Joe Lee hated recruiting worse than Dan Mullen. He didn't get a soul. Not one.
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I'm as big of a Leach fanboy as exists in the entire fanbase, and I think it's very obvious that Tennessee turned down Leach, not the other way around.
They turned him down for ... Jeremy Pruitt. Pretty dumb of Tennessee. When Heupel fails, he'll be their 4th bust coach in a row since Kiffin left them high and dry.
I think Heupel will be successful. He got them to play hard in Year 1. They were well-coached. Tennessee has money so they will get talent. I think they finally have their guy to get them back in the top half of the SEC consistently
Even in 98, it took a 4th down saving PI to save them at Syracuse.
A missed game winning FG by Florida.
Sternor stumble.
Alabama being down and playing a 8-3 west opponent in Atlanta.
Then a NC game vs a FSU on their QB2.
It was all luck for the vols that year. The most plastic football NC I know of.
NIL will make Saban less of an issue. Guys will go play at SC if they offer more money than Bama. "Get Paid" is the motto for kids as early as the 8th grade today. The Jr High kids at Natchez literally had that on workout shirts
Hey 34 how long til the "8th grade NIL" boomerangs? I will guess that in 3-4 years when most of these kids peak in the 11th grade will the fools with more money than sense wake up and this crap end. Then the kids handlers will go back to see what coach gets them to the NFL, like Saban.
Doesn't every kid want to play sports and become rich? All I thought about as kid was playing in the MLB but I thinking more about game winning hits than a paycheck. Although I wanted that paycheck too.
Seems the change is...although I don't know first hand...we were pushed hard and it was made clear to us that we had to earn everything. Maybe that still happens. I dnk. But I have my suspicions when it comes to the better athletes.
When I was in the 8th grade, I don't think I considered becoming rich playing sports :confused:. My thoughts were around being a dominate player and scoring at the last second to win the game.
There is nothing wrong with dreaming about making money when you become an adult, but in the 8th grade to focus on money as a primary motive is a little much! I think it is putting the cart before the horse! I thought the desire to play sports was "mainly" for the love of the game - especially as an amateur. I guess times have changed and not for the better! I guess I am having a hard time swallowing that everybody that ever steps a foot on a field or course should be paid regardless of their age.
I want to see athletes that play the game for the love of the game and not for the love of money - and there is a difference in the way they approach the game.
When your family don't own the roof over their head and capitalism runs this unchecked, that's a consequence. It's crazy to see you on here complaining that kids are focused on their futures earlier and earlier when that's the reality of the system you love to also push. Hypocrite
The downward spiral will continue until idiots run out of money or some idiots wise up and quit throwing money at these kids. The whole thing is pathetic.
The crowd that says if you don't empty your pockets to these kids then you ain't a real fan or you don't want to win is BS. Unless you have unreal amounts of money, you ain't winning crap anyway if the money game continues.