If a scholarship was offered and a player committed, then went fishing again, I'd yank it in a heartbeat. I wouldn't care in the least what someone in Tennessee thought about it. I'd say, "You like Kiffin? Go play for him then.". While your overgrown frat boy of a coach is jumping up and down, "We stole your recruit", I'd be quietly going about the business of collecting players who WANT to be Gators.
Probably 99 percent of what is said to recruits, you don't know. You don't know when it was said, how it was said, or why it was said. Most of the time, a recruit has his offer pulled, and you won't know that. That's because honorable coaches don't discuss such things. So, you'll only hear it when the recruit says something, and more often than not, they're too embarrassed. So go ahead and "steal" them if you want.
There's plenty of Meyer coached players in the NFL, but I sure hope that Kiffin keeps using that line for the next 2 or three years before he's sacked. It's very, very, easy to refute. Not on a Vol message board though. That's like leading a horse to water who's not thirsty.
The University of Florida is known as a
Public Ivy. Where's UT on that list? Someone must have hacked that site, because it's missing! A commit to Florida can choose any line of study that he can handle, from a coast-your-way-through-school degree in leisure service management, like your coach, or any number of more difficult fields, and know that he has a strong educational background, if he doesn't play after college.
As for playing time, that's easy. If you truly think that you're the best, if you're confident and a hard worker, then there's no doubt in a Champion's mind, that you'll get playing time. Sorry, but I wouldn't want anyone who thought that they weren't good enough, wouldn't work hard enough, didn't want to put in the blood and sweat, or was not confident enough to be a starter.
You can call it "threatening 17 year old kids" if you want, and you know, that's 100 percent fine with me. You take their poor, threatened souls, and put them on your team. If they crack under the pressure of honoring their commitment to playing for the NCAA Champions, then you're most certainly going to see what they're made of when they face the NCAA Champions.
It's a difference in philosophy- the difference that makes champions into Champions, and run-of-the-mill NFL flunkies into NCAA flunkies.
So enjoy your kind and gentle coaching staff, your honorable, wonderful, heart-touching head coach, and your 5 win seasons, with second-rate players who are afraid of the competition. All three come and go all of the time.
P.S. We'll be sending more recruits your way to "steal" over the next few years. Enjoy! Unfortunately, they don't come with instruction manuals. Sorry. You'll have to hire someone who knows how to use them, hopefully, not someone who was canned for being incompetent at his last job.
