Sal Sunseri certainly wasn't the biggest name floating around the rumor mill for the Tennessee Volunteers' vacant defensive coordinator position. But after speaking to several candidates, UT coach Derek Dooley hand-picked the national champion Alabama Crimson Tide's outside linebackers and associate head coach to replace Justin Wilcox in Knoxville.
GVX247's Wes Rucker -- who broke the news this morning -- suggested Sunseri was Dooley's top choice all along ... through the Randy Shannon rumors, the flirtation with Kevin Steele, discussions with Phil Bennett and interview with Buddy Green.
If so, Dooley got his man -- for better or worse.
Sunseri interviewed in Knoxville on Wednesday and left with an offer to come to Knoxville. Though there has been no confirmation, reports suggest the package UT offered Sunseri was for three years between $700-800K. He went back to Tuscaloosa to mull it over with family and to discuss the situation with Tide coach Nick Saban, who reportedly made a run at keeping him. Sunseri's decision wasn't just about money, however. His son Vinnie was a freshman defensive back for UA this year and is in line for major playing time with Alabama over the next three years.
In the end, though, Sunseri decided to take the money and run, leaving UA for a better title and another step closer to realizing his dream of being a college football head coach.
Though he doesn't have a ton of experience as a defensive coordinator [two seasons at Alabama A&M in 1998-99], Sunseri is known for his development of players. If the Vols don't win next year, there is also the very realistic possibility that the coaching staff could be in jeopardy, so A) It gives Dooley somebody with which he's comfortable to ride-or-die and B) It gives the Vols a coach who has a track record of recruiting star players to help re-stock the cupboard.
Sunseri was hired by Saban to be associate head coach and outside linebackers coach in 2009 after coaching the Carolina Panthers defensive line. He was an All-American linebacker at Pittsburgh. He is known for the development of players, and Indianapolis Colts defensive end Robert Mathis credits his development as a pass rusher to Sunseri, who was Mathis' defensive coordinator at Alabama A&M. Mike Rucker and Julius Peppers also rave about him, and Sunseri developed Alabama's Courtney Upshaw into a star this season. He was a finalist for the Broyles Award, which is given to the nation's top assistant coach. Here is his Alabama bio.
In addition to his development of players and the fact that he comes from perhaps the best defense to ever play college football in this year's national champion Tide, Sunseri is known as a tremendous recruiter. He has ranked in Rivals top 25 recruiters in each of the past two years.
He was UA's lead recruiter on five-star defensive tackle Eddie Goldman, and UA leads for him currently. In 2011, he secured commitments from four-star linebacker Trey DePriest, who played a lot for UA as a freshman, four-star defensive end Quinton Dial, four-star defensive back Chris Jones, three-star offensive lineman Ryan Kelly, five-star offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandjio, four-star defensive end Jeoffrey Pagan and his son, Vinnie Sunseri. He was named 247 Sports national recruiter of the year last season.
For the 2010 class, Sunseri recruited and secured commitments from four-star defensive end Alfy Hill, four-star offensive lineman Arie Kouandjio, three-star defensive end Wilson Love and four-star quarterback Phillip Sims.
Saban made a strong push to keep Sunseri, but the Vols came through with the money and the title. According to Bama Online, UT's defensive line coach Lance Thompson -- who makes $400K at UT -- is a candidate to replace him. Hopefully, this will help the Vols hang onto wavering commitment Dalton Santos as well as secure commitments from big defensive tackles Daniel McCullers and Koren Kirven. Regardless, Sunseri appears to be a well-respected, quality hire according to people in the business, and it's always good to take from your rivals ...
Personally, I love the hire, and I really think the Vols have upgraded their coaching staff and recruiting prowess in the past couple of days. Though he isn't as experienced as some of the rumored candidates, Sunseri is well-respected and has a track record of developmental success.
He replaces Justin Wilcox, who left along with linebackers coach Peter Sirmon last Monday to head back to the Pacific Northwest and join Steve Sarkisian's staff at Washington. Dooley replaced offensive line coach Harry Hiestand with former North Carolina coach Sam Pittman yesterday, and Jay Graham came to UT from South Carolina after the season. The Vols are still on the market for a special teams/tight ends coach and another defensive assistant. I would speculate Sunseri will be instrumental in the hire of the defensive assistant.
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Love this hire.
Bring me recruits!
Brad Shepard - January 13, 2012
Recruits are coming bllaaarggghhwaaarrrggglllleeee
bobothevol - January 13, 2012
Good news is UT got a DC.
Better news is that FSU who was 50/50 for Goldman is now 60/40. Thanks Sal!
cerebralfish - January 13, 2012
Bryce Brown, David Oku.........
and Janzen Jackson. Recruits don’t mean anything if the don’t want to stay and play. I’m just saying, is all.
PEEK-A-BOO - January 14, 2012
first the AD, then the D line coach, now your DC
as long as you know your role UT, as Bama’s leftovers, you’ll be just fine
JunctionCrimson - January 13, 2012
you have it backwards
Alabama is the proving ground to see who deserves to coach at Tennessee
(also, you actually have the order wrong. We hired Lance Thompson three years ago)
Incipient_Senescence - January 13, 2012
so how many titles until Saban gets a call from Knoxville?
JunctionCrimson - January 13, 2012
We'll take him next year ... or right now ... or whenever ... if you guys are willing to give him up
Also, FWIW, Izzy Gould tweeting that Vinnie is staying at UA. No surprise there.
Brad Shepard - January 13, 2012
haters hating, etc.
I’ll just post a ton of gifs here later if you’re still around. Have a nice day!
Chris Pendley - January 13, 2012
yes yes, give me your gifs!
that’ll show me!
meanwhile…national champs, aaand 5 in a row probably gon’ be 6 next year
JunctionCrimson - January 13, 2012
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Pretty sure we already got 6, boss. Assuming, of course, we are talking about the SEC and national championships.
VolnVA - January 13, 2012
Though I now realize
You’re talking about beating us and I’d rather not discuss that any further. So…carry on.
VolnVA - January 13, 2012
Show you?
Who said I was trying to show you anything?
Chris Pendley - January 13, 2012
You asked for it...
bsmithinc - January 13, 2012
Hope you don't mind.......
but I saved this gif on my facebook and used it as my profile pic. lol
PEEK-A-BOO - January 14, 2012
If we wanted him, we would have him.
The money is here…….proven by the fact that he couldn’t afford to pay Sunseri what he wanted to stay, when we paid him more than what he wanted to leave. Get your facts straight, dude.
PEEK-A-BOO - January 14, 2012
dude...
when your coach is a former assistant to Saban, then of course he’s going to hire people he’s worked with before or got recommendations from folks he’s worked with before.
Its got absolutely zero to do with “ALABAMA” and everything to do with “SABAN”. If he’d never left for the Dolphins, instead of a Bama fan doing the trolling here we’d have an LSU fan doing the same thing.
Also, might want to lay off the 10AM drinking… good way to kill what’s left of your liver, and transitively your last half dozen or so brain cells.
Caban - January 13, 2012
man, I have had two already, but I'm not the only one that needs to cut back
(i started way before 10)
JunctionCrimson - January 13, 2012
Nice aviators.
Tell Maverick and Goose we said “hey”.
Also, when Saban and Chizik have to give back those rings in about a decade because of some motivated muckraker who has decided to put some teeth to all those scandal rumors…we’ll talk then.
GhostDance - January 13, 2012
"Request permission for troll-by"
“Permission denied”
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
(The internet: explained in three easy lines.)
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
The
ol’ buzzing of the RTT Tower. Nice.
Moar Criminal Tide!
GhostDance - January 13, 2012
How dare you impugn Saban's good name with Chizik's, sir.
One of those reached long-forgotten heights thanks to a fantastic JUCO transfer who transcended the game. The other can’t reach heights without a stepstool.
Chris Pendley - January 13, 2012
Ed McMahan
Rimshot.
GhostDance - January 13, 2012
This wasn't leftovers. We stole food off the Tide's table
Saban fought to keep him, so I can’t see where you’d say “leftovers.”
Also, I’m well-connected enough down here in Alabama, ya know, where I live, to know that there were plenty of folks unhappy that Dave Hart left for Knoxville because UA wanted him to be the AD today. But Mal Moore hadn’t retired.
We’re down, so we can’t talk trash. Congratulations on your national championship.
But the petty drivel in your post smacks of bitterness. We both know it’s inaccurate.
Brad Shepard - January 13, 2012
If Tennessee's coaches are all Alabama leftovers...
Then how does one explain Lance Thompson being in the running to go to Alabama?
TennesseeTyrants - January 13, 2012
Seriously though...
Alabama has had soooooooo many former UT guys as coordinators.
Specifically, UT grad Ken Donahue was the DC for literally every Bryant championship team… and UT’s 1951 championship team. You want a screwup? How about promoting Harvey Robinson to replace Neyland and running off Donahue.
Caban - January 13, 2012
cancel that...
im confusing my stories. Donahue was a player in ’51.
The part about him being Bryant’s DC is truth though.
Caban - January 13, 2012
Ok.
Lance Thompson Departure Watch engage!
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
Seriously, though.
Give Lance Thompson a raise, buy him a car, I’ll take him out for a nice steak dinner. Whatever it takes. I don’t want to lose ANOTHER coach.
TennesseeTyrants - January 13, 2012
Agree. He's also in play for South Carolina
But he’s not happy for being passed over twice for DC nods. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him leave.
Brad Shepard - January 13, 2012
I give him one year tops.
And that only if somebody doesn’t offer him a DC slot in the next week or so. Which is kinda possible as it’s getting late in the game and slots are getting scarce.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
I can't blame him.
I figured after the whole “we hired Randy Shannon!” thing blew over, and it seemed we were having trouble making a hire, that an internal promotion of Thompson was getting more and more likely.
TennesseeTyrants - January 13, 2012
Rec'd.
PEEK-A-BOO - January 14, 2012
You buy the dinner....
I’ll buy the drinks. :-)
PEEK-A-BOO - January 14, 2012
The New DC
Time will tell just how effective he will be. Although I think we will wish we had done more to keep Wilcox!
IH8 G8RS - January 13, 2012
Beyond handcuffing him to the stadium
I’m not sure what else we could have done.
danmarcel - January 13, 2012
This.
He’s a Westerner.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
I suggested a partial frontal lobotomy...
but noooooooooooo… some UT administrators thought it was going “too far”. Whatever that’s supposed to mean.
“Too far” is a concept for halfassed ACC football programs. It has no place in the SEC>
Caban - January 13, 2012
I blame Slive.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
Rec'd
For Troof.
GhostDance - January 13, 2012
Coach Sal is nobody's leftovers
He’s done well for us, and we wish him well. Of course we wanted to keep him…he’s a good recruiter, has helped us land another magnificent class, and he has us in the lead to land DT Eddie Goldman from Washington, DC. Are we weeping and gnashing teeth at his departure. Uh, no, not at all. But he’s good…y’all have nothing to be ashamed of in hiring him. Now, believing the Randy Shannon talk? Yeah, that’s a different story…should probably be a little ashamed of that.
13 Rings - January 13, 2012
As a general rule, our commenters are not the callers-in on local radio.
I’m not sure what you thought we believed, per se, but I really don’t see anything for people of this site to be ashamed of.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
Puns?
Chris Pendley - January 13, 2012
NEVER
Puns are the lice of spife.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
I like spife.
PEEK-A-BOO - January 14, 2012
Austin Ward reporting
that Sunseri will install the 3-4 at Tennessee, to the shock of no one
Incipient_Senescence - January 13, 2012
*fartnoise*
it was good knowing ya, Dooley.
/kidding
/butnotentirelykidding
Caban - January 13, 2012
Oh. Well then.
This is gonna be awkward.
Chris Pendley - January 13, 2012
Given our personnel and the ones potentially coming I think it can work well
Jacques Smith could potentially be a great SS OLB. I think he was going to struggle to get to the size needed to be a force at DE
We have a handful of smallish DT’s that would make excellent jumbo 3-4 DEs. Corey Smith, Saulsberry, Walls, Hood, etc.
McCullers would be the NT we need
Move AJ inside with Santos and Harris and Maggitt to WS OLB. Jordan Williams would also make a killer 3-4 OLB.
I think this roster could do it but a whole new system would be tough to excel in next year. Look at UGA/Grantham as an example. Would be a gamble for Dooley.
phil g - January 13, 2012
gamble...
but he may have had no choice, could easily see this being a precondition for Sunseri to be willing to come here.
Caban - January 13, 2012
agree on all counts
we’ve been building the roster towards the 3-4, but it’s tough to expect immediate success. which we kinda need
Incipient_Senescence - January 13, 2012
Dave Hooker tweeted this morning
That Koren Kirven is all Vol.
VolBrian - January 13, 2012
And then there is this!
4* DT Daniel McCullers has committed to the Tennessee #Vols over Alabama! 6’6 380 pound monster! Welcome to Big Orange Country! #VFL
VolBrian - January 13, 2012
See Bama fan guy...
This is what happens when you troll.
Caban - January 13, 2012
REC'D
VolBrian - January 13, 2012
y'all have been good sports today
i’ll leave y’all alone now…it’s fun being on top
i’m sure these recruits means UT is back next year
JunctionCrimson - January 13, 2012
Oh, that's fine.
What good is winning a championship if you can’t wave it around from time to time? So long as everybody understands that it’s all in fun, it’s just a part of being a fan.
(ya troll ;-)
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
wave it around from time to time*
Chris Pendley - January 13, 2012
LMAO!!!!
PEEK-A-BOO - January 14, 2012
And there's the 3-4.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
yup
phil g - January 13, 2012
keep in mind that Sentimore was an EE and was expected to get significant time if he stayed at Bama
6’3, 275. 3-4 DE, anyone? Sentimore on one side, Couch on the other?
Incipient_Senescence - January 13, 2012
me likey
phil g - January 13, 2012
2012 class
JUCO from Georgia Military
originally from Raleigh, NC
Rivals unrated, offer list =
Alabama, UT, Mississippi State.
Caban - January 13, 2012
That
is a large feller.
Welcome, by God.
GhostDance - January 13, 2012
And Hooker clarifies
in the blog post he was apparently trolling for that Kirven will just be visiting this weekend.
VolBrian - January 13, 2012
LEMME TELL YA WHAT YOU JUST CAN'T TRUST THOSE MESSAGE BOARD GUYS
THEY HAVE NO SOURCES AND THEY’RE JUST SITTING IN THEIR BASEMENT SPINNING UP RUMORS.
/GVX’d
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
this also applies to blogs and traditional newspapers
Caban - January 13, 2012
I can't remember if you're in K'ville so forgive me if you've heard this
but SA has been absolutely obsessive about the whole “message boarders don’t have reliable sources / just trying to gin up controversy for web hits / can’t trust anonymous usernames” thing for weeks. It’s getting really old, especially when the internet success rate is about the same as theirs.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
Nashville ATM...
but the older newspaper folks are terrified that they will be made obsolete by open source news reporting. This is almost entirely due to a failure of understanding the younger folks.
People have been predicting the death of traditional news for at least 15 years now, and it obvious hasn’t happened and won’t. The end game of all this is the legitimization and co-opting of open-source news by the big players.
Caban - January 13, 2012
and...
A LOT of reporters are as bad, and in many cases worse, than your typical major blogger when it comes to sourcing. It amazes me when I hear anyone attempt to favorably compare newspaper sourcing to web sourcing.
Caban - January 13, 2012
look at how many people broke DC news before RTT did
not that Basilio really counts
Incipient_Senescence - January 13, 2012
The big problem for them...
is the fact that there are a lot of fans out there with better sources than the journalists. Sure, there are some idiots who make wild claims… but I’d rather get my info from a handful of folks on the message boards than just about anyone at the KNS.
Caban - January 13, 2012
I generally try not to get into this too much since I'm kinda sorta on one side of the fence
but as a rule, there are good eggs and bad eggs in both nests. (And I’m a completely unsourced fan who doesn’t even try to pretend that I know any better than anybody else.)
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
I think the hard part for journalists to swallow is that anybody can do it.
Going to journalism school is not as important as simply writing, following the news, finding contacts, etc. But they hardly have secret knowledge. They’re just in a position to practice full-time, which means they should be better at it than they otherwise would be.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
I went to journo school...
and that’s 100% accurate. All a degree really does is get a foot in the door, but it’s like the art or computer world.
Ultimately it’s all about that portfolio if you want to actually get paying work.
Caban - January 13, 2012
I will say...
that a good professor can make a huge difference in the writing skills of a journalism student, but it’s nothing you couldn’t learn with practice and a copy of the AP Guidebook.
Caban - January 13, 2012
It's all about building the right relationships
Brad Shepard - January 13, 2012
And luck.
Chris Pendley - January 13, 2012
That's the big one.
Journo school can show you how to approach people and give some help in identifying good sources. And this could go on for a while, but I’ll just say that I have nothing against journalism schools. It’s just that highly public knowledge has made that (along with many, many other majors) much easier to access and learn on the side. Heck, even my stuff is out there for the curious.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
Well...
that’s true too, both in employment and developing sources.
The personable journalists typically end up being the ones breaking the news(see Wes Rucker).
Caban - January 13, 2012
While others get awards whenever LWS breaks the news for them.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
Who was Griff's professor?
I actually don’t much stock in the teaching of writing. My 1L legal writing professor — an adjunct — actually made my writing worse. I couldn’t write a sentence without wondering whether it sucked.
I believe onne gets better at writing by writing. That is, unless one just simply sucks at writing. If one simply sucks at writing, then they will likely always suck at writing and should strongly consider choosing a career that doesn’t emphasize it.
I’m talking to you, Griff.
kidbourbon - January 14, 2012 via mobile
To an extent, I think so.
This is a meta-discussion for another time, but I find that my writing improves the more of other people’s works I read, as well. Other people put words together in such a combination that I wouldn’t think of. That, coupled with writing more often, has done it for me. (And i can notice it, too, which is weird.)
Chris Pendley - January 14, 2012
Piling on:
Kinda like kid said, I don’t think writing can improve unless you actually write. But that doesn’t imply that more writing becomes better writing, obviously. Teaching can help, as can reading other people, but those tend to be marginal unless they’re coupled with writing. (Conversely, just writing a lot tends to be marginal unless it has external focus.)
And improvement is a variable definition. People who work in assembly line writing industries like journalism tend to improve for speed more so than creativity and quality. Same with lawyers, and even engineers. (Tech writing is really nothing more than a stylistic crutch. Also a discussion for another time.)
David Hooper - January 14, 2012
Technical writing
Yeah, technical writing is a completely different world from “normal” writing. I’m a terrible writer in general, but I can churn out a lab report with the best of them.
TennesseeTyrants - January 14, 2012
I've always said that you learn writing by reading good writing
I’m convinced that a lot of academics are bad writers because they only read other academic work and develop a stiff and overly-complex style
Incipient_Senescence - January 14, 2012
Yes.
Academic does not equal good writing. Spencer Hall is a far better writer than almost all the profs I have had. (Hint: if the profs could write well, they often wouldn’t be profs.)
David Hooper - January 14, 2012
"People have been predicting the death of traditional news for at least 15 years now, and it obvious hasn’t happened and won’t."
Tell that to the folks at the Baltimore Examiner. Or the Rocky Mountain News. Or the LA times. Or really any newsroom which has either shut down or is existing on a skeleton staff- which would be the overwhelming majority. The money for the kind of long-form, serious investigative work that newspapers used to hang their hat on just doesn’t exist, and the white-knight defenders-of-the-republic attitude that was both the best and worst quirk of newspaper folk is becoming a sad joke. The older news people are terrified for a reason- the world they built their life around doesn’t exist anymore.
_trey_ - January 13, 2012
RMN
was sold by Scripps while still having a circulation of nearly 1/3 of the population of Denver proper, and the Baltimore Examiner was a free paper.
I’m not saying it hasn’t hurt, but most of the papers that just got destroyed by online content really failed to adapt… in a lot of cases becoming downright hostile to change. There is no reason whatsoever that a newspaper with a circulation of 200,000 like the RMN should have to close… short of some real mismanagement.
Caban - January 13, 2012
For reference...
the KNS has less than half the circulation of the Rocky Mountain News, and is actually hiring new writers and expanding with new services such as 247 Sports.
I suspect Scripps had other reasons for getting rid of RMN.
Caban - January 13, 2012
eh...
honestly, I don’t want to argue over this. It’s not a subject I really like to talk about. You are right that it’s done some serious damage, but I think it’s been waaaaaay overblown. But it’s a subject that makes me uncomfortable as I’ve seen some really nasty arguments over it before.
Caban - January 13, 2012
Fair enough...
… and I hear you. It’s a very touchy subject, and for good reason. Not much better way to annihilate a party than bring all this dreck up.
TOPIC CHANGE:
Anybody else want to panic about the 3-4?
_trey_ - January 13, 2012
My brother is a journalist
Has been since he graduated college. Worked at a small paper in Manassas, VA out of college. Then a paper either in or outside of Atlanta (obviously not the AJC, or I’d remember that). Then the Orlando Sentinel. Then the Charlotte Observer, where he remains today. Each job change has been a promotion. He’s basically been working his way up the journalism ladder. If it were 30 years ago, his next step would probably be to try and get some variety of sub-editor position at the Washington Post (he went to school in Northern VA, and he has always always said that the Post is the best newspaper in the country). As it stands, his next step is to remain employed. He has survived several downsizings at the Observer, but is still all but convinced that it is just a matter of time.
I don’t know journalist titles, but he is the guy that lays out the paper. Not the whole thing, of course, but one section. He has also writes on the side for additional income. Or at least he used to write on the side for extra cash. When he was at the Sentinel, he wrote a regular column and was paid for writing that column. Now he writes the fantasy football column for the paper’s online site, but he does it for free. This would be a lot worse if he didn’t absolutely LOVE fantasy football, but it still illustrates that, at present, the greenbacks do not floweth freely in the print media business.
kidbourbon - January 14, 2012 via mobile
And oddly enough, AOL and Yahoo have had some of the best economic success.
I don’t know about the last year or so, but before that they were on a multi-year run of hiring up journalists away from other companies and rapidly growing, even with some old media tendencies in their delivery. Basically, they did everything old media did, added some new media techniques for improved delivery and availability, and stripped away all the useless expenses of old media (such as owning high-cost office space in downtown NYC).
David Hooper - January 14, 2012
KNS fired a bunch of people at the end of last year
birdjam - January 13, 2012
It's good to be a Sports Animal host.
Those will be the last ones fired, since keeping them acts as window dressing to hide the downsizing.
David Hooper - January 14, 2012
Yeah, but look at the staffs
I mean- have you read the LA Times recently? It’s a joke.
Newsrooms are 30% smaller than they were in 2000. Looks at this chart of major-paper circulation over the last 30 years. Not good.
Scripps has been running on empty for some time- from everything I understand the RMN sale was about lopping off one rotten limb to keep the rotten body breathing for a bit longer. KNS may have hired a few new writers, but I’m pretty certain they’re employing a lot fewer than they were 15 years ago. And we’re a looooong way off from having any idea whether the 247/paywall stuff is at all sustainable.
_trey_ - January 13, 2012
Lance Thompson?
How worried should I be that he may leave?
STLvolfan - January 13, 2012
Nobody has any idea at the moment.
Speculation is going both ways.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
Speculation was going both ways on Wilcox, too.
Doesn’t mean much to me. Who would we be looking at if he leaves?…….. Steele?
PEEK-A-BOO - January 14, 2012
Best in-game pic I could find
Caban - January 13, 2012
Looks like a screen-cap from "The Blind Side"
VolBrian - January 13, 2012
practice shot here
The other guy is an offensive lineman practicing technique, this is not a live drill.
Caban - January 13, 2012
shame that's not live
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
Apparently...
he broke 400 in HS and had to trim down.
That is kinda crazy.
Caban - January 13, 2012
He's going to look sleek in our Adidas high tech uni's
phil g - January 13, 2012
lol!
VolBrian - January 13, 2012
We'll just put him out there in an orange mawashi.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now.
birdjam - January 13, 2012
Simpsons?
I recognize it but can’t place it.
David Hooper - January 13, 2012
Yup.
Link.
danmarcel - January 13, 2012
Press TAB to continue.
Oooh! I’d like a tab.
Chris Pendley - January 13, 2012
No time for that!
The computers ready!
danmarcel - January 13, 2012
and apparently Scout.com and Rivals have highlights...
but nothing on YouTube
Caban - January 13, 2012
and I've found highlights
http://recruiting.scout.com/2/1071832.html
I’ve seen the rivals highlights, and the guy basically shuts down the middle of the line. It looks like a pileup on I-75.
Caban - January 13, 2012
better highlights
mms://media.gmc.cc.ga.us/players/78%20DANIEL%20McCULLERS.wmv
Caban - January 13, 2012
"Though he isn't as experienced as some of the rumored candidates, Sunseri is well-respected and has a track record of developmental success."
Just because he can develop talent, doesn’t mean he can coach a defense. I’m happy because he doesn’t work for the competition anymore, and am more than willing to give the man a chance. I’m just not convinced of his ability yet. Not until he proves it to me, anyway. I’m tired of being excited of new hires and recruits, only to be let down by their inability and/or lack of desire. "Show me, Bama!!!!!’ in my best Denzel Washington voice.
PEEK-A-BOO - January 14, 2012
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