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1st off, the only SEC east schools that will be out recruiting UT will be UF & UGA. USCe has not been, nor will be a recruiting machine. Most of the experts believe that UT will finish in the top 10 in recruiting this year, and are currently sitting at #3. It's not like UT all of a sudden moved to east Tennessee. A good coach can recruit there, they just have to recruit more out of state kids. But they had to do that back in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s also, and they didn't seemed to have a hard time pulling in top 10 recruiting classes then.

Yes, Florida will consistently recruit better than Tennessee. As will Georgia. As will Alabama. As will LSU.

Auburn will also get a lot of kids who might have gone to Tennessee. Ole Miss and LSU pull a lot of kids from Memphis now. USC will get a lot of kids from South Carolina that would have gone to Tennessee in the past. Just because their classes aren't ranked as highly doesn't mean that they won't hurt Tennessee. Clemson will as well, to an extent.

Tennessee, in its prime, was Tennessee because it was often the unquestioned big dog in many areas. The exposure and money that everyone has now has nullified that. I'm not saying they won't be respectable, but they will not be consistently dominant.

This post was edited on 5/3/13 at 3:20 pm