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Tennessee football: New preferred walk-on could provide major value to OL
Just getting this on the board so in the years coming I can point back to it. I have worked this kids basketball and football games since he was a young man and the Vols got a absolute steal here. I have worked so many D1 athletes in my 18 years of working ball and have always been amazed that this kid did not get a ranking! It might be because he missed a season due to a bad knee injury or it could be small town single A ball that kept him from any notoriety but I can tell you he should have been. A few things about this kid that always stuck out were his quickness and hands for a big guy to go along with his mean streak. I would not be surprised with time in a real weight and diet program if he does not see the field in his UT career. Super polite kid that has been raised well and worked at Walmart during high school.
 
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Ref4Life said:
Tennessee football: New preferred walk-on could provide major value to OL
Just getting this on the board so in the years coming I can point back to it. I have worked this kids basketball and football games since he was a young man and the Vols got a absolute steal here. I have worked so many D1 athletes in my 18 years of working ball and have always been amazed that this kid did not get a ranking! It might be because he missed a season due to a bad knee injury or it could be small town single A ball that kept him from any notoriety but I can tell you he should have been. A few things about this kid that always stuck out were his quickness and hands for a big guy to go along with his mean streak. I would not be surprised with time in a real weight and diet program if he does not see the field in his UT career. Super polite kid that has been raised well and worked at Walmart during high school.
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Did he play at Lincoln County HS? Same school where David Grogan played years ago?
 
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BigorangeBoy said:
Did he play at Lincoln County HS? Same school where David Grogan played years ago?
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No. Lincoln County opened a city high school 8-10 years ago. It is a single A school I think? As I recall, they won the state championship in 2020.

Gus can be the first man off the bus!!! #VFL baaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbyyy!
 
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Ref4Life said:
No. He played at Fayetteville City, a school that has only been a high school a few years. Did you play against Grogan or see him play?
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I remember seeing Grogan play, he was a dominant player. There was the other player also that was real good that TN recruited - Chad Henderson?
 
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Yes David Grogan was amazing and will always be Fayetteville’s what could have been story. Chad is from Fayetteville but did not go to Knoxville, during that time we had Eddie amd Ricky Blake who went on to pro careers as well as Kelley Holcomb.
 
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Ref4Life said:
Yes David Grogan was amazing and will always be Fayetteville’s what could have been story. Chad is from Fayetteville but did not go to Knoxville, during that time we had Eddie amd Ricky Blake who went on to pro careers as well as Kelley Holcomb.
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the drummer?
 
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Ref4Life said:
Tennessee football: New preferred walk-on could provide major value to OL
Just getting this on the board so in the years coming I can point back to it. I have worked this kids basketball and football games since he was a young man and the Vols got a absolute steal here. I have worked so many D1 athletes in my 18 years of working ball and have always been amazed that this kid did not get a ranking! It might be because he missed a season due to a bad knee injury or it could be small town single A ball that kept him from any notoriety but I can tell you he should have been. A few things about this kid that always stuck out were his quickness and hands for a big guy to go along with his mean streak. I would not be surprised with time in a real weight and diet program if he does not see the field in his UT career. Super polite kid that has been raised well and worked at Walmart during high school.
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What schools did he attend prior to City? Jr. High etc. Wife is an old Lincoln County lass and keeps up with friends, their kids and more recently their grandkids, Oh Well. Lived in Flintville area in the 80's myself and followed LCHS through a lot of the glory years. Even after I moved south to Guntersville. Oddly enough Coach Thompson introduced me to Coach Rankin back in day before a Riverdale game and we both ended up in Blount County in 2006. He does not remember that or me I bet. Quite a shock with his announcement he was leaving Alcoa after a gazillion wins and titles a week or so ago. He is headed back that direction to get closer to his son's MTSU games and family in Chattanooga I think is what I heard.

Thanks for any info on Mr. Hill, especially if his family has been around there long.
 
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There's more than one big time P5 coach that just does not pay a lot of attention to kids that play single A ball in any state. It's a shame but one of those things where they just have x amount of minutes in a day to spend on reviewing kids to recruit. That said there are jewels to be found on occasion as most do not work out. Just go back and look at the single A state champs year in and year out in TN at the MVP and see their college resumes. I did one year and was startled at what I found. Not sure of the state championship MVP bonafides of the the following two guys. Bituli from small school Nashville Christian worked out well for us as a LB. And all SEC and all pro LB Patrick Willis from Bruceton years ago is another one. Of course his story is well known begged to play for UT worshipped the Big Orange no offer, not even a walk on offer so to Ole Miss he went and to SF 49er glory in the NFL as well. Hope this youngster has an illustrious career on The Hill if he is what you say he is.
 
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Bituli isn’t what you’d call a good example, since Nashville Christian had tons of $$ and hand picked players to come to their school.
 
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Ref4Life said:
Tennessee football: New preferred walk-on could provide major value to OL
Just getting this on the board so in the years coming I can point back to it. I have worked this kids basketball and football games since he was a young man and the Vols got a absolute steal here. I have worked so many D1 athletes in my 18 years of working ball and have always been amazed that this kid did not get a ranking! It might be because he missed a season due to a bad knee injury or it could be small town single A ball that kept him from any notoriety but I can tell you he should have been. A few things about this kid that always stuck out were his quickness and hands for a big guy to go along with his mean streak. I would not be surprised with time in a real weight and diet program if he does not see the field in his UT career. Super polite kid that has been raised well and worked at Walmart during high school.
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He worked at Walmart, so I know that he's aggressive.
 
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Wish the kid the best of luck, but the article was trash. It focused on the fact that one walk on played a lot on the o line this year instead of on the young man himself.

If you make an article about how a preferred walk on may be able to make an impact, you should probably actually talk about the walk on and what makes him unique.
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
Steroids built them into the powerhouse they were.
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The article is true, and the Soviet level doping did help develop those boys into Ivan Dragos in that program. When they cleaned that weight room up, the championships disappeared. but that does not mean PWOs cannot be a wealth of talent and a foundation for a program like ours.
I think this is a positive. We cannot have too many pipelines of good young men. I know Coach Heupel is not neglecting schollys, before someones starts mouthing about it.
 
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SpookyAction said:
The article is true, and the Soviet level doping did help develop those boys into Ivan Dragos in that program. When they cleaned that weight room up, the championships disappeared. but that does not mean PWOs cannot be a wealth of talent and a foundation for a program like ours.
I think this is a positive. We cannot have too many pipelines of good young men. I know Coach Heupel is not neglecting schollys, before someones starts mouthing about it.
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PWO's are great, and we seem to have taken the plunge on some potentially interesting players, I just think we are hearing more about them right now partly because there hasn't been much action on the scholarship player front lately.
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
PWO's are great, and we seem to have taken the plunge on some potentially interesting players, I just think we are hearing more about them right now partly because there hasn't been much action on the scholarship player front lately.
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Once spring ball ends, UT will be swinging for the fences in the portal.
 
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CAVPUT said:
Once spring ball ends, UT will be swinging for the fences in the portal.
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I'm not complaining, there is undeniably a dearth of news on that front though at the moment, which no doubt is part of the reason we are talking so much about walk-ons.
 
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Ref4Life said:
Tennessee football: New preferred walk-on could provide major value to OL
Just getting this on the board so in the years coming I can point back to it. I have worked this kids basketball and football games since he was a young man and the Vols got a absolute steal here. I have worked so many D1 athletes in my 18 years of working ball and have always been amazed that this kid did not get a ranking! It might be because he missed a season due to a bad knee injury or it could be small town single A ball that kept him from any notoriety but I can tell you he should have been. A few things about this kid that always stuck out were his quickness and hands for a big guy to go along with his mean streak. I would not be surprised with time in a real weight and diet program if he does not see the field in his UT career. Super polite kid that has been raised well and worked at Walmart during high school.
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The kind of young man that college sports is for. Even though not many of these goys get the chance. If he is as you say, then he will play and will surely do his family, community, and school proud.
 
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