Players we missed out on?

[lastlapuncle]

With B..tch as coach,we lost countless players.So happy Josh is here now.

 

[snappervol]

Michael Oher
Albert Means
E J Junior

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[LegionnaireOfTheMiserable]

Similar to the other thread and owing to the mention of Randal Cobb, who are some of the players we should have gotten over the years but we didn’t?

R Cobb
Cadillac Williams
Michael Oher?
Patrick Willis
Patrick Turner
Eric Locke?

Who are some others?

We eventually got Juicy Locke, and he did nothing.

 

[LegionnaireOfTheMiserable]

We still have a few weeks before kickoff, so how bout someone put together their best starting 22 of guys we missed on.

QB- Trevor Lawrence, Michael Penix

RB- Cadillac, Ronnie Brown, Derrick Henry, Jahmir Gibbs

WR- Randy Moss, Tee Higgins, Ladd McConkey, Randall Cobb, Mecole Hardman

OL- Jordan Seaton, Michael Oher, Orlando Brown, Stanton Ramil, Francis Mauigoa, Douglas Utu

DL- Carl Lawson, Robert Nkemdiche, Walter Nolen, Marvin Austin (I believe we were in on him)

LB- Patrick Willis, Ernie Sims, Donta Hightower, BJ Ojulari

DB- Vonn Bell, Harrison Smith, Adoree Jackson, Jaycee Horn, Mackensie Alexander

Honorable mention, just for his name: Shocky-Jacques Louis

Need a tight end, but that’s a starting 22 and then some.

 

[TMvol10]

Jesse Scoggins

 

[TMvol10]

QB- Trevor Lawrence, Michael Penix

RB- Cadillac, Ronnie Brown, Derrick Henry, Jahmir Gibbs

WR- Randy Moss, Tee Higgins, Ladd McConkey, Randall Cobb, Mecole Hardman

OL- Jordan Seaton, Michael Oher, Orlando Brown, Stanton Ramil, Francis Mauigoa, Douglas Utu

DL- Carl Lawson, Robert Nkemdiche, Walter Nolen, Marvin Austin (I believe we were in on him)

LB- Patrick Willis, Ernie Sims, Donta Hightower, BJ Ojulari

DB- Vonn Bell, Harrison Smith, Adoree Jackson, Jaycee Horn, Mackensie Alexander

Honorable mention, just for his name: Shocky-Jacques Louis

Need a tight end, but that’s a starting 22 and then some.

We were ever really in the running for Derrick Henry? Or Gibbs? I don’t remember us being on their final lists

 

[RandomUTfan]

A tad bit different but Kiffin, the dip$hit ran off Bryce Petty too.

Not only that, but he refused to recruit Cam Newton out of Blinn.

 

[LegionnaireOfTheMiserable]

We were ever really in the running for Derrick Henry? Or Gibbs? I don’t remember us being on their final lists

Pruitt told Gibbs thanks but no thanks. I will take that as missing out, he likely comes here over Georgia Tech if we had said he could play running back. I seem to remember that we were seemingly in it with Henry until the 2012 season started unfolding, but I could have been remembering it better than it was. I do know Derrick Green broke our hearts and went to Michigan before becoming a bust that same year.

 

[CAVPUT]

A tad bit different but Kiffin, the dip$hit ran off Bryce Petty too.

If Heupel doesn't pan out, I'd make Kiffin my first call.

 

[BDP!]

I'm getting older and my memory is a bit cloudy, but I believe Brown was academically an issue for Tennessee. And wasn't he during the Butch era?

Correct

 

[BAVol]

Tajh Boyd
Trevor Lawrence
Tee Higgins

Chris Simms

 

[utvols74]

He was a top 10 recruit in the nation and the Vols wanted him, but missed out. Penn State was coming off a national championship year in 86.

Vols signed Reggie Cobb in 86 and Chuck Webb in 87. Throw Tony Thompson in there too, but Thompson was one of the top prospects out of Knoxville of all time.

I saw "Cobb-Webb" in the rain against Auburn at Neyland in '89 IIRC. One of the best 1-2 punches at RB at UT. Webb was the best RB ever at UT. The 1989 Cotton Bowl was a thing of beauty for him.

 

[swampfoxfan]

If Heupel doesn't pan out, I'd make Kiffin my first call.

Are you serious?? You don't think Heupel has worked out? Would you want kiffin back, other than to hit with the mustard bottle?

 

[ThreatLevelOrange]

Orlando Brown, OU OT. Actually had him committed and Fulmer reneged to get an OL from North Carolina who never did anything.

Fulmer wasn’t the coach. Butch was.

 

[Boston Vol]

Keyshawn Johnson
Chris Simms/Ken Dorsey
Terrell Suggs
Ahmad Brooks
Steven Jackson
Marcus McNeill
Steve Smith

 

[Boston Vol]

QB- Trevor Lawrence, Michael Penix

RB- Cadillac, Ronnie Brown, Derrick Henry, Jahmir Gibbs

WR- Randy Moss, Tee Higgins, Ladd McConkey, Randall Cobb, Mecole Hardman

OL- Jordan Seaton, Michael Oher, Orlando Brown, Stanton Ramil, Francis Mauigoa, Douglas Utu

DL- Carl Lawson, Robert Nkemdiche, Walter Nolen, Marvin Austin (I believe we were in on him)

LB- Patrick Willis, Ernie Sims, Donta Hightower, BJ Ojulari

DB- Vonn Bell, Harrison Smith, Adoree Jackson, Jaycee Horn, Mackensie Alexander

Honorable mention, just for his name: Shocky-Jacques Louis

Need a tight end, but that’s a starting 22 and then some.

Yes, we were in on Marvin Austin. I honestly believe he would have come here if Butch Davis hadn’t been hired at UNC. Davis bringing in John Blake as DL coach pretty much sealed the deal.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

He was a top 10 recruit in the nation and the Vols wanted him, but missed out. Penn State was coming off a national championship year in 86.

Vols signed Reggie Cobb in 86 and Chuck Webb in 87. Throw Tony Thompson in there too, but Thompson was one of the top prospects out of Knoxville of all time.

He was but Webb and Cobb proved to be more productive. Webb was the best running back talent ever at Tennessee I believe. He was putting up huge numbers, definetly had a shot at the Heisman had he not had the bad ACL tear. But Leroy was physically a beast as well he just never put up the numbers I thought he might at Penn State. I remember showed up at his house in a limo, and Paterno rarely did in home visits at that point in his career. He probably felt like he had to if he was going to get him out of Tennessee. GBO

 

[GordonC]

Iirc locke stole another players credit card.

 

[landscapingvol]

QB- Trevor Lawrence, Michael Penix

RB- Cadillac, Ronnie Brown, Derrick Henry, Jahmir Gibbs

WR- Randy Moss, Tee Higgins, Ladd McConkey, Randall Cobb, Mecole Hardman

OL- Jordan Seaton, Michael Oher, Orlando Brown, Stanton Ramil, Francis Mauigoa, Douglas Utu

DL- Carl Lawson, Robert Nkemdiche, Walter Nolen, Marvin Austin (I believe we were in on him)

LB- Patrick Willis, Ernie Sims, Donta Hightower, BJ Ojulari

DB- Vonn Bell, Harrison Smith, Adoree Jackson, Jaycee Horn, Mackensie Alexander

Honorable mention, just for his name: Shocky-Jacques Louis

Need a tight end, but that’s a starting 22 and then some.

We need to define “missing out on” because some of y’all are listing recruits that were never coming here

 

[Brave Volunteer]

Chris Simms

 

[Brave Volunteer]

We need to define “missing out on” because some of y’all are listing recruits that were never coming here

Yeah agreed. Tee Higgins, as an example, was never coming here with Butch Jones as our coach.

 

[UTblood4life]

Wasn't Blake Simms 5star qb committed at one point

 

[LWSVOL]

I'm getting older and my memory is a bit cloudy, but I believe Brown was academically an issue for Tennessee. And wasn't he during the Butch era?

Brown couldn't get into UT due to academics. you're correct.

 

[Buzzbait]

He was but Webb and Cobb proved to be more productive. Webb was the best running back talent ever at Tennessee I believe. He was putting up huge numbers, definetly had a shot at the Heisman had he not had the bad ACL tear. But Leroy was physically a beast as well he just never put up the numbers I thought he might at Penn State. I remember showed up at his house in a limo, and Paterno rarely did in home visits at that point in his career. He probably felt like he had to if he was going to get him out of Tennessee. GBO

Ditto on Webb.

 

[Savannahbayvol]

Fulmer wasn’t the coach. Butch was.

Thx for the correction