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22 Current Committed Prospects
Topic Started: Jul 22 2016, 07:24 AM (171 Views)
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The Vols currently have 22 prospects committed with their sights aimed at adding OT - Trey Smith, RB - Cam Akers, RB - Tyson Chandler among others.

Some are going to gripe about the lack of stars. Let's get something straight about this….who are you going to trust in regards to evaluating real talent and knowing how good a player is and where they fit into your program….a 25 year old recruiting analyst with a journalism degree anon football expertise?….o9r a veteran talent evaluator like Bob Welton who has been a high school head coach and a long-time NFL Scout?

I like what Butch is doing with the recruitment of D-Linemen, O-Linemen. That is where we have to build a foundation.
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Strong line play gives everyone else the opportunity to do their jobs. The only spot I am worried about is rb.
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Strong line play gives everyone else the opportunity to do their jobs. The only spot I am worried about is rb.
Except for Hurd and Kamara, we have have been doing really poorly in this department. It just amazes me how UGA has such a deep stable of top shelf RB's, and we often struggle to get just one.
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IMO, some of it has to do with the offense and as far as a Hurd type back I'd be shocked to see us get his type anywhere in the ballpark. Having him take the ball standing still 8 yards in the backfield has been coaching malpractice...again IMO. Give him credit...he's taken a licking and kept on ticking.

Just don't see us getting his type in the near future unless we use him more at full steam when he gets the ball and show future power backs that we can do it. Believe me, they have taken notice how we've used him.
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Offensive possibilities and probabilities, where the talent, experience, depth and coaching will lead us on offense, defense on future shows.

Tennessee doing exceptionally well in recruiting.

Excellent article on VFL program in the Tennessean. Great read and shows the off the field possibilities for the kids. Antoine Davis highlighted. Couple of things jump out, VFL program was Derek Dooley’s idea, to help the players find employment, assistance, etc. Not an anti D Dooley guy, Derek was just not ready for the position which was not his fault. D should be remembered for chief architect and made some big plus changes to Anderson training center and the VFL program. Butch has greatly expanded the VFL program. Shows what coach Jones is all about.

Notice more VFL stickers and tags.

Added DE to 2016 class. McDaniel, 6’4”, 220 lbs. Expect him to redshirt and catch up physically. DE is deepest position but no lose situation, sighed believing 85-15 he will get in school. If not, he doesn’t count against scholarship. Mathews said he can play and is an exceptional player. Sudden player, gets off line extremely quick. Has not trained in a while. Recruited out of HS by every SEC program. Film looks great. Highly, highly recruited out of HS.

Jones is 23rd at QB. 3-5 current commits likely won’t be there on NSD. Recruiting about 85% over by beginning of season, not like old days when it went to the wire to NSD. Tennessee in very good shape with prospect right now.

Mathews has been asked by many, can Jones play? Said when he coached for UT he used to get asked if a guy they signed or had committed was good. Liked to say, no, he can’t play very well, but since we have signed so may good one we thought we would sign a few bad ones.

[EastTN - Hopefully his point here is that fans need to ignore his 2* ranking.]

This staff and Jones knows what it takes to win in the SEC so if they think CJ Lewis can play that’s good enough for Mathews. Lewis film reminds him of Dobbs in HS, similar physically but maybe a little more speed but Dobbs speed deceptive since he does not get caught much. Always want to sign a QB

Several prospect we are really after and would make room for, esp in state.

3/4 DTs, 3 DE’s. No fresh sighed last year. One DE may slide in and one DT may be an OL.

Gotta get Chandler and Smith. Special players, must gets.

5 instate commits. Final will be 6-10 by NSD.

3 from Tidewater area in VA (3 DTs). Great area that TN is emphasizing. Lots of great football talent comes out of there, tremendous athletes, several TN All-Americans from this area. Priority for TN, we have a great name there. Very glad to see that.

RB – Couple of pretty good ones coming in. Moving forward, Chandler and Trey Smith are recruiting priorities and are instate.

Jones and staff trend recruiting is 0 safeties and 0 OGs. By design. Feeling is you do not recruit safeties or OGs. We sighed 3 OTs last year, 6”6”-ish, you move these guys inside and you recruit CBs/NBs and move some to safety. Priority is on covering in space. Abernathy and Gualden with corner skills have moved into safety. But you always sign a great player.. Regardless of position or size. Always take a Scott Wells or Harry Galbreth (interior OL) or Nigel Warrier (Safety), you take those guys, but great safeties Grant and D. Carter, were really CBs playing safety. That’s TNs trend now.

Offensively want QBs, RBs, OTs, TEs and WRs. Defensively you want DTs, DEs, MLBs, OLBs and CBs. Not OGs or Safeties unless it’s the great player. We are in excellent shape if we just kept who we have now. Not taking commits we don’t believe can help us in the SEC, regardless of what some think. In excellent position by commit positions covered.

Of the 8 starters on team, 3 have backups with as good or better potential.

On O, expect lots of 2 TE sets. Expecting big, big year from Croom. Croom technically has potential 6th year if he petitions. Probably 10 junior starters. 7 on O, 3 on D. Team is very experienced and should be getting the press we are getting. 8-10 SO/RSFR will play a lot. Excellent mix of youth and experience. Just a few depth issues have to work around.

Excellent position recruiting, commits by positions we want. Don’t see how we could be in better shape headed into the season. Lawsuit off the front page. Great press from 3 kids at SEC conf. Class acts no trash talk or what we are going to do, handled themselves well. Proud of where we are. Issues minor compared to 3-4 years ago.

This team has tremendous potential, lots to be proud of.

Exciting news coming about Charles Davis for middle Tennessee.

Fulmer getting more active on Mathews show.

Offensive probabilities/possibilities. Would love to be OC, DC or KC with this team. Great possibilities. Offensive – get best players on field (duh) but you sometimes get tied into a player because you like him or more experienced. Need an OC and HC that fixes that with assistants. Isn’t as easy as sounds especially when its win time, crunch time.

3 games that matter most, AL, GA and FL. Don’t think it’s not so.

Improvement on O -1) Completion %. Were 59% last year but our 59% were behind line or within 5 yards. We will continue play our style but if we get to 65%, 67% or he believes as much as 70% due to limited defensive secondary to face cause we will run so well. 2) Splash plays, cheap TDs, 50, 60 70 year passes. Easy TD. We are capable and have talent and QB to do this. 3) Hurd got better at breaking long runs. Short yardage and goal line running. As good as we were we have ability to significantly improve by adding a lead blocker. Physical strong OL and physical RB. 4) Extremely important to develop 2 or 3 big play receivers. Lots of talent to do this. Got to develop this.

Use of Hurd and Kamara, will get them in together more. They have outstanding productivity. Use of Wolf and Croom at TE. Croom to TE was best move in a long time. Both are matchup problems for LBs and Croom can play WR. Lot of 2 TE formation. Downfield long passes. Four 6’4”+ receivers. Got to hit long passes downfield with these guys.



Defensively possibilities & probabilities. Get best on field at crunch time, same as O. Tend to play a lot of kids, but you better have best on field at crunch time. Improvement? Tackling. Not poor but not good, esp in secondary. Shoop will improve secondary positioning and tackling techniques. Expect that. One of the reasons Shoop is here and Jansek is not. Penalties. 18 def penalties gave opponent 1 and 10. Most on 3rd down. Need to cut that down. Way too high. Turnovers. Not enough based on number of snaps. Will significantly improve he believes. Watched Vandy. Hallmark was aggressive secondary getting hand on balls. Emphasis by Shoop coaching safeties they work every day often and hard being disruptive getting hands on balls. Red zone TDs. Inside 20. Gave up TD 56% time. Really good D should be 40% or less. Possibilities/ probabilities. Use of pressure. Expect to be much better in perimeter LB, CB, NB DEs very athletic. DEs can play up and rush. Lot of pressure. Not blitz happy. Diff ways to bring press. Most of press will be from outside not inside. We have talent to execute pressure. Not bad D, good D last year, but Shoop can make us excellent. Coverage in secondary more disruptive. Concerns depth at LB - MLB & OLB best pair in SEC, but no proven second MLB or OLB. DT. Depth a concern. But can move some DEs inside.


Sounds like the fat dude is starting his campaign for UTAD.
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