The Curious Case of Tennessee

If you are going by recruiting rankings UT has outrecruited South Carolina every year excluding last year. So I wouldn’t say that they haven’t had good players unless you think that Carolina has even worse players than them. The point is that we have still beaten them regardless of their recruiting rankings - As we have with many of the teams that we have played that have outrecruited us.

If you look at UT’s recruiting class outside of the #1 spot it really isn’t unbelievably impressive. They have a lot of players committed early just like Kentucky does.

The truth about UT will come when we see what this new HC has when he coaches the games. UT fans pumped up Dooley until his last day as their HC. They will do the same with this guy. I don’t think UT will be down forever but I also wouldn’t be quick to say that this guy will get them back to being relevant.