I shouldn't have been such a negative poster today - I sincerely hope this class is good and that Tommy takes the Tigers to great heights...

Signing Day should be much more celebratory - all the other stuff can wait until some other day if it is necessary...

Here's to the new Tigers and here's to a great season.

Just wait and lets see how these players pan out. Just because they aren't 4 stars doesn't mean they won't contribute. I'll admit its a little disappointing, but I am optimistic.

No...I am Optimistic.

Does anyone know who the CB that Tommy mentions he is still planning in getting signed. This was from the press conference today posted on GoTigersGo.

If we're short anywhere on this class, it's corner. I would have liked to sign a corner. We obviously have signed a lot of skill players on the other side of the ball and tried and make slot receiver type guys that were guys we could possibly make corners down the road. But we are short. I think if we're short anywhere, it would be at one corner. And to be honest with you, we're probably going to sign a corner within the next week. I already know who it is, but I obviously can't talk about him until we sign him.

Wild guess.........Bud Barkesdale?

Wouldn't that be sweet! We could use a RB as well, wonder if Bud knows one.

I just broke my rule of not contaminating the thread.

SNF6 Wrote:Wild guess.........Bud Barkesdale?

Wouldn't that be sweet! We could use a RB as well, wonder if Bud knows one.

I just broke my rule of not contaminating the thread.

Can't remember where, but he signed with someone today.

Kpigout, just rechecked, and you are correct. He signed with USM. I had heard that he and his brother would be a package deal once Mississippi Northern got Enrique Davis and the RB brother got pissed.

I can't handle this recruiting circus, I don't know how the coaches do.

TigerJimmy Wrote:Does anyone know who the CB that Tommy mentions he is still planning in getting signed. This was from the press conference today posted on GoTigersGo.

If we're short anywhere on this class, it's corner. I would have liked to sign a corner. We obviously have signed a lot of skill players on the other side of the ball and tried and make slot receiver type guys that were guys we could possibly make corners down the road. But we are short. I think if we're short anywhere, it would be at one corner. And to be honest with you, we're probably going to sign a corner within the next week. I already know who it is, but I obviously can't talk about him until we sign him.

every signing day Tommy references one more player he is hoping to sign. Usually doesn't happen. and it certainly isn't going to be anyone of significance, or we'd all know who he's talking about

It is what it is

Pressed Rat Wrote:It is what it is

What it is, is another disappointing recruiting class. We struck out on basically every player that we were going down to the wire with.

HoopDreams Wrote:I shouldn't have been such a negative poster today - I sincerely hope this class is good and that Tommy takes the Tigers to great heights...

Signing Day should be much more celebratory - all the other stuff can wait until some other day if it is necessary...

Here's to the new Tigers and here's to a great season.

Every one of us post things that when we think about it, we wish we could take some things back or reword some of the things we post. Only the great posters come back and say, "oops, I may have gone overboard.".....only the best do that HoopDreams.

What is everyone basing this as being a dissapointing class off of. The two kid's from Whitehaven are going to be stars. I mean difference makers. Hightower ran 4.29 at the camp this summer. I looked at the roster most of the db's were young maybe that's why we didn't go after db's. Marcus Rucker is legitamate he was the star of the Hoover 7on7 camp. The bottom line is if this qb is who they say he is we'll be fine. What are we expecting?

oldtiger Wrote:

HoopDreams Wrote:I shouldn't have been such a negative poster today - I sincerely hope this class is good and that Tommy takes the Tigers to great heights...

Signing Day should be much more celebratory - all the other stuff can wait until some other day if it is necessary...

Here's to the new Tigers and here's to a great season.

Every one of us post things that when we think about it, we wish we could take some things back or reword some of the things we post. Only the great posters come back and say, "oops, I may have gone overboard.".....only the best do that HoopDreams.

Oldtiger, you are wise and I agree with your assessment of HoopDreams(great poster).

HoopDreams Wrote:I shouldn't have been such a negative poster today - I sincerely hope this class is good and that Tommy takes the Tigers to great heights...

Signing Day should be much more celebratory - all the other stuff can wait until some other day if it is necessary...

Here's to the new Tigers and here's to a great season.

After sleeping on it I'm not as "doom and gloom" today. Sure, we swung and miss with some big-time prospects (Daniels, Dam. Johnson, McGee, Wright), but recruiting big-time players is what we all wanted, right? Obviously we're going to miss more than we hit. . .but I'm thrilled with the local guys we signed, and we signed a couple of juco guys (Hall and Culpepper) that should be immediate starters for us.

I'm looking forward to this season and seeing some of these new guys in action.

We need to do better.

TigersRuleAll Wrote:

Pressed Rat Wrote:It is what it is

What it is, is another disappointing recruiting class. We struck out on basically every player that we were going down to the wire with.

Can you give me a list of the players that we struck out on, the only two players that I know we missed are BJ Daniels, and the other LB from whitehaven.
In the last two weeks, BJ stated that his choice was between us and USF, in the end he chose USF, because they did not sign another QTR. BK. ( point of info. our highly rated bb team may have hurt us more than it helped, he stated that he doubted that he would ever get to play at Memphis)
If the Tiger had not already have signed Hall, to me there is no doubt that we could have signed BJ.
Plus the qtr. bk. that we did sign is going to be outstanding, not just good but outstanding.
The other player the LB from Whitehaven, we just lost him to his early committment, Ark, and out of the tlhree LB's that Tommy targeted we signed two
Tommy stated, sure we would liked to have signed both of these players, but you are not going to sign ever player you go after.

I personally thnk this is one of the better classes we have had in a while, believe me there are players in this group

PS: BJ did not sign his LOI until 1:53 PM

we suck! i do not want to play mtsu again.

nctiger Wrote:

TigersRuleAll Wrote:

Pressed Rat Wrote:It is what it is

What it is, is another disappointing recruiting class. We struck out on basically every player that we were going down to the wire with.

Can you give me a list of the players that we struck out on, the only two players that I know we missed are BJ Daniels, and the other LB from whitehaven.
In the last two weeks, BJ stated that his choice was between us and USF, in the end he chose USF, because they did not sign another QTR. BK. ( point of info. our highly rated bb team may have hurt us more than it helped, he stated that he doubted that he would ever get to play at Memphis)
If the Tiger had not already have signed Hall, to me there is no doubt that we could have signed BJ.
Plus the qtr. bk. that we did sign is going to be outstanding, not just good but outstanding.
The other player the LB from Whitehaven, we just lost him to his early committment, Ark, and out of the tlhree LB's that Tommy targeted we signed two
Tommy stated, sure we would liked to have signed both of these players, but you are not going to sign ever player you go after.

I personally thnk this is one of the better classes we have had in a while, believe me there are players in this group

PS: BJ did not sign his LOI until 1:53 PM

I'm not an "insider", so I don't have the exact list of players we offered. . .however, it was public knowledge (by the players themselves) that we offered and lost out on QB BJ Daniels, LB Tank Wright, WR Damaris Johnson, RB Brynn Harvey, LB Antonio Harper, RB Martin Ward and DT Tim McGee. All these guys were considered impact players, and that's why there was so much hand ringing yesterday.

Other high impact recruits that had Memphis on their list but chose to go elsewhere for whatever reason were RB Desmond Johnson and DE/LB Alonzo Horton. I'm not sure scholarships were extended to those two.

Our recruiting victories yesterday were WR Marcus Rucker (who chose us over Indiana) and FB Brandon Ross (who we took from UAB). LB Ricky Holloway, DT Dontari Poe, and WR Marcus Hightower had either publicly committed to the Tigers already, or insiders had previously reported they were definitely headed to Memphis. Those three were expected to be Tigers going into signing day.

I listened carefully to what Tommy said in the press conference, and that was we lost out on two players that we would have liked to sign, On being BJ Daniels and the other the LB from whitehaven, keep in mind we signed two of the targeted three...