re: 4* DL Bill Norton (Memphis, TN) commit to UGA

Fromm, the kid who always wanted to go to UGA. Previous UGA season 10-3

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Norton, the Bama/LSU fan who grew up 7 hours from Knoxville. Previous UT season 4-8



You try way too hard

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UT has a very solid infrastructure in Memphis.

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Not very strong reasoning there. Bill ain't the idiot you make him out to be imo. He has thought this out.

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Commited to Georgia today after being on a visit to Knoxville all weekend.

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Tennessee

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He would be an idiot to pick vols over uga. What's your reasonable argument for him to do that?

Nice get dawgs!

This kid goes to my HS alma mater and really came on last year. I didn't think we had a shot at him with the previous bunch of bricklayers, but was hoping the new staff could gain some head way with him. I don't think this one is over, but I've heard from several at the school that he's been UGA for quite some time. As a TN fan I'm hoping he still answers phone calls and texts from our staff and they can get in his ear, but congrats for now dawgs.

some e-peens on full display itt.

Congrats dogs

Nashville isn't far at all. I-40 E/W between Knoxville and Nashville is about the easiest drive between cities possible - it's a straight shot with zero complications (somewhat offtopic but about as perfect for self-driving cars as you could find outside of a closed track). That drive can be done by a 16 year old who has never been to either city without so much as looking at a map or worrying about some tricky merger.

Memphis, OTOH, is distant but it's not where the talent growth has been. That's Nashville and Knox/Chatt.

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The issue with Nashville is that with the enormous growth of the city it's really come on lately(more so than in the past at least) as a melting pot for SEC teams; and it's fairly close to UK(basketball), Bama(football), and an easy drive to ATL

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It's the same issue ATL has but some will deny it. Nashville's growth has been spectacular in recent years -- it's the toast of LA and NYC circles right now who all talk about moving to Nashville as strange as that sounds.

Damn near the entire state borders Kentucky so there have always been UK shooty hoops fans in TN and UT football fans in KY. The Bama love is more a bandwagon thing but they too have had presence near the border just as we've always had fans in N. AL.

I'm not sure how much other fandom really matters. TN borders more states than any other state except MO (who we tie with and border) so it's always been the case that we see other fans. I grew up around a metric ton of transplants and went to school with their kids but it never mattered. Their kids would just root for tOSU, UM, or whoever and UT. Same if those kids had ties to other SEC schools (BAMA and UF being exceptions to that rule - you had to decide there ).

At any rate, I think hometown/in-state advantage is incredibly overrated. It matters with a few kids but they're usually in the minority and even then it's only one factor. You still have to sell them on the school, staff, playing time, fit, and everything else. Some kids need to go away to become men but some need to stay closer to ties at home to succeed. It's an individual thing and we've benefited from both sides of it.

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Nashville's growth has been spectacular in recent years -- it's the toast of LA and NYC circles right now who all talk about moving to Nashville as strange as that sounds.

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Yeah and theyre fricking ruining it for the rest of us

They want to build a 9 Billion dollar light rail that will put our sales tax on par with California

9 billion is the estimated cost...this is a gov't project...you know what that means ($$$$$$)

Dreamed up by a resigned Mayor who began an affair with her head bodyguard within weeks of taking office

Ive been here all my life and its starting to suck

anyways, back to recruiting

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They want to build a 9 Billion dollar light rail that will put our sales tax on par with California

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If that rail connects Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga it would be the best investment this state has ever made. We have a geographic advantage no other state has -- we are a natural transport hub and we need to use that to our benefit. If it's just for Nashville I don't see the point.

EDIT: Just looked it up. At 9 billion JUST for Nashville that is a planned corporate giveaway. The Mayor and Gov. would simply be re-appropriating tax dollars to their cronies. That said, Nashville does need to think about a transport system but that price is too big for one city.