Posted by brownsvillevol on March 10, 2008 at 11:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)

GOING TO ALABAMA

Posted by brownsvillevol on March 10, 2008 at 11:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)

GOING TO ALABAMA

Posted by brownsvillevol on March 10, 2008 at 11:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)

GOING TO ALABAMA

Posted by marc_ash on March 10, 2008 at noon (Suggest removal)

No, he isn't.

Posted by nicksjuzunk on March 10, 2008 at 12:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)

brownsville,

You seem quite certain.
You seem quite certain.
You seem quite certain.

Posted by TommyJack on March 10, 2008 at 12:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)

brownsville: How do you know, know, know?

Posted by Vol13 on March 10, 2008 at 12:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)

This is further proof that the Vols are slipping back into being an afterthought in the SEC. This reminds me of the pre-Fulmer era at UT when Antonio London, Jeremy Nunley, Clay Whitehurst, and a host of other in-state talent would sign elsewhere. Most signed with Bama at the time because they were the marquee SEC team. But now our in-state players are signing with Bama and other teams that are perceived by today's youth to be Top 10 programs.

Here's another example of our coaching staff getting outworked in recruiting (see 2006 and 2008 signing classes for further proof). Only this time, it's right in their own county.

Ya'll keep trusting Fulmer though. I'm sure he knows what he's doing. There's probably a legitimate reason that a dozen other teams around the country knew about this kid and UT didn't. LOL!!!

Posted by pdhuff on March 10, 2008 at 12:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Are there any DT's at Farragut? Even those offered by Furman and Eastern Ky or Samford?

I just checked the cupboard and it is.......

Posted by brownsvillevol on March 10, 2008 at 12:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

i don,t really know but don't you think it odd that they even mention his fathers side being bama fans.read between the lines guys.

Posted by bigbluevol on March 10, 2008 at 12:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Vol13, I don't know if you read the articles about junior day but this staff is actually well ahead of where they have been in the past in recruiting. They can't recruit everyone, nor should they. Fulmer has shown he knows how to evaluate talent. You can get all worried and upset about 2 years (the 05 and 07 classes were very highly rated, but don't mention them as it undermines your argument), but the long haul is in Fulmer's favor.

Posted by pdhuff on March 10, 2008 at 12:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

True, bigbluevole, 15 years has been a long haul.

Posted by Basketball_Jones on March 10, 2008 at 12:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I think its funny how the kid plays 15 miles from campus and Ut is just now hearing about him. I think Fulmer just tries to see who Saban is recruiting then thinks he may be a hot commodity

Posted by Vol13 on March 10, 2008 at 12:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

bigblue:

If you think that the 2005 and 2007 classes are going to haul the mail and that we're going to get a free pass in the SEC due to 2006 and 2008 - you are in for a big surprise. You can put together a mock roster for 2009 and 2010 and see that the talent level is dropping off considerably. So Fulmer (if still here) had better pull out a magic wand and sign about 50 Eric Berry's between this year and next. Only problem with that is that I believe we only have 16-18 ships to offer in 2009. And every one of them need to be a home run. You have to consider that Tennessee last won a title when the 2009 signees were in First Grade and 7 years old.

Posted by givehim6 on March 10, 2008 at 1:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Unfortunately first impressions last. That's why I think it's important to get a schools name out in kids minds early. I'm afraid sabins trying to hit us in our own back yard.

Posted by jimr07 on March 10, 2008 at 1:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)

it is always such a comfort to log on here and see all the positive comments about our recruiting. way to go gang.

Posted by BOASoldier on March 10, 2008 at 1:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

OK and the title comment means what in this argument... Alabubba had a great recruiting class and they haven't won a NC since 92 only two of their "12" have been unanimous and their last SEC was in 99. so once again what does the title comment prove?

Posted by jimr07 on March 10, 2008 at 1:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

And now there's a much more serious story: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Pryor was one of many players involved in a fight after a Pennsylvania high school basketball playoff game yesterday between his Jeannette High School and North Catholic High School.

Posted by jimr07 on March 10, 2008 at 1:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Josh Jarboe, an Oklahoma wide receiver recruit who was considered one of the top high school players in the country, is facing two felony charges in his home state of Georgia.

Posted by jimr07 on March 10, 2008 at 1:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Virginia cornerback Mike Brown is facing charges of grand larceny, possession of stolen property with intent to sell, altering serial numbers and possession of marijuana stemming from an incident last month in which items were stolen from a car parked in a garage on campus.

Posted by jimr07 on March 10, 2008 at 1:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

South Carolina offensive lineman Kevin Young is facing two misdemeanor charges after he was arrested Sunday.

Posted by burntorangeVOLffle on March 10, 2008 at 1:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

How old were these recruits when we went to the SECCG and gave the national champs all they could handle? Or the time before that when we went and played a vastly superior undefeated Auburn team with a TWO 1st rnd RBs and QB?

Just curious.

And when was the last time Notre Dame won anything? Even a bowl game? They've had two pretty good classes.

Posted by akkdowl on March 10, 2008 at 1:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

This kid's family has contacted Saban and I'm sure sent him a tape or went to camp there. He wants to go there but is wanting TN to be interested just in case AL doesn't offer. Let's not get bent out of shape about it. His father's side of the family obviously has no class if they are Bama fans so let him go there.

Posted by bigbluevol on March 10, 2008 at 2:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Vol13, I'm glad that we have fans with all this insider talent evaluation ability. The 2009 and 2010 rosters will still contain Berry, Vinson, Rogan, Creer, Paige, Morley (09), G Jones, Moore, etc. You're trying to use 2 years as proof that the program is on a decline. There are a lot of reasons that both of us could list to make our point. The bottom line is no one knows how the kids will perform until they're playing. Saban has had one recruiting class ranked number one at Bama and they have yet to play a game. Let's see how it all shakes out before we start trumpeting the decline of the entire football program. You choose to see the future as bleak, I see it as loaded with much potential for promise. We'll see. Until then, just watch, root for the kids, the coaches and the program and enjoy.

Posted by bigbluevol on March 10, 2008 at 2:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)

One other thing: does anyone actually know anything about this kid, other than who is recruiting him? Since he's only a few miles from the program, don't you think they've seen him a lot? For whatever reason, we didn't pursue Andre Sterling. I have never seen him play, but the staff had reservations. Maybe they felt that way about this kid. We don't know. Maybe they dropped the ball early on him while they were evaluating other players. Maybe he's a backup target. There are a lot of possibilities. I, for one, don't want to recruit a kid just because other people are. Let's recruit him because he is a talented player who fits with what it is we want to do.

Posted by GoVol on March 10, 2008 at 2:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)

If he's not a 'die hard' Vol (he admits this), and likes Bama better, please let go to Bama. We only want/need players that want to play for UT...it's a privledge to wear the orange.

Posted by jimr07 on March 10, 2008 at 2:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)

bigbluevol----a-men

Posted by newtonrail on March 10, 2008 at 2:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)

This defending or bashing Fulmer has gotten nuts. There is nothing in this article that says Tenn just found out about this young man. Jackson says " they've gotten wind of the others and just started calling". That's a young man giving a flippant answer to the press that barely talks to KNS anymore. He was up there on Junior Day with a couple of hundred others I saw boiling out of Neyland Sports Complex before BB game. Tenn, like all schools subscribes to rating services of rising juniors and some younger than that. Sometimes coaches or players send out tapes of themselves, but most get the ball started from the services they subscribe to and follow up. I wish everyone would dig a little deeper before firing of digs at our Coaching staff or Gushing praise for that matter. It's like Colliervol likes to say, you are going to have Fulmer whether you want him or not.

Posted by cjraney on March 10, 2008 at 2:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)

VOL13, I don't think this article about a high school JR is "proof" of anything.

Posted by Ironcity on March 10, 2008 at 3:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)

If we offered the Vol13 would complain that we were competing with MTSU instead of LSU.

Posted by General_Watermelon on March 10, 2008 at 3:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Fulmer will hold up the Sears Cup this year.

Posted by BallantyneVol on March 10, 2008 at 5:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I wish all you losers would realize that recruiting in the SEC is all about momentum. Of course Saban's going to recruit well initially even in Tennessee. The programs fine and if you need proof we won 10 games last year with our worst defense in years and a bunch of slow wideouts... calm down!!!!

Posted by TommyJack on March 10, 2008 at 5:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

losers?

Posted by sjt18 on March 10, 2008 at 5:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ironcity nailed it.

newtonrail, Since UT did take a look at Sterling... as you indicated, there's very little chance that they just now discovered him since everyone else was looking.

Mock roster 2009:

QB- Crompton/Coleman
RB- Hardesty/Creer/Poole
FB- Cooper, Bartholomew
TE- Stocker/Cottam
LT- C Scott
LG- McClendon
C- McNeil
RG- Richard
RT- Johnson/Sawtelle/Myers
WR- Rogers, Jones, Paige, Abrams-Ward, Moore, Brown/Kid from VA (help me Savage), Hancock, Wilks, etc

DE- Brown/Walker
DT- Langley/Hall
DT- Williams/Sykes
DE- Martin
LB- Frazier
LB- G Williams
LB- Donald
** or any combination of about 10 others
CB- Vinson
S- Berry
S- Morley/Faison/Kemp
CB- Johnson/Rogan/Fleming

Of course I hope I haven't insulted a bunch of other very good players because I couldn't remember their names right off the top of my head... and of course UT has to build in some depth... but these aren't bad lineups by any stretch.

Posted by dash727 on March 10, 2008 at 6 p.m. (Suggest removal)

vol13, go back to your madden video game. Your opinion is based on your own pitiful life and lack of self respect. Another anti-vol poser.

Posted by pdhuff on March 10, 2008 at 8:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Gen Fritter has a chance to hold up the Fulmer Cup this year. At a private function, of course.

Insiders only.

Posted by jasvol on March 10, 2008 at 9:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Gen. Fritter: I saw Fulmer hold up the 'Cracker Barrel' Cup yesterday, right after hoisting the Sears Cup.

Posted by dfreeman on March 10, 2008 at 10:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I think the telling thing is that most teams are looking for a player of his size to fit more of the spread option!! We aren't a spread option team.... thank God!! When we have tried that we've bungled it horribly!! If we aren't running the spread option do we really want an O-line prospect that's 280lbs??

Posted by skroutyboy on March 10, 2008 at 11:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I want kids that want to come play for Tennessee--I don't care where they come from. Here's an interesting anecdote: I was a student at U.T. and one of my best friends made the statement that he felt that kids that were from Tennessee would play harder because it was their home state. I really didn't buy into that. I asked a friend of mine who was a player for the Vols and a Tennessee native. He scoffed at that statement. He said the guys that were on the team played hard for us and it didn't matter where they were from. They played for Tennessee. Remember folks, if we had to rely on Tennessee high school talent, we would lag far behind on the recruiting front, this year notwithstanding. We simply do not have the numbers to provide the athletes we have to have to win. So, in closing, if a young man from Tennessee does not want to come to our university and be a true Tennessee Volunteer, Godspeed to him to go somewhere else. I do not wish ill will on him at all. I just want young men who, as the sign says in the locker room will "give their all for Tennessee today." And that's it.

Posted by PLEASEGETRIDOFTHENOTSOSLIMONE on March 10, 2008 at 11:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

dfreeman..Are you telling me that the Clausen boys weren't natural scat backs?

Posted by dfreeman on March 10, 2008 at 11:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)

They were an exception not the rule!! HAHAHAHAHA They could have been in the wishbone if they played together!! LOL The killer C's!!

Posted by utmdm on March 11, 2008 at 12:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)

dfreeman, I think you nailed this one before I posted. He is considered a spread option prospect at this point.

I am no blind Fulmer lover but guys, CPF has a brain, knows how to evaluate talent and has for years. The knock has been coaching. The next 2 years will tell the tale. Hopefully, his choice on assistants will take care of the coaching while he focuses on what he does best - the exec duties and recruiting.

Posted by pdhuff on March 11, 2008 at 7:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)

utmdm - burning the midnight oil again, I see.

Do you think a 7-5 buys ol' Phillip another year? Or would Thornton & co make the call to Mikey? Just conjecture, but when the dreaded "enuf" call comes, the dominoes start to fall. Have you seen any DTs around Roaring River or Hwy 56 or Hwy 53?

What would a Haynesworth be valued at?

Posted by sjt18 on March 11, 2008 at 9:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)

pdhuff, I personally don't think 7 will be enough. Nine shouldn't be enough... I'd say that 8 is probably the bubble depending on how they actually look on the field.

Posted by pdhuff on March 11, 2008 at 10:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Agreed sjt18.

Posted by posivol on March 11, 2008 at 4:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)

3 teams stand a shot at taking us down,aub,fla and ga.---all the rest will fail.

auburns a pick game

gaytors are due for a beatdown and playing at home,i like our odds!

dogs will be heavy favored (as usual)hopefully we can continue to lay the smackdown on em.

Posted by fricks56 on March 18, 2008 at 2:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Well i really really really think william is going to THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA!