The Blue Board

I think the key for Dooley or the next UT coach is to sign the majority of the top talent in-state. It's hard to go out-of-state when you aren't winning big and the next couple of recruiting cycles in Tennessee are trending up.

I agree that it is a little misleading to treat Tennessee as if they're not trying in-state but evaluating correctly is half the battle. If Hightower didn't go to Bama, he probably would have gone to Vanderbilt. Barrett Jones was a Top100 recruit nationally. Bama didn't out-evaluate anybody on that one.

Usually the schools that are evaluating well in state are doing it more because of the effort they put into to scouting the state than due to a good "eye".

Very true. A lot going on at the university when jones was being recruited. I think that was our transition year from fulmer to kiffin. We had three years where all of our evaluations fell behind from coaching change.

I'd say Tennessee has been at its absolute best when collecting all the talent in Tennessee. It'll get back, hopefully sooner than later so we don't waste the aforementioned opportunity that is on the horizon.

Hm, that's interesting. I seem to remember being told otherwise about Tennessee not that long ago

I think Carr and Christian Morris both end up at Ole Miss.

I have never understood why so little talent from Memphis ended up at Ole Miss. I think Coach Freeze has changed that though.

Buckeye and Gopher guy here. Just wanted to pass on a tidbit to all our friends in the south. I worked with one of Brewsters top RB's at Minnesota and asked him about Brewster.(Ole Misses ass. coach who was a disaster as HC at Minnesota) He paused and smiled then said"if you knew him you would'nt want to play for him". Brewster quickly began his tenure at Minny by loosing every game.Fired em after 3 seasons. Poor Minny hasnt recovered yet.