RockyTop572
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I was at the breakfast this morning at the convention center and it was amazing.
It started with an amazing video that was like "from USC...to the NFL...to TENNESSEE..." talking about Kiffin, then Coach O, and Monte. Then it showed a lot of highlights from this past season and further back. Lots of Eric Berry clips obviously. Then it showed some of our players that are currently in the NFL. It really was an awesome video. I feel like it was perfect to show recruits or maybe it was shown to them? They never said.
Then Kiffin had each position coach present talk about the recruits that they would be coaching and show a few highlights of each player. Before all of that Kiffin did a hilarious impersonation of Coach O though.
Kiffin said that on Coach O's first day there he went up to the board and wrote "Marsalis Teague will be a Vol" and initialed it and threw the marker across the room. Kiffin said that Coach O especially flat out would not take "no" as an answer from Teague. He said Coach O spent so much time there that he probably got to know every person in Paris, TN. Kiffin added that there probably wasn't a period of 48 hours where Teague didn't hear from Orgeron. During Kiffin's impersonation he kept saying in the voice of Orgeron, "you don't understand, we ARE gonna get Teague. You don't understand."
Another notable story was Orgeron talking about converting Marlon Walls to defensive line. He referenced Warren Sapp and how when he started playing football he was about 210 pounds. Orgeron said that Marlon is now up to 275 from 215 pounds.
James Cregg talked about JerQuari Schofield and said that he is so pumped about this kid because of his attitude and how he wants to really get better every practice. They also added that has a bigger wingspan than any other Tennessee player ever.
The best part though aside from Lance Thompson saying that Alabama wouldn't be having any more classes like they had was DEFINITELY Lane/Monte's comments about Nu'Keese Richardson and his recruitment process...
Lane talked about how difficult it is to even get a visit with a kid from Pahokee because "they do not let anyone not named the Florida Gators talk to their kids." He said he had to give all the credit to Eddie Gran for getting in and turning Nu'Keese. As I've read some people ask about on here Lane then called out Urban Meyer for texting Nu'Keese while he was on his visit here which is a clear recruiting violation. I don't know that he is going to report it but Lane said Urban violated NCAA rules clear as day...and still lost. It was hysterical.
They left the highlights of Nu'Keese for the very end and that's when Lane introduced Monte and Monte hops up and tears up to the stage and just like shouts into the microphone immediately about how pumped he is to be here and how pumped he is that we landed Nu'Keese. He used the "68 going on 48" line again and said he had so many stories he wanted to tell and all this. It was great.
I think I've summarized most of the highlights from the morning here but there was definitely other stuff that happened that I'm forgetting...
It started with an amazing video that was like "from USC...to the NFL...to TENNESSEE..." talking about Kiffin, then Coach O, and Monte. Then it showed a lot of highlights from this past season and further back. Lots of Eric Berry clips obviously. Then it showed some of our players that are currently in the NFL. It really was an awesome video. I feel like it was perfect to show recruits or maybe it was shown to them? They never said.
Then Kiffin had each position coach present talk about the recruits that they would be coaching and show a few highlights of each player. Before all of that Kiffin did a hilarious impersonation of Coach O though.
Kiffin said that on Coach O's first day there he went up to the board and wrote "Marsalis Teague will be a Vol" and initialed it and threw the marker across the room. Kiffin said that Coach O especially flat out would not take "no" as an answer from Teague. He said Coach O spent so much time there that he probably got to know every person in Paris, TN. Kiffin added that there probably wasn't a period of 48 hours where Teague didn't hear from Orgeron. During Kiffin's impersonation he kept saying in the voice of Orgeron, "you don't understand, we ARE gonna get Teague. You don't understand."
Another notable story was Orgeron talking about converting Marlon Walls to defensive line. He referenced Warren Sapp and how when he started playing football he was about 210 pounds. Orgeron said that Marlon is now up to 275 from 215 pounds.
James Cregg talked about JerQuari Schofield and said that he is so pumped about this kid because of his attitude and how he wants to really get better every practice. They also added that has a bigger wingspan than any other Tennessee player ever.
The best part though aside from Lance Thompson saying that Alabama wouldn't be having any more classes like they had was DEFINITELY Lane/Monte's comments about Nu'Keese Richardson and his recruitment process...
Lane talked about how difficult it is to even get a visit with a kid from Pahokee because "they do not let anyone not named the Florida Gators talk to their kids." He said he had to give all the credit to Eddie Gran for getting in and turning Nu'Keese. As I've read some people ask about on here Lane then called out Urban Meyer for texting Nu'Keese while he was on his visit here which is a clear recruiting violation. I don't know that he is going to report it but Lane said Urban violated NCAA rules clear as day...and still lost. It was hysterical.
They left the highlights of Nu'Keese for the very end and that's when Lane introduced Monte and Monte hops up and tears up to the stage and just like shouts into the microphone immediately about how pumped he is to be here and how pumped he is that we landed Nu'Keese. He used the "68 going on 48" line again and said he had so many stories he wanted to tell and all this. It was great.
I think I've summarized most of the highlights from the morning here but there was definitely other stuff that happened that I'm forgetting...
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