College recruiting

By UGA INSIDER

February 20, 2009 10:10 PM | Link to this

Tennessee is most definitely making a big push in both Florida and Georgia this year, Earlier than EVER. Offer a sophomore? You gotta’ be kidding. Maybe the 2011 stud in Valdosta, but not this kid. At least not yet. But Kiffin is trying to make as much noise as he can, as quick as he can. Oh well, it won’t work. Mr. Damon Evans is from Gainesville, and no prospect will leave Gainesville without Mr. Evans’ permission.

By Paddy

February 20, 2009 10:17 PM | Link to this

here is what I see happening next. All the SEC coaches (minus UT) will have an understanding amoungst themselves. Go as hard as you can for your recruits. But when you are up against UT, “pile drive him”. At some point he is going to realize you can’t keep bad mouthing your fellow schools. This could be an all out war. Very interesting.

By Rocky Top "Insider"

February 20, 2009 10:38 PM | Link to this

Hello to you Georgians. Have any of you listened to CLK talk about the state of Georgia??? He has said repeatedly that CMR and UGA do not guard its borders good enough. We might not get all the best players in Georgia, But we’re going to be in the running for them. Say whatever you want about Kiffin. But he’s aggressive w/recruiting and he’s going to make some statement offers in both Florida and Georgia. This is the first. A.J. Johnson is the first of five Ga 2011 prospects Tennessee will offer by the end of March. Count on that.

By reality check

February 20, 2009 10:49 PM | Link to this

okay “Rocky Top Insider” I will “say whatever you want”……..you’re coach is a jacka$$ who will be gone within 30 months. LOL! UT is a joke. By the way, my 14 yr old son who plays 9th grade ball got a call from Lame train today and my boy told him to go build fences in Hamilton County TN. LOL. UT, the great joke of the south.

By Tmoorecansuckit

February 20, 2009 10:54 PM | Link to this

CMR will just get grandma to talk to AJ and that will take care of Lame Kitten.

By GWJ

February 20, 2009 11:02 PM | Link to this

Offering and Signing are two different events …one is VERY easy to do and the other is a little bit tougher. Kiffin will be a “short timer” at UT. Hey UT fans, watch out for probation issues with your boy Orgeron.

By Icenupe

February 20, 2009 11:06 PM | Link to this

To Rocky Top or any other moron who doesn’t understand one simple fact that can’t be disputed…the state of Georgia produces appx 100+ Div 1A prospects PER YEAR!! Even a signing class of 25 in one year will NOT cover every D-1A prospect in this state because there is too much talent!!! Fla, FSU, and Miami or even So.Fla, Central Fla, etc. cannot keep ALL of the talent in Florida. Same for Texas, Ohio, California, or any other talent rich state and the big name universitys that reside in them. So when Lame Kiffin says UGA does not “guard its borders” it is IMPOSSIBLE to get everyone. Some will leave no matter what (see Jarvis Jones and Darren Myles, Jr. who did not want to play close to home). Georgia will ALWAYS lost some prospects due to the wealth of talent. UGA targets who they want IN STATE and OUT OF STATE. Look at where UGA’s roster of talent comes from and u will see. Due to the lack of talent in Tenn. they have to recruit in states like Georgia. BTW, UGA took Tennessee’s top 2 prospects this year in Marlon Brown and Austin Long. C U in October!

By Recruitnik

February 20, 2009 11:07 PM | Link to this

Rocky Top you need to go back and take recruiting 101. A little education for ya. Teams like ut, alabama, florida, and out of state schools MUST offer the state of Georgia players very early. It’s standard procedure. UGA does the same when offering guys in florida, kansas, missouri, texas, and california. Georgia is the instate school so they will be more selective and wait a little bit to offer players and that rarely hurts them. They will be offering the gainesville trio March 21st during their Jr. Day.

UT is offering everyone in Georgia. In the past 7 days they haven’t missed an available player in Georiga. Kiffin is throwing out offers as if they have 80 scholarships and that’s fine because he HAS to if he has any chance of getting a kid from Georgia. UGA is the ONLY team to have 8 straight top 10 recruiting classes on rivals. CMR and CRG know what they are doing.

By Sid

February 21, 2009 12:35 AM | Link to this

UT offered me and I’m 64. Said I look good in UT orange and that I’m from Georgia.Stick it UT-I’m going to UGA-wait-I went to UGA !

By The Big Bug

February 21, 2009 12:42 AM | Link to this

Between PJ & Richt, Kiffin will be lucky to break even.

By voiceofreality

February 21, 2009 12:49 AM | Link to this

You people need to get a life.

By Stu The Bag Man

February 21, 2009 1:30 AM | Link to this

Tennessee guards its borders very well. Of course nobody wants to enter based upon population numbers. You also must love those per capita income numbers, spouse abuse, drunk driving deaths and teenage pregnency numbers that all rank in the Top 10, except for the per capita income. Studies have demonstrated that the areas within 100 miles of Knoxville are notorious for inbreeding. Tennessee must leave the state to recruit because of the dearth of quality high school athletes within its borders. Vanderbilt, a quality institution of higher learning with global name recognition, must
share a state, that plays as its Fight Song, a ridiculous piece of Hillbilly Blue Grass, made famous by a tramp from one of their many hollers. Hollers also describe the vocal outbursts made by poor young girls trying to escape their stepfathers.

All in all, a rather pitiful state and one first known for its ridiculous level of cheating with the Bernie and Ernie Show. Recruited from New York by a psychotic Ray Mears and a dwarf bagman, Stu Sberdeen, Bernard King, a renowned cross dresser and Ernie Grunfeld(Right, real good reason for someone with the last name of Grunfeld leaving New York City for the Tennessee Hills) made Tennessee famous for its level of purchasing players.

Now, there may be a new guy on the scene capable of shattering the Mears and Aberdeen Experience. Time will tell.

By Dog 74

February 21, 2009 1:38 AM | Link to this

Bring it Bag Man, Parton was a piece of hillbilly trash. Stupid anal song they play the whole game made famous by a top heavy no talent gatlinburg grifter. Man does anybody really claim a degree from that dump?

By Athens Al

February 21, 2009 1:52 AM | Link to this

I thought I hated Tennessee. You guys really make it personal. You must have lived there. I trust you have left? Other schools are really going to poison the pond against this guy. his old man had a nice gig in Tampa and he leaves to go associate with some people who he won’t understand. He hears that twang for awhile and he’ll be ready for The NFL. As long as Ed has a cold one in his fat little hand he will be okay. Strange crew. Will miss the Jolly Fat Man.

By Vols & Dawgs

February 21, 2009 1:57 AM | Link to this

I am tired of the constant insults and general stupidity exhibited on these boards. I was born a Vol, adopted the Dawgs when I lived in GA, and truly like both schools and states. Come on, the movie that really made inbred banjo players famous was set in…. Georgia. Oh, that part of GA is within 100 miles of Knoxville. When I lived in Gwinnett Co., there was a guy known to always wear a potato sack over his head! Let’s enjoy fine SEC football and quit being a bunch of name-calling morons.

By Dog 74

February 21, 2009 2:08 AM | Link to this

Vols and Dawgs, We know where the movie was set. Everyone in America knew who it portrayed. You may have been born a Vol, but with your wit and ability to formulate a sentence, I’m betting you went to Georgia. Tell the truth. When you accurately depict a subject, you are not calling names, you are being descriptive. I’d be willing to wager that you long ago left the Inbred State??

By Tenesee Grad

February 21, 2009 2:17 AM | Link to this

all you gergia peple can kiss my grits. lane is hear and hes taken no prisners.their is know in breden any where near knoxville. new sharif in town and the dogs are goin down. you started with the insolts but me and Vols and dawgs no howe to end it. go vols.

By Vols &Dawgs

February 21, 2009 2:25 AM | Link to this

Tenesee(sic)Grad, I didn’t need you coming on here to help me. Thanks a lot.

By Tenesee Grad

February 21, 2009 2:31 AM | Link to this

Whats your problem vols and dawgs and i ain’t sick, and you didnt even spell it rite.we should stick two gether and consintrate on beatin them dawgs. ewe should take them out of your name. your a vol. write??

By Vols & Dawgs

February 21, 2009 2:35 AM | Link to this

I give up. Every time I try to defend the bumpkins and rubes in the state I was accidentally born in, something like this happens. I’ve had it!

By Vol & Dawgs

February 21, 2009 2:36 AM | Link to this

DOG 74- Rocky Top was written by a native GEORGIAN named Boudleaux Bryant, a classical violinist who was in the Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra before going C&W. ALL SEC states consist of varying degrees of hillbillies,rednecks,snobs,hiphoppers… all kinds of people. I live 90 miles from Knoxville,in Kingsport.(Hometown of former Dawg Larry Cage-Herschel’s roommate)-Believe it or not I see much less of the stereotypical overall wearing types here than I did in Loganville and Lawrenceville. I realize some of this is good-natured fun, but at times it goes from fun to a real insult to a whole state. Remember,people outside the South think we’re all dumb hillbillies. I don’t know if Kiffin is going to be a success at UT. I personally wanted Will Muschamp to get the job. Lets get off the UT-UGA hate and focus on the real enemy,the GATORS.

By Dog 74

February 21, 2009 2:38 AM | Link to this

You guys are idiots. I’m calling people in Washington and Vegas so they can read this. I’m busting a gut laughing. Lunacy!

By Georga Man

February 21, 2009 2:41 AM | Link to this

screw you v&d, your all vawl if you ask me. it’s not inbreddin if you don’t have child. a good peice is a good peice if you get wat i’m sayin. love you sis! whats good for uga is a good for me! go dawgs

By Vols & Dawgs

February 21, 2009 2:45 AM | Link to this

The post at 2:36 is an imposter. I am Vols and Dawgs. I live in Nashville and am a patron of the arts. I attended Vanderbilt, but try not to tell people. They are intimidated and immediately resentful. I root for Tennessee with an abiding passion.

By Vols & Dawgs

February 21, 2009 3:11 AM | Link to this

I posted @ 2:36. I am the REAL DEAL. Notice the imposter has no space between (&Dawgs). I am a HS grad,yes in East Tennessee we are capable of proper English. Glad everyone is having a good time early on Saturday morning. Isn’t this good fun, and some is actually clean. I’m out.

By Dog 74's momma

February 21, 2009 3:32 AM | Link to this

Boy, I told you to keep thet tater sack over yer head so nobuddy coud see yer dog face.

By LarryWax

February 21, 2009 7:18 AM | Link to this

This guy Carvell will do anything to stir up some crap. He must be about to lose this gig and he found something in Kiffin you folks will argue about. That will ultimately save his job. Is it against the law that a coach offers a kid that has already played his soph. season? I think they have junior camps. Carvell is spinning it that he is a soph. Lots of teams ( I believe even UGA) has offered a kid that is going into their junior football season.Bottom line I think Carvell “wants” Kiffin.

By Devildawger

February 21, 2009 8:27 AM | Link to this

what happened to my comment from last night. It was removed and proved that TN hasnt done that well in GA traditionally.

By volfanbudman

February 21, 2009 8:28 AM | Link to this

uga seems a bit to concerned about our joke of a coach. Now the title of “the coach who does less w/ more ” lives in Athens.

By UnderDawg

February 21, 2009 8:30 AM | Link to this

If Coach Oregeron shows up drunk and surly at another recruits house, UT might not get any of em.

Oh, and I would keep the regional descriptions for indigenous people to myself also if I were you, Coach O. What passes for an acceptable term for Cajuns in Louisiana is definitely not a term you want to use in the living room of an African-American family that’s not from your area. The term kind of has a negative conotation for African-American people….especially those who are old enough to remember the 50s and 60s.

Do these things, Coach O, and UT still might be able to get the players that UGA doesn’t recruit…..for the next 2-4 years, anyway….That’s about how long the coaching staff at UT is gonna last before they are s**t-canned.

By Dawgtime

February 21, 2009 8:42 AM | Link to this

To me, this situation has desperation written all over it. Coach Orgeron is known for being an extremist. What happened at Ole Miss? He was fired and kids grew tired of his fire and brimstone speeches. Al Davis found that Lane Kiffin was not an adequate coach and fired him. Kiffin brings his senior citizen father from the NFL. Do you real believe that he will relate to teenagers? Just because you offer a kid early does not mean that the kid will sign with the school. Actually, many coaches, parents, and kids see through the veil of desperation. UT is a good school with great southern traditions and Kiffin seems to lack understanding of southern class. With his mouth and desperation, he will have that honored school on probation within two years. Allegations have a way of biting the sender. Making accusations against a kid’s family will destroy his reputation. His tactics are not going to work. When a kid selects a different school, you don’t throw insults and innuendos. That is a lack of class. In terms of early offers, there is no way that coaching staff has adequately scouted all these kids. They are just reading the hype and making offers. As we will see, that won’t work for a variety of reasons. You cannot beg a kid and then threaten him into signing and then when he signs elsewhere, you find the need to throw insults and insinuations. Phillip Fulmer has to be shaking his head in disbelief. Go DAWGS.

By BILLY JACK

February 21, 2009 8:57 AM | Link to this

Another joke of a story-Everybody has recruited Georgia for a 100 yrs.Schools will always recruit Georgia-even Florida recruits Georgia despite having as much or a little more prospects than Georgia.This Carvell guy is a joke these stories are a joke.BREAKING NEWS- TENNESEE RECRUITS THE STATE OF GEORGIA-Tennesee gets less than 5% of players they have recruited in the last 10 years.The fact that they offered this sophemore is the saddest thing i have ever seen.Listen up Georgia people this propaganda headline like this,should make you laugh.These coaching clowns will be gone after 3 yrs and Tennesee will be left with serious probation-see Alabama.

By Gorgeia Graadiate

February 21, 2009 9:03 AM | Link to this

Hay youns vools peeple my sun is a grate futballs athleete in gorgeia n my wife who is my furst cusin sayz she wont let him go to tennisee cuz theys dont hav gud edducition peeople at UT-so thar!!!

By 7

February 21, 2009 9:03 AM | Link to this

Kiffin will be gone by 2011 so don’t worry.

By Jay

February 21, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this

Every day this year there has been a NEW article on Kiffin in the AJC. If I wanted all this news Ion Tennessee I would live there. You idiot writers need to focus on your own “state” schools. No wonder all these GA kids want to go to Tennessee. They know they are more relevant to the AJC and Atlanta than the Dawgs or Tech. Horrible AJC horribe!!!!

By Eric1

February 21, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this

Here’s a “reality check” for you…”you’re” means “you are”. You big dummy! WDE!

By Gene

February 21, 2009 9:37 AM | Link to this

This conversation has degenerated into name calling that does not address the real problem. The NCAA needs to prohibit colleges from contact with recruits before their senior year. Offering scholarships to 10th graders is absurd. All of this pandering has created an atmosphere of entitlement that is not good for college football. These kids need to focus on school, not on guaranteed playing time and dreams of big NFL contracts. If the NCAA enforced some realistic regulations regarding recruiting, the quality of play would not suffer, academics would improve, and criminal arrests would probably drop.

By SugarHillDawg

February 21, 2009 9:55 AM | Link to this

Hey Big Bug, if you think Tech will ever get anything but UGA leftovers, you are DREAMING! Can’t wait ‘til the BEATDOWN in that dump you call a football field next Nov.!! Go Dawgs!!!!!

By 2011

February 21, 2009 10:02 AM | Link to this

Not too early to offer the 2014 kids TN…maybe you can talk to them before high school coaches do.

By JM

February 21, 2009 10:19 AM | Link to this

this text will be boldedYou know what, Gene? It’s not the NCAA’s fault if kids make poor grades or get arrested. Here’s a news flash for you: It’s the kids’ fault. Stop drinking Obama’s kool-aid and quit wetting the bed.

By Columbia Dawg

February 21, 2009 11:20 AM | Link to this

The NCAA needs to set restrictions on when a recruit can be offered a scholarship. Schools have no business making offers to a sophomore.

By joe

February 21, 2009 11:26 AM | Link to this

Ah, all is right with the world again…after a one day break, ANOTHER Lane Kiffin story…way to go AJC…keep ‘em coming!! Seems the Vols will become known as University of Tennessee-N.GA if all the players they are picking out of Georgia sign there next year…oh, 45-42. woof.

By RealityYech

February 21, 2009 11:30 AM | Link to this

watch out Tennessee, Saint Johnson is now at GT and he’s going to rake up!!! All those “thugs and gangbangers” that would have normally gone to UT are now going to be WELL ROUNDED, HIGH CHARACTER, STUDENT ATHLETES at Yech. At least that’s the spin that the douchebags from North Ave. put on it, LOL!!!!!!!

By Pitbull

February 21, 2009 11:38 AM | Link to this

I hope Lame Kitten won’t be gone by 2011 because he is going to suck as the Tennessee coach. He did not have what it takes to make it in the NFL and he does not have what it takes to make it in the SEC. He is a moron.

I do not think the new coach at Auburn will make it either. I don’t even know his name but I know he is not from the south either and will recruit poorly and coach worse.

Both schools were stupid to fire their coaches and will regret it. It was a shame that Sylvester Croom resigned at Mississippi State too. All 3 coaches just had a rough year and their schools should have stood by them.

Mississippi State got the best coach of the 3 SEC schools that changed coaches this year. I thought Croom was bringing the program along and should not have left. The new MSU coach is the ex Florida offensive coordiantor and I expect him to kick some butt in the SEC West.

Lame Kitten….what a freaking joke. LOL

By joe

February 21, 2009 11:38 AM | Link to this

Oh, and Stu “the bag man”, I guess it would take someone with a male sack reference in his name to know about cross dressing…and get that out of your mouth.

By Techster

February 21, 2009 11:43 AM | Link to this

Hey Lane, I understand you are demanding your boys rid themselves of the thuggish persona , sit on the first two rows in classroom, attend all classes, etc,etc. Sorry about that but I suppose some of them will not tolerate those harsh conditions and transfer to Georgia! Do I remember the bulldogs having the highest thug rate in SEC last year,lol,lol?

By Pitbull

February 21, 2009 11:49 AM | Link to this

Hey Techster, I hear your football player got the rape charges dropped. Congratulations on the settlement. Thug rate indeed.

BTW when is Tech Coach Joe Hamilton’s court date?

By bob

February 21, 2009 11:54 AM | Link to this

Wow kiffin is really stupid, why make a big deal about this? It happens all the time, its a shame UT fans are too stupid to realize its all just a PR move to save face

By Gainesville Red Elephant

February 21, 2009 11:55 AM | Link to this

A.J. Johnson is a stand up kid. He is intelligent and will make th right decision. For those who think it too early…well yo might want to check this kid out (special..very special). He was the best LB in Hall co. this past season and that includes Vasser at Chestatee (UGA signee). Whats even more unbelieveable is the freshman at UGA #44 (forget is name sorry) is probably better than both. A.J. is All-state as a soph. and for good reason. AJ will probably play DE in college and may this season at GHS due to the talent at LB. Gainesville gets a transfer (A very good LB) from North Hall and the coaches aren’t sure where or if he’s got a position yet.

I can tell you that the expectations at Gainesville right now have never been higher. I played with Damon and personally know him. He supports Gainesville well and knows about AJ, Blake Sims and TJ Jones<(Getting a lot of UGA attention). Damon is not the coach at UGA, but I know he has made CMR aware is he needed to be told. When your all-state as a soph. no one needs to LET you know. Trust me the kid is for real! And I believe will be a DAWG! …or at least I HOPE.

By Gainesville Red Elephant

February 21, 2009 11:59 AM | Link to this

A.J. Johnson is a stand up kid. He is intelligent and will make th right decision. For those who think it too early…well yo might want to check this kid out (special..very special). He was the best LB in Hall co. this past season and that includes Vasser at Chestatee (UGA signee). Whats even more unbelieveable is the freshman at UGA #44 (forget is name sorry) is probably better than both. A.J. is All-state as a soph. and for good reason. AJ will probably play DE in college and may this season at GHS due to the talent at LB. Gainesville gets a transfer (A very good LB) from North Hall and the coaches aren’t sure where or if he’s got a position yet.

I can tell you that the expectations at Gainesville right now have never been higher. I played with Damon and personally know him. He supports Gainesville well and knows about AJ, Blake Sims and TJ Jones<(Getting a lot of UGA attention). Damon is not the coach at UGA, but I know he has made CMR aware is he needed to be told. When your all-state as a soph. no one needs to LET you know. Trust me the kid is for real! And I believe will be a DAWG! …or at least I HOPE.

By Fearless Forecaster

February 21, 2009 12:06 PM | Link to this

The class of 2011? Heck, based on his “tenure” with the Raiders, and his big mouth— Lane Kiffin may not even be the Vols’ coach in 2011!

By Who Cares?

February 21, 2009 12:33 PM | Link to this

I couldn’t help but notice that one of the first replies to this article was critical of the AJC for hyping this Kiffin nonsense…that post mysteriously vanished. Hmmmmmm…

There is no story here. UT always recruited in Georgia. They aren’t doing anything different now. They aren’t going to be any more successful than in the past — especially given that Kiffin is rapidly making a fool of himself and is a risk to bolt from UT after two or three years IF he does start winning.

If UT starts beating Georgia for a bunch of instate Georgia players, that will be a story. Don’t count on it.

By Pitbull

February 21, 2009 12:36 PM | Link to this

Is it Lane Kiffen or Elaine Kiffen?

I have heard both.

By SickandTired

February 21, 2009 1:04 PM | Link to this

Well now, if this bunch of people isn’t a real hoot. Watching Georgia fans and Vol fans call each other out for being rednecks and cheaters is like watching two w******* fight on a street corner.

By hall county observer

February 21, 2009 1:24 PM | Link to this

hey UGA insider…i guess the kid from gainesville high school who just signed with auburn didnt get the memo from MR.DAMON EVANS. would you mind commenting on that, mr insider?

By AltamahaDawg

February 21, 2009 1:50 PM | Link to this

2 things:

-grown men do not end their comments with “lol”.

-If in fact Lane Kiffen did see a weakness that he could exploit in UGA’s recruiting effort within the state of Georgia, Why would he publically bring that to their attention? Dumb!

By gtforever

February 21, 2009 2:05 PM | Link to this

ABSURD! UT and the SEC as a whole! Offering a kid that young is just MIND NUMBING. But hey, that’s the SEC…

By TennesseeBest

February 21, 2009 2:17 PM | Link to this

One question for all you Georgia fans that are down on Tennessee: how many BCS championships has Georgia won? ZERO! Tennessee: one and counting (plus was one half away from playing Miami for another). The one year (2008) that there was consensus that UGA even had a legitimate chance you guys choked almost from the get go. Talk, talk, talk. Can’t even beat Ga Tech now at home and you won’t probably for the next five years, Johnson is just getting started.

By wildbird

February 21, 2009 2:27 PM | Link to this

Oh yes Ut is so good at recuriting thats way they lost their top 2 instate players to Ga this year lol

By Techster

February 21, 2009 3:43 PM | Link to this

Hey wildbird, UT lost those recruits to GA because Rev. Richt had prayers with their grannies and convinced them he was sent from heaven. The little wimps listened to granny and could not think for themselves!

By The General Feeling

February 21, 2009 3:57 PM | Link to this

This sounds like Tennessee Coach Ed Orgeron, once gain, has grabbed some headlines in the state of Georgia. It is a brilliant move, really. Top of mind marketing in a state with more than enough college football talent to field the entire SEC. Brilliant.

Will Tennessee be playing its Spring Game in the Georgia Dome?

By NGB

February 21, 2009 4:12 PM | Link to this

I don’t think Lil Lame can speak for class of ‘11,he won’t be there or Hammy!

By Student

February 21, 2009 4:18 PM | Link to this

Perhaps many of the SEC graduates need to understand that football is not the most important value to an instituition. It is the education. Get a life. Our society needs to move away from the exhorbitantly paid atheletes and focus more on the atheletes graduating and getting real jobs. This is the primary purpose for these student atheletes. Fyi I am a student at the seventh ranked public institution in the country. We also had the best academic statistics for atheletes but still had over a 200 point difference between our athelete’s SAT scores and our own. That is the true problem, accepting atheletes who cannot compete academically. The purpose of college is an education, not football.

By WorstBCSconf

February 21, 2009 4:32 PM | Link to this

Who cares is right. UT has always raided Georgia. Heck, if they haven’t they wouldn’t have been able to field a football ever. So yes, nonstory, absolutely.

LOL, the big homo thinks Saint Johnson is getting the first pick of Georgia players over Richt. I can’t stop laughing!?!?!??!!?!?

By gtforever

February 21, 2009 5:02 PM | Link to this

Hey Student, I agree with you 100 percent. We need to get real, these kids are not here to be students, they are here to make money for the institutions. There are exceptions to the rule, but there aren’t many football players at GT that would have been granted admission had it not been for their football abilities. I hate all the hypocrisy, but that is the world we live in, football has become a million dollar business, and the relentless pursuit to be the best has gutted our University system.

By RealityYeck

February 22, 2009 12:39 AM | Link to this

I am now Queen of Cellblock D & can pass whole cantaloupe.

By ctownvol

February 22, 2009 8:21 AM | Link to this

For all of you ignorant Georgia fans making fun of the song Rocky Top just remember it was written by a Georgian. The Bryants were from Shellman Georgia. Idiots!

By The Truth

February 22, 2009 11:17 AM | Link to this

Hey, Gainesville Red Elephant…thanks for the 411 you frieking idiot! No kidding he was the best LB in Hall County. He made 2nd team All-American with Max Preps Sports! He will not play DE in college and WILL NOT PLAY it in high school. Do you think that just because another LB transfers in that a team would move their best player on defense to another position? What a moron! You claim to know Damon, but you obviously don’t know anything about football. Nobody but you gives a rat’s @!% about Gainesville. And quit sending the same message twice. If you noticed, the message at the bottom says there is up to a 5 minute delay…dumb#@!% like you should have your blogging privileges revoked.

By By CLK

February 22, 2009 11:39 AM | Link to this

Recruiting 101: Recruit all Georgia Kids. Why, very little talent in 10RC. UT fans get fired up every saturday to watch ” Georgia Boys ” display their talent at Rocky Top. As a life time UGA fan I would rather keep the roster loaded with in state talent. I’m close friends with a former UT LB who really thinks UT will be searching for another coach in 2-3 years. If Kiffen loses 5-6 next year he will regret coming to K-town. The Heat gets turned on in September.

By Dawg Tired

February 22, 2009 11:50 AM | Link to this

Relax folks! Obviously UT will continue (yes they always have) to recruit hard in Georgia. After all, that’s where some of the best high school football players in the country are located. Tennessee is fairly weak in the high school football talent category (remember the one concern about Marlon Brown is the fact that he has not played against strong high school competition). Coach Kiffin may be in need of full time counseling, but even he can figure this one out.

As in the past, UT will always get a few of the good players in Georgia. However, also as in the past, they will not be able to win the overall recruiting contest vs. UGA in Georgia.

In fact, I think the headline to this article is misleading. Nothing really significant is going on here.

As for the song - seems to be an irrelevant discussion vis a vie the topic.

By 680thefan

February 24, 2009 1:45 PM | Link to this

680 just said UGA will be lucky to win 7 games next year, and the game in Knoxville isn’t a win for them! HAHA, imagine how sad you’ll be after making fun of Kiffin for 10 months only to get embarrassed by the Vols.