Across college football, but particularly in the SEC East.
Look, I don't remember exactly how it goes, but there is some saying or other about living in fear of things that never come to pass.
But here's my concern:
Right now my best reckoning is we are still in play for a number of excellent recruits:
DB
Israel "M" - Former FSU recruit
Assante Samuel - current FSU recruit
Jayce Horn - Former Tennessee recruit
Trey Dean - Former Tennessee recruit
LB
Channing Tindall - on another board someone said he was ready to commit. But a lot of crystal balls to Georgia too.
OL
Wonnum (no one has any idea what he is thinking. The "inscrutable" man.)
* We are involved with a couple more, but I can't remember the names.
DL
Sandidge
Jarrett Jackson (from Florida)
Dorian Gerald (not sure if he ever decommitted from Tennessee)
Thing is Pruitt at Tennessee is an excellent recruiter. And he is putting together an ace recruiting staff (and he may hire Lance Thompson from us). It wouldn't surprise me at all if he held on to Gerald, and got Horn and Dean back in the fold. And considering that staff, it also wouldn't surprise me if they went hard at Maxwell ... "I," our current OT commit from Tennessee.
Taggart is another excellent recruiter. Haven't heard much about what kind of staff he's getting together, but these kids signed with FSU for a reason in the beginning. Again it wouldn't be surprising if he got Israel M. back, and held on to Samuel. Or if he signed Jackson from Florida.
And as I said, most of the cb's I've read seem to indicate Tindall is leaning to Georgia.
So where does that leave us exactly? Our recruiting space is filling up with monster recruiting programs. Clemson, Georgia, Tennessee, FSU, etc. Ironically Florida may turn out to not improve much from McElwain, though their class seems to be doing well without anyone having run the show for a bit.
Not liking this. Boom has another nickname, "Flipper." But he's going up against other workaholic recruiters now too. Actually more than I think he ever has.
He's signing solid kids that seem like they will produce. But these other guys seem like they are doing their homework on prospects too, and in the end they are getting the 4 and 5 stars - in head to head recruiting battles with us.
We don't have a scheme on offense that levels the playing field against teams with better talent. Our plan for that seems to have been to have Butch Jones as the other team's coach.
So I dunno. Just saying things look awful tough going forward from a recruiting standpoint. Actually I'd say this is looking to be the most amazing set of recruiting staffs I've seen in my life with some of our rivals.
Look, I don't remember exactly how it goes, but there is some saying or other about living in fear of things that never come to pass.
But here's my concern:
Right now my best reckoning is we are still in play for a number of excellent recruits:
DB
Israel "M" - Former FSU recruit
Assante Samuel - current FSU recruit
Jayce Horn - Former Tennessee recruit
Trey Dean - Former Tennessee recruit
LB
Channing Tindall - on another board someone said he was ready to commit. But a lot of crystal balls to Georgia too.
OL
Wonnum (no one has any idea what he is thinking. The "inscrutable" man.)
* We are involved with a couple more, but I can't remember the names.
DL
Sandidge
Jarrett Jackson (from Florida)
Dorian Gerald (not sure if he ever decommitted from Tennessee)
Thing is Pruitt at Tennessee is an excellent recruiter. And he is putting together an ace recruiting staff (and he may hire Lance Thompson from us). It wouldn't surprise me at all if he held on to Gerald, and got Horn and Dean back in the fold. And considering that staff, it also wouldn't surprise me if they went hard at Maxwell ... "I," our current OT commit from Tennessee.
Taggart is another excellent recruiter. Haven't heard much about what kind of staff he's getting together, but these kids signed with FSU for a reason in the beginning. Again it wouldn't be surprising if he got Israel M. back, and held on to Samuel. Or if he signed Jackson from Florida.
And as I said, most of the cb's I've read seem to indicate Tindall is leaning to Georgia.
So where does that leave us exactly? Our recruiting space is filling up with monster recruiting programs. Clemson, Georgia, Tennessee, FSU, etc. Ironically Florida may turn out to not improve much from McElwain, though their class seems to be doing well without anyone having run the show for a bit.
Not liking this. Boom has another nickname, "Flipper." But he's going up against other workaholic recruiters now too. Actually more than I think he ever has.
He's signing solid kids that seem like they will produce. But these other guys seem like they are doing their homework on prospects too, and in the end they are getting the 4 and 5 stars - in head to head recruiting battles with us.
We don't have a scheme on offense that levels the playing field against teams with better talent. Our plan for that seems to have been to have Butch Jones as the other team's coach.
So I dunno. Just saying things look awful tough going forward from a recruiting standpoint. Actually I'd say this is looking to be the most amazing set of recruiting staffs I've seen in my life with some of our rivals.
