11th-hour woes: Tennessee suffers 2nd decommitment night before Early Signing Period
Hours before the class of 2021 Early Signing Period being, Tennessee’s commitment list is shrinking. Safety Edwin White out of Alabama is the latest prospect to back off his pledge to the Volunteers.
Not long after Elijah Howard’s decommitment and flip to Virginia Tech, White made his announcement on his Twitter account.
“I would first like to thank the coaching at The University of Tennessee, for believing in me and offering my first year in high school but I would like to decommit from Tennessee and open my options up again to find a true home,” White wrote, tagging UT running back Dee Beckwith in the post.
White had committed on March 7 when he visited UT for a Junior Day recruiting event. He is listed at 6-feet, 196 pounds and rated 3-stars, the No. 32 Alabama recruit, No. 60 safety and No. 780 prospect overall nationally on the 247Sports Composite. He has other scholarship offers, including Mississippi State and Ole Miss.
Do not no anything about him or history with Vols thus far but why the comment about finding a “true home”?
When you are a 3* recruit rated as the 32nd best player in the state of Alabama, losing you is not going to leave much of a mark.
That’s a little surprising…that he got an offer from Tennessee to begin with.
Because…he has 3stars
I think these kids have witnessed they’re not going to get developed or coached well at TN. Regardless of how many stars they have coming out of high school, it’s those factors that’ll help them succeed.
Georgia is a great example that even if you get top recruits year after year, just having great players isn’t going to beat teams with better coaching. It’ll get you closer but it’s the coaching that’s going to lead and put the kids in the right position to win in those close games.
OUCH!! lol
Kirby Smart is 8-4 against top 10 teams. He’s done plenty well against “better coaching”. Is there room for improvement, though? Absolutely.
Sure, I was not saying Georgia hasn’t had BY FAR more success than Tennessee by any means. It is just that the losses that do occur prevent that completion of a national championship in the trophy. Always so close, but just can’t get over the hump.
Trophy case*
NCs are hard to win, yeah. But to say Kirby can’t develop talent isn’t accurate.
Touche, I’ll retract my statement on developing talent. That is inaccurate on what I’m trying to capture…
I guess what I’m trying to say that Georgia has had several teams that I thought were national championship caliber teams with Richt and now Kirby; but they always find a way to falter. IMO it was the coaching that seemed to be the let down when everything was within reach.
That being said, the monster that Saban and Bama have created require a miracle or miraculous event to get past them year in and out. Perhaps Georgia will have that happen in the next few years.
I agree with you, there have been several teams I thought were national championship caliber that didn’t win. To win a national championship requires a fair bit of luck, but I do also agree with you that coaching has been an issue. Richt could never put it all together for some reason, even after accumulating a lot of experience. Kirby is still learning, so we’ll see. Perhaps it’ll happen one day. Until then, I’m just along for the ride. And friendly trash talk.
Wait!! We fired our coach before the decommits began. Did I miss something?
Tennessee always does everything backward. I wonder how Loyal Fulmer will be when the Class sucks and A&M blasts the Vols.
well rufus you can stop wondering. The class wont suck. You think an ATM beatdown will be a surprise. Do you even watch football or do you just jump on here and throw shade hoping some of what you say might be accurate. You dumba$$