Dooley and staff are outworking the rest of the SEC

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Saw some numbers on twitter last night. Tennessee has offered 195 kids to Alabama's 108 and georgia's 69. The staff is evaluation more kids and getting offers out faster. This seems like a huge advantage.
 
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Offers mean nothing. Commits mean nothing. Who signs that dotted line the first Wednesday of February 2013 means everything. That's when you know how hard they worked.
 
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It's so hard to know if they're really "outworking" other staffs. Are the kids great prospects? Do we really have a chance at most of them? What are the relationships with the kids and an entirely new staff? Just a lot of questions to be answered and an entire football season to be played before another national signing day.

Please have no doubt about where I am though. I believe Dooley is a great judge of talent and I think he absolutely can be the one to lead Tennessee to greener pastures. I just think considering many people now want to wait until a class has graduated to objectively view how good they were, it's really hard to evaluate a class a year or two before it is even put together. GO VOLS!

Don't be rat trappin'
 
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Unfortunately, we have to put more offers out there. Glad the staff is working hard...but with the current state of things, they have to work twice as hard the bammers.
 
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Yeah i agree, until pen meets paper doesn't matter. Kids change their minds a lot when they're young. Someone fills their head's full of lies and they fall for it, Hook, line and sinker.
 
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mjw2e said:
Unfortunately, we have to put more offers out there. Glad the staff is working hard...but with the current state of things, they have to work twice as hard the bammers.
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UT is always going to have to work harder than everyone else not named Kentucky or Vandy. Just the way it is.
 
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That Ed McMahon guy must be outworking everyone in America, then. I get about 200 letters a month from him.




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Cartervol said:
Yeah i agree, until pen meets paper doesn't matter. Kids change their minds a lot when they're young. Someone fills their head's full of lies and they fall for it, Hook, line and sinker.
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Kind of a short-sighted point of view, don't you think? The work that the staff is putting in IS directly related to who signs that dotted line in Feb. Do you think recruits are going to sign without being recruited, evaluated, offered and a relationship being built?
 
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mjw2e said:
Unfortunately, we have to put more offers out there. Glad the staff is working hard...but with the current state of things, they have to work twice as hard the bammers.
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This. Dooley has to hunt with a shot gun. Saban uses a sniper rifle. Not a knock on Dooley. Just the relative states of the programs.
 
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Dooley is like a cornered animal. He is hopefully going to come out swinging. There should be a real sense of urgancy there. Hopefully, he is working harder than he ever has in his entire life.
 
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FEARinSEC said:
Kind of a short-sighted point of view, don't you think? The work that the staff is putting in IS directly related to who signs that dotted line in Feb. Do you think recruits are going to sign without being recruited, evaluated, offered and a relationship being built?[/QUOTE]





Right! And Dools and co. are the only staff out there recruiting, evaluation, and offering kids, building relationships.......Saban and Petrino will probably wake up sometime in September and say "so, guys, who should we go out there and offer a scholly to this year?" Dools sooooo has pulled on over on those guys.
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Everytime you try to point out something positive you look up and there stands half a dozen people behind a big patch of yellow snow!
 
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I think the increase in the number of offers is a response to the last minute defections of several commits. By having a deeper board at each position of need, Dooley and staff will be better able to go after the next players on their big board. I think it is a good tactical move.
 
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FEARinSEC said:
Kind of a short-sighted point of view, don't you think? The work that the staff is putting in IS directly related to who signs that dotted line in Feb. Do you think recruits are going to sign without being recruited, evaluated, offered and a relationship being built?
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Exactly. It's called due diligence.
 
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I wonder if the reason UT has more offers out there currently is because Bama was preparing for the bowl game and UT wasn't?
 
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We definitely must outwork the others until the win/loss record improves. We have alot of positives, but that is a big negative.
 
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Number of offers doesn't indicate that we're outworking anyone. It just means that our brand is weak from 5-6 years of mediocre football. Dooley's getting out as many offers as possible in a scatter shot attempt to be first. He's probably hoping he can get these kids to camp and further evaluate them. Bama and UGA are targeting the players they want and are able to use their resources more efficiently. It also helps they didn't turn over basically the entire staff.
 
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I was pretty blown away by how after less than a week after NSD they started in on the class 2013. I was too exhausted to even follow these threads and the coaches were on the trail. I guess you have to keep momentum up. They were probably looking at the 2013 guys every time they went to solidify or make a play on the 2012 prospects.

I wonder how having a more "southern" staff after losing coach W and S to Washington is going to change recruiting. Jay and Sal probably came in with ideas about guys they had been looking at from their time in Alabama/SC.
 
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ty for the post - # of offers isn't the only gauge of a staff working hard, but it certainly is one measuring stick you can use and it does seem this staff is putting in a lot of work in the 13 and 14 classes - part of that is obviously that some places can afford to be more choosy than others and that some states have more home-grown talent and so there miss rates aren't as high but that doesnt take away from the fact that Dools and company are putting in some serious work on the recruiting trail

If you look at where we are in 2013 at this point compared to where we were on the 2012 class in march of last year it seems that DD's recruiting efforts and strategy seem to be paying off - he is not playing from behind on these 2013 kids and it is showing with 5 great commitments already - they could all be 4 stars on at least 1 of the services when it is all said and done

the staff is doing work - give them credit
 
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