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Posted on 7/3/14 at 3:11 pm to Tennessee Jed
Posted on 7/3/14 at 3:11 pm to Tennessee Jed
quote:until he decides hes not getting enough playing time/attention and starts badmouthing your program to recruits on campus
I'm pretty excited about landing Kamara. Seems to be an excellent prospect.
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Posted on 7/3/14 at 3:14 pm to Gotta have DeZeier
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How is Dante Sawyer graduating from JUCO in one year?
Graduated high school with a GED in december and enrolled in JUCO right after. You have to be three semesters removed from HS to transfer to an SEC school.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 3:58 pm to narddogg81
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until he decides hes not getting enough playing time/attention and starts badmouthing your program to recruits on campus
We don't lie to our prospects. Tennessee takes the high road.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 4:12 pm to Tennessee Jed
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We don't lie to our prospects. Tennessee takes the high road.
So what was the lie?
Posted on 7/3/14 at 4:49 pm to Tennessee Jed
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I'm pretty excited about landing Kamara. Seems to be an excellent prospect.
You better pray to god that yall make him happy.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 4:54 pm to Alabamya
List shows Darrell Jackson as a DB, he was moved to DE and excelled.
He is now on campus at A&M and based on frame measurements is projected to be at 6' 5" 270 lb to start 2015 season.
Appears this guy is a sleeper prospect.
He is now on campus at A&M and based on frame measurements is projected to be at 6' 5" 270 lb to start 2015 season.
Appears this guy is a sleeper prospect.
This post was edited on 7/4/14 at 11:46 pm
Posted on 7/3/14 at 5:50 pm to Whereisomaha
I always take what those JUCO guys say in those recruiting site interviews with a grain of salt...
We have gotten burned several times already under Freeze with JUCO players that were "OM leans" late in the process... Recruiting JUCO blue chippers is a dirty business.
We have gotten burned several times already under Freeze with JUCO players that were "OM leans" late in the process... Recruiting JUCO blue chippers is a dirty business.
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 5:52 pm
Posted on 7/3/14 at 5:51 pm to parkjas2001
USC was in pretty solid shape with a lot of these top ones...from what I can decipher without having any subscription to insider info on these sites, Durant and Jones won't be early enrollers out of JUCO, such as in January, but look to only make it in during the summer.
This means they will miss the spring camp for that offseason, and the USC coaches feel that it's too hard of a transition for most JUCOs to come in with only a fall camp to gear up and contribute any better than a redshirt freshman. And THAT means - unless there's a dire, desperate need for warm bodies to fill gaps NOW, they likely will be of little contribution for their 1st year. So it's only one year the program gets out of the 2-year scholarship.
So our coaches right now are not interested in bringing in JUCOs to contribute so little. Jones has been stating often that he's expecting to stay in college for one year anyways, and then move on to NFL after his junior (3rd) year, so he's already a one-and-done (like Corduroy Patterson was at UT). So that's why things cooled off between him and USC...
We already got Palmer (EE in January), and are after Sawyer (will have 3 to play 3 with his early enrollment at East Miss.). Lewis is looking to be an EE in January, so we are still hot on his trail.....
This means they will miss the spring camp for that offseason, and the USC coaches feel that it's too hard of a transition for most JUCOs to come in with only a fall camp to gear up and contribute any better than a redshirt freshman. And THAT means - unless there's a dire, desperate need for warm bodies to fill gaps NOW, they likely will be of little contribution for their 1st year. So it's only one year the program gets out of the 2-year scholarship.
So our coaches right now are not interested in bringing in JUCOs to contribute so little. Jones has been stating often that he's expecting to stay in college for one year anyways, and then move on to NFL after his junior (3rd) year, so he's already a one-and-done (like Corduroy Patterson was at UT). So that's why things cooled off between him and USC...
We already got Palmer (EE in January), and are after Sawyer (will have 3 to play 3 with his early enrollment at East Miss.). Lewis is looking to be an EE in January, so we are still hot on his trail.....
Posted on 7/3/14 at 5:54 pm to reggierayreb
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I always take what those JUCO guys say in those recruiting site interviews with a grain of salt...
We have gotten burned several times already under Freeze with JUCO players that are "OM leans" late in the process... Recruiting JUCO blue chippers is a dirty business.
And even when you do get them, it's still a roll of the dice oftentimes. USC brought in a 1st-team OL JUCO All-American a few cycles back named Kaleb Broome. All he wound up doing for us was participating mostly on special team kicking units, and then he graduated. But we've had some that ended up doing quite well for us, like DB Jonathan Joseph, LB Jasper Brinkley, OL Rokevious Watkins. Hope these guys will all be like the latter and not the former...
Posted on 7/3/14 at 9:47 pm to ConwayGamecock
MACJC is the SEC of juco ball.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 12:28 pm to Gotta have DeZeier
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How is Dante Sawyer graduating from JUCO in one year?
He's going to be a Gamecock with three to play three.
Posted on 7/8/14 at 3:40 pm to Tennessee Jed
Sure you don't: LINK
Tennessee may have damaged a recruiting relationship with a top South Carolina high school after the way it treated a star football player who signed with the Volunteers.
Jabo Lee, a running back from Dillon High School, signed with Tennessee last February but was told last week he would not be admitted.
“I think they just left him out to dry,’’ Dillon coach Jackie Hayes told govolsextra.com’s Mike Strange.
Lee graduated early from Dillon last December, and was lured to Tennessee by running backs coach Jay Graham, who was hired away by Florida State shortly after signing day. Lee finally made his test score recently but was told he wouldn’t be admitted to Tennessee.
“I don’t think this is a good way of doing business,’’ Hayes told the website. “They told him the whole time all he had to do is make the test score.
“Last Wednesday they called him and said he can’t get through admissions. He graduated from high school in December. They’ve had his transcript since January. Looks like they’d know whether he could get through admissions.’’
What really upsets Hayes and others is the lack of communication from head coach Butch Jones or Tennessee’s new running backs coach. Hayes said the only person he heard from was an administrator in Tennessee’s football office.
“Don’t you think it would be better if the head coach or running backs coach called me up and said, ‘We’ve got a problem here?’” Hayes told govolsextra.com.
You can read more the story HERE. Lee, who also found out in May he'll undergo knee surgery, was granted a release from his letter-of-intent by Tennessee. He was helped by the Volunteers (which Hayes was thankful for) to find a new spot at Temple.
What really happened between Lee and Tennessee? “I think what happened is they got some (higher rated) recruits for 2014," Hayes opined.
The Volunteers the nation’s No. 1-ranked recruiting class for 2014 so far, according to Rivals.com. They beat out UGA for the state's No. 1 safety, Locust Grove High School's Cortez McDowell.
Tennessee’s handling of the situation may come back to haunt the Volunteers. They (and other colleges) have already offered 2016 Dillon QB Avery McCall, but Hayes said, “There wouldn’t be no use for (Tennessee recruiters) to come back to Dillon.”
Tennessee may have damaged a recruiting relationship with a top South Carolina high school after the way it treated a star football player who signed with the Volunteers.
Jabo Lee, a running back from Dillon High School, signed with Tennessee last February but was told last week he would not be admitted.
“I think they just left him out to dry,’’ Dillon coach Jackie Hayes told govolsextra.com’s Mike Strange.
Lee graduated early from Dillon last December, and was lured to Tennessee by running backs coach Jay Graham, who was hired away by Florida State shortly after signing day. Lee finally made his test score recently but was told he wouldn’t be admitted to Tennessee.
“I don’t think this is a good way of doing business,’’ Hayes told the website. “They told him the whole time all he had to do is make the test score.
“Last Wednesday they called him and said he can’t get through admissions. He graduated from high school in December. They’ve had his transcript since January. Looks like they’d know whether he could get through admissions.’’
What really upsets Hayes and others is the lack of communication from head coach Butch Jones or Tennessee’s new running backs coach. Hayes said the only person he heard from was an administrator in Tennessee’s football office.
“Don’t you think it would be better if the head coach or running backs coach called me up and said, ‘We’ve got a problem here?’” Hayes told govolsextra.com.
You can read more the story HERE. Lee, who also found out in May he'll undergo knee surgery, was granted a release from his letter-of-intent by Tennessee. He was helped by the Volunteers (which Hayes was thankful for) to find a new spot at Temple.
What really happened between Lee and Tennessee? “I think what happened is they got some (higher rated) recruits for 2014," Hayes opined.
The Volunteers the nation’s No. 1-ranked recruiting class for 2014 so far, according to Rivals.com. They beat out UGA for the state's No. 1 safety, Locust Grove High School's Cortez McDowell.
Tennessee’s handling of the situation may come back to haunt the Volunteers. They (and other colleges) have already offered 2016 Dillon QB Avery McCall, but Hayes said, “There wouldn’t be no use for (Tennessee recruiters) to come back to Dillon.”
Posted on 7/8/14 at 3:49 pm to rebelrouser
Yeah, I'd like to see both sides of the story, but this is unfortunately part of recruiting. As long as CBJ and staff aren't burning too many bridges, I'm not worried.
Posted on 7/8/14 at 4:08 pm to Legendary0903
Every team does that. Bama included. It's recruiting.
Posted on 7/8/14 at 4:25 pm to rebelrouser
Actually Jabo was a late offer and it turned out he didn't have the grades. Not much we can do there. That was after Dooley left - to claim we wouldn't have taken him because we had a better recruit is absurd (we didn't have any good RB options). But I'm sure conflating the 2014 class with the 2013 class wasn't your (or God-forbid an Atlanta paper's) intent, right? 
This post was edited on 7/8/14 at 4:27 pm
Posted on 7/8/14 at 5:48 pm to VFL1800FPD
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We don't lie to our prospects. Tennessee takes the high road.
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Every team does that. Bama included. It's recruiting.
Posted on 9/26/14 at 3:25 pm to Al Bundy Bulldog
bump
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Are yall planning on getting
Wommack
Patterson
Givens
Rankin
Richmond
yes
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