re: 5* DT Derrick Brown quaestion

You Georgia fans are so bitter

Bitter about what? Losing a recruit? Yes, it stings losing a player of Derrick Brown caliber, but in a month everyone will be talking about 2017 recruits. And the results on the field will still be the same. UGA is in much better shape than Auburn, no argument there. Bitterness will strike you guys in 8 months when you realize the Gus Bus is running out of gas. Please don't be sensitive when this happens. Congrats on Brown, he might be the best player in the '16 class. I'd rather he choose Auburn than UT

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Just forget that Oklahoma actually lost to a Texas team that was God awful last year

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You DO remember that Oklahoma was in the playoffs, right, phan?

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Well....not the majority. I visit your recruiting thread because it is very active and we recruit a lot of the same people. Of all of your fans I see pretty much three of you that feel that way. You, Brannigan and Randy Savage.

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Brannigan just likes to piss people off by being taking the opposite viewpoint and Savage melts over everything. So ya if those are the 2 guys you are going to call the stalwarts of objectivity then I think we can immediately end this discussion because we won't agree at all

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Other than that, someone (Usually Ellitor)typically comes in with what one of your insiders say and the rest go and figure out what your points will be when you sign all of those guys.

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Pretty much all of the main posters in recruiting thread know we are not signing Ben Davis or Rashan Gary. In fact if you look at most of our predictions they center around debate of whether we get Derrick Brown, EJ Price or Ahmmon Richards. All guys we are in the hunt for but aren't 100% sure are signing. But that doesn't mean you can't see where your class would be if you landed them. That's the whole reason 247 has a class calculator

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I especially enjoyed the guy that tried to prove how "in it" you guys were for a top three class because y'all were going to sign Brown, Rashan Gary, Warrior, Landon Dickerson, Ben Davis, Javaughn Meyers, NCM.

He DID preface it with he didn't think you would get ALL of them....but crap....if every team in the country took the top 7 or 8 available and added them to their class they would be in it for a top 3 class.

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That was me. And it appears the point I was making got lost on many. Those are guys we will be a hat on the table for. I was curious if in a perfect world we had a shot at a #1 class. We don't. Maybe #2. But again like I said I know we aren't getting all of those guys mainly Gary, Dickerson & Davis. The rest we have a legitimate shot at. But what's the freaking point of following this stuff if you can't have fun and dream once in awhile

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This is not criticizing, just saying the majority of people on here (Of all fan bases) really do believe what is said by their "insiders." We ALL run with it because it gives us hope and sells subscriptions.

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There was a time the AU board was all about insiders but we have been burned so much usually anyone that tries to past that shite off gets buried. The only recruiting guy everyone has any respect for when it comes to AU is KN on 247 because he at least does the best at not completely homering all the time but even he is going to slant it positively for Auburn because he writes for that site

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This is not criticizing, just saying the majority of people on here (Of all fan bases) really do believe what is said by their "insiders." We ALL run with it because it gives us hope and sells subscriptions.

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Sure most fans follow and believe their insiders but the initial point of this whole argument is it seems like Tennessee posters run with these "silent commit" rumors their writers pedal more than other fanbases. joey actually linked specific posts their guys made about all these recruits that were supposedly silent commits to them that went elsewhere. Sure there's a chance all of it is true or more likely parts of it are true but it seems pretty crazy that ALL of these guys that they lost out on were at some point locks to Tennessee. So trying to give a word of caution when it comes to Derrick Brown rumors.

Honestly the recruiting world changes so rapidly it's hard to believe anything. But if you can't ever believe anything then it's pointless to follow and where's the fun in that

With all that said I don't think Derrick Brown knows where he is going right now so unless something changes over the next few days 4 fanbases have realistic beliefs they are going to land the kid and all for valid enough reasons

If you were to summarize in one or two sentence, what would that look like?

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If you were to summarize in one or two sentence, what would that look like?

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Got him coach

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Don't recall calling them that, at all. All I said was that there are a LOT of guys in your recruiting thread that take the words of your insiders as fact. I used three examples, but if you would like I can go check and tell you more.

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No need just thought it was funny those were the 2 you chose

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Yep. I agree with you on that. Most realize that. Didn't keep one of your posters from including them in your class, though, did it? And it wasn't Brannigan, Savage or Ellitor.

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So one poster predicts we land Gary and that means we all believe? Confused by this one

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What point was that? that if you pull every top recruit you KNOW you have no shot at that you would make the top 3, therefore you guys are in it for a top 3 class? Makes perfect sense.

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Let me try this again then. I am not just grabbing random players, I chose guys that AU is running at least #3 for so it's not out of the realm of possibility it occurs. With a perfect scenario I was curious to see just where we landed. Of those that I listed Dickerson is the only one that I have 0% confidence in landing. Gary, Davis & Warrior are guys I wouldn't be shocked we landed but don't expect.

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And you all missed the Tennessee poster point that the article joey posted a link to was written after NSD. Their fan base would have had a hard time running with a silent commit from an article that was written AFTER NSD, don't you think? That was the Tennessee guys point. The link didn't prove your point.

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Fair enough

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Absolutely. It's fun to believe. It's fun to imagine the top recruits are coming to your favorite school. But you guys do the same thing you are criticizing the Tennessee fan base of doing.

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No the criticism at least from me is that although all fan bases like to dream of the perfect scenario it seems like one fanbase is more partial to actually believing it will occur. Now I fully admit I could be prejudiced due to the fact that most of the cases I remember were battles that AU won where our insiders and other team insiders had AU as the clear favorite. So again maybe small sample size and all but that is at least the impressions I get


But I feel like this has gone completely off the rails for no reason. TEN, AU, UGA & BAMA all have realistic shots at Brown. It will be interesting to see after his official do only UT beat writers project Brown or do the other team's sites as well