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LeannaVol said:
I saw where Keon Johnson from Webb School Bell Buckle got a big jump in latest rivals ranking. Now top 50. Webb also has a 2021 point guard that may be worth watching Jordan Jenkins. Injured for most of last year. 6'3 point guard
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that team cracks me up.... they are called the webb feet
 
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volbeast33 said:
that team cracks me up.... they are called the webb feet
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That tears my wife up. I tell her it is fitting for the demographic of the school. Very, very academic school. Kids come from other countries to go there. Using that as a team name is very fitting but she thinks it's ridiculous. I have coached against Webb for years and the fact that they have a Top 50 player nationally is like the Twilight Zone. There have been years they barely had enough players to field a team. This season they did not even have a HS girls basketball team.
 
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I am afraid Mann has changed his timeline. New offer from Kansas and dad being quoted as saying it wasn't happening in the shortterm like we had heard worries me
 
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BruinVol said:
I am afraid Mann has changed his timeline. New offer from Kansas and dad being quoted as saying it wasn't happening in the shortterm like we had heard worries me
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That wasn’t dad...and iirc he said it wasn’t happening that week, which was a good thing for us coming fresh off a UF visit. I believe they said sometime this summer was likely, but not anything immediate. Him holding off could be a good thing, I’m afraid we had very little chance if he committed days after his OV to Florida.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
That wasn’t dad...and iirc he said it wasn’t happening that week, which was a good thing for us coming fresh off a UF visit. I believe they said sometime this summer was likely, but not anything immediate. Him holding off could be a good thing, I’m afraid we had very little chance if he committed days after his OV to Florida.
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I don't recall the exact quote but it sounded like it might go into the fall iirc.

I think we expected as answer fairly quickly after the florida visit. That was the vibe I got reading his quotes after our visit
 
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BruinVol said:
I don't recall the exact quote but it sounded like it might go into the fall iirc.

I think we expected as answer fairly quickly after the florida visit. That was the vibe I got reading his quotes after our visit
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I don’t recall anything from him or his family saying that...RL seemed to think it was possible and that’s why both schools brought him in on visits so early. I still think he decides before school starts back up, so sometime this summer.
 
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BruinVol said:
I don't recall the exact quote but it sounded like it might go into the fall iirc.

I think we expected as answer fairly quickly after the florida visit. That was the vibe I got reading his quotes after our visit
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bleedingTNorange said:
I don’t recall anything from him or his family saying that...RL seemed to think it was possible and that’s why both schools brought him in on visits so early. I still think he decides before school starts back up, so sometime this summer.
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From the Rivals article directly from his cousin who went on his Florida OV with him...

“I think he’s going to announce where he’s going before November,” said Williams. Perhaps by the end of this week we asked? “Nah not that soon.”
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BruinVol said:
I am not because then it becomes a Kansas and or other blue bloods to compete with instead of the Gators
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Agree. If this thing goes into the fall months I don't like our chances and with the way we approach recruiting it would mean we miss on other guys waiting on him.
 
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The sooner this recruitment ends, the better for us, regardless of the outcome. Landing him by July would be ideal, but even losing him by July means we can move on with time to recover with our other primary targets.
 
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Dallasbowlin said:
Very nice article here.
Vols are Shooting for the Stars in Recruiting | Rocky Top Insider
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The Vols swung and missed on some highly-rated players in the 2018 class. But this year marked the first time in the Barnes era that Tennessee was actually truly aiming for those types of prospects.

Tennessee has offered 35 players (including Burns) in the 2018 class, and six of those players are rated as five-stars while 20 of them are rated as four-stars. That means 74.7 percent of Tennessee’s offers in this recruiting cycle have gone to players rated as four-stars or better.

Barnes and his staff offered more five-stars in the 2018 class than they had the two previous years combined. And they went from right around half of their offers going to four and five-star players to nearly 75 percent of their offers going to those players.

But it doesn’t stop there.

So far in the 2019 cycle, the Vols have offered 35 total scholarships. Of those 35 offers, 11 have gone to five-star prospects and 17 have been offered to four-star players. Tennessee has given an offer to a player rated as a four-star or better to 80 percent of the prospects they’ve offered in 2019 cycle.
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I was told that we always recruit like this.
 
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