A Terrible look for Heupel and Vols [Roc Taylor]

[butchna]

This is a really bad look.

Never hurts UGA.

 

[JoAllan]

I’m sorry if it’s a bad look.......Heupel made a good decision right there.

Tennessee is down players. They gots to make every scholarship count right now.

 

[butchna]

Really bad look.

For those of you saying “it can go both ways” you’re wrong. Just wrong.

School offers scholly, kid commits, coaches accept, kid shuts down recruitment. Makes financial decisions knowing college is paid for. Tells his family and community “I made it! Got a ride to get my education!” Makes friends on group chats with his future teammates, dreams about running through the T into Neyland on gameday. Feels confident and loyal for sticking with the Vols through all the turmoil.

School pulls offer at 11th hour....

Other schools that previously offered might be full or took others at the position - classes sewn up. Kid struggles to find a vacancy anywhere, much less a P5 program. Remember - P5 scholarship offers are very coveted and hard to earn. Has to tell friends/family/community he’s no longer good enough. Maybe has to settle for JUCO or Division II.

Switch it, kid decommits or flips last second...

Coaches hop on database of literally thousands of high school athletes, and the transfer portal. Fill the position pretty easily or maybe over the summer. Worst case an extra counter for 2022 or give the walk on kicker a scholly. School has others in the position on the roster already so really NBD.

You look me in the eye and try to tell me it’s all fair game.

***Searches for online *** It’s all fair game.

 

[MSrivervol]

Really bad look.

For those of you saying “it can go both ways” you’re wrong. Just wrong.

School offers scholly, kid commits, coaches accept, kid shuts down recruitment. Makes financial decisions knowing college is paid for. Tells his family and community “I made it! Got a ride to get my education!” Makes friends on group chats with his future teammates, dreams about running through the T into Neyland on gameday. Feels confident and loyal for sticking with the Vols through all the turmoil.

School pulls offer at 11th hour....

Other schools that previously offered might be full or took others at the position - classes sewn up. Kid struggles to find a vacancy anywhere, much less a P5 program. Remember - P5 scholarship offers are very coveted and hard to earn. Has to tell friends/family/community he’s no longer good enough. Maybe has to settle for JUCO or Division II.

Switch it, kid decommits or flips last second...

Coaches hop on database of literally thousands of high school athletes, and the transfer portal. Fill the position pretty easily or maybe over the summer. Worst case an extra counter for 2022 or give the walk on kicker a scholly. School has others in the position on the roster already so really NBD.

You look me in the eye and try to tell me it’s all fair game.

Life aint fair man

 

[Border Vol]

I’m sorry if it’s a bad look.......Heupel made a good decision right there.

Tennessee is down players. They gots to make every scholarship count right now.

 

[Ten_Titans]

Just a slimy handler making a fuss because he can make the narrative work.

If he was a take, he would have signed during ESP.

The previous staff was not going to accept his commitment either.

No one ever told this kid his spot was guaranteed. Not on this staff. Not on the previous staff.

 

[USAFgolferVol]

I love it: No one has all the facts and yet everyone is jumping to conclusions.

Could be a lot of things: like grades, disciplinary, physical or medical issues.

Again speculation, but what if the kid allegedly took some McDough$ from his primary recruiter?

Could also be that CJH doesn't think he is a good fit for his system (even though this kid is classified as an athlete). If this is the case, the honesty of CJH is doing the kid a favor and allowing him to go somewhere that he is better able to excel.

One thing we know is that it is not for a lack of available scholly's! lol

Extreme overreaction and misplaced outrage

 

[Orangeblood75]

As a family we’ve been through the recruiting process. It can be fun and toxic at the same time. Kids , coaches , parents all can change. It happens all the time . Good luck to the kid , he’ll find a great school.

 

[GoodmanVol]

Life aint fair man

Agreed, it ain’t fair.
But you do have a choice in how you conduct your business. Doing business like this reflects poorly on Volnation.

 

[MWAVolfan]

What is with the coordinated need to attack all things UT....from the national press, from the local press, etc...? Literally UT has no friends of the program anywhere with any kind of media mouthpiece.

Because Tennessee walks around with a giant neon target that they put on their own back over and over again with the dumb sh!t they continuosly do.

Hire crappy coach fire crappy coach
Hire crappy coach fire crappy coach
Hire crappy coach fire crappy coach
Hire home run AD, turn right around and hire crappy coach

They cant make their own good news to save their lives. What do you expect people to talk about? All the positive things going on at UT? <crickets chirp>

 

[PTownVol]

This is a big nothing burger. The kid is disappointed and upset and I get that, but everybody has to remember that EVERYTHING has changed since that offer was made.

This high school coach is upset for his kid and I appreciate that but I would bet you every SEC school pulls some scholarship offers around this time of year. Tennessee football, its fans and Josh Heupel are easy targets right now for people to comment about. I bet Bama did this too, but coaches won't come out and criticize Saban like this, because if he does Saban will just never come back to his high school for players again, because Saban can just go somewhere else and get the next great player.

Best thing us as fans can do is stop taking the bait and losing our minds about things. Ever wonder why someone like Dan Patrick says complete nonsense about UT? It's because he can and he can be totally wrong and it doesn't matter because we will take the bait every time, run to his site and mention his name on Twitter which is exactly what he wants us to do.

 

[Vol Main]

How is Heupel out of line for not taking a player who did not qualify?

 

[USAFgolferVol]

No it’s not. Happens every year at a host of programs.

Like a tackle being made by "a host of Volunteers!"

 

[Border Vol]

Agreed, it ain’t fair.
But you do have a choice in how you conduct your business. Doing business like this reflects poorly on Volnation.

It doesn't hurt Georgia,Alabama and others..............................just sayin'

 

[utvolpj]

Tennessee's former staff didn't plan to sign him, as we've mentioned here several times, and nothing has changed since Heupel's signing, so no surprise here. I don't think there had been any contact between Tennessee and Taylor in a while before today.

Callahan

 

[MWAVolfan]

Agreed, it ain’t fair.
But you do have a choice in how you conduct your business. Doing business like this reflects poorly on Volnation.

No it doesnt. This is small time politics. This is the equivalent of someone writing in the newspaper that you are 3 weeks late paying your library fines.

Literally every school that competes to win does this stuff. Tennessee is in dire dire straights and they need all the very best players they can get their hands on. Right now is the time to be choosy. The future depends on it.

 

[Tennman615]

High school coach rips Tennessee for pulling scholarship offer right before National Signing Day

Not a good look. Roc is good/underrated back from a small high school. Hope that decisión doesn’t come back and bite us.

 

[USAFgolferVol]

As a family we’ve been through the recruiting process. It can be fun and toxic at the same time. Kids , coaches , parents all can change. It happens all the time . Good luck to the kid , he’ll find a great school.

I went through it 40 years ago and loved the experience

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

Really bad look.

For those of you saying “it can go both ways” you’re wrong. Just wrong.

School offers scholly, kid commits, coaches accept, kid shuts down recruitment. Makes financial decisions knowing college is paid for. Tells his family and community “I made it! Got a ride to get my education!” Makes friends on group chats with his future teammates, dreams about running through the T into Neyland on gameday. Feels confident and loyal for sticking with the Vols through all the turmoil.

School pulls offer at 11th hour....

Other schools that previously offered might be full or took others at the position - classes sewn up. Kid struggles to find a vacancy anywhere, much less a P5 program. Remember - P5 scholarship offers are very coveted and hard to earn. Has to tell friends/family/community he’s no longer good enough. Maybe has to settle for JUCO or Division II.

Switch it, kid decommits or flips last second...

Coaches hop on database of literally thousands of high school athletes, and the transfer portal. Fill the position pretty easily or maybe over the summer. Worst case an extra counter for 2022 or give the walk on kicker a scholly. School has others in the position on the roster already so really NBD.

You look me in the eye and try to tell me it’s all fair game.

Every program has several of these every recruiting cycle. It’s the way it is , get over it.

 

[BeardedVol]

He's gotten offers from Auburn and Ole' Miss and plenty of other schools, he'll be fine unless he's a life long Vol fan, which in that case he has my deepest sympathies for having to only know the last 18 years of the program, and then get turned down by them. That would have to be a major blow to one's ego.

 

[Lawrence Wright]

Huepel isn’t obligated to honor every offer given by the guy who was shown the door for........recruiting violations

/thread

 

[77' Vol]

If Coach pulled the offer it's because they have someone that is better and fits the needs of the Team.

 

[tennrich1]

I'm kinda surprised at the reaction by some here. If you've followed recruiting for any length of time or been involved with it for yourself or a family member SURELY you know this type of stuff happens every year....Tough that its so close to signing day but this is big time SEC football and things like this happen. CJH has every right to pull any offer at any time. Bad look? Maybe to some who just don't have a clear picture of the recruiting process or maybe an agenda.

 

[FïreBall]

Callahan

Not a good look. Roc is good/underrated back from a small high school. Hope that decisión doesn’t come back and bite us.

 

[FïreBall]

Really bad look.

For those of you saying “it can go both ways” you’re wrong. Just wrong.

School offers scholly, kid commits, coaches accept, kid shuts down recruitment. Makes financial decisions knowing college is paid for. Tells his family and community “I made it! Got a ride to get my education!” Makes friends on group chats with his future teammates, dreams about running through the T into Neyland on gameday. Feels confident and loyal for sticking with the Vols through all the turmoil.

School pulls offer at 11th hour....

Other schools that previously offered might be full or took others at the position - classes sewn up. Kid struggles to find a vacancy anywhere, much less a P5 program. Remember - P5 scholarship offers are very coveted and hard to earn. Has to tell friends/family/community he’s no longer good enough. Maybe has to settle for JUCO or Division II.

Switch it, kid decommits or flips last second...

Coaches hop on database of literally thousands of high school athletes, and the transfer portal. Fill the position pretty easily or maybe over the summer. Worst case an extra counter for 2022 or give the walk on kicker a scholly. School has others in the position on the roster already so really NBD.

You look me in the eye and try to tell me it’s all fair game.

Callahan