Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[Weezer]

Today’s edition

Is that first emoji Thanos? Does that mean M'ba is in the boat?

 

[RiseToTheTop]

sign a top 15-18 class in yr 1 with all the right portal transfers added in and its really like a top 10-13 class. Just my opinion.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Anywhere in the top 20 does it as long as we have good evaluators/developers…… people want to skip steps and become Georgia and Alabama over night…. We need to become a solid football team with good depth that is consistently at/near the top of the second tier of teams in the SEC…. Then we will be ready to move up to being like Alabama and Georgia’s of the world…. It’s a process.

It's going to take years to get to the part before the next step. This is still at least a 5 year rebuild.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Listen here…hoss idk who you think you are but @Enki_Amenra is my parlay friend and I don’t like how you’re telling him where his money should and shouldn’t go…I’ll be at the Waffle House

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[Cosmo Kramer]

 

[Jimmy Football]

What did I just watch?

 

[BigSteve09]

Never Forget:
December 7, 1941

My Grandfather was there that day. The only time I ever saw the man cry was when I was there visiting with him back in the mid '80's.
Amazing stories from him about that Day!

Wow. How old was he at the time?

 

[SweetasSoda]

Is that first emoji Thanos? Does that mean M'ba is in the boat?

Your assignment today is to analyze all of his tweets with emojis in correlation to commitments.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

It’s really good news. I’m not in love with this class or anything, but we’re ahead of where I thought we would be in May. And this class should be good enough to keep our trajectory heading upward.

We do really need to land 4-5 impact transfers, though. Wish we were hearing more on that front.

I kind of am...it reminds me a bit of a Rick Barnes class. Get some guys you know aren't looking to portal out after one season. Get some guys that are willing to come give it a proper try, will they all be starters? Who knows. Will they add depth and have the chance to play? Definitely.

I mean Pruitt's best class 2020 we've already lost 6 of those guys to the portal. I'd rather take a lower rated class (15-20) instead of high rated with divas that will bail soon as they don't see the field. At least during the early phases of building a foundation.

 

[mrmax86]

 

[InVOLuntary]

Let’s see how things play out, scaling up by a factor of 10 doesn’t just happen.



You may want to listen to the VolQuest odast that dropped yesterday. They interview the guy who is spearheading the effort.



Yep. The price I heard for Evan Stewart was at least $250k. That’s for a 5 star WR to go play in Jimbo’s offense that won’t throw him the ball. Now you’re seeing the NIL response in the arms race from Texas.

It's already happening. Bryce Young got over 7 figures. Ewers at Ohio State got $3mil. High 5 star players are getting $1mil.

 

[chargervol]

If the rumors are true, and this is academic related, then it tells me one of two things. Either we aren’t willing to operate in the gray areas of academics to keep a guy eligible, or Evans was such a diva that we just aren’t willing to go the extra mile for him. Too bad really because he is an elite talent.

I'm sure we dabble in the gray area lol, but I think we have at least some bottom line they have to meet.

Many have theorized Evans thought he could be 1 and done so he didn't even do the bare minimum.
Not an outlandish theory. [Shrug]




Edit: Now seeing @Ace implying he knows more and there's other factors.

 

[peaygolf]

Wow. How old was he at the time?

18 yrs old.....

 

[Unimane]

I generally prefer not to respond to condescending name calling with someone who lacks knowledge but thinks he has the world figured out. But bless your heart. You’re really such a little stinker.

Your argument is “whoever has the most money and resources gets the best recruits and wins the most championships” , which is different than it's been in the past....how? Since when hasn't college football been dominated by the big programs?

You think you're enlightening the rest of us, but your argument isn't nearly as strong as you think. Your condescension was met by the appropriate amount of scorn it deserved.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

I also think we won't see many (if any) transfer guys commit/sign with us until after ESD.

 

[05_never_again]

Your argument is “whoever has the most money and resources gets the best recruits and wins the most championships” , which is different than it's been in the past....how? Since when hasn't college football been dominated by the big programs?

You think you're enlightening the rest of us, but your argument isn't nearly as strong as you think. Your condescension was met by the appropriate amount of scorn it deserved.

Most people who pine for the past pine for a version of it that never existed.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

I also think we won't see many (if any) transfer guys commit/sign with us until after ESD.

i agree. I think they just started getting to that part of it. After last weekends visits i think they started working on it heavy which is why we heard ab Jared Verse's upcoming visit yesterday. The coaches had been on the road so much they probably met a lot about their prospective transfer board over the weekend. There's so many portal entries daily that there is a lot to go through I'm sure. Not saying they haven't contacted anyone bc there's a lot we don't know but they had to get through last weekend esp since we may get 4-5 commits from that group.

 

[Jimmy Football]

I also think we won't see many (if any) transfer guys commit/sign with us until after ESD.

Agreed. I think most schools will want to see how many spots they have left and which high-schoolers chose not to sign early before they commit many scholarships to transfers.

It’s a new game.

 

[BigSteve09]

18 yrs old.....

Damn.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Are we really walking around the obvious here?

Overlay the black population density map and there's your best correlation.

All of the southeast, plus major metro areas in other regions. The dots are smaller on the first map, but they exist almost everywhere as in the 2nd map. Outliers being Minnesota, rural Ohio, maybe Western PA.
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Whats a shame is, I saw that and didnt mention it from fear of being taken the wrong way and being called racist or starting some argument.

 

[Ace]

I'm sure your source is just as reliable as mine.


I know he was originally a Pruitt kid, so I'm sure it's more than one thing factoring into it.

Him being recruited by former staff is a major factor

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

Him being recruited by former staff is a major factor

Makes sense now. He fits into the group who had to find a new home.
edit: which also means he may not have been playing last few games because of a different reason unrelated to injury.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Him being recruited by former staff is a major factor

Wasn't Zach as well? Still having to get rid of kids is dumb. Plowman and White need to go away.
Not as in be fired just leave the roster alone

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Agreed. I think most schools will want to see how many spots they have left and which high-schoolers chose not to sign early before they commit many scholarships to transfers.

It’s a new game.

Plus...from an admissions standpoint I believe the Transfers need to complete finals before they can confirm eligibility at their new schools. So we could get "commits" but I think the staff is willing to wait on those to confirm the people they pursue are actually going to be eligible. (but this is just speculation on my part)

 

[BigSteve09]

Feels like there's gonna be another shakeup or explosion of transfers AFTER Early Signing Day. I don't think this staff will be done getting kids onboard for a while. There will surely be more guys that hit the portal during/after Spring ball too.