On Jan. 13, LSU clubbed Clemson 42-25 to win the College Football Playoff national championship. Over this past weekend, the Bayou Bengals had 14 players off that title team hear their names called in the NFL draft.
College football fans the nation over, especially here in the Deep South, don’t need to channel the ghosts of Bear Bryant and Gen. Neyland to connect the above dots. You can “coach ’em up” all you want, but if you’re going to win championships, you better have talent. Lots of talent.
Which is why every single member of the University of Tennessee’s Big Orange Nation should be doing cartwheels today – at an acceptable social distance, of course – regarding the verbal commitments secured by third-year coach Jeremy Pruitt and his staff since Sunday evening.
It started with five-star recruit Dylan Brooks, the nation’s No. 1 weakside defensive end prospect, just in case you didn’t know that recruiting services such as 247Sports.com and Rivals.com now differentiate between strongside and weakside.
By early Monday afternoon, four-star defensive back Kamar Wilcoxson, twice committed and decommitted to Florida, announced he was also ready to climb Rocky Top.