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in response to volthrunthru#658770:

You state the "Vols need help everywhere) (including a good mobile quarterback.

You can get all the good mobile QB's in the country, and if you keep recruiting 2-star OL's...a mobile QB won't make it past the 2nd series of the 1st quarter.

There are dozens of kids as large and athletic in TN as the guy from Ohio---and NOT 1 IN 10 IS GOING TO MATURE BY HIS SENIOR YEAR TO BE ABLE TO PLAY AS AN SEC TACKLE.

To do what UT has historically done under Phillip Fulmer, Johnny Majors or Doug Dickey, these coaches need to be signing 4-star and 5-star players...with about 10-15% of the overall class as 3-stars---who will be redshirted in order to be able to mature.

The State of Tennessee does not have those players. Jones tells reporters and East Tennesseans and Memphis people that he thinks Tennessee produces that kind of player in-state.

Enter Phillip Fulmer---Mister in-the-living-room, National Champion 1998, and a dozen years of Top 10 teams---saying that is not true, that UT HAS TO RECRUIT NATIONALLY.

What exactly is wrong about that. Is a bad fan somebody who wants UT to excel...as it did before the kind of administrators and athletics directors UT has had for over 12 years destroyed the athletics department.

From a business standpoint---every five years, UT is spending $1-BILLION dollars to deliver what coaches who go 3-and-out...or 1 and gone...or never won anywhere but second-tier scvhools.

I am not the one with the problem, here, bud. You, and Orange Country Vol may want to read some facts about The University of Tennessee Athletics before calling names and acting superior. I can assure you that in both your cases doing so would not waste time.

Neither of you is superior, obviously, from what you post.