December 21st, 2018 at 3:53 PM ^
Yeah, we should totally shelve a motto that encourages players to battle through adversity and believe in working hard to achieve greatness. Bo was clearly overconfident and shortsighted when he took over.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:42 PM ^
meanwhile at NCAA offices “meh seems like a natural turn of evens down there. Now let me get back to counting my dollars one by one”
December 21st, 2018 at 1:42 PM ^
Cool. Missed out on the Georgia $$$ last time and had to get himself to Tenne$$ee. The graduates of Saban's Academy of Buying Recruits know their craft well.
Too bad the NCAA doesn't care about non-stretching related cheating.
December 21st, 2018 at 3:36 PM ^
i'm surprised saban didn't have a standard non-compete with his ex coaches. should have made them go to another conference. haha.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:44 PM ^
JFC, show some class.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:45 PM ^
The Brinks truck must have broke down in Knoxville on its way to Athens and Tuscaloosa
December 21st, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
Best of luck, sir. May you find success and happiness on Rocky Top. Rocky Top, TN.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
One of the weirdest transfers ends in an equally weird way. After playing some as a freshman backup, missing 2/3rds of this season, now he has to sit out a year. So it won't be until his 4th year he gets to show ppl what he can do. Just weird for a 5 star.
Good luck to him
December 21st, 2018 at 1:48 PM ^
So another powerhouse being built?
Hopefully Tenn, Georgia and Bama will beat the piss out of each other next season.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
Why? So they can put THREE SEC teams in the CFP?
December 21st, 2018 at 1:48 PM ^
Fuck Tennessee
December 21st, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
and the entirety of the sec
December 22nd, 2018 at 9:15 AM ^
You've been crying for 20 years about the Heisman which involved no cheating and was a totally valid, correct and just vote. Do you truly believe all this recruiting bullshit is legit with your sudden inexplicable and shocking results?
December 21st, 2018 at 1:48 PM ^
'Ole Tenn
December 21st, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
First line of his statement is "Thank you Michigan professor's" - as a professor I appreciate the sentiment but it also makes my stomach turn.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
I don't think he understands what "band of brothers" really means.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
So Crouch is the player to be named later in this trade?
December 21st, 2018 at 6:26 PM ^
this is a phenomenal GIF
December 21st, 2018 at 1:50 PM ^
Seems so odd that it was done so quickly. These guys spend years deciding where to go and he decides in a week?
December 21st, 2018 at 2:16 PM ^
Not so weird if he's going to start classes there in a couple of weeks.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:50 PM ^
Ha, that’s a head scratcher...? Vanderbilt is the best football school in that state anyway
December 21st, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
Maybe he just wants to get a great education. Did you know that Tennessee is the number one public university (In tennessee)?
December 21st, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
Stay healthy, too bad didn't work out here, good luck making it to the NFL.
And have fun losing :)
December 21st, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
He just cost himself $2-3 million dollars by transferring. He would have been earning pro money in one year. Why reduce your earning potential..
December 21st, 2018 at 2:30 PM ^
Because he can earn pro money in Rocky Top
December 21st, 2018 at 1:53 PM ^
Eh.. way too much smoke coming from Tennessee to not be a fire.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:54 PM ^
Don't really get why people are so confused as to why Tennessee would draw top tier commits and transfers. Great and rich football history, good town, great facilities, new coaching staff, playing time, and a somewhat upward trajectory. If you look at Derek Dooley like Rich Rod, and Butch Jones as Brady Hoke, they have a similar down period to Michigan. Just unfortunate that Pruitt played Alabama, Georgia, West Virginia, Florida, and Mizzou. It was a tough schedule.
December 21st, 2018 at 2:01 PM ^
Brady Hoke didn't go 5-7 in his first year.
I would have bought your argument regardless but you really lost credibility by including Mizzou on that list. That was a 7 win team that Tennessee played at home. And they lost by FIVE SCORES.
December 21st, 2018 at 3:44 PM ^
Mizzou was a pretty good team dude. Lost to Georgia and Alabama, lost by 2 in a tsunami to South Carolina, and 1 on the last play of the game to Kentucky. They went 8-4 and beat Florida and Tennessee badly, they were 16th in S&P+, and have been a pretty solid team. Yea Tennessee wasn't very good last year, but I understand the reason for optimism in recruiting and their fan base without automatically assuming it's because of bagmen.
Let's say that all their players are being given the bag (which they almost definitely are, but every blue chip is), don't you think Georgia and Alabama have tried to drop a bag for the same players? So at that point its basically down to recruiting, no?
And Brady Hoke didn't play 5 top 10 teams, and 7 top 25 teams in his first year.
December 21st, 2018 at 5:26 PM ^
Nothing says upward trajectory like getting straight smacked by Missouri and Vanderbilt to end the year without a bowl game. Tennessee would be middling team in the BIG West at best. GTFO of here with that nonsense.
December 21st, 2018 at 2:08 PM ^
No they haven't.
We at least had SOME success under Hoke that resulted in wins over rivals and a NY6 Bowl victory in an 11 win season.
Tennessee hasn't won double digit games since Fulmer was there in 2007 and has had SEVEN losing seasons since 2008.
December 21st, 2018 at 3:22 PM ^
They play Alabama, Florida, UGA and Missouri every year. Florida, Georgia and Missouri are in the same division and Bama is a protected rivalry.
December 21st, 2018 at 3:51 PM ^
I'm aware they play them every year. They're also good teams. It's not to say that Tennessee is going to be world beaters, but I understand the reason for optimism among fans and recruits. Tennessee was a 5-7 team that's got a decent amount of upward projection
December 21st, 2018 at 4:17 PM ^
I said this in a previous thread and I'll repeat it here: Tenn won 10 games 12 years ago. Since then they are under .500. RichRod/Hoke we're able to scrape their way over .500. and that nightmare only lasted 6 years. Tenn has been worse for twice as long. And Pruitt is a 1st time HC, who doesn't have that great of a resume.
December 21st, 2018 at 5:18 PM ^
Stop trying to make Tennessee look better than they are and just agree that this current recruiting/transfer cycle is weird for a school that went 5-7... in the SEC East with a downward trajectory.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
Maybe this was like the Grant Hill "sign and trade" the Pistons pulled off with Orlando in getting Ben Wallace. We brokered the trade of Aubrey Solomon to Tennessee, in exchange for Tennessee giving up the rights to sign Quavaris Crouch.
Sounds like a "win/win" to me. Announcement at 6:30 today...
December 21st, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
Ca$hin Check$ In Knoxville. Good luck to the young man.
December 21st, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
ha ha ha Tennessee isn't even trying to hide it anymore
December 21st, 2018 at 1:58 PM ^
just like Ole Miss
December 21st, 2018 at 2:02 PM ^
He's not going to be applying for some mythical hardship waiver like the player from Georgia is he? Seems too cockamamie with losing a year to transfer now.
December 21st, 2018 at 2:06 PM ^
I generally believe that results matter for recruiting.
This is obviously not a data point in my favor.
December 21st, 2018 at 3:00 PM ^
I believed the same until Texas A&M and Oregon had top 5 classes this year. Nothing makes sense.
December 21st, 2018 at 3:07 PM ^
Texas A&M has Jimbo Fisher so they're selling the future and Oregon has a dynamic young coach Mario Cristobal.
December 21st, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^
So the point was that him and I said we thought results mattered in recruiting. Exhibit A being Alabama and Georgia having the top 2 classes.
Oregon and Texas A&M argues results don't matter.
December 21st, 2018 at 3:07 PM ^
Texas A&M has Jimbo Fisher so they're selling the future and Oregon has a dynamic younger coach Mario Cristobal.
December 22nd, 2018 at 7:01 AM ^
How is Oregon and Texas am classes different than harbaughs first 2 classes? Michigan was bad for 7 years, (hoke rich rod) harbaugh steps in and 2 top 10 recruiting classes, was new coach everyone was excited now harbaugh needs to win and this osu loss was devastating to program,
go ahead neg me now
December 21st, 2018 at 2:09 PM ^
Rocky Top is overrated...