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Swift will triple his jersey # against Tennessee in 2018. The Vols will be 0-3 against Georgia the next three years. Let the big Dawg eat!
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Screw Tennessee.
No, finishing in the Top 25 is NOT an accomplishment. Tennessee is always going to sign 3 and 4 star players. I think UT had 15 commits when Pruitt was hired and ranked 27th. Decommitments dropped that number to 10. They now have 18, which simply adding the 3 addl names would have pushed their score in to the Top 20. Less than half of the schools in each of the power 5 conferences are really who comprise the power brokers, and Tennessee certainly remains in that top half based on reputation, so Tennessee is going to sign a Top 25 class every year just based on keeping their doors open.
The way conference alignment has worked out, the Top 25 classes usually consist of the same schools every year with annual exceptions from each conference. The Big 8 now has 4 (ut, ok okst tcu). Pac 12 has 4 (USC, WASH, UCLA, ORE) The Big 10 has 6 (OSU, PSU, MI, MSU, NEB, WISC) and the ACC has 3 (FSU, UM, Clem) and then there is the SEC with (Bama, AU, LSU, UGA, UF, & UT), and usually places a couple from among A&M, MSst, Ole Miss, UK, and USCjr in the top 25.
Ive probably missed a few regular Top 25 entrants, but the point is the same - my sister could recruit a Top 25 class to Knoxville. Any SEC coach at one of the first named 6 schools who cant out recruit the next group of named SEC gets fired in short order. Those who cant recruit in the Top 3-4 in the conference get fired after 4-6 years, and eventually they all get fired if they dont recruit in the Top 2 of the conference. Pruitt is currently on pace to get fired.
They took a step forward with Pruitt, but took 2 backward by re-hiring Fulmer as AD.
Pruitt is in a great position. All he needs to do is get UT back to a bowl next season and he's a genius. Sometimes taking over a total disaster is an easy way to look like a hero. I think he will get UT back to respectability in the next couple of years, get a huge offer from a major program like Michigan, USC (West Coast), Auburn or LSU and bail.
He's a southern guy. I think he stays in the South.
Auburn won't be able to fire Gus (HAHAHA) with that insane contract extension. LSU is a possibility. They aren't happy with the Cookie Monster. FSU, maybe....The natives will be restless in about three years there if Taggart hasn't done anything by then....
UTenn, UF and Ole Miss should get a recruiting bump this year and/or next. They all will field a better product in 2018.
It's fun to make fun of Tennessee - I hate them.
But after a ridiculously comical hiring process - UT got lucky and found a great coach.
And the Peterson pick up was huge. Pruitt is going to salvage a pretty good class out of what could have been a disaster. We will lose recruiting battles to Pruitt in the future.
Pruitt will do what he can to take the recruits from Bama that he's got relationships with through Bama. I think the early signing period actually hurt him because now he has less time to flip some of those players. He may pull a few guys with him, but without support, JJ Peterson can't make the team a champion. How he does after 2-3 years of finding and building his own relationships is TBD. This is an area I'm happy to see Kirby and Staff excelling at.
Tennessee will be back to 3rd/4th in the East after next year, where they belong anyways.
Pruitt is a great defensive coordinator. But just because he can do that doesn’t mean he’ll be a great coach. The thing is though, as was said earlier in this thread, all he has to do is get them back to a bowl to look like a hero in Knoxville.
The Peterson pickup was an excellent pickup. But that story above about trying to rub it in the face of UGA is just silly. We have an embarrassment of riches in our recruiting class. And we already have two excellent OLB’s, Anderson and Ojulari. Plus we may be getting Quay Walker. And wasn’t word in the media that we recruited Cox as an OLB? That would make 4 excellent OLB’s in this class. Two of them 5*’s. We’re not sweating not getting Peterson.
Forgot to mention, case in point, Owen Pappoe and a couple others from Grayson are supposedly heading to UT for a visit. I think it's more of a "check out my new crib" kind of visit than anything that could convince those guys that UT is a program worth joining. Especially with that fanbase...
They must not be aware of Swift, White, Cook, Holyfield, Herrien, Fromm, and a steadily improving OL. It will be more like "good luck stopping us from scoring'' on UT at will.
Was watching the Championship show on ESPN last night. They were singing the praises of Chubb and Michel and saying both will be gone in the draft by the early 2nd round...then said Swift might be even better than both and eventually be a higher draft pick than them.
And we will win our share of them as well.