'17' TN ATH Tee Higgins (Clemson commit)

[CrunchingTheVolz]

Michigan has insinuated that Clemson offer Gary "incentives".

Anything more than an ice cream cone and they busted.

 

[bigsteve13]

Can we all agree to not care about teenager decisions until February? It's getting old

 

[BurninOrange]

Hmmm. You would think she would have told him that before he started taking visits.

I think she wanted him to before the Clemson visit and he went ahead and went anyway. So one could say he decommitted before the visit but did not tell anyone.

 

[drvenner]

Well if Clemson keeps it up they may start signing more TN kids than TN does. Maybe he wants to play with guys he knows?

I've said it for a while. I think 2016 will prove to be a mistake. Hopefully we win and kids and their coaches forgive/forget. I'm not sold instate recruiting is going to go smoothly this year. We'll see. Its off to a rocky start.

You did not even let the ink get dry before you strained your lat muscle patting yourself on the back with unfounded praise because it's still about 364 days until next year's signing day.

 

[SouthKnoxVOL]

Clemson is the flavor of the month. It'll wear off. Especially when Hunter Johnson decommits from there and goes to Notre Dame.

 

[BowlBrother85]

Well if Clemson keeps it up they may start signing more TN kids than TN does. Maybe he wants to play with guys he knows?

I've said it for a while. I think 2016 will prove to be a mistake. Hopefully we win and kids and their coaches forgive/forget. I'm not sold instate recruiting is going to go smoothly this year. We'll see. Its off to a rocky start.

This is ridiculous.

 

[Brillovol]

Meh. If he'd rather go to Clemson instead of UT...bye. Don't even care. Next!

C'mon, Ron. You know you'll be back here with the rest of us booming by this time next year when we pull this out in the end.

 

[UTK]

This blows. He still may end up here, but goodness. Never saw him decomitting. Still have faith we land him though. Butch is too good of a recruiter to let an Oak Ridge kid go somewhere else, surely.

 

[CrunchingTheVolz]

This is ridiculous.

I agree.

I was really hoping they would have focused on instate guys a bit more in 2016. Just taking 3-4 more could have made a huge difference. Especially going into 2017.

 

[volatil]

Good Grief crunchy LEB.

When it's all said and done, Butch Jones will land a historic class in '17.

I don't care who has what committed right now. Tyler Byrd was committed to Miami forever.

Trust me, we have a ton of momentum with kids in this area that I would have sworn (and did) would never go to UT.

 

[InVOLuntary]

We need an in-state headliner recruit that will recruit other in-state recruits. Hurd and even Warton type of guy. I was hoping Tee would be the guy but obviously he's not. Maybe one of the mid-state guys will be that type of guy? Those types of guys end up being leaders.

 

[cncchris33]

There should be no doubt. When you don't focus on instate talent every year, it can lead to this sort of thing. Hopefully we get him back in the fold.

Oh my gosh, would you shut up with that ridiculous crap? Turning away an average instate class of players in 2016 has ZERO, zilch, nada, to do with Higgins decision. Only a complete fool would even entertain that belief.

 

[marvin616]

Clemson recent WR success>>>>>>out longtime WR success right now.

We really need production in the passing game this year to show WRs when Dormandy/Jones/Guarantano will still get them the rock

How do you spell Guarantano correctly but still get Dormady wrong?

 

[butchna]

Door open? He is not committed to Clemson... and even if he did - could Clemson tell a kid from Oak Ridge not to visit Knoxville? Give me a break.

Ask our good buddy Palmer...Dabo FORBIDS it. If he commits to Clemson he has no choice. (Ran out of blue ink).

 

[Dust10]

Don't forget, Leb also wanted to take less than marginal Tennessee talent just for the sake of it.

 

[UTK]

And people, seriously. We are still the favorite, don't fool yourselves. Kongbo did the same thing and still ended up with us. I think he just wants to erase all doubts and enjoy the process.

 

[BaldBiker]

I love the fact that our fan base has evolved from melting down every time a recruit decommits to now just brushing it off and looking for the next man up.

Not worried, but not necessarily looking for the next man up yet either. We have a year to work on him, or find the next man up........Really just not worried one way or the other at this point. Signing day is Feb 1st, 2017.

 

[Vols4us]

Who knows what went through his mind. It is likely to change again. Hope he realizes the opportunity he will miss by going elsewhere with who we have at QB. The grass is not greener across the mountain.

 

[butchna]

This is ridiculous.

He's getting the reaction he wants. Bigger stretch than his prediction that taking 3 QBs would destroy our team. Forced him to move to Hawaii. :boredom:

 

[jave36]

Who knows what went through his mind. It is likely to change again. Hope he realizes the opportunity he will miss by going elsewhere with who we have at QB. The grass is not greener across the mountain.

Recently, the grass has been greener for WR across the mountain.

 

[top5vols]

Best now than later.

 

[Volnerd]

He will change his mind when Peyton shows up.

 

[kw3953]

Don't forget, Leb also wanted to take less than marginal Tennessee talent just for the sake of it.

Yep

 

[Aesius]

I love the fact that our fan base has evolved from melting down every time a recruit decommits to now just brushing it off and looking for the next man up.

We've got this guy:

 

[CrunchingTheVolz]

I did see in another thread where someone said Butch needs to take only 5* kids in 2017. May have been D4H. Maybe Butch told Higgins to get to stepping and go earn that 5th star or don't come back.