible for keeping a team in a game until halftime as well. Fans will do as they see fit. Had I been there, I would have left in the third. The last thing you want is to deal with is road rage after watching that pounding.
 
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TrueOrange said:
um....ok....i dont think i was defending fulmer at all in that statement...not at all.

They could boo all they wanted that game and id been fine with that.

But most leaving at halftime, that looks worse than anything any vandy, ole miss, or even bammer fans have done.

And what stops it there; odds are your next coach will be bad; we lost to florida by being totally outplayed on the field this time talent wise; this new coach is going to have to recruit some players to even out the level.

But you cant recruit those players if the fan treats the program like that period. If they want to protest, they can not go to the next games, that's works and looks ok. But leaving at halftime just looks poor (and it's not a protest of hamilton by closing their wallets to him b/c he already has their money from the tickets they already bought).

They need some more recruits to close the gap and this method just makes it harder: imagine if bruce had to explain to his recruit why all the ut fans left tba after the team was down 18 to south carolina at half...

I know everyone's still upset about the loss; i'm very upset too. But the whole leaving at halftime down by 20 (and it's not like UF was scoring every drive) just looks bad for the program period.

It's the kinda thing espn would look at later and laugh at
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Sorry but i don't buy the fact we don't have talent. We have talent maybe not as much as UF but do we ever. UF has a boatload of instate talent they can rely on. UT does not have that and never will. I think with the right coach this is very fixable. Look at what Saban has done and what Meyer did when he got to UF. We can win now with the talent we have we just need the right coach.
 
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JMBIGORANGE said:
Sorry but i don't buy the fact we don't have talent. We have talent maybe not as much as UF but do we ever. UF has a boatload of instate talent they can rely on. UT does not have that and never will. I think with the right coach this is very fixable. Look at what Saban has done and what Meyer did when he got to UF. We can win now with the talent we have we just need the right coach.
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i was saying we dont have as much talent as UF right now (which is where the "who we need to be beating" seems to be focused), not that we dont have talent
 
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