2025 Recruiting

#451
#451
LadyVol1908 said:
That whole post reeked of it, and you know what I’m talking about! It all makes sense as into why that poster is so stern on these kids not making NIL money!
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I want him/her to clarify so bad though…Most definitely know what they really wanted to say! It’s disgusting but me being from Tennessee I’m not shocked.
 
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glv98 said:
Anytime I think what young people wear looks goofy, and I often do, I remember what us "hippies" and wannabes wore in the 60s and 70s and I kinda shut up. And go tell the kids to get off my lawn!
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I'm With you here g l v..... I still remember my prom suit,,, A light blue Leisure suit with a gawdy silk shirt That had a collar that nearly covered fourth of the shirt and platform Shoes... Oh, and my hair was in an Afro.
That touched the door frame when I walk through it.
 
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sgacock said:
Last year your band wagon was eyelashes wasn’t it?
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Ha: I want individuals when they're playing sports to be sportsmen and sportswomen. If you're a basketball player, be a basketball player--and represent your sport and your school and your team with class. It's not about you. Most fans (notice I didn't say all) don't give a whit about your "personal identity" when you're on the court or the field--and neither should you. And you're not out there to be fashionable, either. Play basketball, then be yourself in your private life. So, yea, I think putting a big gold chain around the neck of a young basketball prospect so she'll look street cool is lame--looks like something from a rap video. It's not a huge deal, and I get that the kids may like it--and we're certainly in an era, in some circles, of wanting to indulge the kids, and no more so then they're being recruited. I'm sure the chain was the idea of someone on our staff. It's not just women's basketball, mind: Our baseball team the year before last was throwing a fur coat over the back of any player that hit a home run, just after he crossed home plate. There's having fun--and there's going overboard and being tacky, and the baseball team caught quite a bit of flack for some of their antics. And then we had the softball team last year showering home-run hitters with fake cash when the got back to the dugout. Yea, I frowned at that, too!. Our culture has lost the idea of having class, that's for sure. Does Stanford, UConn or Notre Dame take photos of visiting female BB prospects with big gold chains around their necks? I could be wrong--but I'm thinking Vanderveer, Geno and former Irish coach McGraw wouldn't go for it.
 
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mcannon1 said:
2025s who have posted offers.
# ESPN ranking

#4 Dee Alexander
#21 Nyla Brooks To Tennessee!
#1 Aaliyah Chavez
#2 Jasmine Davidson
#14 Madison Francis
#54 Lena Girardi
#50 Holland Harris
Layla Hayes
#46 Lauren Hurst
#43 Adelaide Jernigan
#5 Zakiyah Johnson
Alyssa Koerkenmeier
#8 Leah Macy
#15 Brynn McGaughy
#41 Jordan Ode To Michigan State
#18 Keeley Parks
#11 Deniya Prawl
#10 Emilee Skinner
#13 Hailee Swain To Stanford
#20 Janiyah Williams
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is this all offers or interest? I can understand all these players getting LOI but offers???
 
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turbovol said:
Ha: I want individuals when they're playing sports to be sportsmen and sportswomen. If you're a basketball player, be a basketball player--and represent your sport and your school and your team with class. It's not about you. Most fans (notice I didn't say all) don't give a whit about your "personal identity" when you're on the court or the field--and neither should you. And you're not out there to be fashionable, either. Play basketball, then be yourself in your private life. So, yea, I think putting a big gold chain around the neck of a young basketball prospect so she'll look street cool is lame--looks like something from a rap video. It's not a huge deal, and I get that the kids may like it--and we're certainly in an era, in some circles, of wanting to indulge the kids, and no more so then they're being recruited. I'm sure the chain was the idea of someone on our staff. It's not just women's basketball, mind: Our baseball team the year before last was throwing a fur coat over the back of any player that hit a home run, just after he crossed home plate. There's having fun--and there's going overboard and being tacky, and the baseball team caught quite a bit of flack for some of their antics. And then we had the softball team last year showering home-run hitters with fake cash when the got back to the dugout. Yea, I frowned at that, too!. Our culture has lost the idea of having class, that's for sure. Does Stanford, UConn or Notre Dame take photos of visiting female BB prospects with big gold chains around their necks? I could be wrong--but I'm thinking Vanderveer, Geno and former Irish coach McGraw wouldn't go for it.
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I understand that but as for me, I am part of the -- Look Good, Feel Good, Play Good. When my own opinion says I look good, the swagger goes up a notch.
 
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I don't understand those recruit photos to begin with. You just shouldn't wear the gear (chains or no chains) until you commit. Glad Duke doesn't do them at all.
 
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leeeda97 said:
I don't understand those recruit photos to begin with. You just shouldn't wear the gear (chains or no chains) until you commit. Glad Duke doesn't do them at all.
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Kids, especially athletes, wear gear from different schools all the time. My niece was as likely to be wearing something with TN, Alabama, or Georgia on it when I would see her. I'm glad the Lady Vols don't allow recruits to wear the uniform until committed, but I don't see an issue if they wear something that promotes the school just like fans do.
 
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turbovol said:
Ha: I want individuals when they're playing sports to be sportsmen and sportswomen. If you're a basketball player, be a basketball player--and represent your sport and your school and your team with class. It's not about you. Most fans (notice I didn't say all) don't give a whit about your "personal identity" when you're on the court or the field--and neither should you. And you're not out there to be fashionable, either. Play basketball, then be yourself in your private life. So, yea, I think putting a big gold chain around the neck of a young basketball prospect so she'll look street cool is lame--looks like something from a rap video. It's not a huge deal, and I get that the kids may like it--and we're certainly in an era, in some circles, of wanting to indulge the kids, and no more so then they're being recruited. I'm sure the chain was the idea of someone on our staff. It's not just women's basketball, mind: Our baseball team the year before last was throwing a fur coat over the back of any player that hit a home run, just after he crossed home plate. There's having fun--and there's going overboard and being tacky, and the baseball team caught quite a bit of flack for some of their antics. And then we had the softball team last year showering home-run hitters with fake cash when the got back to the dugout. Yea, I frowned at that, too!. Our culture has lost the idea of having class, that's for sure. Does Stanford, UConn or Notre Dame take photos of visiting female BB prospects with big gold chains around their necks? I could be wrong--but I'm thinking Vanderveer, Geno and former Irish coach McGraw wouldn't go for it.
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THEN WATCH, COACH AND TRAIN,,, MEN!!!

Men can be "cookie cutter athletes", women (young and older) are not cut from molds.
It is their individual character, styles, characteristics and physical traits that give them their identity.
Take this away from them and you have men!

I have coached females all of my 43 years on the court, only veering to coach one men's Church team, one 10U-Upwards boys team and two boys individually as favors for their fathers who were friends...So I feel I have a tremendous insight on the feminine psyche.

In the movie, "American beauty" the character Angela Hayes summed it up in one sentence

Lester Burnham : You couldn't be ordinary if you tried.
Angela Hayes : Thank you. I don't think there's anything worse than being ordinary.

Turbo,,If you don't want extraordinary and desire ordinary and non-uniqueness,,,the men's team would sure welcome another robotic fan, where the mantra is
"I'm unique,,just like everyone else"
 
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Coach Jumper said:
THEN WATCH, COACH AND TRAIN,,, MEN!!!

Men can be "cookie cutter athletes", women (young and older) are not cut from molds.
It is their individual character, styles, characteristics and physical traits that give them their identity.
Take this away from them and you have men!

I have coached females all of my 43 years on the court, only veering to coach one men's Church team, one 10U-Upwards boys team and two boys individually as favors for their fathers who were friends...So I feel I have a tremendous insight on the feminine psyche.

In the movie, "American beauty" the character Angela Hayes summed it up in one sentence

Lester Burnham : You couldn't be ordinary if you tried.
Angela Hayes : Thank you. I don't think there's anything worse than being ordinary.

Turbo,,If you don't want extraordinary and desire ordinary and non-uniqueness,,,the men's team would sure welcome another robotic fan, where the mantra is
"I'm unique,,just like everyone else"
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American Beauty was a great movie--but this is another of your laughable horseback psychology posts. What does all your claptrap about "women" have to do with a putting a big gold chain around the neck of a prospect for a photo--something that in fact probably occurs more on the men's side than the women's. Some men like to wear big chains--also tacky. It's, thankfully, very rare with women. Your notion that women have "character, styles, characteristics" that men don't have is, first, nonsense, and second, completely irrelevant to the topic. The topic, for me, is simply staying away from tacky, in uniform pictures of prospects. I mean, if you want to put a big gold chain on a female prospect, why not go whole hog: Put her next to a low-rider with a bunch of shirtless muscle men and having cash bills floating down from the sky. Basketball players are basketball players: You put on the uniform and play and represent your team: sex/gender has zero to do with it.
 
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turbovol said:
American Beauty was a great movie--but this is another of your laughable horseback psychology posts. What does all your claptrap about "women" have to do with a putting a big gold chain around the neck of a prospect for a photo--something that in fact probably occurs more on the men's side than the women's. Some men like to wear big chains--also tacky. It's, thankfully, very rare with women. Your notion that women have "character, styles, characteristics" that men don't have is, first, nonsense, and second, completely irrelevant to the topic. The topic, for me, is simply staying away from tacky, in uniform pictures of prospects. I mean, if you want to put a big gold chain on a female prospect, why not go whole hog: Put her next to a low-rider with a bunch of shirtless muscle men and having cash bills floating down from the sky. Basketball players are basketball players: You put on the uniform and play and represent your team: sex/gender has zero to do with it.
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you use the word "tacky" often
Hear it often?
 
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#469
#469
mcannon1 said:
All listed have publicly posted offers. If you look back through the thread, the posts are shown.
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thanks and congratulations to you for tracking them all. If I get some time in the next few days, I think I will try and break them down by position. It's interesting to me that there are so many offers out and still a year away from decision time for the 25's.
 
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Coach Jumper said:
THEN WATCH, COACH AND TRAIN,,, MEN!!!

Men can be "cookie cutter athletes", women (young and older) are not cut from molds.
It is their individual character, styles, characteristics and physical traits that give them their identity.
Take this away from them and you have men!

I have coached females all of my 43 years on the court, only veering to coach one men's Church team, one 10U-Upwards boys team and two boys individually as favors for their fathers who were friends...So I feel I have a tremendous insight on the feminine psyche.

In the movie, "American beauty" the character Angela Hayes summed it up in one sentence

Lester Burnham : You couldn't be ordinary if you tried.
Angela Hayes : Thank you. I don't think there's anything worse than being ordinary.

Turbo,,If you don't want extraordinary and desire ordinary and non-uniqueness,,,the men's team would sure welcome another robotic fan, where the mantra is
"I'm unique,,just like everyone else"
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Thats it stereotype...men athletes.... while you tell poster...not to judge .....good move...
 
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LVFLfan4ever said:
I'll be very surprised if Tennessee doesn't go hard after Jersey Wolfenbarger on day#1 that the portal opens up in the spring. She is eligible next fall and could fit well with Jillian and Karoline.
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I’m assuming Jersey won’t lose this year of eligibility?
 
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