2022 class highest rated and highest offered UK recruits were at positions we were depleted.....Left Tackle(a 5*), Defensive End (2 4*), & WR (2 4*)
Ok, but at some point better players should be coming to your program because you have a history of developing players regardless that the competition at your place is tougher. You want tough competition to play. That's how top programs stay on top, right? Or are there some other tangible benefits I'm not seeing?
Could help us flip Collins if that becomes a need, think we lead for Spencer currently
Hard to tell. Could be he loved his visit to UM and is conflicted. Could be Bama missed on their top 2 WRs and is now trying to get back in. Could be a lot of things
Louisville has had many slots available, previously under Satterfield, in his first three recruiting classes. Those three classes ended up averaging in the 50’s.
My post was more a defense of Stoops than a promotion of Louisville. You guys are deceiving yourselves if you think your slow start in recruiting relative to the past few years is Barnhart being slow out of the gate with NIL. That is anecdotal to some of the roster realities of both programs.
I think the school Collins went to is a good football school. Some have said Spencer has some grade concerns, I wonder if that has to do with his switch? Hope it’s not related
Oakdale HS is a teeny-tiny school not noted for football/athletics.
Feel free to open up your wallet. NIL as conceived is an endorsement deal. The school cannot pay the player.
I live in Murfreesboro we do not have an Oakdale HS in Murfreesboro or Rutherford county. I'm not aware of one in Middle Tennessee. We do have an Oakland high School. My wife graduated from there. It's not terribly small it has 2,300 students and if I'm not mistaken they won the 6A state championship this past season. We have four high schools in the city of Murfreesboro all with at least 2,000 students. There is however in Oakdale high School an Morgan county Tennessee it is a small school it is in the Knoxville metro area near Oak Ridge. I just learned that using the Google machine 😀
Note to self, read the rest of the posts before you put yours out there. 🤣
I honestly didn't read that the guy wrote oakdale. All I read was that he said it's in the Knoxville area. I knew it was Oakland high School as I put the number one team in Tennessee LOL
UK has been after him for awhile now. Not sure who the competition will be but Vince is recruiting him
Handed the Wade twins their only loss last season in the state title game.
Seems like our best classes have been the ones with a strong foundation the staff built with kids through many years plus the late commits/flips that break our way late often due to things going on at other schools. We can still get that second part but that first component probably won’t be as good as years past. Not bad or anything but that’s what happens with staff turnover. Its a matter of time before you replace your outgoing great recruiters with coaches that are only average or good recruiters. Not every assistant hire can be a future head coach.
I didn't say Oakdale. Some Tard fan did. He is at Oakland in Murfreesboro.
Generally speaking, that sounds reasonable. But Vince Marrow has said 2015 turned out to be his best class before 2022. Marrow's 2015 class suffered 9 decommits, some of which were devastating at the time they happened. So that class had no real foundation. Yet Marrow rebuilt it and got an impact class. Recruiting is fluid and depends on many factors. Every year is different.
I read that he went to Auburn in late June and they think they he's going there. They didn't offer till July 1st. Same day he announced his commitment
