We Can Only Sign 26....

#53
#53
jmoore_21 said:
Young is'nt going anywhere, unless we sign Bigelow or Wasonga then Young will be the fastest player on the team the day he steps foot on campus.
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...I'm sorry, but I highly doubt that
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#54
#54
jmoore_21 said:
Young is'nt going anywhere, unless we sign Bigelow or Wasonga then Young will be the fastest player on the team the day he steps foot on campus.
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Doubt it. ESPN has him listed as running a 4.63 40 in camp this summer. On the vids I've seen he looks fast, but not blazing.

Vincent Dallas is definitely faster.
 
#55
#55
Young ran a 4.32 40 at TNVarsitys combine, he ran a 10.7 100m in Tennessee's High School Track Finals last year, & he ran a 4.01 shuttle.
 
#57
#57
And in my non-professional opinion Devrin seems to have excellent vision on his runs. He seems to find non-existent holes on nearly every play and doesn't slow down when he changes direction. I think he could be special.
 
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jmoore_21 said:
Young ran a 4.32 40 at TNVarsitys combine, he ran a 10.7 100m in Tennessee's High School Track Finals last year, & he ran a 4.01 shuttle.
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The 4.3 40 is a little unbelievable..not sure on TNVarsitys way of clocking 40s, but cmon..the 10.7 is more believable, and I bet we have somebody faster on the team right now..prob a few..he's not here anymore, but Hardesty ran a 10.3 in highschool, and he wasn't the fastest on the team.
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#59
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jmoore_21 said:
Young ran a 4.32 40 at TNVarsitys combine, he ran a 10.7 100m in Tennessee's High School Track Finals last year, & he ran a 4.01 shuttle.
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4.32 is Chris Johnson speed. No way that time is accurate. If LV says Young is faster than Dallas, I guess it could be true, but it doesn't look that way from their clips.
 
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UTMVol76 said:
I would be hard pressed to drop Young for two reasons. 1) His speed makes him mega-valuable on ST from Day 1 and 2) We have never had a huge amount of in-state talent, I think it goes a long way for the future to start 'building the fence' around the state
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Not bashing Young, but "building a fence" means keeping kids in state that have out of state options. How exactly does signing a kid that nobody else thinks is worthy of a scholly offer "go a long way for the future to start building a fence"? Dude may end up being great for us, but getting his signature is no great conquest.
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Just watched oregon kickoff to Thigpen of UCLA (once a Vol commit pre CLK). He is a lightning bolt.
 
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volinexile17 said:
4.32 is Chris Johnson speed. No way that time is accurate. If LV says Young is faster than Dallas, I guess it could be true, but it doesn't look that way from their clips.
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I'm no young homer, but I wonder what clips you watched that made you think vd is faster than young.
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#67
#67
ok - I'm wrong. Being unfair to Young because I wasn't thrilled with him as a recruit. He is really fast, and better than I'm giving him credit for.
 
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holdemvol said:
Not bashing Young, but "building a fence" means keeping kids in state that have out of state options. How exactly does signing a kid that nobody else thinks is worthy of a scholly offer "go a long way for the future to start building a fence"? Dude may end up being great for us, but getting his signature is no great conquest.
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Understand what your saying about Young (and I hope/think he will work out well); I just want to see us doing a better job year in- year out keeping what few players we have in-state. Now I'm also realistic enough to know we're a geographically challenged state and that depending on where you live you are closer to Oxford, Starksville, Tuscaloosa, and even Fayetteville than to Knoxville.
 
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holdemvol said:
Not bashing Young, but "building a fence" means keeping kids in state that have out of state options. How exactly does signing a kid that nobody else thinks is worthy of a scholly offer "go a long way for the future to start building a fence"? Dude may end up being great for us, but getting his signature is no great conquest.
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If the coaches are skilled at evaluating talent then I really don't care who else is recruiting Young.

We will know for sure how good CDD & staff are at evaluating talent in 2-3 years.

Until then I trust they know what they are doing. Dooley was with Saban longer than any other assistant (7 years) and I am OK to take a wait & see approach.
 
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jmoore_21 said:
Hubbs & Dooley said on the radio that we can only sign 26 players in this class before we have to start greyshirting recruits & sending them to JUCO. Which means we now have only 7 spots left.

& before anyone asks that is including backcounting, we can only backcount 1 to last years class.
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I hope the rest are four-star commits. I'll sit until signing day before adding any more three-star guys. However, I do want Zach Sharp, kicker from Maryville TN, so one of our current commits has to go unless we can get him to walk on the first year. He's too good a kicker to pass up.

That's my :twocents:
 
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FirstAndGoal said:
I hope the rest are four-star commits. I'll sit until signing day before adding any more three-star guys. However, I do want Zach Sharp, kicker from Maryville TN, so one of our current commits has to go unless we can get him to walk on the first year. He's too good a kicker to pass up.

That's my :twocents:
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We are set at kicker I believe, Palardy and Darr.
 
#73
#73
Volfootball55 said:
We are set at kicker I believe, Palardy and Darr.
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True. But he's worth a scholly and redshirt him for a year. Did you read the article about him coming to our kicking camp and hitting every single field goal? He won the overall competition with a 55-yarder, even made more ridiculous kicks with Dooley taunting him. He's a must-have Tennessee boy. In this league, there's nothing wrong with depth at kicker.

Against Florida in Knoxville a few years back... "Wilhoit from the fifty, for the win..."

I rest my case. GO VOLS!!
 
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ajvol01 said:
If the coaches are skilled at evaluating talent then I really don't care who else is recruiting Young.

We will know for sure how good CDD & staff are at evaluating talent in 2-3 years.

Until then I trust they know what they are doing. Dooley was with Saban longer than any other assistant (7 years) and I am OK to take a wait & see approach.
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When did I say that this staff couldn't evaluate talent? When did I say they didn't know what they were doing? All I said was that getting a commitment from a kid that was praying for an offer from UT is not some great accomplishment. I happen to think that Dooley and Co. Are doing just fine on the recruiting trail but you or I could have landed D Young just as quick.
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