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tennessee was doomed to irrelevance in college football the day fat phil left. they will never again win the SEC east.

Difference in our class compared to everyone's in this thread:

Tennessee had to literally start from scratch with every recruit they went after with the exception of Marquez North. Dooley literally destroyed our chances with every top prospect on the board. Bell even came out and said that he would have gone to Tennessee had anybody but Dooley been the head coach, because they probably would have been on him since day 1.

You cannot fairly judge this first class like any other first year coach's for this reason. It is a very underwhelming class considering all of our big fish were on the table for today, and went a completely different direction. The only one that Tennessee was truly confident on was Bell, and that whole scenario has already been played out.

@StephenHargis
Vonn Bells dad told me "this is bc of Dooley. If UT had recruited Vonn from day 1 he'd be going there. Coach Jones had 2 much ground 2 covr"

-Chattanooga writer for the TFP

No reason now. He's going to have to make a statement in the coming season if he is going to have any hope of success. We shall see... Not very confident atm

Edit: Similar statement like Hugh Freeze. compete in some games and win some you are not supposed to (Texas A&M)

Yeah, more than likely. He was heavily recruited by this staff when they were at Cincy so it might not be terrible on offense this year.

i see worley transfering this year if he doesnt get the starting job.. doesnt seem to be a good fit for this offense. but yeah butch did what he could do..

Not for this offense. If he could play in a system like Chaney's where you could make quick passes underneath, he could be successful. He doesn't have quite the arm or mobility to scare a defense.

Ridiculous thread. Tennessee is at the bottom. They will have to develop three stars for 2-3 years. Everyone knows that. Dont act shocked just to get some flames in. .

We havent had a record that good since 2009, we are actually recruiting pretty good considering our shitty play and a coach who didnt even recruit Vonn Bell, the best player to come from tennessee in along time.

The state of Tenn has no players.......for UcheaT to be good, either bama, Uga or USC has to be down. All three are very good right now, so its extremely difficult for Tenn to be good b/c of their talent base. During fat phil's glory days, they owned ATL, took several of SC's best almost every year, raided NC as well. USC now does pretty well in NC and has SC locked up for the most part. UA, AU, USC, UGA etc....have georgia pretty much locked up between them and UT isn't getting the players they used to. It's going to be a long time before UT is good again, imo.