Tennessee's crummy recruiting base

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Vercingetorix

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In several of the endless coaching rumors threads, I've seen criticism leveled at a few theoretical candidates because it's supposedly easy to recruit at whatever school they've been before. ("How do we know whether he can recruit in a place like Tennessee?") My question is this: exactly where else is a coach supposed to get comparable, relevant experience? Is Tennessee the traditional college football power with the worst in-state recruiting base?

Notre Dame, maybe, although their allure to midwestern Catholics certainly compensates. Anywhere else?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
In several of the endless coaching rumors threads, I've seen criticism leveled at a few theoretical candidates because it's supposedly easy to recruit at whatever school they've been before. ("How do we know whether he can recruit in a place like Tennessee?") My question is this: exactly where else is a coach supposed to get comparable, relevant experience? Is Tennessee the traditional college football power with the worst in-state recruiting base?

Notre Dame, maybe, although their allure to midwestern Catholics certainly compensates. Anywhere else?
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think Rutgers, Missouri, Kentucky, schools in stats that SUCK........Utah, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, tons of schools out there that recruit regionally and nationally for players.........TN we get most of our guys regionally, and some nationally.........
 
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Oklahoma has easy access to the gold mine that is Texas, and there sure aren't enough traditionally powerful schools in Texas to give all that talent a home. Nebraska's a good answer.

There are apparently a bunch of fans who want us not only to hire a great recruiter, but a guy who's had to recruit somewhere without a good local base to pick from. There just aren't many places like that.
 
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tabrams said:
think Rutgers, Missouri, Kentucky, schools in stats that SUCK........Utah, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, tons of schools out there that recruit regionally and nationally for players.........TN we get most of our guys regionally, and some nationally.........
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He requested a traditional power.
 
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And as far as Nebraska goes, to what extent was their run of success dependent on huge, homegrown, corn-fed linemen on both sides of the ball? I don't really know how to look this up, but it always seemed to me like their entire football philosophy was designed to take advantage of exactly the kind of players they could get locally. They'd get their RBs from wherever, but they always seemed to have huge guys off of farms on the Great Plains plowing the way up front.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Oklahoma has easy access to the gold mine that is Texas, and there sure aren't enough traditionally powerful schools in Texas to give all that talent a home. Nebraska's a good answer.

There are apparently a bunch of fans who want us not only to hire a great recruiter, but a guy who's had to recruit somewhere without a good local base to pick from. There just aren't many places like that.
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True. I was just referring to their home state base, which isn't enough to in itself to be a national power.

Nebraska is certainly the best answer.
 
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