Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

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Slim Jim's and Dr Pepper.....the breakfast of CHAMPIONS !!!! WHOOA......flashback to High School, I'll just have another hand full of SKITTLES and I'll be fine. Funny thing aboot SKitlesz they rea::y mak me,;''.;''.........
did you just have a stroke?
...........feel fine if I just take a few but if I take a hand full ..WoW !!!! ........ wait......what time is it ????.... I DID IT AGAIN !!!!

How's everybody doing ?!?! GO BIG ORANGE !!!!
 
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Our fans are just being ridiculous…. This class looks like every first year class that we have ever had…. We were an extremely poorly run program that is facing sanctions….. it will build and grow year by year if fans will just be patient with it…. I do like that our staff is trusting their own evaluations and have decided not to recruit some higher rated guys bc they didn’t think they would be good here at Tennessee… the worse mistake some of our previous coaches have made is taking higher rated guys just bc of their rating that never/barely saw the field here…. If our coaches are good evaluators/developers then we will continue to grow to where we are fighting Bama and Georgia consistently for recruits.
I'm definitely not part of the complaining group, because these is such a unique situation we haven't been in before.

But I'm not sure that's an accurate statement either. I believe Kiffin had a top 10 1st class, as did Butch's first full class (2014). Dooley (2011) and Pruitt (2019) had top 15 (maybe 13th or 14th).

Of course there's some necessary judgment there - considering first full classes. I'm considering this Heupel's first full class ofc, as I have for our other coaches except Kiffin who had some time to pull together his first class together. Obviously can't blame Heupel for last year's class.

Fact is most every coach BENEFITS from their first class. It's the classic "first year HC bump". They sell a rebuild...a new vision...blahblah. Then that fades off going into their 2nd full class and especially 3rd when they have to replace the hype with winning the crucial "inflection point" games - something our coaches have regularly failed time and time again...thus never getting over the hump. Heupel was handed the complete opposite - a 1st year disaster. But...unlike the last 2 guys, he won on the field in Y1 and hopefully that propels the 2023 class. He'll need it. He isn't being handed anything, that's for sure. He'll have to go out and win those inflection point games with probably less talent than the last 2 guys did...but he's far better Xs and Os so there's definitely hope.
 
Does anyone know of a player that the Vols have courted, be it walk on or whatever, that is from your area that is a sleeper or a really good project player for the future in this class..
 
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