Per a dude that has connections to the tenn area and Jordan Young
First and foremost this pic has been burning in my phone to be posted since Saturday night
Now that it’s over I can speak on a few things: JY has only been playing ball for 2 years and played behind 2 1,000 yard receivers as a JR. Coming into his SR year the grades were low so that’s one of the reasons he wasn’t highly recruited (grades are fine now). The first school on him was not Tennessee it was actually South Carolina but they inquired and showed interest but didn’t really pursue. FSU received his mid season tape but Jimbo told Dawsey he already had his WR board and they never got back around to JY. The person who put out the feelers when WT took over was Mario Edwards who called the coaches to inquire if there was interest, that weekend JU took the trip to UT and was offered. The next week FSU got involved and Pimp visited the school and an official for the last weekend was set, then JY surprisingly committed to UT based on them telling him he’d lose his spot but he did like David Johnson. So with UT getting wind of teams coming after JY they started to tighten down on him about talking to other schools and taking visits threatening to pull his offer. UF, UM, and South Carolina requested transcripts and reached out but nothing really shook, UM is the school he cheered for. So FSU’s whole offensive staff was set to visit on the 29th or 30th but JY stopped communicating and shut it down to protect his only solid offer, that Tuesday FSU reached out to the coaches and clarified that JY had a solid offer, that night communication was made with Taggart and the visit was set only Taggart would be the only person available to take the visit. Tagg visited the school then went in home for over 3 hours and not once did they discuss football, JY and his mom loved that, and really liked Taggart, it was a great visit and the official was back on. JY had met Johnson and had a good relationship with him so he really wanted to see what his potential position coach at FSU was like and how they would get along, once I got that info I told the guys if he makes it to campus change your CB’s to FSU. The next day UT came to visit again this time it was Johnson and some recruiting guy, the recruiting guy repeated a few times that UT would have to do what they have to do if JY took the visit. After a great time with Taggart and then UT threatening the feeling began to change as it seemed like UT was trying to strong arm him, so the official to FSU was solidified even more. The Friday morning I got the text that they were enroute and that night I got a couple photos and knew my make believe CB was looking good.
Also Young, Thompson, Harrison and Helton spent time together over the weekend and an instant connection was made
Thoughts on Young
Really good hasn’t even began to scratch the surface of his potential yet. He’s almost 6’3 so not Tate tall. I think all things considered his 4 star ranking is correct based on the grades and production as a JR. However I do believe he’s on of the top 5 WR’s in the nation based on talent.
Walt ain't playing out here.. The cac thots were so mad when they saw this LOL
Coach Tagg getting these brothas better jobs lol