Big Orange Sunday January 19, 2020
Recruiting
Junior Days
19-20 Signing Class
Where are the needs?
Clearly 3 areas of need that we want to fill.
Spring Additions
Coaching Staff
Recruiting
- Official start of the 2020 -2021 Recruiting Class.
Junior Days
- January is a huge month for recruiting high school juniors.
- Dead period has ended and will be open until the end of January.
- Tennessee had their first Junior Day this weekend.
- Early singing day mandates that you start holding official visits right after the dead period in January.
- National Signing Day - February 5th
- 3 recruiting day coaching meetings 2/5-2/6 - Pruitt, Ansley , and Chaney will speak with fans.
19-20 Signing Class
- 21 early signees - all will be freshman.
- Have added 2 transfers. - puts us at 23 signees/scholarships.
- You will take a great player at any position.
Where are the needs?
Clearly 3 areas of need that we want to fill.
- Cornerback
- Defensive Linemen - our depth is made up of upperclassmen.
- Tight End - we need a playmaking tight end.
- Offensively, where are the holes?
- We potentially have 7 senior starters returning on offense.
- We have 5 seniors returning on defense.
- We have 18 seniors returning, who will see significant playing time.
- Good depth at most positions. Not sure who the back up center is.
- Lots of depth of defense - not sure about depth in secondary and inside linebacker positions.
Spring Additions
- Lost 4-5 quality players from this last team.
- Gooden is back
- Gibbs will be eligible
- Velus Jones
- Jerermy Banks? He is in school - Can he earn his way back?
- Early enrollees - Harrison Bailey, Dominic Bailey, and Jimmy Holiday and Cooper Mays joining the team.
- Doug is intrigued by what we will see from the offense this spring.
Coaching Staff
- Doug is curious to see the offense this spring.
- Whats going to happen offensively. Anticipates that we will see some changes to the coaching staff on the offensive side.
- We had 6 offensive staff members and 4 defensive staff members. Pruitt is a defensive coach, so that evens up the staff.
- As Pruitt weans himself off of position coach, Pruitt could make the next coaching hire on the defensive side of the ball.
- Doug said that Pruitt could change roles on the offensive coaching side.
- Chaney could stop being a walking coach and move to being QB coach/OC. Chaney has the reputation of being a top developer of QBs. Would not happen unless another coach left.
