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BIG fan of “Little” Tanner Ingle

When you read up on new UT CB commit Tanner Ingle, you get the feeling very quickly that he feels overlooked due to his being “only” 5’10.  He mentions it often, and while it appears to motivate him it certainly does not enter his mind when he is bringing the lumber on the field.  The kid can obviously hit from the DB spot, which will give him a chance to potentially be a jack of all trades guy in the secondary who can play all of the CB/NB/S slots.  But I’m not a scout, so my film analysis ain’t worth much. 

What I can do is learn a lot about a prospect by looking at a few things, and when you do that it’s very easy to become very excited about this addition to the commitment list:

1)  He earned his UT offer at a camp in front of the entire staff by showing out at the Big Cat Camp in Memphis.  So they’ve seen him up close and worked him out very recently.

2)  This wasn’t his only strong performance.  He performed well at the Opening Regionals in Orlando, running a 4.5-second 40-yard dash with a 4.15-second shuttle and also registering a 35” vertical jump for a rating of 105.06.  He was also a standout performer at the adidas 3 Stripe Camp in Macon, GA two weeks ago, prompting Woody Wommack from Rivals to note “Ingle is a classic case of a highly productive player who is under recruited because of his size, but when given the chance to showcase his skills in front of coaches he excels and ends up getting the recognition he’s earned.”

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3)  Speaking of recognition, Ingle has 30 offers, and has earned about half of them in the last two weeks after these camp showings.  Along with the one from UT, Ingle earned recent offers from Stanford, UNC, and Wisconsin to go with other notable offers including one from Bud Foster at VT.

4)  So it’s not like he’s completely overlooked.  In fact, Chris Hays of the Orlando Sentinel recently called him “arguably the best all-around football player in Central Florida and one of the best in the talent-rich state of Florida.”

5)  He’s played in big time games and made big plays: On the way to Dr. Phillips eventual loss in the 8A FL State Championship Game, Ingle returned a punt for a TD in the semifinal.

6)   He’s also a track athlete. Earlier this spring, he ran an 11.32-second 100-meter dash and 23.17-second 200-meter dash for the Dr. Phillips track team. He also participated on the 4×100 relay team and in the long jump, where he finished 6th in the state with a leap of 22-0.75 feet.

7) Along with his evident abilities as a punt returner, he should be a Special Teams maven given his athleticism and penchant for hitting.
 
8) Finally, he’s a big time student athlete with a 4.0 GPA.  The offers from Stanford, UNC, and Wisconsin aren’t notable just because they are from solid to top-flight football program with very strong academic reputations.  Those are also joined by the likes of academic powerhouses like Harvard, Dartmouth, and Vanderbilt
 
So what you’re looking at is a versatile DB who can run and jump and loves to hit.  A kid who has performed well at multiple camps and earned offers from big time programs with very good defensive reputations. A player who is recognized for being one of the best players in the state of FL all the while being a stud in the classroom.  And on top of that a young man with a chip on his shoulder because he feels like all of the above is still overlooked due to his smallish size in this new era of 6’+ CBs. 
 
Suffice it to say that I am a very big fan of this pickup, and when you combine him with Brandon Harris at S and CB Brandon Cross (who Austin Price of VQ really likes after seeing him in Knoxville on Saturday) and what’s left on the CB board (more to come on that in a future post) this DB class is off to a very nice start.

Gameday Today: The importance of focus in a distracted world

Rock Gullickson focuses on focus, football welcomes a new commit, and punter Trevor Daniel is actually a real live person with a face and everything. This and more in today’s Vols link roundup.

Football and learning to focus

You’ve probably heard that new strength and conditioning coach Rock Gullickson came to Rocky Top from the NFL, where he trained NFL pros for years. Well, he’s finding that kids right out of high school these days have a difficult time paying attention. Gullickson does not seem like a get-off-my-lawn type of guy, though, as he’s not just yelling at the guys to PAY ATTENTION! No, he’s imposed on himself a responsibility to take that observation and make something out of it.

Gullickson is actually onto something really important here. I’m currently reading Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport, the gist of which is that the distraction problem is growing rapidly in today’s world and so people who are able to recognize the issue and overcome it are going to have huge advantages over others who allow their valuable time to be stolen away by invaluable, shallow activities. Basically, the ability to concentrate is becoming more and more scarce and therefore more and more valuable.

So if Gullickson and the Tennessee coaching staff have not only identified distraction as a real problem but are also actively working to correct it, they can create and leverage an additional important advantage for themselves and for the team. So, you know. Go Vols.

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Recruiting

Tennessee received a commitment from 3-star Class of 2018 cornerback Tanner Ingle last night. His commitment moved the Vols up to No. 9 nationally in 247Sports‘ team rankings.

Orange Carpet Day didn’t net the landslide of commitments this year that it did last, but most believe that the Vols field-position game this time around was a success.

New hoops offers:

Other Football

Brady Hoke: Mr. Energy, but (presumably) without the cases of Red Bull:

Phillip Fulmer is playing both sides of the two-quarterback system debate, saying both that playing two QBs can be valuable because it stresses defenses but that it’s really not preferable. He is confident, though, that Butch Jones “will handle that fine.”

Vince Ferrara is posting his take on each of the Tennessee units this week. He started with the quarterbacks and has worked his way through the running backs and the wide receivers.

Trevor Daniel has a face. This is what it looks like. GVX has a nice feature on punter Trevor Daniel, who is just continuing to do what he’s been doing, which would be just fine with all us folks on Rocky Top. There are two especially interesting things about the article, though. First, it includes a video interview with Daniel, which makes you realize you would have no idea who he was if you were standing next to him not wearing a helmet on campus. And second, he’s awesome and everything, but that picture they included with the story is so awkwardly timed that it looks like how I would look trying to punt the football.

VFLs

Alvin Kamara’s new teammates in New Orleans are saying nice things about him, and Josh Dobbs is literally hitting home runs in Pittsburgh:

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Hoops

Transfer guard James Daniel III should be ready to go by August, but in the meantime, the scoring machine is salivating while watching the Pilot Rocky Top League.

Other Vols news

Tennessee track sensation Christian Coleman, who recently announced that he was going pro, has published a letter to Vols fans. Also, the USTFCCCA (seriously, they are in desperate need of a new acronym) has given Jared Prescott — Tennessee’s media relations contact for track — its 2017 Division I Track & Field Excellence in Communications Award. Maybe he’s the only guy who could memorize the acronym, I don’t know.

We reported this earlier, but it’s now official: Vols baseball has hired former Oklahoma State head coach Frank Anderson as its new pitching coach.

Golfer Lorenzo Scalise is tied for 58th after Monday’s opening round of the 122nd Amateur Championship at Prince’s Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England.

That’s it for today. Go Vols!