Our talent started dropping off when Fulmer started signing more in-state guys. The bottom line is that TN is not a good high school football state. I think it's getting better, but we are way behind. Not enough good coaches and the TSSAA has too many stupid rules.
For the recruiting gurus, I'd be interested to know if TN only signed the Top 25 players from the state of TN, where that class would be ranked? My guess, WAY lower than the current class, WAY lower.
This thread is precisely why Griffith tweets this kind of thing.
and it's par for the course with the Knoxville/TN media. They don't want to put the time in to do any real research or writing so they throw out crap like this to get clicks. Unfortunately his boss will just look at it and say "MG generated X amount of traffic today" and think he's successful.
