'27 TN CB Miles Brown (Kensucky commit)

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EastTNVol95 said:
Picked up a crystal ball from a Kentucky insider today unfortunately.

Would be brutal to lose both Brown/Barnes to them when you've already missed on Chandler and Simon in the last couple weeks.
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Sorry in the era of the portal instate losses are no longer brutal at all. It doesn’t matter if we don’t get any of the top instate guys.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Sorry in the era of the portal instate losses are no longer brutal at all. It doesn’t matter if we don’t get any of the top instate guys.
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You really have two methods to build rosters; youth>development>retention, or transfer portal roster sculpting. You have to do one of them very well. If we show an eagerness and an ability to flex in the portal next year, I think it will help alleviate the concerns of those who see us losing kids in our own state left and right. If we take another half-hearted stab at the portal next year, people will be rightfully concerned.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Sorry in the era of the portal instate losses are no longer brutal at all. It doesn’t matter if we don’t get any of the top instate guys.
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Spending money on impact players like David George’s & Kesean Bowman are a good investment but developmental guys aren’t worth breaking the bank for.

It’s Transfer portal or nothing.
 
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My hope is that seeing these in-state kids go elsewhere is a sign that Heupel has finally seen the light on the portal. We've tried the developmental route the last couple seasons, but it's obvious a new approach is needed if we are going to really make a run in this current era.

Truth be told, most of our best players under Heupel have been transfers when you really think about it (Hood, McCoy, Norman-Lott, Brazzell, Thornton to name a few).

Only time will tell if that's why we are seeing these kids go elsewhere but if it means we have more money to attack the portal next season I'm all for it. The sport is a grown man's game right now and you aren't competing for championships with a roster that is half 18 and 19 year olds.
 
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benholt06 said:
So what do we think in terms of total numbers in the high school class?
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Still going to be healthy size. Heupel wants to build a team properly through high school recruiting still, but you simply can't justify paying a lot of money to a kid bc he is rated high if he is not going to play for 2-3 years and then transfer. Or if you think you can find similar caliber of player for a better rate. I know the optics suck when you lose out on in-state kids, but there are so many talented players each class on the perimeter and they are in the mix for a ton of them, at least defensively
 
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'Losing' top 15 recruits in State to Sucky is definitely something.

I get that HS recruiting is different, why pay these kids to sit. Still sucks losing a player to those **** birds,

Hope there's a galvanized plan for the porthole. Think the inherent issue is 'not wanting to overplay overpay' HS kids means now you will overpay a porthole.
 
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Jackcrevol said:
'Losing' top 15 recruits in State to Sucky is definitely something.

I get that HS recruiting is different, why pay these kids to sit. Still sucks losing a player to those **** birds,

Hope there's a galvanized plan for the porthole. Think the inherent issue is 'not wanting to overplay overpay' HS kids means now you will overpay a porthole.
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Let him develop at UK a couple years, with UK footing the bill and grab him in the portal if he looks promising.
 
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PTSD to when we lost Keaton and Destin Wade to Kentucky. TWO top 10-15 players in state going to UK. They were so productive in college, gosh what could have been had that come to Tennessee. Kentucky just has a history of stealing future stars from Tennessee. We gotta build a wall!

This is blue font just in case anyone missed it
 
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cncchris33 said:
You really have two methods to build rosters; youth>development>retention, or transfer portal roster sculpting. You have to do one of them very well. If we show an eagerness and an ability to flex in the portal next year, I think it will help alleviate the concerns of those who see us losing kids in our own state left and right. If we take another half-hearted stab at the portal next year, people will be rightfully concerned.
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People are always concerned. Big worry circle jerk on VN constantly.
 
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swchandler1988 said:
PTSD to when we lost Keaton and Destin Wade to Kentucky. TWO top 10-15 players in state going to UK. They were so productive in college, gosh what could have been had that come to Tennessee. Kentucky just has a history of stealing future stars from Tennessee. We gotta build a wall!
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Exactly.

In the last 10 years, these are the Tennessee prep players that signed with Kensucky:

Quinton Bohanna
Barion Brown
Travon Rybka
Adrian Huey
Keaton Wade
Destin Wade
Shamar Porter
Steven Soles
Kalen Edwards.

The only ones on that list we pursued "heavily" was Keaton Wade and Travon Rybka.

Tennesse didn't prioritize those kids and were proven right. Most washed out or never lived up to their "potential."

I think the staff liked Miles and I'm sure he has upside. But he's not a player you get into a bidding war with. Hes a kid you hope you can sign for relatively cheap since he's an instate guy, and try to develop him. In the NIL era you're gonna have to do that with most of your recruiting class. Kensucky is trying to generate some juice. They only signed like 10 kids from high school last cycle. Saying you got a commitment from a "four star" from big brothers back yard is a splashy headline. But he's like a composite 4 star (on3 and 247 have him as a 3) and his best offers outside of Kensucky are Tennessee, Ole Miss, and Louisville.

This only "hurts" because of optics.
 
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highspeed said:
Whenever a kid pulls that mess with the hat I just kind of assume the school they’re trying to diss is where they really wanted to go but that school either wouldn’t take their commitment or wouldn’t meet the NIL number they want.
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I don't understand the hat pull trick. It's a sign of disrespect. I remember pruitt era a linebacker from Georgia (Jamie Pettway) put on a Tennessee hat and then ripped it off and threw it across his hs gym. He was pissed because he wanted to be a Vol and he wasn't a take for us. He was mad and had to settle for Missouri. Ended up not being sec caliber and finished his career at USF and never got a shot at the NFL.

I'd say this kid probably took offense to Tennessee offering him a significantly smaller NIL amount than Kensucky - so hey, why not burn bridges.
 
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