Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[butchna]

Freeman off the board for ND? So, Fickell would be next in line, right?

If Notre Dame offers him a HC gig? He’s behind Fickell on that list but he’s not off any board because Kelly wants to keep him as a coordinator.

 

[volinbama256]

I just don’t see it. Not with Banks or Heupel. Not for lateral moves. They’re highly paid, doing a great job, lots of positive momentum in Knoxville and it takes a special kind of scum bag to leave after one season. Not everyone is a dbag like LK.

Yeah they are getting paid and are accomplishing a lot, just getting started with all the positive momentum around the program, it would just be crazy to think one of these guys would bolt after one season... I think a lot of us still have BVS with Pruitt's staff where you never knew what was going on or what would happen. Our current staff seems solid, all in, and positive about what they are doing and want to build here... We have the facilities, support, money, etc to give them everything they need to succeed and build us back up...

 

[KPT_VFL]

The portal has some good talent in it but I’d be wary to build a whole roster around it. Guys who leave because of coaching changes make sense but some of these players just aren’t good or overvalue themselves. I think high school prospects are the way to build long term with a few quality transfers mixed in. Obviously Gibbs, Evans, Haselwood etc. can be solid players but most the portal is meh. It can provide depth but if two players are equal I take a high school kid to develop over a upperclassman transfer.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

The portal has some good talent in it but I’d be wary to build a whole roster around it. Guys who leave because of coaching changes make sense but some of these players just aren’t good or overvalue themselves. I think high school prospects are the way to build long term with a few quality transfers mixed in. Obviously Gibbs, Evans, Haselwood etc. can be solid players but most the portal is meh. It can provide depth but if two players are equal I take a high school kid to develop over a upperclassman transfer.

Yes

 

[mrmax86]

Yes

Congrats on your 30,000th post.

 

[tnhunter 10]

Chadwell needs to get a new agent. I thought he would have been a perfect fit for the Hokies.

 

[SpringBokVol]

Then there's this:

Holy Crap!!!!

That is unreal. In year 0. With 172 transfer portal defections.

This can't happen. No other coach would have had this type of success here.

This man has to stay.

 

[SpringBokVol]

I can't like this enough!!!! PLEASE

 

[KPT_VFL]

Chadwell needs to get a new agent. I thought he would have been a perfect fit for the Hokies.

Gotta be more to it. Somethings holding him back. Gained no interest from even G5 schools last go round.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Congrats on your 30,000th post.

I'll catch my likes before too long.

 

[VolNash17]

If you are going the coordinator route, why this guy? Why not Lebby?

And why not get a guy with HC experience - this seems like a very underwhelming hire.

Pry is one of the best DCs in CFB. He is also one of the best recruiters in the country. Specializes in recruiting the DC and Virginia area. Hokies wanted a recruiter and toughness. They got it with Pry

 

[Jimmy Football]

I can't like this enough!!!! PLEASE

SBV: Skip forward to the part where CJH requested the interview with Ainge. You’ll feel better.

 

[Voltrapnbama]

3 Auburn players in the portal. Shivers is one. Tank is not.

 

[volbeast33]

The portal has some good talent in it but I’d be wary to build a whole roster around it. Guys who leave because of coaching changes make sense but some of these players just aren’t good or overvalue themselves. I think high school prospects are the way to build long term with a few quality transfers mixed in. Obviously Gibbs, Evans, Haselwood etc. can be solid players but most the portal is meh. It can provide depth but if two players are equal I take a high school kid to develop over a upperclassman transfer.

I don’t think it matters where guys come from…. You search for all the talent you can get whether it is from juco… high school…. Transfer portal…Right now…. We need a few more veterans bc of the gaps in our roster due to the instability we have had in the past.

 

[SpringBokVol]

I'll take my L and shut up about it now.

Well that is certainly interesting!

He is playing the recruiting game. And know we know how he feels about EA.

 

[BleedorangeinGA]

Guys if you are taking that interview as negative—I’m not sure what to say. He’s not leaving

That interview said, I'm all UT, not looking around at all and OU hasn't even contacted me, but if they do I have left enough wiggle room to roll.

 

[SpringBokVol]

You came to the party late. We worked it out and you're wrong.

Yup. I see that now. Thank goodness for being late. My BVS can be put to bed!

 

[SpringBokVol]

SBV: Skip forward to the part where CJH requested the interview with Ainge. You’ll feel better.

I did! I do! That's awesome.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Gotta be more to it. Somethings holding him back. Gained no interest from even G5 schools last go round.

At least during the last cycle, the problem was staff retention. That’s the feedback he got. And he’s fine staying at Coastal if he can’t bring his staff.

 

[SweetasSoda]

I used to have zero opinion on the handling or this subject, period.
Coming back this year and reading details (from him) on which past kid got paid and exactly how much.. or what each parent received..?

Okay, it's possible all those kids or staff members just happened to volunteer private info, to a completely up & up organization with absolutely no involvement.. and for no apparent reason.
And that the only TN coaches he praised, were the ones fired for paying players, is all simply a coincidence.

Hell, let's just say it was all coincidence, why not. But how tf does someone act mad when they're the one laying out all the evidence themselves and act surprised when people draw the conclusion you lead them to draw?
It'd be like me giving very personal, UNRELEASED details on a crime and acting mad that people assume I, or someone I know, was involved??
Good grief.

Perfectly said

 

[BigSteve09]

Reminder that Mark Stoops is 2-7 vs Tennessee.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

The portal has some good talent in it but I’d be wary to build a whole roster around it. Guys who leave because of coaching changes make sense but some of these players just aren’t good or overvalue themselves. I think high school prospects are the way to build long term with a few quality transfers mixed in. Obviously Gibbs, Evans, Haselwood etc. can be solid players but most the portal is meh. It can provide depth but if two players are equal I take a high school kid to develop over a upperclassman transfer.

Well we aren’t building a whole roster out of it so don’t worry. But you can add another couple wins to your record if you plug all your weaknesses with the best talent available from the portal. Teams like UT right now can get better a lot faster than they normally could just by the portal.

 

[jkleno]

Freeman off the board for ND? So, Fickell would be next in line, right?

ND should have considered Freeman as HC. He gone!

 

[BigSteve09]

Well we aren’t building a whole roster out of it so don’t worry. But you can add another couple wins to your record if you plug all your weaknesses with the best talent available from the portal. Teams like UT right now can get better a lot faster than they normally could just by the portal.

Exactly. The portal is for building depth and maybe hitting on a guy in a position of need that can completely change a unit.

 

[Ten_Titans]

Anyone expecting a "**** Oklahoma I'm never going to that podunk state again" answer, that was never going to happen.

But I think we saw as close to that as we are going to get.