I believe he was referring to in-state high school talent. Tennessee had a better year than normal in producing high school talent but its still nowhere near Louisiana, much less Florida or Georgia.
Looks like LSU and Florida are getting the best value class compared to the budgets. My guess is that Bama has a really high budget and is getting low value especially since it looks like they are losing 2 or 3 more recruits to Clemson and Miami. 'Bama loses Kourtnei Brown to Clemson Brown has switched his verbal commitment to the Clemson Tigers after a face-to-face meeting with their coaching staff, according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Alabama has competition for verbal commit Kerry Murphy Murphy took an official visit to Miami-FL over the weekend and according to the Birmingham News, "was saying the Hurricanes hold a slight advantage over Alabama for his signature." The ESPN 150 prospect likes The U for a few reasons. First, Miami's defensive strategies, terminology, and formations are similar to what he played in at Hoover. Secondly, Murphy feels he could benefit from working out with the several NFL stars who train in or near Coral Gables. Also, he added that Miami head coach Randy Shannon did not pressure him at all during his sales pitch while not attempting to be "buddy-buddy" at the same time. Bailey picks Miami-FL ESPN 150 prospect Allen Bailey chose the Hurricanes over the Gators, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. He cited the relationship he's built with new Miami head coach Randy Shannon. "He's a cool person, seems real. When he came to my house we didn't talk about football; he was telling my parents about him and his background and stuff like that." Bailey was considering other schools such as Alabama and Georgia earlier in the recruiting process. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiting/briefingroom
Im refering to there past records, and bowl games...they have spent a ton of money. And it's yet to pay off. Plus they have to really reach out of state, cause if the low talent in Tennessee.
That's because of their five 5-stars. But you can't build a program on 5-star athletes. It is the 4-star athletes that provide the muscle for most programs, and Tennessee is not doing that well in recruiting 4-star athletes.
They have 10 4-star athletes with their 5 5-star athletes. When you give out 31 scholarships and have an average of 3.6 that's pretty good in my book but spin it however you want to. :thumb:
its due to a large number of High School kids families taking them out of school at the ripe old age of 13...to run Whiskey arcoss the state line into West GinyA to ole Saban's hide away.
