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Two Minute Drill: Diploma mills, watch lists, SEC Previews, and . . . dominoes

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Well, PowWeb ran into a “quality control” issue when attempting to migrate the site to a new platform, so it’s still in progress, but I’m going to try to sneak some stuff in quickly.

VolQuest.com helps us get to know the mysterious defensive end Chase Nelson, who is skipping the summer all-star games to prepare for the fall. Gerald Williams is back in limbo, due to the extra scrutiny the “diploma mills” are now receiving. He apparently only took one class there, and while at one point they told him he was eligible, they’re now telling him he’s not. On the radio yesterday, Williams said it was all going to work out and that he’d be on campus in July.

Justin Harrell is on the Maxwell Award watch list. And so is Erik Ainge. Really. That’s more a vote of confidence in David Cutcliffe than anything.

Inside Tennessee has some of its early previews of SEC East rivals up, including Georgia and Florida. They say that Bulldogs’ head coach Mark Richt may not call a pass play until midseason (and may not need to). On Florida, they say that last year’s offense wasn’t as good as people seem to think and that a brewing quarterback controversy might mean that it’s not much better this year. Inside Tennessee also has a nice piece on UT’s history of luring fast players onto its football field and track team, and reminds fans of Stanely Morgan, who was “the type of fast you speak of in whispers, if you speak of it at all.” <whisper>4.15</whisper>

And finally, Big Orange Michael has some advice for ESPN2: dominoes tournament? No. Pre-pre-pre-season college football coverage? Yes.

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Ranking the Tennessee Volunteers 2006 list of recruits

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Before starting the player pages for Tennessee’s newest recruits, I of course had to figure out who should be first, and that turned out to be more of a chore than I thought it would, mostly because it involved math. So the first of the player pages will have to wait until this weekend.

But I have ranked the players according to how the various recruiting services viewed them. Here’s my methodology, as subjective as it may be: Since Scout.com and Rivals.com seem to be the Pepsi and Coke of recruiting sources, I first averaged the star ratings of each player and ranked accordingly. I used ESPN.com’s “grade” for each player to break any ties. Any ties after that were broken by complete subjectivity without any thought whatsoever because it was getting late.

So here are the newest Tennessee Volunteers, sorted by highest ranking:

This weekend, I’ll start the player pages, beginning with Walter Fisher. See ya then.

Posted in Blake Garretson, Brent Vinson, Chad Cunningham, Chase Nelson, Cody Pope, Daniel Lincoln, Darius Myers, Dorian Davis, Dustin Lindsey, Gerald Williams, Jacques McClendon, Jarrod Shaw, Justin Garrett, LaMarcus Thompson, Lee Smith, Luke Stocker, Nick Stephens, Players, Quintin Hancock, Ramone Johnson, Stephaun Raines, Tennessee, Tennessee Volunteer Football, Victor Thomas, Walter Fisher | 3 Comments »

Tennessee Volunteer 2006 recruiting class

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

The results are in for yesterday’s National Signing Day, and the Tennessee Volunteers followed up their horrible 5-6 season with a decent, but sub-par, recruiting season.

Scout.com has the Tennessee Volunteer 2006 recruiting class ranked at No. 24 nationally and No. 7 in the SEC behind Florida (No. 2), Georgia (No. 4), LSU (No. 7), Auburn (No. 9), Mississippi (No. 15), and Alabama (No. 18).

Rivals.com has Tennessee at No. 23 nationally and No. 7 in the SEC behind the same teams.

ESPN? No. 15 nationally, and No. 6 in the SEC, behind all of the same teams except Ole Miss.

Here are the players that committed yesterday:

  • Quarterbacks
    • Nick Stephens
  • Running Backs
    • Dustin Lindsey
  • Wide Receivers
    • Quintin Hancock
    • Stephaun Raines
  • Tight Ends
    • Lee Smith
    • Luke Stocker
  • Offensive Linemen
    • Ramone Johnson
    • Jacques McClendon
    • Darius Myers
    • Cody Pope
  • Defensive Linemen
    • Walter Fisher
    • Blake Garretson
    • Chase Nelson
    • Jarrod Shaw
    • Victor Thomas
  • Linebackers
    • Dorian Davis
    • LaMarcus Thompson
    • Gerald Williams
  • Defensive Backs
    • Justin Garrett
  • Kickers
    • Chad Cunningham
    • Daniel Lincoln
  • Athletes
    • Brent Vinson

    Get to know these guys with me starting tomorrow, when I’ll start compiling information about the new players, giving each one a dedicated page.

Posted in Blake Garretson, Brent Vinson, Chad Cunningham, Chase Nelson, Cody Pope, Daniel Lincoln, Darius Myers, Dorian Davis, Dustin Lindsey, Gerald Williams, Jacques McClendon, Jarrod Shaw, Justin Garrett, LaMarcus Thompson, Lee Smith, Luke Stocker, Nick Stephens, Quintin Hancock, Ramone Johnson, Stephaun Raines, Tennessee, Tennessee Volunteer Football, Victor Thomas, Walter Fisher | No Comments »