Recruiting Forum: Football Talk XVI

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Tennessee Golfer said:
They moved it to Athens, GA
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Ha.. that reminds me... a few years back I took my wife to the Georgia vs Boise St game in Atlanta. The Dodgers, Nascar, UGA fans and whatever Boise people looked like was the expected crowd.

We missed the initial Peachtree turn so we took the next Peachtree exit (since every road is named peachtree). Crossing the street was an overweight Batman, skinny Goku, a tranny and busty Wonder Woman. The streets were full of costume characters and feminine men. I looked at my wife and said "People from Idaho are weird". It was confusion until we got to the hotel. Apparently Dragon Con and the African American Gay Pride Parade was in town as well.
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
I'm guessing you are going to Orlando? If so, we are leaving early Sunday morning and heading that way for the entire week. Where are you staying? Would be cool to run into you, as I'm pretty sure we have the same religious beliefs. Since I have a 4.5 year old girl, we obviously are doing a lot of the princess thing all week, but are looking forward to it, as she is so excited!
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Yes Orlando.

Hope we do run into each other

Two of mine are girls - 3 and 2. So we will be doing some princess stuff too. Ha.

We are in pop century. I have three kids. And my wife is a homemaker. Equals value resort ha.

Here is our schedule ( or sledual as Yukon Butch might say)--

Sat. MK
Sun - church. Downtown Disney. Church
Mon. MK
Tues HS
Wed. AK. Church.
Thurs. HS
Fri. EC
Sat. MK

Let me know if any of that matches up with y'all's. Maybe we can meet briefly in the midst of the chaos.
 
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Good morning big �� country!! #RockyTop #BrickByBrick


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Maybe another one today?
 
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volssam and OGbabyavi, please be safe and have a good time on your trip. Hope you all run into each other and maybe have dinner or something. You all will be missed. :cray:

Here's a parting gift from me:

 
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Maxwell said:
Good morning big �� country!! #RockyTop #BrickByBrick


Retweeted by Tennessee Football Originated with Willie Martinez

Maybe another one today?
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Could just be that today starts a huge recruiting weekend.....

Or we got verbals from the top 10 players in the 2016 class
 
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volssam said:
Yes Orlando.

Hope we do run into each other

Two of mine are girls - 3 and 2. So we will be doing some princess stuff too. Ha.

We are in pop century. I have three kids. And my wife is a homemaker. Equals value resort ha.

Here is our schedule ( or sledual as Yukon Butch might say)--

Sat. MK
Sun - church. Downtown Disney. Church
Mon. MK
Tues HS
Wed. AK. Church.
Thurs. HS
Fri. EC
Sat. MK

Let me know if any of that matches up with y'all's. Maybe we can meet briefly in the midst of the chaos.
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I will have to check our planner that my wife has put together, and let you know where we will be each day. We are staying in the animal kingdom, so maybe somehow we could meet up on Wednesday at some point, since that is where y'all will be. Check this thread later on tonight or early in the morning, and I will post where we are supposed to be each day, like you did. Be safe on your travels today, and hopefully we get the chance to run into each other at some point next week. God bless!
 
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smokeyhuntsgators said:
volssam and OGbabyavi, please be safe and have a good time on your trip. Hope you all run into each other and maybe have dinner or something. You all will be missed. :cray:

here's a parting gift from me:

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Thanks, smokey! I will be popping in hopefully throughout the week. It may be late at night after we get baby girl to bed and early in the morning with coffee in hand.
 
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Basilio's X seems to think yesterday's commitment was a calculated move by Butch to extend Kyle Oliver the professional courtesy of giving him a enough time before NSD to find a new school. Otherwise, there was no need to push the 2016 commitment this soon....Any truth here, or do you think Butch would/should just tell the kid straight up that we're going in a different direction?
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
I will have to check our planner that my wife has put together, and let you know where we will be each day. We are staying in the animal kingdom, so maybe somehow we could meet up on Wednesday at some point, since that is where y'all will be. Check this thread later on tonight or early in the morning, and I will post where we are supposed to be each day, like you did. Be safe on your travels today, and hopefully we get the chance to run into each other at some point next week. God bless!
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I will be on the lookout for a little girl all tatted up.
 
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I could way wrong about this... but I don't think so. Basilio knows better than anyone that yours truly is a conspiracy theorist. So below I will lay out my recruiting conspiracy. Now this is not quite to the level of Art Bell or Pete Carroll. My point is when it comes to the University of Tennessee football operations I don't believe things just happen by chance .

Let me set this up. For those who aren't familiar, Tennessee received a commitment yesterday from 2016 (yes 2016) tight end prospect Devonte Brooks. This is great news! Brooks is a heckuva prospect. Already a RIVALS top 100 2016 prospect, Brooks is one of the top prospects on Tennessee 2016 board regardless of positionA little bit more on Brooks before I get to my point. Brooks stands 6'5" 220 lbs and is projected to be the #1 prospect in the District of Columbia. All this without playing a down as a junior. He tore his ACL last offseason and didn't play a down. His current rankings are based totally on his performance as a sophomore. Clearly, his pre-injury performance was duly noted by recruiting analysts. If he can get back to his original form, Brooks will be a difference maker in Knoxville.

It has been fairly well known Tennessee has been Brooks' leader for quite a while. But I don't think anyone expect a mid January commitment . So why did Brooks commit .. why now? T wo weeks before 2015 National Signing Day why does a highly rated 2016 prospect decide to publicly commit?

Here is the how and the why ..I think everyone who follows Tennessee football knows by now that Butch Jones is in full control of the football operation. The kids who interact with media (those who are part of the program and those committed and will become part of the program) are ALWAYS on topic. Whatever the message is for the day or the week these kids help the Head coach promote the message. My point is good news just simply doesn't happen by accident. Things are planned and calculated. One Tennessee right?

I have no issue with this and my guess is most fans don't either which brings me around to my conspiracy theory. 4 star commitments for the 2016 recruiting class do not accidentally happen with 2 weeks left in the 2015 recruiting cycle....

Here is why Devonte Brooks' public commitment impacts the 2015 class. Tennessee has a committed prospect in the 2015 class projected as a tight end. He is an instate prospect, a good prospect, who has options with other schools but a prospect who probably needs a redshirt year.

Click to YMCA of East Tennessee!My theory is having Brooks publicly commit sends a message to the 2015 tight end tight end that he is already being recruited over and he may want to explore his options with other schools. The Brooks commitment does a couple of things. It gives the impacted e commitment, 3 official visit weekends to find another school. Next and most important this frees up one more spot in the 2015 class. This is important because I believe Tennessee has received good news from a prospect they were recruiting but weren't planning on being part of the 2015. Simply put, Tennessee needs to make room for a better player.
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VolsnCards5 said:
OT: when is a kid old enough for Disney world? I have a 4 and a 1 year old.
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Depends on what you wanna do. Haha. I will say they're free under three. And I think they are old enough to be excited and enjoy it right under three.

But they won't be tall enough to ride everything. I mean they can ride almost all the kid rides.

But otherwise
Barnstormer - 35"
Seven dwarves mine train - 38"
Tower of terror and a couple others - 40"
Space mtn and a couple others - 44"
Rockin roller coaster - 48"
 
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JamesBenUT said:
Basilio's X seems to think yesterday's commitment was a calculated move by Butch to extend Kyle Oliver the professional courtesy of giving him a enough time before NSD to find a new school. Otherwise, there was no need to push the 2016 commitment this soon....Any truth here, or do you think Butch would/should just tell the kid straight up that we're going in a different direction?
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It being a different class, I don't see it. I think the staff wants to hang on to Oliver but that's just me speculating.
 
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volssam said:
I will be on the lookout for a little girl all tatted up.
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:eek:lol:

She will also probably be in a different princess gown every day that we are there. I will try to have something TN on every day. Have to wear an Olaf shirt one day and a Mickey shirt another, since she picked them out for me, but will wear a TN hat with them.
 
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