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#2
#2
Right now talking about Kenbrell Thompkins. They say its not fair to
not to release him and that it will impact negatively on us.
thats it...
 
#4
#4
The only time we're ever on ESPN now is if it's negative news. If there was ever any positive news, ESPN would try to cover it up to pretend there was no news. :p
 
#5
#5
When a kid makes his college selection, they sit in front of a couple of hats. When they choose the school they pick a hat up and put it on thier head. What is on the hat? The school. NOT the coach. A kid committs to a school, not a coach. They say, "I committed to play at (insert school here). Not, "I'm committed to play for Coach (name here)."

If you look up on rivals, profiles read Tennessee commit. They don't read "Dooley commit".

Am I making sense?
 
#9
#9
i feel it will help recruiting, commits will understand that the LOI stands for Letter of Intent - not Letter of I might play here
 
#10
#10
I don't understand why they even broght it up any ways. Minutes before the segement they announced Kenbrell wasn't cleared by the NCAA anyways.
 
#12
#12
EasyVolunteer said:
When a kid makes his college selection, they sit in front of a couple of hats. When they choose the school they pick a hat up and put it on thier head. What is on the hat? The school. NOT the coach. A kid committs to a school, not a coach. They say, "I committed to play at (insert school here). Not, "I'm committed to play for Coach (name here)."

If you look up on rivals, profiles read Tennessee commit. They don't read "Dooley commit".

Am I making sense?
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very true
 
#15
#15
Andre made it sound like he was an 18 year old kid out of high school. In reality he was a juco transfer that had already been practicing with the team.
 
#19
#19
It was brought up because it was just made known that Thompkins wouldn't be allowed to play this year at Cincinnati.

And if you think that just because the kid's hat has the team name on it means he is only going to that school because of said school...yikes
 
#20
#20
adamyq said:
So it will hurt recruiting because we actually expect you to honor your commitment?
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The fact that Dooley continues to not release anyone from scholarships and LOI is getting rediculous. People leaving is the norm when coaching changes occur. Like I said in the Bryce Brown thread, it is the definition of hypocrisy of DD's part to preach about commitment when he jumped ship at La Tech when a better job opportunity came along. I'm not ripping DD for leaving La Tech, me along with almost everyone else here would have done the same thing, but for a grown man in his 40's to hold 18-21 kids to a higher moral standard than he holds himself is just rediculous IMO.
 
#21
#21
Im scared that sometimes it might hurt recruiting. Sometimes its the right thing to do and sometimes not. In our situation we sure dont need to look any less appealing. Are Saban, Meyer, Miles, etc. as strict as DD on releasing players from LOI's?
 
#22
#22
If a kid won't come to UT (or any school) because he's worried that he won't get released in the event he changes his mind....then he shouldn't be here anyway. If it's about the coach, then we should be in pretty good shape because CDD has made it clear that this isn't a layover on his way to another destination.
 
#23
#23
crusse10 said:
And if you think that just because the kid's hat has the team name on it means he is only going to that school because of said school...yikes
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And if you think that the reason the kid is COMMITTING to said school matters when were talking about giving him an unconditional release than...yikes.
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#24
#24
volmanbill said:
If a kid won't come to UT (or any school) because he's worried that he won't get released in the event he changes his mind....then he shouldn't be here anyway. If t's about the coach, then we should be in pretty good shape because CDD has made it clear that this isn't a layover on his way to another destination.
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And this is why the NCAA won't release him. Let's stop blaming other people and let the kid take responicibility for his own decisions.
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#25
#25
I don't know why CDD didn't release him. It's not like WR is a huge position of need at the moment. I think we know that Kiffin recruited kids to play for him and not necessairly the school. That's fine and all, but he isn't here anymore so you gotta let those players go imo. Their mindset is loyalty to the coach and not the school. I can understand being loyal to a coach so I can't really blame him for that.
 
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