Meachem to return....

#4
#4
who can assure anyone of what round they'll be drafted in anyway?

you can say/hear one thing one day, then after the combine, it can change so quick...guys you never heard of all the sudden are moving up someone's draft board etc.......

good luck to him and this decision....it'll work out for him either way in the long run imo.
 
#8
#8
The problem is that at least 1 scout will likely whisper 1st round to him. They will tell these kids anything. Hopefully he does some research before his decides.
 
#11
#11
No, it connects to the sentence in the thread.

Now it looks retarded.

Thanks for whomever changed it. :finger3:
 
#13
#13
Jeez . . .so much venom over the use of elipses. I'll change it back. :rolleyes:
 
#16
#16
Well if Meachem stays, and Cut doesn't get an offer.

Imagine how great next year will be.

Ainge is finally living up to his potential, and Coker should be a stud.
 
#17
#17
“I was shopping for my little girl one day, and a little 8-year-old comes up to me and goes, ‘Are you coming back?’ “ Meachem said.
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Wanna bet there was a dad somewhere on another aisle who put the kid up to that...
 
#18
#18
Here's a little bit more of Meach's conversation with the media yesterday. This from the Chattanooga paper. (It was about the only thing in there not about the I-AA national title game tonight)

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Well, Robert, how about it? Right now, Meachem doesn’t have an answer and is leaving few crumbs of information. One of them, however, was Thursday’s revelation that he won’t leave unless he is projected near the top of the receivers list by the NFL advisory committee.

"If they say second round," Meachem said, "I’ll definitely be back."

On the surface, that is good news for Tennessee, considering the receiver talent pool is particularly deep this year. Then again, it could only add to the suspense. A recent ESPN mock draft had Meachem as pick No. 32, the final one in the first round.

Official word on his projected stock won’t come until later, but he was going to delay.

the decision under after the Jan.

1 Outback Bowl against Penn State anyway. He’ll ask a few people for advice but not many.

He still plans to head home to his family. He still plans to fast for one day while he’s there.

Perhaps the most important decision for Tennessee’s 2007 football team will be made on an empty stomach.

"I just want to get to that point where I know it’s just me and God making the decision,"

Meachem said, "and that’s the only way I know."

As Meachem spoke, quarterback Erik Ainge walked by and smiled in his direction.

During an earlier interview, Ainge playfully leaned an ear into the media cluster.

"Everybody wants to know what he’s going to do," Ainge said.

More than most, Ainge has an obvious stake in Meachem’s call.

While trying not to pester his star target, Ainge has found subtle ways of coercing Meachem back to school.

"When we’re watching film and he catches a touchdown I say, ‘Well, you could catch about 10 or 15 of those next year,’ just kind of joking around," Ainge said. "He always just smiles. That’s Robert. He just keeps his thoughts to himself."

There are other factors for Meachem to consider, such as his 1 1 /2-year-old daughter Adrianna in Memphis. That doesn’t mean money, Meachem stressed, as much as the opportunity to be closer to his little girl.

"Growing up as a kid, you see some of your friends growing up without a father, and I don’t want her to ever feel like I never was there for her," Meachem said. "I would just love for her to see all the good things that happen for her father. When she grows, she knows she has a good dad, but she knows she could have a good life, too. She doesn’t have to struggle."

Ainge said the Vols "are planning on him coming back."

Just in case, the Volunteers secured commitments in the past two weeks from standout receiving prospects Gerald Jones and Kenny O’Neal, a former Florida State player and track star now at a junior college in California.

Meanwhile, Meachem heads into what could be his final Tennessee game with the same focus that has spawned his rapid improvement this season.

He wants to win, maybe a little more than usual.

"I want to win this game so bad," Meachem said. "You grow up watching Penn State all your life — you see white and blue, white and blue all your life. It’s going to a great game. I would say after the game, a lot of people may shed tears, just because of the type of game it’s going to be."
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#20
#20
Good read again. Whatever decision he makes I am sure he'll be at peace with. I hate root against his draft rating but...
 
#21
#21
I think when the NFL scouts come and do time trials, that Meachem will have a blistering time, and they will project him to go early and he leaves.
 
#22
#22
oklavol said:
I think when the NFL scouts come and do time trials, that Meachem will have a blistering time, and they will project him to go early and he leaves.
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I may be wrong, but I don't believe that when you request a draft projection from the NFL it is based on any combine type testing. In other words, they don't come out and test you and then give you a projection number.
 
#23
#23
orange+white=heaven said:
I may be wrong, but I don't believe that when you request a draft projection from the NFL it is based on any combine type testing. In other words, they don't come out and test you and then give you a projection number.
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yep...unfortunately for them, they have declare, then the workouts begin...no pressure.:blink:
 
#24
#24
I dont think you have to sign anything before you can go to a combine and get your 40 time, etc and get a projection in the draft.
 
#25
#25
Meachem is only submitted his info and such to the NFL draft advisory board and seeing where they project him. Ainge is doing the same, but staying no matter what.
 
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