The Vols have added a last-minute visitor to their slate this weekend. Now, former Miami and current Marshall four-star cornerback commitment A.J. Leggett will visit Knoxville. He'll be there along with four-star WR Quinshad Davis.
Leggett and Miami parted ways a couple months ago because Leggett was considered an academic risk. Now, it appears he is closer to being fully qualified.
Do we have room?
phil g - January 27, 2012
I think we still have 3 spots left
and 5 or 6 guys that we’re looking at.
Incipient_Senescence - January 27, 2012
I thought this kid was a sign and place?
Miami passed on him and FSU listed him as a S&P candidate at which point he chose Marshall. Does Marshall or UT have lower academic standards than FSU? I thought if you couldnt get into FSU you couldnt get most places?
cerebralfish - January 27, 2012
His test grades and GPA were well above the minimum...
for just about anywhere. He needed two more credits going into the spring semester of 2012, so I have no idea where the academic idea came from. Even if he didn’t pass them in spring, he could still take them during summer.
Caban - January 27, 2012
ok...
apparently he went to 4 different high schools. There were no grade issues, but Miami and FSU were hesitant to risk a spot on a guy who might have trouble getting admitted in time for football.
Tennessee apparently doesn’t feel the same way.
Caban - January 27, 2012
Miami reportedly said his 2.4 gpa and 22 ACT
werent high enough to see the field early there. Those numbers are high enough to play at FSU easily I would think, yet they still told him he’d be a sign and place. I would guess FSU passed due the the before mentioned 4 different schools. Theyve been hesitant to clear guys who jumped around like that. Even this year it was all Jimbo could do to get the president to clear Pender while UT was willing to extend the EE nod. The old test cheating scandal has the administration on egg shells there. Leggett is a stud and if he qualifies should play almost immediately at UT.
cerebralfish - January 27, 2012
FSU is holding that spot for Ronald Darby
That will be their last CB taken.
Brad Shepard - January 27, 2012
I thought about that too.
They have PJ Williams and likely Darby so that makes the most sense. Leggett’s grades seem fine to me.
cerebralfish - January 27, 2012
He can borrow my 33 ACT if he wants.
Goodness knows I’m not doing anything with it.
bobothevol - January 28, 2012
between your 33 and my 35
we should be able to distribute enough points to qualify most anybody we want for at least a few years.
Incipient_Senescence - January 28, 2012
Throw my 33 into the ring.
VFL!
TennesseeTyrants - January 28, 2012
Back when I was in high school, you needed a 31 to qualify for a free ride
I took that thing five times and made 30, 30, 30, 30, 32. Then blew the scholarship in two semesters. Ah, youth.
Will Shelton - January 28, 2012
Oh wow.
That sucks. I only took it twice. Once my sophomore year for “practice,” then my “real” attempt my junior year.
Was the 31 for a free ride thing at UT or somewhere else?
At my undergrad school, you had to have a 30 and 3.75 gpa to get invited to the scholarship competition where you stayed on campus for a week and had debates, discussions, etc with your peers. Then the teachers would decide who got the 2 full rides, and the levels of scholarship worked on down from there. I ended up getting half tuition.
TennesseeTyrants - January 28, 2012
This was at UT
it was pre-lottery; I graduated high school in ’99. I think it was the Presidential Scholarship or something like that, where anyone in-state who had a 31+ and like a 3.75 could get free tuition.
Will Shelton - January 28, 2012
That's awesome.
TennesseeTyrants - January 28, 2012
31 on the first try without studying.
Aaaand then I wiped out in a couple of years. The best part: they retroactively allowed Hope Scholarship money for the class that came in after me.
No, I’m not bitter. Especially since that was also the first Orange Nation class.
Chris Pendley - January 28, 2012
Stupid HOPE Scholarship...
I was also left out… to think, if the state had actually instituted the lottery a few years earlier I(and my sister) would owe tens of thousands of dollars less from loans.
Apparently in the world of morality banning gambling is much more important than helping broke people who want an education.
Caban - January 28, 2012
35 first try without studying
morning after junior prom
boom
(oh, and it didn’t get me a lick of scholarship money. damnit)
Incipient_Senescence - January 28, 2012
Haha growing up in Alabama.
I remember Auburn took like a 19 to get into back in the 90s. But now they’ve raised the bar quite a bit.
Ben Miller - January 28, 2012
could I trade in some points from my GRE?
falconnuke - January 28, 2012
I don't have many GRE points to spare, haha.
TennesseeTyrants - January 28, 2012
I might, but I'm not sure
My math (800) was high and my verbal was below average (650) for my field, but I’m already in graduate school, so I don’t know if I need it anymore
Incipient_Senescence - January 28, 2012
Rocky Top Talk Think Tank (RT^4) engage!
bobothevol - January 28, 2012
My math was something close to 800.
My verbal was over 500, but not by much. Of course, that’s all that was required for me. I felt pretty good about it considering I was winging it. haha
All that said, you’re right, I don’t need it anymore. You guys can have it!
TennesseeTyrants - January 28, 2012
'sign and place' is a bit of an misnomer is it not?
The player has to be re-recruited after detour through prep or JC and can sign anywhere. A closer description would be sign & place & hope to re-sign
phil g - January 27, 2012
well you place in certain JuCos with the understanding that the JuCo coach will funnel them back towards your school
mutual benefit
Incipient_Senescence - January 27, 2012
Arent there JUCOs that serve as re-feeder schools.
Some JUCO’s almost work with certain universities right? I could be off on that.
cerebralfish - January 28, 2012
I believe this is correct
somehow, I doubt we send people to Mississippi JuCos. And how many times have you heard us working with Hargrave Military Academy (this might not be a JuCo in the strictest sense, but the same idea applies)?
Incipient_Senescence - January 28, 2012
He made his standardized test.
Brad Shepard - January 27, 2012
Well as long as he didn't pull a Derrick Rose
That’s great
Ben Miller - January 27, 2012
What? Dunk on Drajic's face?
cerebralfish - January 28, 2012
I don't normally comment on the NBA
But I watched the Miami – Knicks game last night, and LeBron and Wade were both just sick. You could have made a pretty nice Top 10 plays of just their dunks from that game. New York hit 18 threes.
bobothevol - January 28, 2012
I watched the game too and the only thing I got out of it was
New York’s defense sucks. I cant wait for the playoffs when teams actually play hard for more than the final 5 minutes of a close game.
cerebralfish - January 28, 2012
It seemed to me
The Knicks played hard up until the final 5 minutes of a close game. Or, at least, the 4th quarter.
Still, a few of those dunks, especially that two-step by Wade, was slick.
bobothevol - January 28, 2012
Video Game Threadjack:
The Demo for the “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning” game made me very interested in picking up a copy when I can, though that won’t be too soon since me and three friends are going to gun through the Game of the Year version of Borderlands somewhat soon. That game is a sort of cross between Fable and Skyrim, is the best way to describe it. The combat and (somewhat) gameplay style of Fable, with a Borderlands or such ability tree and a more Fallout-style skill tree, with a world most comparable to a more “standard” fantasy version of Skyrim. Very fun to play button-masher, and the story’s written by a very well-known fantasy author, R. A. Salvatore. A lot of big names worked on the title, glitches look like they might be the only thing really wrong with the game.
bobothevol - January 28, 2012
Salvatore wrote it?
man, it’d be pretty awesome of Tracy Hickman & Margaret Weis would write something. though I guess D&D never really translates all that well into games.
falconnuke - January 28, 2012
He was the lead writer for it.
To consecrate it’s place as the “nerd” game buying a “special edition” gets you a 7-piece bag of D&D dice. Also, you can see Dungeons and Dragons’ fingerprints over almost every single RPG game out there. The Baldur’s Gates games were as close as you get to straight clones of the D&D system — they officially were but can’t squeeze all the content and options into one game, and the rules were a bit off. But those are some of the most acclaimed computer games of all time, Baldur’s Gate II shows up in every single top 10 of all time list for PC games.
bobothevol - January 28, 2012
oooh... dice...
awesome!
falconnuke - January 28, 2012
The first NeverwInter Nights
was the best D&D computer game ever.
danmarcel - January 28, 2012
I was a huge fan of the Gold Box games...
liked NWN, hated NWN2.
NWN2 is like Dragon Age(an excellent game) minus a good control scheme and a coherent plot.
Caban - January 28, 2012
Just watched the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARtOCjVTVwM&feature=related
It looks pretty awesome.
bsmithinc - January 29, 2012
I gotta admit
I’m pretty excited for Mass Effect 3
Ben Miller - January 28, 2012
I didn't realize how many top 25 teams were playing today in basketball.
20 of the top 25 teams are playing, though only one (#16 Mississippi State @ #13 Florida) is a top-25 showdown.
bobothevol - January 28, 2012
...and we managed a e2 spot?
…star power.
chuckiepoo - January 28, 2012
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