June 18, 2016 -- The Day the 2017 Signing Class Arrived -- Analysis of Impact

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Tre Lawson (DE, 6'7", 250 lb, South Carolina) ... Princeton Fant (WR, 6'2", 190 lb, La Vergne, TN) ... and Latrell Bumphus (TE, 6'4", 230 lb, Savannah, TN) ... all committed within a matter of a few hours today.

And more shoes might yet drop. EDIT: Like these that just did: Jordan Tucker (OL, 6'6", 330 lb, Georgia) ... Theo Jackson (S, 6'2", 176 lb, Nashville, TN) ... and Trey Coleman (RB, 6'1", 190 lb, Louisiana).

That's a total of six for the 2017 class, in a single day. Three home state lads, three from across the South.

Don't remember a single day like this last year. Some might call today, the day before Father's Day 2016, the day that the 2017 Vols Signing Class arrived.

Would really appreciate some insight from the folks who follow recruiting closely. If you would, provide a little analysis of the impact of today's commitments. Kind of the wider picture, as well as anything else you'd be willing to share.

Appreciate it!
 
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I think the total commit count is now at seven on the day. Although one is 2018.
 
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Tre Lawson
Trey Coleman
Jordan Tucker
Theo Jackson
LaTrell Bumphus
Princeton Fant
Alontae Taylor (2018)
 
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Freak said:
I think the total commit count is now at seven on the day. Although one is 2018.
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Wow. Even bigger day than originally thought. Thanks, Freak. OP updated. Hoping to get a few of the insightful Recruiting Forum regulars to pop over here and give the wide view of this day, what all it means.
 
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Kinda off topic, but K.D. Nixon was just at the Atlanta 7 on 7, as a last minute sub, & lit it up. Expect his ranking to improve drastically when the next set of rankings come out!
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Tre Lawson (DE, 6'7", 250 lb, South Carolina) ... Princeton Fant (WR, 6'2", 190 lb, La Vergne, TN) ... and Latrell Bumphus (TE, 6'4", 230 lb, Savannah, TN) ... all committed within a matter of a few hours today.

And more shoes might yet drop. EDIT: Like these that just did: Jordan Tucker (OL, 6'6", 330 lb, Georgia) ... Theo Jackson (S, 6'2", 176 lb, Nashville, TN) ... and Trey Coleman (RB, 6'1", 190 lb, Louisiana).

That's a total of six for the 2017 class, in a single day. Three home state lads, three from across the South.

Don't remember a single day like this last year. Some might call today, the day before Father's Day 2016, the day that the 2017 Vols Signing Class arrived.

Would really appreciate some insight from the folks who follow recruiting closely. If you would, provide a little analysis of the impact of today's commitments. Kind of the wider picture, as well as anything else you'd be willing to share.

Appreciate it!
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I like it. The day before Father's Day 2016, where Butch Jones made the recruiting world call him Daddy.
 
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What is so significant, other than "it's Tennessee, Baby!!!", about today that 8 players chose to commit? Father's Day gift?
 
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Butch needed this. People had been doubting his ability to bring them in with the Title 9 lawsuit swirling. Nice to see that we can still get recruits to pull the trigger even in the middle of all of this garbage. Solid talent. Class is looking nice.
 
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8 commits in one day! I've never seen anything like this before in recruiting since I've been following it. Wow!

Butch be like this in recruiting today...

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Butch seems to have a knack for finding players before they get bumped up to a 4* from 3*. His knack for recognizing talent has me very confident that a at least 3 of these commits will be 4*'s come signing day.

4* and 5*'s would have made a bigger splash nationally, but the fact that we signed 3 in-state ballers is just as exciting...gotta lock these in state recruits up and develop a strong pipeline with the mid state high schools bc there's only going to be more and more talent coming out of this area with the boom Nashville is experiencing.

It just makes it even more gratifying when you win with kids from the great state of Tennessee (although if we won the nat'l title with a team full of players from Texas and Florida, I'd still be ecstatic beyond words so don't get it twisted). But it does seem that players from Tennessee realize the importance of UT football to this state, and I believe they take great pride in that which pushes them that much more to be great (Hurd, Barnett, JRM are fine examples of this, but that's not to say they wouldn't have been great had they gone to UGA, FSU, etc.)

And I don't mean that out of state kids don't have that same drive bc they absolutely do, but I'd say the likelihood of a TN native with home brewed orange blood flowing thru their veins to give their all for that Power T and really want to return the Vols back to national powerhouse status where we belong is greater than a commit from Wisconsin. I kid, I kid...not exactly a fertile state, or area for that matter, for HS fb. I mean who would even wanna play football in that climate. But forreal tho, there have been and will continue to be many great players from outside of TN...hell, 2 of my favorite athletes and VFL's came from outside the state lines.
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
Butch needed this. People had been doubting his ability to bring them in with the Title 9 lawsuit swirling. Nice to see that we can still get recruits to pull the trigger even in the middle of all of this garbage. Solid talent. Class is looking nice.
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I still worry that the effects of all the bad stuff are still taking their toll. I wonder why Butch could not get more of the upper level talent inside the state (like Grey) to commit? Let alone top talent from the rest of the country.

I would rather have seen Tennessee pull in a five star and a couple of four stars in one day than a bunch of 3 and 2 star players.

But hey, maybe they will *magically* turn into 4 stars by signing day.

Or maybe Butch will yank the offer when better TN players are ready to commit.
 
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Only one Rivals 250 player?

What about the top level talent within the state?

How many more can we sign this year?
 
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MWAVolfan said:
I still worry that the effects of all the bad stuff are still taking their toll. I wonder why Butch could not get more of the upper level talent inside the state (like Grey) to commit? Let alone top talent from the rest of the country.

I would rather have seen Tennessee pull in a five star and a couple of four stars in one day than a bunch of 3 and 2 star players.

But hey, maybe they will *magically* turn into 4 stars by signing day.

Or maybe Butch will yank the offer when better TN players are ready to commit.
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What 2 star players are you talking about?
 
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MWAVolfan said:
I still worry that the effects of all the bad stuff are still taking their toll. I wonder why Butch could not get more of the upper level talent inside the state (like Grey) to commit? Let alone top talent from the rest of the country.

I would rather have seen Tennessee pull in a five star and a couple of four stars in one day than a bunch of 3 and 2 star players.

But hey, maybe they will *magically* turn into 4 stars by signing day.

Or maybe Butch will yank the offer when better TN players are ready to commit.
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Calm down man.
There was no 2 star, we have already signed some 4's.
There is a good chance that a few of these guys also get the usual bump.
Fant was already a 4 star but dropped only because of an injury.

But bump or not, they are the same players. Nothing magical happens to them with another star?
We will not have the best class in the country but it will do well.
As an article posted earlier stated, given where our team ranks vs where our classes rank, our staff develops better than most.
We'll be ok.
 
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paradox89 said:
Butch seems to have a knack for finding players before they get bumped up to a 4* from 3*. His knack for recognizing talent has me very confident that a at least 3 of these commits will be 4*'s come signing day.

4* and 5*'s would have made a bigger splash nationally, but the fact that we signed 3 in-state ballers is just as exciting...gotta lock these in state recruits up and develop a strong pipeline with the mid state high schools bc there's only going to be more and more talent coming out of this area with the boom Nashville is experiencing.

It just makes it even more gratifying when you win with kids from the great state of Tennessee (although if we won the nat'l title with a team full of players from Texas and Florida, I'd still be ecstatic beyond words so don't get it twisted). But it does seem that players from Tennessee realize the importance of UT football to this state, and I believe they take great pride in that which pushes them that much more to be great (Hurd, Barnett, JRM are fine examples of this, but that's not to say they wouldn't have been great had they gone to UGA, FSU, etc.)

And I don't mean that out of state kids don't have that same drive bc they absolutely do, but I'd say the likelihood of a TN native with home brewed orange blood flowing thru their veins to give their all for that Power T and really want to return the Vols back to national powerhouse status where we belong is greater than a commit from Wisconsin. I kid, I kid...not exactly a fertile state, or area for that matter, for HS fb. I mean who would even wanna play football in that climate. But forreal tho, there have been and will continue to be many great players from outside of TN...hell, 2 of my favorite athletes and VFL's came from outside the state lines.
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forreal.
 
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Real surprised an article hasn't already appeared on ESPN.com and other sites about yesterday. This is a pretty big story, a program going from #22 to #7 in recruiting class in a single day. Certainly bigger news than how many camps the Michigan coach attended or that a Baylor signee is transferring to Houston.

Guess Chris Low and Ed Aschoff, ESPN's normal SEC beat reporters, had the weekend off. :)
 
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