re: Marques Ford decommits from VOLS (UPDATE: Butch Jones pulls scholarship offer)

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Yep, but it is in his 2nd season, and a bunch of those guys were from this season. The reputation is building, it's not going to catch fire overnight. I know some HS coaches, you may know some as well, you know this type of thing is what they talk about at conferences or to each other about. Word is going to spread, vols don't honor offers and even yank accepted commitments.

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This. It happening one year is one thing. It happening year in and year out becomes a way of doing things. It's one thing to make an offer that's not commitable. It's one thing to make an offer and completely yank the offer. It's a completely different story to yank a scholarship after a kid has committed and just 2 weeks before NSD. It may have happened, but I honestly don't remember Mizzou ever doing this.

I can tell you this, if my son were to ever be fortunate enough to be a football player at that level and he got an offer from UT, I would NEVER allow him to commit to them before NSD as long as Butch is there. I would force him to take all of his other visits. Continue to build all of those other relationships. If he ultimately chose UT, so be it. That's fine. But I would NEVER allow him to commit to them and then stop with the rest of the recruiting.