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Patrick Willis: Vol at heart
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:01 pm
https://m.nbcsports.com/content/recruiting-snub-still-motivates-patrick-willis
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Willis grew up in Tennessee and wanted to play his college football for the Volunteers, and he said on Monday that the memory of being told Tennessee didn’t want him is still fresh.
“I was a Vols fan growing up,” Willis said. “That was like America’s Team. I wanted to go there so bad. After every game my dad and I would get in the car and drive five hours to go to Knoxville to watch them play on an unofficial visit. This was on our gas money and our time. I just wanted to show them how bad I wanted to be there. I can’t forget being there and you have all these other big-time recruits there and they are shaking their hands and the coaches are talking to them. The coaches never shook my hand. They never talked to me. One day I just got tired of doing that. My senior year, I remember going up and saying, ‘Coach I see all of the other guys getting love. I really want to come here. I’m interested in coming here. Do you have something for me? Maybe a scholarship offer? Maybe something just saying you want me?’ But I didn’t get that. I got, ‘Well you’re having a hard time. We’re recruiting two other linebackers, Ernie Sims and Daniel Brooks. Those are the two guys we want.’”
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Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:04 pm to beatbammer
frick you very much Cutcliffe for starting Rob fricking Roberson over the greatest LBer to ever play at OM
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:05 pm to beatbammer
Played at a single A school which Fulmer would never recruit. Same as Randall Cobb. One of the many reasons Fulmer was shite-canned.
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:06 pm to beatbammer
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:06 pm to beatbammer
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‘Well you’re having a hard time
what is this about?
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:07 pm to beatbammer
Sounds like he USED TO BE a vols fan at heart.
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:07 pm to beatbammer
I'm betting Fulmer and company are sick to their stomachs watching Willis play now. 
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:08 pm to beatbammer
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:15 pm to beatbammer
Kinda like how Cam Newton is a Gator at heart
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:15 pm to NBamaAlum
2,1
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:16 pm to DMagic
1, 2 could hold the camera.
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:18 pm to NBamaAlum
He'd be breathing too heavily to get quality shots
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:19 pm to NBamaAlum
I never understood why Fulmer and even Dooley never recruited the few talented players from in-state. They let people like Brandon Warren, Patrick Willis, Randall Cobb, Lee Smith, and Barrett Jones go to other schools.
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:20 pm to DMagic
dm;hs
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:20 pm to Shockley03
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never understood why Fulmer and even Dooley never recruited the few talented players from in-state. They let people like Brandon Warren, Patrick Willis, Randall Cobb, Lee Smith, and Barrett Jones go to other schools.
Donta Hightower told him to get fricking lost.
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:20 pm to NBamaAlum
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:21 pm to Sgt Barnes
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Played at a single A school which Fulmer would never recruit. Same as Randall Cobb
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:23 pm to beatbammer
AU fans still mad about Saturday. Let it go already.
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:29 pm to Frozen Rebel
Gotta love after the fact recruiting
Every program has tough decisions to make
It's hard to project work ethic and development of players
Nine times out of ten, the bigger guy in high school will get the benefit of doubt
Good for Willis, able to go somewhere else and make a name for himself
Happens every year
It would be hard to argue the talent that was coming out of Knoxville around that time
Every program has tough decisions to make
It's hard to project work ethic and development of players
Nine times out of ten, the bigger guy in high school will get the benefit of doubt
Good for Willis, able to go somewhere else and make a name for himself
Happens every year
It would be hard to argue the talent that was coming out of Knoxville around that time
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:29 pm to Sgt Barnes
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Played at a single A school which Fulmer would never recruit. Same as Randall Cobb. One of the many reasons Fulmer was shite-canned.
The funniest thing is Cobb played on one of the best teams in the state, AA or not. Kinda silly he never recruited him considering all you had to do was turn on the news on Friday night to see how good he was.
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