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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 9 2013, 02:15 PM (166 Views) | |
| *TennesseeTuxedo | Dec 9 2013, 02:15 PM Post #1 |
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College football's dead period starts a week from today on December 17, 2013 and runs through January 3, 2014. Coaches may have contact with a recruit who has been admitted for midyear enrollment, provided the recruit has signed a National Letter of Intent. What is allowed: - one phone call per week. That's it. No other contact with recruits is allowed by NCAA rule. What is not allowed: - official visits, in person contact of any kind, in-person anything. |
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Dec 15 2013, 08:20 PM Post #2 |
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The NCAA made a ruling this week that really threw the UT staff for a loop. Prior to the ruling, the UT staff was planning on visiting all of the early enrollees, who had signed their financial aid packages. That was part of the rules when the staff planned their visits. They had planned to visit the recruits during this down time during the Dead Period. In the middle of this week, the NCAA changed the rules inn mid-stream and said that the coaches could not contact the early enrollees - High School and JUCO. The JUCO Dead Period started at midnight this past morning. It begins at midnight this evening for the High School kids. The coaches had to reschedule their visits and are frantically visiting players all over the place. |
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Jan 16 2014, 10:28 AM Post #3 |
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The Dead Period has ended and all of the Vols coaches are on the road today. Butch and Thigpen are in the home of Cory Thomas this mourning and then onto East St. Louis later today to meet with Adoree Jackson and his family. |
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Jan 16 2014, 10:42 AM Post #4 |
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Butch sighting in East St. Louis…..
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| *OrangeRev | Jan 16 2014, 10:45 AM Post #5 |
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Gillespie is in NC to do some more wooing on RB Derrell Scott (not the woo that corrupts Rocky Top, but the good kind). Also, from Paul Fortenberry:
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Jan 16 2014, 11:40 AM Post #6 |
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For the people wondering why Butch would visit Adoree Jackson in home in St. Louis rather than California, where AJ currently lives, is because Jackson's family is from East St. Louis and has only lived in California for a few years. By visiting him in East St. Louis, Butch can visit Jackson in front of the entire family. It is a risk, because other coaches will use their in-home with AJ later on when he returns to California. However, they will not meet all of AJ's family in the process. Butch s hoping to start a blaze for the Vols and sink immediate roots in AJ's recruitment. |
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| *OrangeRev | Jan 16 2014, 11:54 AM Post #7 |
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Adoree's parents still live in East St. Louis, but Adoree is living with his sister in California. Adoree's parents will travel to California for the in-home visits from schools to include USC, LSU, UCLA, Florida, Florida State and Oklahoma. So, it is unique that Tennessee is in with the family in East St. Louis, but that is likely a move to set Tennessee apart from the other schools. Typically the last in-home visit would be made by the school(s) in the lead, giving them a bigger advantage to argue against the other school's pitches. But, since Tennessee trails at least two other schools (Florida and LSU), we needed to do something a little different. |
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| *OrangeRev | Jan 17 2014, 08:22 AM Post #8 |
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A couple of other notes regarding yesterday's meetings with the Jacksons: (a) Tennessee took a couple of track coaches with them on the visit - Adoree wants to compete in the Olympics in 2016, which is why Florida is in the mix (I believe they have an Olympic trainer with their track team). (b) Tennessee was not the only team in to see Adoree's family yesterday. Florida (Muschimpanzee plus a couple of coaches) and USC (HC Sark, Tee Martin, DBs coach Keith Heyward and DC Justin Wilcox ) were there as well. (c) A West Coast Rivals analyst, Adam Gorney, believes that these three programs were allowed to visit in Illinois because these are Adoree's top teams. The advantage for USC is proximity to where he currently lives. The advantage for Tennessee is family wants him closer to home plus immediate playing time. The advantage for Florida is that they have a track coach who is well respected as an Olympic trainer. UCLA, LSU, and Oklahoma are thought to be slipping. Gorney also said that the "family factor" is emerging as perhaps the biggest factor, which gives more of an edge to Tennessee and Florida. Adoree is one of those recruits that doesn't tip his hand - not even those closest to him - so at this point no one knows which way he is leaning. He is supposed to announce on NSD. But, he did tweet this picture last night:
Edited by OrangeRev, Jan 17 2014, 08:43 AM.
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