So Dooley's message to recruits is?

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VegasVol

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All about his honesty and directness with both players & recruits, but then his own players are supposed to lie to recruits about coaches at other programs, negatively recruit against other programs, and not give their experience about UT (including almost all good, with just a little bad)? Yeah, that makes sense.

A reminder about what GJ actually did --

"I got a call a week or so ago from a kid," Jones said. "I don't know who gave him my number, but I didn't talk down about anyone. I actually gave several positives about Tennessee like coach Baggitt. I just told the truth about what I know about Tennessee and Troop. At the end of the day that kid made the decision was best for him. Anyone that wants to criticize me about a rumor needs to look themselves in the mirror. I know what I said and it was all positive."

That's precisely what Dooley says he wants his program's recruiting pitch to be -- actual honesty & directness, not b.s. sales pitches that lead to unhappy players, the wrong kind of recruits, or undue attrition.

The effect? We get Tiny, who appears to be a balanced kid; we don't get Gabe Wright, who appears to be a complete headcase. Sounds like it was exactly what Dooley wants for his recruiting, in the end.
 
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All about his honesty and directness with both players & recruits, but then his own players are supposed to lie to recruits about coaches at other programs, negatively recruit against other programs, and not give their experience about UT (including almost all good, with just a little bad)? Yeah, that makes sense.

A reminder about what GJ actually said he did --

"I got a call a week or so ago from a kid," Jones said. "I don't know who gave him my number, but I didn't talk down about anyone. I actually gave several positives about Tennessee like coach Baggitt. I just told the truth about what I know about Tennessee and Troop. At the end of the day that kid made the decision was best for him. Anyone that wants to criticize me about a rumor needs to look themselves in the mirror. I know what I said and it was all positive."

That's precisely what Dooley says he wants his program's recruiting pitch to be -- actual honesty & directness, not b.s. sales pitches that lead to unhappy players, the wrong kind of recruits, or undue attrition.


FYP, and OBTW how many times are you going to post this?
 
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Seriously.....I want to sell you stuff.
 
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All about his honesty and directness with both players & recruits, but then his own players are supposed to lie to recruits about coaches at other programs, negatively recruit against other programs, and not give their experience about UT (including almost all good, with just a little bad)? Yeah, that makes sense.

A reminder about what GJ actually did --

"I got a call a week or so ago from a kid," Jones said. "I don't know who gave him my number, but I didn't talk down about anyone. I actually gave several positives about Tennessee like coach Baggitt. I just told the truth about what I know about Tennessee and Troop. At the end of the day that kid made the decision was best for him. Anyone that wants to criticize me about a rumor needs to look themselves in the mirror. I know what I said and it was all positive."

That's precisely what Dooley says he wants his program's recruiting pitch to be -- actual honesty & directness, not b.s. sales pitches that lead to unhappy players, the wrong kind of recruits, or undue attrition.

The effect? We get Tiny, who appears to be a balanced kid; we don't get Gabe Wright, who appears to be a complete headcase. Sounds like it was exactly what Dooley wants for his recruiting, in the end.


I'm sure Dooley would agree that if you don't have anything nice to say then shut the hell up when another team's coach wants you to recruit for him. He could have said nothing.
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How about "man its been a rough at times the last four years but it looks like dooley has things on the right track." That might have worked a little better.
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How about "man its been a rough at times the last four years but it looks like dooley has things on the right track." That might have worked a little better.
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He said ZERO negative about UT. Confirmed the same on the radio today. He comes across as honest, and still vouching for "all that's great" about UT despite losing his recruiter, losing his offensive coordinator, then losing his head coach, then losing his 2nd head coach, and likely looking at no NFL future. That actually is quite the endorsement for the program -- that he would still "have only positive things to say" about UT after all that.
 
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He said ZERO negative about UT. Confirmed the same on the radio today. He comes across as honest, and still vouching for "all that's great" about UT despite losing his recruiter, losing his offensive coordinator, then losing his head coach, then losing his 2nd head coach, and likely looking at no NFL future. That actually is quite the endorsement for the program -- that he would still "have only positive things to say" about UT after all that.

and lordy knows he was telling the truth.
 
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He said ZERO negative about UT. Confirmed the same on the radio today. He comes across as honest, and still vouching for "all that's great" about UT despite losing his recruiter, losing his offensive coordinator, then losing his head coach, then losing his 2nd head coach, and likely looking at no NFL future. That actually is quite the endorsement for the program -- that he would still "have only positive things to say" about UT after all that.

You'll believe him at face value despite the results of the conversation and the guy who set it up working for Auburn? Nice.
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He said ZERO negative about UT. Confirmed the same on the radio today. He comes across as honest, and still vouching for "all that's great" about UT despite losing his recruiter, losing his offensive coordinator, then losing his head coach, then losing his 2nd head coach, and likely looking at no NFL future. That actually is quite the endorsement for the program -- that he would still "have only positive things to say" about UT after all that.

Hardly a confirmation
 
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I don't have a problem with Gerald Jones's opinion, or him stating it.

But it still seems a little suspicious. But giving him the benefit of the doubt on that, my understanding is that he can't talk to recruits when they aren't on their official visit because of contact limitations for UT personnel and recruits.

Its the Secondary Violation that I think this will result in for a program already being hit with a Failure to Monitor that is a huge issue.
 
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I don't have a problem with Gerald Jones's opinion, or him stating it.

But it still seems a little suspicious. But giving him the benefit of the doubt on that, my understanding is that he can't talk to recruits when they aren't on their official visit because of contact limitations for UT personnel and recruits.

Its the Secondary Violation that I think this will result in for a program already being hit with a Failure to Monitor is a huge issue.

Exactly, which is why he should have kept his mouth shut
 
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He said ZERO negative about UT. Confirmed the same on the radio today. He comes across as honest, and still vouching for "all that's great" about UT despite losing his recruiter, losing his offensive coordinator, then losing his head coach, then losing his 2nd head coach, and likely looking at no NFL future. That actually is quite the endorsement for the program -- that he would still "have only positive things to say" about UT after all that.

and if he would have stopped there, this would not be an issue......we have another recruit that did sign with us that tells a different story thatn Mr. GJ is peddling on air now that the shat has hit the fan
 
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He comes across as honest.

Kid's all character, obviously.

You think he was honest and forthright with Dooley, letting him know that he was working in collusion with an Auburn coach to commit an ncaa violation against Tennessee?
 
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VegasVol has it right the rest of you guys are ridiculous, Dooley is all class, and what's not classy and what seperates us from the shady recruiters out there is that we don't stoop to their level and negativley recruit about other schools.
 
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VegasVol has it right the rest of you guys are ridiculous, Dooley is all class, and what's not classy and what seperates us from the shady recruiters out there is that we don't stoop to their level and negativley recruit about other schools.

Hahahahahaha.
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Many on this board are running around like a bunch of fifteen year old girls because somebody said that GJ talked to a couple of recruits (one of whom chose UT and one of whom didn't). We don't know what was said, but it's imagined that he ran down UT because, well, that makes it an exciting story to complain about. So many imagine something sinister when there are no facts or even any evidence that indicates Jones said a single negative thing about UT.

How is it so hard to believe that GJ did exactly what we would have imagined him doing - just telling the truth and generally supporting UT? Are we sure that he was running UT down because Gabe Wright chose the (NC) Auburn Tigers? So, we think we can beat Auburn for every recruit we want except for that meddling Gerald Jones?

There's not a fact in sight, but many here know what happened and that it's awful for UT. This whole duscussion is stupid.
 
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