Tennessee Recruiting Open Thread: Chase Rettig, Monty Hall, and the Third Door

by David Hooper on Jul 14, 2009 9:00 AM EDT in Tennessee Volunteers Recruiting

So we've all heard by now that Chase Rettig has given his verbal to Boston College. So that leaves us with a Jesse Scroggins that's precariously between UT, USC and Florida, and ...

Monty Hall would put it this way: you pick Jesse Scroggins as Door #1. Then Monty takes away Chase Rettig as Door #2. Now the question: do you stick with the door you chose, or do you go with the unknown Door #3?

In the real Monty Hall game, Door #3 has twice the odds of success as Door #1. It's somewhat analogous here; strictly by the numbers, the odds are in favor of some unknown quarterback having a better college career than Jesse Scroggins (though the analogy fails in that we'd still have to predict who that unknown guy is). But that's all a roundabout way of asking: Who is UT's 'Third Door' - the next quarterback option if Scroggins falls through?

I've updated the Tennessee Volunteers 2010 Recruiting Big Board. Details are after the jump:

View Rocky Top Talk Tennessee Volunteers Recruiting Big Board 2010 in a larger map

Updates to the Board include

Quarterbacks: The biggest thing you'll note is that the quarterbacks have their own unique markers: a red "Q" stands for a quarterback who is verballed to a different program; a yellow "Q" is for a quarterback who has not yet verballed. Currently, there are five quarterbacks on the board: Scroggins, Rettig, Brunetti, Legeaux, and Mason. Are there any others?
Kaleb Eulls has verbally committed to Mississippi State. He's still on the board, but will likely be removed in the near future.
Pinpoint locations have moved slightly. They are still located at high schools, but are now centered on the football fields. This was done for the Google Earth application, which is still really cool and you should check it out if you haven't already. (And if you have downloaded it, the updates are already in place!) Note, though, that some schools have significant amounts of construction going on in the Google views, so the pinpoints are sometimes located in dirt piles where the football field seemed to be likely to end up.
ESPN has a list of UT-specific prospects. Care to help me prioritize them? I know I'm missing a bunch from the board - some that should be there and some that shouldn't.

Upcoming updates: primarily getting more of the known UT targets on the board and removing some of the most improbably prospects. Any suggestions here would be very warmly received.

In the future, I will likely put up open discussion threads for recruiting on Thursdays of every week; this week was bumped up due to Rettig's news.

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Here's a question of immediate relevance

that no one seems to be asking…

If we strike out on Brunetti, Scroggins, and Munchie…will that force Kiffin to re-evaluate the situation in fall practice, and give Nick Stephens a much longer look? Lots of people – including me – think Crompton had an advantage because of the ability to make it crystal clear that Tennessee needs a quarterback, and every four/five star kid could be that guy. With a senior under center now, an incoming freshman knows it’s instant playing time in 2010.

But if none of the kids we’ve targeted actually commit here…to me, that can only help Stephens’ chances right now. Maybe I’m seeing something here that doesn’t really exist…but as it stands right now, Ginger Avenger is your starting QB in 2010.

Will - Rocky Top Talk

by Will Shelton on Jul 14, 2009 12:32 PM EDT reply actions

O/T

“Ginger Avenger” is a dangerous, dangerous thing to read when drinking coffee…

lol

by David Hooper on Jul 14, 2009 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions

I give full credit

to whoever I stole that from

Will - Rocky Top Talk

by Will Shelton on Jul 14, 2009 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions

My big question is: how good will Rozier be?

I can’t see him being the first or second option this year, but given a full year with the team, how viable will he be in ’10?

We may still be using a 2-QB rotation in ’10. That makes ’11 really interesting.

by David Hooper on Jul 14, 2009 1:25 PM EDT up reply actions

What O might be thinking

Meat Market details O’s pursuit of Stephen Garcia and a bunch of other high profile QBs for Ole Miss. Everybody fell through — and then Jevan Snead dropped in his lap. Dangerous thing to bank on, but it might explain playing the game the way they think is best without panicking with some comfort of believing that things will somehow work out.

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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jul 14, 2009 1:43 PM EDT reply actions

It may, and even for QB recruiting, we have a long, long time until February.

But also in Meat Market, the guy recruiting QBs was relieved nearly to the point of shock when Snead finally committed. (I can’t remember his name without the book, which is not on hand.)

I do think it’ll work out, but I’d bet things are getting a little tense on their end as well.

But hey, maybe Mustain will be available. ;-)

by David Hooper on Jul 14, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions