How about CJP recruiting!

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Well to be fair it's not like CJP has recruited all these high school kids for 2-3yrs to go to UT. The man hasn't been on the job long and already has pretty much a full class on the hook and it's a need meeting class that is pretty decent.

It just won't stay top 10 as is. There's no way it can as long as we operate on earthly mathematical facts. It's good but not great as rankings go. Rankings don't necessarily win ballgames. Pulling in close to top 10 classes every year can be competing for championships with the right coach. It's too early to know if CJP and staff are as good at recruiting as advertized so i wont brag or put him down yet.

After the season is over half this class won't even be the same, and that will be either in a good way, or bad. Hopefully he overachieves and it changes in a good way.
 
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TN Outlaw said:
Well to be fair it's not like CJP has recruited all these high school kids for 2-3yrs to go to UT. The man hasn't been on the job long and already has pretty much a full class on the hook and it's a need meeting class that is pretty decent.

It just won't stay top 10 as is. There's no way it can as long as we operate on earthly mathematical facts. It's good but not great as rankings go. Rankings don't necessarily win ballgames. Pulling in close to top 10 classes every year can be competing for championships with the right coach. It's too early to know if CJP and staff are as good at recruiting as advertized so i wont brag or put him down yet.

After the season is over half this class won't even be the same, and that will be either in a good way, or bad. Hopefully he overachieves and it changes in a good way.
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Pretty fair. It's the not knowing that I think is killing everybody right now.

Recruiting is a marathon. And we're a little past half way thru it for this cycle.

I think there's plenty of reason to be excited and hopeful based on the class that's been assembled, and it's got a better than average chance of winding up better than it is right now.

Just don't get some of the hand winging over it right now any the willingness to poo poo it before it's done.
 
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VolForLife83 said:
It is what it is. When this class is said and done, it won't be nothing special. The 12 3*s is what's boosting us. We may finish inside the top 25, which is on par with the rest of our classes. Dooleys first class was 7th nationally and only 4th best in the SEC. UF, BAMA, and Auburn finished ahead of us. All put a hurting on us. LSU finished right behind us. Funny thing is, years later, that class had that LSU team beat if not for that penalty. Now, I know we MIGHT have better coaches. But we have to recruiter better than middle of the road in the SEC to beat these teams. They have great coaches too, ya know? We can't even get our top instate talent. We only got 2 of the 11 4*s in tennessee. Ga, LSU, aTm etc are not having a hard time keeping their guys instate. aTm and LSU aren't playing at high levels. Sure it could be worse, but historically, we're avg about like usual. We have to recruit better. Especially with talent on the rise in Tennessee. So no, I'm not impressed with Pruitts recruiting, regardless of last season. Everyone before him has done the same or better. We've been middle and bottom feeders for too long. Sure, we haven't had the best coaches, but it starts with having better talent than your conference foes[/QUOTE

Butch and Dooley showed what top 5 classes can be worth. Granted so have Saban and Meyer. The fact that Pruitt and co. generally offer prospects they have witnessed play in camps and games shows me they have little faith in the star industry and faith in themselves to evaluate talent. There's no question that there are us army all Americans who are no Brainer offers but in general these guys wanna see performance b4 throwing out offers. A lot of Georgia and Florida 3 stars can run circles around 4* Tennessee prospects. Just sayin
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butchna said:
Only takes one season to change a narrative and back to back recruiting classes to replenish a program. College football players have a 3 year turnaround time. Our “worst season” ever in the history of ever was ONE worse than the 3 year stretch from Dooley’s second season to Butch’s first. Then you had a 3 year upswing with 3 bowl wins (meh them if you like, they were 10 game winners from the Big 10 that we annihilated). Right coach with the right process with the resources that have always been available is greatness waiting to happen. Hating Pruitt as a rival recruiter who tended to eat our lunch prepared me for the results that are already coming in.
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"Be prepared, son. Be prepared." Last Boy Scout
 
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