'17' TN ATH Tee Higgins (Clemson commit)

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Darth_Shiveman said:
Definitely time to start wondering why recruiting is not going well. At this point last year, it seemed like the stars had aligned for us to have another monster class.

It now seems like the staff is having trouble selling their vision without the promise of early PT or highly rated legacy recruits to hop on board and bring in other other guys.

Granted, there's still plenty of time for things to turn around (especially if the team wins big in 2016). Still though, you've gotta wonder why exactly recruiting has dropped off since the 2015 class.
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For top WRs it's our poor passing attack. Alot of it is due to the qb. And not many pass plays were called.

And some of it could be due to the goofy ways they lost big games last season. Great coaching would have had that team in the top 10 playing in ATL in 15

And an important one is noone is going to the league in last couple of yrs. Not all CBJ fault but teenagers dont see it that way
 
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The Breakerboy said:
Funny how our fan base has this false sense of entitlement over Clemson at the present. That coaching staff has proven more in every aspect than Butch right now. I can't even get mad about a kid wanting to play WR there. They are featuring WRs extremely well.
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Agree.

Dabo is a great recruiter and all around good guy also. I can see the appeal.
 
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The Breakerboy said:
Funny how our fan base has this false sense of entitlement over Clemson at the present. That coaching staff has proven more in every aspect than Butch right now. I can't even get mad about a kid wanting to play WR there. They are featuring WRs extremely well.
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They've also been there for ten years, and before this year, choking was called "Clemsoning."

Who know who has proven nothing? Kirby Smart. Yet he's on fire on the recruiting trail.
 
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Wondering what this does for the assuredness of other commitments? Seems like a loss of this proportion could lead to a fair amount of uncertainty and doubt on the part of other recruits.
 
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volfaninpa said:
The issue I see is the level of apparent deception. I know recruits tell people what they want to hear, but there was an incredible amount of confidence from all the UT insiders. What's a coach to do if the recruit, dare I say lies straught up to him?

Clemson is really attractive right now for a lot of legit reasons, hopefully 5 years from now UT will have won 50 plus games and is plucking 5 star talent out of other teams backyards.
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I can't blame the recruit. I mean even places like VQ gives a recruits announcement away without straight up saying it. "UT is in a great spot here". Fans know what that means. Only way for a recruit to have his moment is to lie.
 
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bignewt said:
Maybe clemsons style fits him better...who cares? As long as we win i couldn't care less how or with what players. Lets go run the ball down everyone's throats!
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It's almost impossible to be elite without having a somewhat balanced offense.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
If we don't see a nice spike in the passing game in 2016, we can't realistically expect to see guys like Tee sign with UT. Since Butch and Azzani came to Knoxville, we've seen a lot of highly rated WRs struggle to put up even decent numbers.

Honestly I don't really expect to see much of a spike in the passing game until Guarantano or Dormady are under center either. It might be 2019 before we're in a position to really be able to sell WR production to top recruits. We've just gotta hope the guys we have can perform well until then.
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We're going with the Wish Bone next year.:)
 
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Ouch. This guy must have misled a bunch of people around UT.

This is a strike against all the UT recruiting insiders. Doubt he flips again.

Definitive proof CBJ needs to win the east this fall and win some big games.
 
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volfaninpa said:
The issue I see is the level of apparent deception. I know recruits tell people what they want to hear, but there was an incredible amount of confidence from all the UT insiders. What's a coach to do if the recruit, dare I say lies straught up to him?

Clemson is really attractive right now for a lot of legit reasons, hopefully 5 years from now UT will have won 50 plus games and is plucking 5 star talent out of other teams backyards.
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Hunter Johnson taught him well
 
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McGeesPub said:
They've also been there for ten years, and before this year, choking was called "Clemsoning."

Who know who has proven nothing? Kirby Smart. Yet he's on fire on the recruiting trail.
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True. Clemson offense sucked until Chad Morris came along and installed their current offense. Watson is Winston type that makes everyone else look better than they probably are. Be interesting to see how offense looks after Watson leaves.
 
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Gotta say, everything considered, I love our fanbase.
The comments from Miami boards after Byrd were unbelievable.
A few here suggested that we were no better. I disagreed.
Love for my fellow Vols and happy 4th!
 
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GAVOL1973 said:
What in the world is so dang special about Clemson......
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Made the national championship game, has been recruiting like crazy, get WRs to the league (2 of which are blowing up), WRs get thrown to enough to get stats (Charone Peake didn't get drafted highly but had some numbers), #1 QB for 17 class, etc etc
 
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Nice miss. Don't blame him, need a big year out of wrs to get guys like him. Ut will be fine, let's not worry to much until after the season plays out. If they win big, gonna have a big time class no matter what
 
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bignewt said:
There is balance and there is what you are good at...i havent seen bama throw the ball all over the yard recently.
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Yep, they do it just enough and feature a couple of great WRs.

and


They Win.

Winning is the key. It's why Clemson is doing so well now.
 
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