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re: Will Tennessee win back-to-back SEC East recruiting championship?

Posted on 6/22/14 at 7:29 pm to
Posted by Prof
Member since Jun 2013
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Posted on 6/22/14 at 7:29 pm to
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I get tired of hearing fans keep saying how UT is finally turning it around, when they aren't. Butch Jones is just the flavor of the week and it'll only take a couple more losing seasons for the fans to get in an uproar again, then he will get fired and the cycle starts back over.


Well you can get tired of hearing it all you want. He's doing just fine. And trust us we know the difference between a terrible coach (Dooley), a mediocre coach (Kiffin - his recruiting class was bust city tho), and a good one (Fulmer - HOF coach). We've seen the progress those who haven't watched our program haven't seen. And it's night and day.

We're recruiting at again like Fulmer did (before he got a bit lazy at that), we're starting to see depth at our skill positions, but we can't help what Dooley didn't bother with (e.g not a single lineman recruited in 2012 despite him knowing he'd have seniors in 2013 and only one other school in all of college football not taking a lineman and that's just scratching the surface).

Of Dooley's 2012 class, only 11 players remain (2012!) and only a few will see the field (less than half) - we played walkons and true frosh over them last year and will likely play true frosh in outrageous numbers this year.

Yet despite that, playing WALK ONS and True Frosh last year we saw a better coached team on the field that was out-talented all over the field except in a few spots. So if you're tired of it - ignore it but it won't stop because we are seeing results. We know it won't be this year either. do you know how damn hard it is when you're fielding a JV team (more freshman than sophomore) against everyone else's sophomores, juniors and seniors, many of those redshirts you can add another year to? THAT is what we're facing. A roster where CBJ, entering his second season, has already been at UT longer than OVER HALF the damn roster.

Yet despite all those obstacles we see a better coached team and outstanding talent coming in and UT will go nowhere without that talent but it will go upwards with it. So pardon me while I remind you once more, it IS finally turning around and any non-biased observer that's paid much attention would tell you the same.

This post was edited on 6/22/14 at 7:43 pm
Posted by slayerxing
Gainesville
Member since Feb 2010
11045 posts
Posted on 6/23/14 at 7:17 am to
Congrats on the very strong recruiting. But literally, every year, someone at UT writes a post almost identical to the post you just wrote.

And every year they are wrong.

I think we'll know for sure in 2015 when some of these good recruiting classes get some experience.

As to the OP - if the UF coaching staff keeps its jobs, UF will be #1 in the east, they are leading for a ton of really highly rated players, but none of them will sign until the end of the process.
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