Preston Bailey will not be a Jacket

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According to ESPN and the Knoxville News Sentinel, offensive line prospect Preston Bailey will announce his commitment to the Volunteers today at noon. Sorry to bring a bunch of bad news today. I just thought that some would want to know.

This leaves Greg Shaw and Kenneth Page as the only remaining OL prospects that we have a real chance of landing. Of course you may see some additional offers go out as the high school football season unfolds.
 
It cracks me up that Bailey has stated that he wants to go somewhere with a good mix of football and academics, and then he's going to go to....Tennessee? What a joke. If he does pick Tennessee, then he clearly isn't serious about the academic part.
 
If you play football at UT and graduate someone will hire you in this state and pay you a good chunk of change.
 
GT Adamni said:
It cracks me up that Bailey has stated that he wants to go somewhere with a good mix of football and academics, and then he's going to go to....Tennessee? What a joke. If he does pick Tennessee, then he clearly isn't serious about the academic part.
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or the coaches are good at lying.
 
knoxjacket said:
If you play football at UT and graduate someone will hire you in this state and pay you a good chunk of change.
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He said academics are important to him, not that he wants to be guaranteed a good paying job after he graduates. It's not the same thing.
 
Man, I could have sworn people seek high academic schools in order to find high-paying jobs?

Regardless, who cares? It's this kid's decision, not yours, and you don't know what his complete thought process involved.

A good mix of academics and football doesn't necessarily equate to a school that hasn't finished a season in the top 25 in 7 years and is a top tier school. It could also be a school that's in that next tier academically, has won 8+ games in 17 of it's last 18 seasons, puts 100k butts in the seats, and has a campus that's swimming in female talent.

Am I the only one who finds it sad that grown men would criticize a 17 or 18 year old kid's college decision?

Good luck, Preston, beat the mutts.
 
Not to mention a good education can be attained at GT, UGAg, UT, even Miss St if you put enough effort into it. Just because it's easier to skate by at some of those schools doesn't mean you can't receive a great education while you're there.
 
MustangGT said:
Most likely...he does seem to really like Notre Dame also...Did you just want to hear me say that, Oatmeal?
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no, i don't need to hear that. if i thought he liked ND that much, i woulda said ND was a big player. i simply said that i think he stays in SC b/c i think GT doesn't have a very good shot with him... it was quite relevant to the original post.
 
I didn't critisize anyone's college decision...all I commented on was his statement that academics were important. I'm not that concerned about him. I just find it funny, as I would if someone made the same comment and then ended up choosing Arkansas, Mississippi State, Florida State, etc.
 
instant oatmeal said:
no, i don't need to hear that. if i thought he liked ND that much, i woulda said ND was a big player. i simply said that i think he stays in SC b/c i think GT doesn't have a very good shot with him... it was quite relevant to the original post.
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Maybe I should have put one of these :D after that post. I didn't mean anything by my comment. I am just messing with you today.
 
these kids always state academics are the most important thing in their decision. if this were true, harvard, penn, duke, yale, stanford, etc.. would all be football powerhouses. obviously, it would be better if the kids just truthfully said, "this is a business decision. i'm going here for football."
 
instant oatmeal said:
these kids always state academics are the most important thing in their decision. if this were true, harvard, penn, duke, yale, stanford, etc.. would all be football powerhouses. obviously, it would be better if the kids just truthfully said, "this is a business decision. i'm going here for football."
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BUT, as another poster pointed out, you can get a good education almost anywhere you go. It's all about what you want to get out of that school. Heck, even UGA has some good degrees. :laugher:
 
yeah, but if academics were truly as important as claimed, the kid would want to go to the best academic school possible... not a middle-of-the-road school like UT. and, i know that the alumni network out of UT is good, but you can't tell me that you'd get a better education at UT than you would at stanford.
 
Now we're talking purely academics though. Per GTAdamni, he said he wanted a good mix. I don't think he was ever wanting Stanford, Harvard, etc. He wants a good mix, and like knox said - it's completely up to him to determine what mix is "good." By and large, he could have picked a bunch of schools better in academics, and quite a few better in football, but he chose UT. I don't blame him one bit for choosing the home team.
 
right... i was talking more general than bailey, though. i'm just saying for those who say they are looking mainly at academics.
 
Guys, a good academic school is all relative to the football player. To many kids, the local state university is as good as it gets. If you've been brought up "localized" the state university could be "it" for you. Princeton probably means nothing to 99.99% of folks in Tennessee.

Tech is recognized nationally and internationally. But to many kids that have rarely been outside of a 100 mile radius, the difference would be hard to recognize.

My point is to wish the young man good luck and try to offer why he could be totally honest with himself while choosing UT.
 
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