'18 TN OL/DL Cade Mays (Transfer)

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Mike4Vols said:
I'm more disappointed in his father than him. How can you play at such a high level for UT, live and raise your family in Knoxville, and allow this to happen with your son? Don't give me this "kids make their own decisions" nonsense. Good parents are able to guide their kids to make the RIGHT decision.

And yes, I did raise two sons who are now grown. This would NOT have happened in my house.
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Why don't you ask Archie Manning how he every allowed Peyton to choose UT?

It wouldn't have happened in your house? Were your kids afraid to make a decision you didn't agree with?

Part of being a good parent is knowing you did such a good job raising them that you can trust them to make good decisions for themselves.

Only control freak helicopter parents pressure their kids to do things because that's what mommy and daddy wants.

This isn't about UT football and it isn't about Kevin Mays. It's about Cade and what he chooses for himself. Anyone that doesn't get that is a f'n idiot.
 
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Mike4Vols said:
I'm more disappointed in his father than him. How can you play at such a high level for UT, live and raise your family in Knoxville, and allow this to happen with your son? Don't give me this "kids make their own decisions" nonsense. Good parents are able to guide their kids to make the RIGHT decision.

And yes, I did raise two sons who are now grown. This would NOT have happened in my house.
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Wow.
 
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Mike4Vols said:
I'm more disappointed in his father than him. How can you play at such a high level for UT, live and raise your family in Knoxville, and allow this to happen with your son? Don't give me this "kids make their own decisions" nonsense. Good parents are able to guide their kids to make the RIGHT decision.

And yes, I did raise two sons who are now grown. This would NOT have happened in my house.
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This is crazy. I'm sure you get mad when we try to get out of state kids and their parents won't let them leave. Same situation here in reverse. He is doing the right thing letting Cade make the decision and staying out of it. He wants cade at TN. You don't see him all hugged up with these other coaches. I'd let my son choose whatever school he wants and fits in best at. If he wanted to go to Bama I'd let him go to a Bama. I have visited Bama and while I'm a TN fan I actually enjoyed the company of the students at Bama more than the snobby Knoxville students at the time. This was decade ago and things change everywhere.

A parents job is to guide and send them down the path. Not to make choices for their child at that age. Imagine the relationship if He forced Cade to TN and TN didn't make it back and Clemson wins a championship. There could be real damage to that relationship long term if that happened.
 
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Mike4Vols said:
I'm more disappointed in his father than him. How can you play at such a high level for UT, live and raise your family in Knoxville, and allow this to happen with your son? Don't give me this "kids make their own decisions" nonsense. Good parents are able to guide their kids to make the RIGHT decision.

And yes, I did raise two sons who are now grown. This would NOT have happened in my house.
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Somebody prolly wrote that in letter to the editor concerning Archie Manning once upon a time.
 
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Mike4Vols said:
I'm more disappointed in his father than him. How can you play at such a high level for UT, live and raise your family in Knoxville, and allow this to happen with your son? Don't give me this "kids make their own decisions" nonsense. Good parents are able to guide their kids to make the RIGHT decision.

And yes, I did raise two sons who are now grown. This would NOT have happened in my house.
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One of the dumbest things I've ever read on VolNation.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
Stayed with Butch all this time up until he was fired and was worried about winning championships?
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Exactly. I call BS. He’s butthurt that we fired Butch and is only bouncing around committing to coaches instead of sticking to a SCHOOL. Has nothing to do with championships. Butch will never sniff a national championship.
 
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Mike4Vols said:
I'm more disappointed in his father than him. How can you play at such a high level for UT, live and raise your family in Knoxville, and allow this to happen with your son? Don't give me this "kids make their own decisions" nonsense. Good parents are able to guide their kids to make the RIGHT decision.

And yes, I did raise two sons who are now grown. This would NOT have happened in my house.
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Not sure you are on cue with what a "right decision" is.
 
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Volunteer Pride said:
He's being a good father and letting his son make his own decision and the decision that is right for him. It doesn't matter if he played at UT. Cade is his own person.
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Cade grew up running around coach Fulmer's office, literally!!! How can you go from that, to not even having UT in your top 3?
 
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My gut on all of this is that something happened that soured him on UT and he has decided he’s going anywhere but here. I feel like something happened that hurt his feelings/pride and now he’s not even open to returning.

I also get the feeling based on his behavior that he’s a kid who never gets told no and has been spoiled so there’s nobody guiding him in his choice. He’s on his own in selecting a school.
 
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With us having no chance the kid is doing us a favor not putting us in his top three so we can stop wasting our time which will be better spent elsewhere.
 
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Crazy Ivan said:
He doesn't know Pruitt well enough? That's interesting. Up until a couple of weeks ago had been committed to UT for over 2 years. How well could he have gotten to know those other 3 coaches while he was committed to UT. Just say you want to play for a winner and be done with it.
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I think a lot of it is Butch love on his part and not wanting to feel like he's betraying Butch's son who has been a teammate forever. I don't wish anything bad for him, except I hope he gives up three sacks when we play Clemson in the playoffs in two years.
 
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I believe the poster that said he went to Clemson and fell in love with the team /family atmosphere and Dabo himself. Dabo preaches faith and family to that team. I can see anyone going there falling in love with that. AND THEY WIN ALOT!
 
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EricFreakingBerry said:
So you're saying because I ran around my dad's auto parts store when I was a kid, I should've had auto parts in my Top 3 career paths?
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That's a stupid analogy and if you're an intelligent human being you would know that. It has to do with love of the program and familiarity with the facilities. Not just some analogy about an auto parts store!
 
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TennMan101 said:
That's a stupid analogy and if you're an intelligent human being you would know that. It has to do with love of the program and familiarity with the facilities. Not just some stupid analogy about an auto parts store!
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Oh, please.

I'm not the one droning on in melancholic fashion about where an 18-year old chooses to spend the next four years of his life.

People need to move on and stop waxing nostalgic over a kid who wants to make a career choice that skews from what a few hundred thousand Vol fans would "prefer" he does with his life.

My obvious point with my so-called "stupid analogy" is that growing up around something does not mean you grow to love something so much that you toss logic and even just a gut feeling about something out the window.
 
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Jcates23 said:
I think if working in auto parts was your chosen career path, your dads store would be in your top 3.
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And if I chose to move to Australia and open up my own auto parts store there, I guarantee a bunch of biased judgmental people tweeting me and discussing my choice on a public forum wouldn't change my decision one bit.
 
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I'm still waiting on Mike4vols to come back and respond to being 'taken out behind the woodshed'.. I mean how do you follow that up? Should be good... Haaa
 
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BigZiti09 said:
My gut on all of this is that something happened that soured him on UT and he has decided he’s going anywhere but here. I feel like something happened that hurt his feelings/pride and now he’s not even open to returning.

I also get the feeling based on his behavior that he’s a kid who never gets told no and has been spoiled so there’s nobody guiding him in his choice. He’s on his own in selecting a school.
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someone in here alluded to him pissing off a lot of the current commits and player so maybe not a comfortable situation if that is true
 
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TennMan101 said:
From all indications, he has already stated where he stands. We botched it!
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I just hope he doesn't sign anywhere next week. Would give us another six weeks to get back in there.


At the end of the day, his blood runs orange...I will promise you that.
 
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Jax_Vol said:
I just hope he doesn't sign anywhere next week. Would give us another six weeks to get back in there.


At the end of the day, his blood runs orange...I will promise you that.
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It won’t give them 6 weeks, it will give them 2. He is an EE.

Yes apparently his blood runs Clemson orange.
 
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