Dan Brooks to Recruit: Stay w/ TN or Not, I Dont Care?

[Sullsmith]

He is bigger than the program pun intened

 

[Volmorning]

this whole thing reeks of professional midconduct on the part of SEVERAL coaches mentioned in this thread. It's a whole package. If you would discourage a commit to reconsider AFTER he's already committed then you have a CHARACHTER issue, and, after watching these players for the last 2-3 years, a CHARACHTER issue, instilled by this coaching staff is the major problem.

 

[herkyvol]

this whole thing reeks of professional midconduct on the part of SEVERAL coaches mentioned in this thread. It's a whole package. If you would discourage a commit to reconsider AFTER he's already committed then you have a CHARACHTER issue, and, after watching these players for the last 2-3 years, a CHARACHTER issue, instilled by this coaching staff is the major problem.

Dude, with an avatar like yours, what with a child in a compromising sexual position with a naked blow-up sex doll, I think the last things you should be bringing up are misconduct and CHARACHTER!

 

[WillisWG]

In KNS today, there is an article about DJ Swearinger, who decommitted. He says his "only correspondence with the vols came shortly after Fulmer's ouster when Dan Brooks told Swearinger to 'do whatever [he] need[ed] to do'".

Am I reading too much into it to see that a possible interpretation is that "do what you need to do, I dont care" is a possibility? Or was Brooks misquoted or was it more like "We love you at TN and we want you to come, but we respect that you need to do some things...do what you need to do".

Also, aside from that, only ONE contact with recruits? That IS troubling.

until the contact period begins (30 Nov this year) coaches are limited to once a week phone calls.....but what would you have said to him?

 

[alaVOL]

Do you not remember the huge hole we started in? There was also the whole "getting run out of the stadium by our two biggest rivals" thing. Just because last year's team wandered their way into the SECCG doesn't mean that the coaches were sitting pretty all year.

Last year's team without CUT would look like.....well....this years team. Without not giving up and playing harder the next play we could have folded last year. Even with that we got so fortunate to make it last year. Field goals hitting up rights and missed easy field goals. Those are the breaks....and we put on more steam last year, but not this year.

BUT...WE DID GET THERE and SHOULD HAVE BEAT LSU!
It was almost like 1985. ALMOST.....

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

If someone says they spent more time scheming, looking at film etc than recruiting I can accept that.

That is essentially what they meant when they said the staff was more focused on saving their hides...
:ermm:

 

[GAVol]

this whole thing reeks of professional midconduct on the part of SEVERAL coaches mentioned in this thread. It's a whole package. If you would discourage a commit to reconsider AFTER he's already committed then you have a CHARACHTER issue, and, after watching these players for the last 2-3 years, a CHARACHTER issue, instilled by this coaching staff is the major problem.

There's a million miles between saying "Stay with Tennessee or not. I don't care" and acknowledging the situation and telling a kid "do what you feel like you need to do."

 

[jaybird_1981]

I don't see why the coaches don't finally admit hey I did a bad job and it has nothing to do with the university. That would be refreshing.