Maybe it's been announced that he'll land at Duke. And while Coach Cut is a wonderful coach (he coached at UT and we love him to death - still cheer for him). I kinda get the feeling that the pressure of being at a big football school as well as UT having double the enrollment is a bigger reason why. He'll have no trouble starting there and he won't be outshone by Wolf throughout his career (Wolf has been compared to Witten by several - one tough mofo with loads of potential even tho' he was lower ranked than Helm) although there's no doubt Helm would have been used just as much since since they're very different TEs. Helm is the highly athletic pass-catcher whereas Wolf is more all purpose - your blocking, grind it out kind of TE.

Coach Cut has the rep of being a gentleman and he is but in terms of coaching he puts up with no bs and is harder on his players than folks realize (Tyler Bray would've been run off had Cut been around). BUT I don't know much about their TE coach. What I do know is that it's smaller, less pressure, and he may have a better chance of fitting in tho' I kinda doubt that unless he was just overwhelmed by the sheer size of our enrollment which can happen easily even to regular small town kids. He may also have a friend(s) and/or gf there but I don't know for sure.

Regardless I do hope it works out for him as I know from very reliable sources he was a fish out of water here with a lot of trouble relating to social aspects here. He was overwhelmed. And the social problems/fitting in was the biggest issue for him.

Maybe Duke's much smaller size (their enrollment is ~half ours) and cliquish nature will work for him. Best of luck as he has the talent and has been portrayed as good person who just wasn't comfortable here due to social issues/problems fitting in. He just has so much talent - would hate to see him call it quits again.

This post was edited on 12/18/14 at 1:19 pm