Recruiting a worry

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norrislakevol said:
Man......some of these threads sure do age well. Hahahahaha!!!!
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I never thought I would see the day when the Tennessee volunteer fanbase applauded 18th nationally and 8th in the SEC. Slow golf clap.... Not only applauded it but trumpeted it. Actually laughed at people who said recruiting was weak. Okkkkkkkkkk
 
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vfl_gbo said:
I never thought I would see the day when the Tennessee volunteer fanbase applauded 18th nationally and 8th in the SEC. Slow golf clap.... Not only applauded it but trumpeted it. Actually laughed at people who said recruiting was weak. Okkkkkkkkkk
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If you can look at the SEC rankings and see any material difference in the recruiting rankings between Tennessee and any of the other teams apart from Alabama and Georgia, you put WAY too much faith in the rankings. Why even play the games? LSU was two tenths of a star better in 2020. Florida a tenth. May as well go to the Sunbelt.
 
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BigOrangeHick said:
recruiting is weak, even with the bad start very disappointed. Wiffed on most our big names really, butch jones staff recruited better. Way better...no way we break top 15. I don’t even see us chasing the 5 star talent this year.
Yeah numbers aren’t everything but we are not recruiting well at all right now. We may be better next year but prob dip again. Pruitt needs results next year or may get worse. I hope to be proven wrong and they cobble together a respectable sec class. Just sucks to be 9 or 10th in sec
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I’ve always found the best approach on this board is to be honest with your fellow posters about who you are. They know I’m a Gator fan. Most still don’t care for my opinion on things, but they at least respect where I’m coming from and occasionally appreciate a rival’s perspective. By all accounts, Tennessee has a very good class this cycle, including a big head to head win today v Florida for Beckwith. So your post reeks of someone posing as a UT fan. Tennessee fans are not, and should not be down on a top 10 recruiting class (according to Rivals and 247).

Congrats, UT and Pruitt, well done. I think both UF and UT should be happy with their classes, and I also think we both can agree that we gotta keep closing the gap with the recruiting machine that is Georgia. Thank God their game day coaching is limited because they can damn sure bring in players.
 
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BigOrangeHick said:
recruiting is weak, even with the bad start very disappointed. Wiffed on most our big names really, butch jones staff recruited better. Way better...no way we break top 15. I don’t even see us chasing the 5 star talent this year.
Yeah numbers aren’t everything but we are not recruiting well at all right now. We may be better next year but prob dip again. Pruitt needs results next year or may get worse. I hope to be proven wrong and they cobble together a respectable sec class. Just sucks to be 9 or 10th in sec
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Another 45 post troll job. Move along back to Billy Goat's Gruff.
 
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SaintLouisVol said:
If you can look at the SEC rankings and see any material difference in the recruiting rankings between Tennessee and any of the other teams apart from Alabama and Georgia, you put WAY too much faith in the rankings. Why even play the games? LSU was two tenths of a star better in 2020. Florida a tenth. May as well go to the Sunbelt.
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so you just pointed at the ranking system to make a point about how I put too much stock into the ranking system? "If you look at the rankings" then literally in the same sentence, you put too much faith in the rankings.

How else do you propose we evaluate recruiting classes if we don't use the ranking system? Just like the polls, it's an instrument used to gauge progress.
 
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vfl_gbo said:
I never thought I would see the day when the Tennessee volunteer fanbase applauded 18th nationally and 8th in the SEC. Slow golf clap.... Not only applauded it but trumpeted it. Actually laughed at people who said recruiting was weak. Okkkkkkkkkk
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10th on 247 and 8th on rivals. And you might want to see a proctologist about that stick.
 
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vfl_gbo said:
I never thought I would see the day when the Tennessee volunteer fanbase applauded 18th nationally and 8th in the SEC. Slow golf clap.... Not only applauded it but trumpeted it. Actually laughed at people who said recruiting was weak. Okkkkkkkkkk
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18th nationally and 8th in the SEC? Try 8th nationally and 6th in the SEC (Rivals) or 10th nationally and 7th in the SEC (247)....and within earshot of/essentially no difference from Florida per both services. This is a damn good class top to bottom.
 
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We have a Top Ten Class according to Rivals and 247 and we have a Top 20 Class according to ESPN. I'll never complain having a class that caliber. We have 13 Four Star players and our QB just got a Fifth Star. I don't understand how everyone isn't thrilled with this haul.
 
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dduncan4163 said:
We have a Top Ten Class according to Rivals and 247 and we have a Top 20 Class according to ESPN. I'll never complain having a class that caliber. We have 13 Four Star players and our QB just got a Fifth Star. I don't understand how everyone isn't thrilled with this haul.
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Completely agree. This is a really good class. Getting both Beckwith and Wideman was awesome.
 
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Vols have one good class and a sprinkling of SEC players beyond that. Most of the teams we have to beat are stacked. One more Ga State/BYU type outing and this ship will sink before it gets out of the harbor. Can't lose any momentum. The only difference I'm seeing between right now and where we were after Butch's second season is better recruiting on the lines and slightly weaker recruiting at skill positions. Maybe the lines will prove to be the missing ingredient.
 
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