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InVOLuntary said:
I offered the guy a $100 Toys4Us gift card and the little effer didn't fall for it. Said there are no more Toys4Us stores.
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Funny true story...like 1981 or 82...went to Neyland with a friend with no tickets so bought outside the gate...Purchased (2) tickets from a scalper for the UT/KY game from the previous home game cycle. I mean who looks at the date on a ticket and who holds onto one unused for 2 years to scalp! LOL
 
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DawgInterloper said:
You're probably being flippant, but I see these comments regularly on football boards. That logic is something that most people find objectionable when used to question or oppose their own choices. If turned around and applied to your interests as a Vol fan it would mean, "screw UT for not giving all football scholarships to Tennessee HS recruits, even if UT believes they have better prospects elsewhere."

Sorry, I know you weren't expecting a weighty philosophical response but, even in every day life, it's getting harder to tell if people can see the other point of view. In the case of fb recruiting, there's a reason the recruits feel compelled to say "Respect my decision."
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It goes much deeper than that. The media loves to down Tennessee. Coaches and NPA love to send them anywhere but Tennessee. The recruits would not even give them a chance. All we hear about is where the recruits in the state are going, and everyone panic. Tennessee nor any other school HAS to get players from the state. Recruits do not HAVE to go to a school in state. We did just fine without them so hopefully we can move on from this.
 
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Weezer said:
WTH is Toys4Us? It was ToysRUs.

Geoffrey the Giraffe would be so ashamed of you guys.
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I think Toys4Us is an adult sex toy shop isn't it? Is @InVOLuntary trying to give gift cards for sex toys to potential recruits? Its like @David Ubben and his "Cigs for Kids" campaign.
 
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BigSteve09 said:
Some notes from the Oregon hiring process...

- everyone knows that they tried everything that they could to keep Cristobal. Basically begged. He turned down everything.

- they did interview Chip Kelly but he didn't want the job so it didn't go far

- they tried hard to get Wilcox from Cal. It made a lot of sense for a lot of reasons, but he turned the job down. Big time head scratcher.

- in the middle of all of this, a bunch of former Oregon players wrote an open letter to the AD essentially, saying that Oregon is in danger of losing its identity and they wanted to make sure Oregon stayed Oregon. I'm assuming this meant "stop hiring SEC boys." They all but demanded Wilcox but obviously it fell through. I don't know the timing of the letter vs Wilcox interviewing

- they did eventually get Lanning, and it looks like recruiting won't take a nosedive after Cristobal, which apparently was a big worry there

The lasting question is what does this all say about this job when one of their own (Wilcox) and their legendary coach (Kelly) didn't even take the interview process deep? Very interesting.

Anyway, just some interesting notes from the coaching search post mortem. I find it funny that all of this drama and misses were happening at Oregon, but the national media doesn't do the whole point-and-laugh treatment with them. If we went through all of that again we'd still be hearing about it.
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We can only imagine how bad that would be for us.
 
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He is thought of as a really good recruiter. Good luck with this though… micromanagement has a breaking point… Says he will be the lead on every recruit and the bridge between recruit and staff.
 
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