'13 VA LB E.J. Levenberry (FSU commit)

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This staff did a good job to even get Levenberry to seriously consider us. Go check out some of the comments Levenberry's father had about UT a few months ago. Sal did some real damage to the relationship between UT and Levenberry.
 
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SouthKnoxVOL said:
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Give me a break. This has nothing to do with the recruiters on this staff now. This has everything to do with Dooley throwing in the towel after the UF game last year and saying **** it. This is about all the severed relationships that Dooley created because of his lack of passion towards recruits. There should not be an ounce of blame towards this coaching staff yet because they have only had 2 freaking months to try to repair some of these relationships with these recruits. You should actually thank your lucky stars that we were in the running for Levenberry, Lawson, Bellamy, and Green.
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If we hired a DC who had been recruiting guys like Levenberry already and had been recruiting successfully for a while, we'd land guys like this early on.
 
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Everyone talks about how we must win first yet we just lost bray cp hunter and dallas thomas and rivera. Literally our best players. #atleastwegotladyvolsoftball
 
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Sorry If I sond down I just Love my friggin VOLS want to be able to talk to my Georgia fan coworker and be able to say we beat them again....In guess imjust tired of sucking or getting hopes up and let downs , I am hoping for the best tommorow hope we clean house!!!!
 
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You all that are disappointed with this fail, try being an MU fan for over 40 years.

Has he actually signed anything yet?
 
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Mcdada said:
Maybe SHould have gotten a big name for DC Jancek just cant pull em down like say randy shannon??? Being loyaly doesnt do anything for u in the SEC putting winners around you does bet most of these kids have never heard of jancek ....Im a posivol always have been love the work they have done but we dont have any closers
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Ask Lane Kiffin about a staff full of recruiters.
 
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OHvol40 said:
This staff did a good job to even get Levenberry to seriously consider us. Go check out some of the comments Levenberry's father had about UT a few months ago. Sal did some real damage to the relationship between UT and Levenberry.
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Yet he is going there to play for him.....
 
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OHvol40 said:
This staff did a good job to even get Levenberry to seriously consider us. Go check out some of the comments Levenberry's father had about UT a few months ago. Sal did some real damage to the relationship between UT and Levenberry.
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But yet they end up with Sal.....
 
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Sux--we need defensive players badly. Hard to get good players when you've floundered for years, buy coaches have to overcome. Answer equals spread offense and great QB: look at a&m.
 
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OHvol40 said:
This staff did a good job to even get Levenberry to seriously consider us. Go check out some of the comments Levenberry's father had about UT a few months ago. Sal did some real damage to the relationship between UT and Levenberry.
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Sal must have not done that much damage seeing that he is at the same place as where EJ is headed.
 
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Why set up an announcement to announce to a school that you have already announced to....teenagers, lol
 
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snowvols said:
He is doing a terrific job. He landed North and will probably get Bell, Miller and some others tomorrow. We will finish in the top 20.
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Bell being a UT FAN, and the fact numbnuts is gone is more of a reason for our chances with him.. North was a good pull, but, when has UT ever had a problem with getting Wr's?

A terrific job Would be pulling in some damn kids on defense that are sec quality..

We're being out recruited by everyone not named Kentucky in the league
 
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Listen:

1) We lost a recruit. A guy who may or may not turn out to be worth a flip. We're all going crazy about him, most of us, because some sites gave him 4 stars instead of 2 or 3. Most of you on this board haven't even watched his film. And those that have aren't talent scouts or evaluators. I would say only about 2% of the people on this board have a actual clue as to how good this kid is.

2) What do you stinking expect? Butch has been on the job for two months now. 60 days. At least 14 days of those 60 was dead period. For some of that live and dead period, he was assembling a staff. But he can't work miracles! It's not like he's won a BCS championship, and his name is known worldwide! Shoot, 50% of people who are not Tennessee fans still think his name is Butch Davis! It's not like Tennessee has been featured in a good light on sports center, or has been a premier program lately. While we remember the Tennessee of the 90's, that's a far distant thought in many's mind, if they remember at all. To be a program that we'd like to think we are, we need to be like Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, Auburn, Notre Dame, Ohio State, etc. The thing they all have in common is that more years than not, they have winning and successful seasons. We haven't. So why are you expecting to have Alabama results off the field when we haven't had results on the field? Facilities help, academics help, fans help, traditions help, but ultimately, no recruit goes to a place where they have no evidence that they're going to win. Tennessee has NOTHING to promise a player that we're going to win right now. We only have Butch's campaign at Cincy and Central Michigan. And if we as fans are skeptical, how much more will they as players be? Tennessee has been viewed as a underperforming program the past few years. Until that changes, and until we're on the upswing again (a winning season, where we beat someone we aren't supposed to), then good luck getting these awesome results you want. If we get Bell tomorrow, then consider us VERY lucky.

3) Butch Jones CAN coach. You don't win at Central Michigan and Cincinnati unless you can. It's not like the 5* recruits all flock to those schools. You take what you can get there, and what you can get is 1* and 2* and MAYBE the occasional 3*. If you can't coach in those leagues, you're going to be a bottom dweller. But Butch won in those league. We have a good amount of talent in our current roster, not counting this signing class. We have a Gatorade player of the year at QB, with previous starting experience, and we have two 4* running backs who have improved dramatically over the past two years. We have several WR's that are 4*, and that are physically intimidating, and promising. We have arguably the best OL in the country, with several NFL picks just waiting to happen. We have a decent defensive line that will only improve, going back to a 4-3. We have Maggitt and Johnson at LB, that have been like the LB's of UT olden days. And while our secondary lacked last year, it's not because we don't have talent. We have a good amount of talent, and experience.

We have talent on this team. We have just been poorly coached. LUCKILY, we have a coaching staff that has been together for many years, which is going to help the continuity and the implementation of this team, and it's also going to allow Butch to coach the areas that need the most help.

4) Tomorrow may or may not be pretty. We may or may not end up with a top 15, 20, or even 25 class. And that's okay for this year. No staff can promise a recruit that they're going to win at Tennessee, when a staff has not yet proven that they can win at Tennessee.

But step away from the ledge Vol fans. The ones who want to be Vols, we will welcome them to the Big Orange Family.

Those who don't want to be Vols....will VERY shortly wish they were.
 
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