It's too early to worry about recruiting from a fan's perspective...

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OCIVol said:
If you follow recruiting, I think it's a good time to familiarize yourself with some of our targets. However, if you look at the perceived targets right now compared to our real targets in November through February, you will see a lot of different names.
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That's kind of my strategy for things...spend the first half of the recruiting cycle just familiarizing myself with this year's class, then the past few months start looking a lot more at how our board is shaping up.
 
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Thanks for the advice.......We will learn from your mistakes to follow recruting less.......:eek:lol:
 
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I agree whole heartedly with the OP. I will say that I think a big concern with the general population of realisticvols on this site is the lack of upper echelon talent seriously looking at us. However, early and big wins, which are a possibility this year may turn some heads. Also, the status of other programs at the end of this year may help us. College football is cyclical and it's about time for the down swing to turn up.

The only concern early on in recruiting historically is your qb. I love who we have at the position now, but when you do not bring in your guy every year, you end up in the position we were in during the '08 season.
 
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Look at Bama LSU Georgia GATORS do i need to say more. If you want to go to the MUSIC CITY BOWL ever year recruiting doesnt matter this time of year.
 
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terrypedigo said:
Look at Bama LSU Georgia GATORS do i need to say more. If you want to go to the MUSIC CITY BOWL ever year recruiting doesnt matter this time of year.
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You have absolutely nothing to back that statement up with. Just because they have more commits at this point doesn't prove anything. You'd have to have evidence that early commits contribute more later commits to back up that statement. Right now the facts sit as many of our better players int he past couple of classes we had not even heard about at this point. Players pop up in camps and a lot of the better players hold off until December or later to commit. For many of these players that hold off committing there top five changes quite frequently after each official visit.
 
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The same thing will happen this recruiting as last year and the tear before. Our recruiting board will not even look it is now. There will be so many more kids we haven't even heard of yet that will become hot items by next Nov. And we will gain some we weren't expecting and lose some that we thought we locks. That's just life.
 
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1 thing you want a decent amount of early commits for is recruiting other players thats really the only thing i guess
 
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dlw4n said:
Well said. I have never understood why people put so much thought and worry into following recruiting this early on. Fans have fed this crazy recruiting machine that has yielded a generation of self-serving, over-exposed, spoiled rotten recruits. I think back to Jimmy Clausen showing up in a stretch Hummer to his public commitment. FANS are the reason 17 year old kids think they have earned some right to act like prima donnas before ever lacing them up in a real game.

I wish recruiting was still done behind the scenes and most fans heard nothing about it till February. Don't get me wrong. I try to follow recruiting so I have some idea what people are talking about...I just wish that I didn't. Sometimes I feel like I have to worry about it because all the other fans do as well. It's unhealthy for all.
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I agree about the wishing recruiting was still behind the scenes.Today i have been looking at some of my old athlon,sand lindy,s and sporting news and others who after signing day would come out with mags and tell where recruits were from and their hs numbers.Those times were great now i have been on volnation for nearly 4 years and have seen meltdown,s by some and just plain negativity from others.Iwould just tell all the neagvols where to go and get banned for good but in am all vol and checkin out things about vols is something i like to do at times.So good luck to you all this summer and i hope that the next time i come on here we have 4 or 5 more commits from good quality player,s regardless of ********************as long as they can and want to be VOLS.
 
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Pretty good post Eric. WAY too many people get too hung up in recruiting as it is..........huge difference between enjoying following recruiting and absolutely letting it dominate your life or ruin your day when a kid does or doesn't commit to Tennessee.

Nicely said.
 
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vol2013 said:
You have absolutely nothing to back that statement up with. Just because they have more commits at this point doesn't prove anything. You'd have to have evidence that early commits contribute more later commits to back up that statement. Right now the facts sit as many of our better players int he past couple of classes we had not even heard about at this point. Players pop up in camps and a lot of the better players hold off until December or later to commit. For many of these players that hold off committing there top five changes quite frequently after each official visit.
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Last year we were looking to drop some early committments for better players coming off a 5 win season. We win 8 or 9 games next year and we will have some momentum to land some of those last minute switches in the end.
 
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So, all the praises sang to Dooley a couple of months ago when it looked like the Vols had a big start on most of the rest of SEC were fine, but now, later in the process, the Vols are near the bottom of the SEC in commits and it suddenly doesn't matter anymore?
 
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fadYe route said:
I know enough about recruiting that when a kid says he's 99.9% Vols a week before NSD that he might as well be 0% Vols. Yet I was pummeled on here for questioning Santos' committment. Nothing should be taken seriously until the ink is dry on the LOI for each recruit.
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That isn't the reason you get pummeled on here.
 
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I understand that in April and May kids flip flop back and forth. Right now we got five. Look at Bama Georgia LSU Gators Ohio State Texas just to name a few. They have 10 to 15 verbals. So if they lose 2 or 3 it wont matter. I have been following football recruiting for 40 years. In the 1990s when we were elite we had top 10 classes year in year out. We were at the top of college football ever year. Right now at best we will be lucky to have a top 20 class. Look where we are at now 3rd or 4th in the East not the SEC just the East. Rest my case GO BIG ORANGE HOPE IM WRONG Recruiting doesnt matter this time of year.
 
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terrypedigo said:
I understand that in April and May kids flip flop back and forth. Right now we got five. Look at Bama Georgia LSU Gators Ohio State Texas just to name a few. They have 10 to 15 verbals. So if they lose 2 or 3 it wont matter. I have been following football recruiting for 40 years. In the 1990s when we were elite we had top 10 classes year in year out. We were at the top of college football ever year. Right now at best we will be lucky to have a top 20 class. Look where we are at now 3rd or 4th in the East not the SEC just the East. Rest my case GO BIG ORANGE HOPE IM WRONG Recruiting doesnt matter this time of year.
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Damn, I wondered what happened to Pace Vol.
 
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sdowell said:
win 9 or 10 games, show that we are on the right track, and we won't have to worry. have a 6 or 7 win season, and then we have big worries.
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Don't forget spending ~$50 million on a new training facility that will really wow the recruits when it's finished this Summer.
 
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OCIVol said:
If you follow recruiting, I think it's a good time to familiarize yourself with some of our targets. However, if you look at the perceived targets right now compared to our real targets in November through February, you will see a lot of different names.
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For example, De'Vondre Campbell.
 
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